Towards an amicable resolution with Ruby Central andre.arko.net/2026/04/02/tow…

if you don’t like how unethically this tech is developed, you can say no. the industry is making that painful, and it might mean fewer job opportunities in tech while the insanity continues, but you CAN actually say no if you truly care

hi friends, this is just your friendly reminder that this still isn’t true. you CAN still avoid coding LLMs if you want to. it’s getting more difficult in the current tech industry job market, but unavoidable is a stretch.

bro it's on slinky. they're integrating slurm with kubernetes on slinky over at rafay

hi friends, this is just your friendly reminder that this still isn’t true. you CAN still avoid coding LLMs if you want to. it’s getting more difficult in the current tech industry job market, but unavoidable is a stretch.

meanwhile Portland’s MAX still doesn’t go enough places and TriMet is so underfunded that we’re losing a ton of bus service 🫩

Finally done. I was able to talk with @pfrazee.com, as well as a handful of other folks with insight on the situation. #atmosphereconf trezy.com/blog/the-mar...

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves

GitHub’s still going for nine fives, huh?

yes this is about a certain container registry

I've published the first issue of my newsletter: Spam. buttondown.com/capsule/arch...

🤔 But what if I want a custom feed NOW? As it turns out, graze.social has the technology. Creating feeds can be as easy as pie. Give it a try! No AI required. Just I.

I’ve been doing design+webdev for over 10 years and I have deep expertise building and implementing design systems. if you’re looking for a design/dev hybrid to take polish and product thinking to the next level, let’s chat: ky.fyi

New blog post! I threw together a little graphical script editing utility for the Magic School Lunar fan translation, which lets me visualize every line of dialogue as I write it in order to let me see how it'll look in-game. www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/20...

back to normalcy i guess 😩 📍Portland International Airport / Portland / OR

SFO ✈️ PDX 📍San Francisco International Airport / San Francisco / CA

i don’t live in @councilormorillo.bsky.social’s district but i wish i did

i keep seeing this float around, but there’s zero indication that this toggle would stop GitHub from using your public repositories to train AI. it’s very likely that it has to do with Copilot autocompletion acceptance/rejection and nothing else

i keep seeing this float around, but there’s zero indication that this toggle would stop GitHub from using your public repositories to train AI. it’s very likely that it has to do with Copilot autocompletion acceptance/rejection and nothing else

i would love SF so much if not for tech

someone just ordered an iced cappuccino and an iced cortado? ??? 📍Third Wheel Coffee / San Francisco / CA

i started Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” recently and, folks: woof

slept awful last night but holy shit, this Crabonara Udon is so rich it might put me right back to sleep 📍Katsuo + Kombu / San Francisco / CA

are there any more things like this

ME AS A KID SEEING SELF-DRIVING CARS AND AI IN SCIENCE FICTION: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! ME AS AN ADULT SEEING SELF-DRIVING CARS AND AI IN REAL LIFE: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Panic continues to prove that companies don’t have to be bad, actually

trying to start my day off right despite the DHH jumpscare 📍The Wild Fox / San Francisco / CA

even when he’s not being overtly racist, this guy is so fucking miserable. yet working with him is still worth it for some people, for some reason

something i really don’t miss about the bay area: every single conversation i hear around me is about AI. really kills my desire to drop some eaves

aww yeah, still good 📍Mensho / San Francisco / CA

i’m getting the korok cardigan. i’m entering my Mr. Rodgers era. 📍Nintendo / San Francisco / CA

wow the advertising situation in SF sucks more than it ever has, huh? the only good billboard/ad i saw between the airport and my hotel was for milk

what up bae (area) 📍San Francisco International Airport / San Francisco / CA

PDX ✈️ SFO 📍Portland International Airport / Portland / OR

even the goddess of milk art is smiling upon me on my birthday

okay this is a good birthday treat 🥳🍞 📍Ponto / Portland / OR

> As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity. What’s happening, and how do we solve it? i think there’s an obvious answer to this question and it makes me feel insane

had a nice long walk to get lunch 🌸 📍HarBQ / Portland / OR

yes, _every_ billionaire. EVERY billionaire.

thank god, Portland's raising the liability threshold for quarterly estimated payments on the SHS and PFA taxes from $1000 to _$5000_!!! i can finally stop worrying about this and just pay when i file 🥹

It's amazing that Facebook was so sure this was going to take off that they renamed their company Meta

got paged at 5am this morning because our Ruby 4 upgrade forced us onto a newer version of Debian that moved a bunch of timezone name aliases into a `tzdata-legacy` package that isn't installed by default. so Rails just stopped recognizing names like `Asia/Calcutta` in our app's on-call schedules

early ChatGPT

New rating system for code just dropped: ⭐ Regular (farms work out to AI agents) ⭐⭐ Cage-free (uses one instance of Claude Code) ⭐⭐⭐ Free-range (uses an AI-enabled IDE like Cursor for chat and/or Copilot autocomplete) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pasture-raised (artisanal, small-batch code typed by hand)

watched “If I Had Legs I'd Kick You” the other night and loved it. a pervading sense of dread made me feel like i was watching a horror film even though there are no jumpscares; it just feels like something terrible is about to happen because something terrible _is_ happening and continues to happen

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

ICE has killed someone new.

my favorite thing about Pokopia is there’s no metagame. no EVs, no IVs, no “best” pokémon. every pokémon is the best and that’s beautiful