https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/an-ode-to-it-cant-be-done/ > The manual demands “Big Design Up-Front”? We stick a UML reverse-engineering step into our build pipeline. And for once, they get an architecture model that accurately reflects the actual design! We don’t need to mention […]

I've wasted a lot of time on a lot of writing that is clever and fun and rotten at its core, and I think Slaughterhouse Five is among such things

man, the only thing I can imagine more embarrassing than a department of justice dump of your emails that include the term of endearment "Uncle Jeffrey" has got to be subsequently announcing: "my responsibility is to put Goldman Sachs' interests first" in explanation of your resignation

I am really quite astonished at the gulf between Claude Code which we pay for at work and the GPT instances you run into for free in various places. If the latter is all you've experienced, you really have no idea what claude users are on about

wow the postmortem on Brandon Lee's death is really something

What are all the little icons dotting the computer screen *for,* though, can anybody answer me that? What would be the problem if they all went away, getting replaced with words

Here's what your typical piece of state on a not-user-hostile web service should look like if possible: - A human-editable versioned text file - If a relational database is involved, it's as a cache of things obtained from the text file - If there are edit tools, they're operations over the […]

My prediction is the major AI vendors get together in a price fixing scheme, it's risky but the stakes are just too high for them not to

Issues with Jira being a bad product are really compounded by Jira also being at a more basic level really a piece of shit webapp

NO SHIT this is junk. What in the fuck why is there not the slightest modicum of filtering for incredibly obvious spam

My theory is that high school reading lists should include some middling romance novels with gratuitous sex in them. Because right now the transition is from "young adult" to "literature containing sexual themes involving prostitutes" and there deserves to be some transitional time where you […]

I think Roberto' Orozco-Ramirez's story here has singlehandedly turned around a lot of Montana on this issue https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/border-patrol-arrested-a-beloved-mechanic-in-froid-montana

> Sen. Rand Paul said the shootings in Minneapolis changed how some Americans saw the immigration crackdown. > > “It’s clearly evident that the public trust has been lost,” the Kentucky senator said at a Thursday hearing. I'm not sure that it takes very much for the senator from kentucky to […]

People once fretted about chatbot users being psychically harmed by the fact that they can be mean to the chatbot without repercussions, but I have a hard time believing that's a real problem now. If anything these things train you to notice that insults or whatever don't help produce results […]

some stuff about the casual inattentive nature of vibecoding I'm sure is true, but some of it's just joking, but that joking is sort of in bad taste given our role in society

Youtube channel where a farmer explains sexual politics while slaughtering roosters

If microprocessors had been invented all at once, rather than letting us experience some decades of early prototypes which weren't as small as they could have been, I think we would be better poised to understand the limits of computation and see that it is not on a trajectory

Goedemorgen mensen, donderdag alweer. Afbeelding van Sonia Lera Preston

An important note of context is that the "valley" of which she speaks is an area large enough you can easily pick it out on a modestly sized globe https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lekdwlqql6pu2azxbhdb6pzi/post/3menbfrfea22x

i'm using some business planning software that has some "AI" component, and the biz dev folks loaded it with stuff i told them about my plans, so the AI gives me a summary of that, and then prompts me to write, and it's so much harder to write when that is sitting there in front of me

You know, I'm no novelist, but I don't make my living in work gloves. I trade in the written word. Nearly ever word I write is for adults. Not one of those words is ever about sex or describing the hotness of a woman. And yet, every single book or film, every one

In school you make much ado over quadratic and exponential time things, but everything of interest to real life just has to be sublinear

The stodgy old-school and the AI hipsters are clashing at work in a fascinating way. While one cohort emphasizes pushing the organization toward a classic "enter tasks into jira, discuss the tasks, perform the tasks" procedure, another is writing Claude skills that automate the exact reverse of […]

Oh my god Vivaldi can tile pages within a tab, what the fuck I have wanted this for forever

Everybody wants to just shit on LLM interfaces, but who wants to work on non-LLM natural language processing

Long ago, it accidentally became the case that buttons on a page were more visually prominent than hyperlinks. People therefore started using that style for things that they wanted to be more prominent, which trumped anything nerds wanted they style distinction to convey about the mechanical […]

Somebody told me an unsolicited story once: "My daughter told me one day, you're a drunk! So I quit drinking." You couldn't make a movie of it, but it's a good story. Not all changes have to be a big dramatic struggle I guess.

Periodic notice to business owners: you have the freedom to choose who you do business with. I just sent a 30 day account termination notice to a well-known supplier of arms and equipment to ICE and DHS. Resistance is patriotic. 🇺🇸

One reason "it takes fewer people to get the work done now" isn't really the cause of layoffs in software is that theory would assume anybody actually has a decent enough measure of velocity to make that assessment. High level budgeting doesn't have that much visibility

Not that anybody asked, but I'm still overall very confused about my claude code thoughts. I've posted some hot takes here and there but there's no bigger picture yet

Excited to see if vibe coding can drive getting people more into sandboxing stuff, desktop apps live in a batshit open-permissions soup

sitting at the 4-h meeting like "these people don't even know I spent all day watching the computer code itself"

It's really amazing that cell phones have to ship with a hazmat label

For as long as I can remember, people have been frustrated that printing stuff from a web page includes the url in a footer that they didn't expect would get added. Nobody who works on a web browser has met a real person

As you're working with an AI code assistant, you can be updating a document that extensively lists every little thing you've corrected the agent about. It is harder to do this with a human because it would be awkward

Saas products are what economists call "inferior goods." They are a lower quality but cheaper alternative to other services, and demand for websites is driven by economic downturn

it's driving me crazy how many times Problems have been clearly articulated in fairly well known works (Network, Amusing Ourselves to Death, the whole Snowden thing) that everyone proceeds to totally ignore

switched a machine from nixos to ubuntu, and fuck the screen flickering from downgrading wayland to X is annoying

How is it web browser have had a button to reboot a web page for thirty years now but desktop window managers still don't have a button to reboot a window

It's becoming clear part of the reason for insane ICE tactics is to induce crime. Trump's narrative relies on criminals. If you can frustrate or scare people into doing something like huck a bit of wood at an ICE truck, now you've got assault on a federal officer and you're deporting a felon, as […]

NETWORK (1976) is still a banger

Chickens don't fear the reaper; they fear the wind, other birds, and the rain. We can be like they are - sort of able to fly - We can be like they are - don't fear the reaper, fear everything else. La, la la, la, la.

The best complete music album is easily Sam's Town

COMPUTERS: Enrolled kid in school halfway through the year, and we just received in the mail a null report card for the semester when we wasn't there Went to the doctor and they haven't heard back from insurance yet, so there are no cost numbers but in the meantime they sent us a null bill […]

One good way to thwart your own career is to take some bad experience from one job and extrapolate that into low expectations for everybody you'll ever work with in the future

If a software project has a bad history of security flaws, one is encouraged to accept the vendor's updates regularly, which the vendor uses to push functionality changes without user consent; the system rewards failure by empowering those who have proven most unreliable

I don't know what this new thing is that keeps popping up in firefox but I guess it's time to try Vivaldi, I have no patience for this kind of shit

This trend or whatever of movies with using loud rap music during scene transitions is just... bad

Scene witnessed at the airport when I was flying out of Atlanta in December: A woman opens "Thank you-" as a man in military camo walking in the opposite direction looks toward her, clearly anticipating a "-for your service." Instead her face is turning downward, to her toddler, and we hear […]