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An article that - if you work in technology tmand roll your eyes with every mention of AI - will nourish your soul. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For reasons I can't explain, #WCUS inspired me to draw a shark with a chainsaw

absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess

You want your sales lead to be like a shark. An ancient, inexorable predator who can smell a deal from miles away. An individual who is unfairly maligned and feared due to media stereotypes; who has been hunted to the brink of extinction by over-fishing & catastrophic damage to their native habitat.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

I'm gutted to miss #WCMontclair today — have a blast, everyone, and I hope to be back to present my cancelled talk on Debugging in a future year. (Tl;dr talk: write every step and assumption down, be methodical, work together, question assumptions, are you *sure* it's not caching)

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

We're on Steam today (feat. me making a fool of myself) with the GAMES IN NEW YORK sale: a whole lot of games made or set in New York! Have you played Despelote yet? Crush House? Immortality? Getting Over it with BFOD? Beglitched? Ape Out? Norwood Suite? store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY

GO!! Fight!!! 18F has only sought to better the world, ever. Shutting it down was criminal

I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company. Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!

Huge shout-out to @mikelittle.com for sharing gist.github.com/lightningspi... with me — a snippet to suppress _load_textdomain_just_in_time deprecation notices in third-party plugins. Incredibly useful for cutting down on log noise in WP sites since 6.7

Clearly need to play this game 🤣

Trump is doing exactly what the voters elected him to do: give everyone measles, crash all the airplanes, and destroy the economy.

Tech scale: Reduce human dependencies. Government scale: Work within them. The real skill isn’t just "moving fast" It's moving deliberately when you *can’t* bypass accountability. That kind of care requires interest in people beyond your own experience & actually listening to them.

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

do you need 7 whole hours of blissful relaxing music? (probably not-- that's way too much music.) but do you want to support musicians affected by the fires in LA? of could you do. here's a nice way to do that. plus, it gets you access to a boatload of relaxing music.

Making some specific endless-scroll short-form video app illegal is petty, and ignorant. Making ALL endless-scroll short-form video apps illegal would usher in a Civilization 6 style Golden Age.

On 15 January 2001, Wikipedia was launched with a vision for a free, open encyclopedia that anyone could edit. 24 years later, it has grown into one of the world’s most visited websites, offering 63+ million articles in 300+ languages, thanks to its incredible global community of volunteers 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

Don't call it a Substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

After a year and a half of travel since we moved out of our apartment, we've found a new place in Brooklyn! Nomadism is great but I'm excited to be based somewhere again, at least for a while

I love Array.reduce, but I find myself writing less of them as the browser primitives get better. Map + Object groupBy is one place you can now get rid of reduce for www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfK...

I love Cyber Monday, it's a great opportunity to remember what email lists I'm on and unsubscribe from them all en masse