"A society built by optimizing suffering out of existence will be one which does not depend on hope and courage (or other virtues) for its life, and therefore it will be fragile, timid, anxious, overly sensitive, and given to despair." open.substack.com/pub/oalannob...

"Don't speculate. Prepare" - Akio Toyoda

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

"Longevity doesn't always come from engineering sophistication. Just as often, longevity comes from simplicity." incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories...

Companies aren't going to love you back when you become a "missionary" for them You need to have a pinky-toe out every door these days for you and your family's sake softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/07...

The upcoming death of software engineering has been greatly exaggerated by people who never built software themselves bsky.app/profile/mald...

Something I think about often in this new era of AI is the devaluation of "knowing things". Your research gave you social capital. Now, that social capital is going to zero.

Which way is the right way down the yellow brick road of life? ... There’s a monkey on my back and he’s telling me this ain’t a bushwhack youtu.be/KwZ8n0fkZmA

Subsecond works by detouring function calls through a jump table. This jump table contains the latest version of the program’s function pointers, and when a function is called, Subsecond will look up the function in the jump table and call that instead. docs.rs/subsecond/0....

> Principle 1 > Share context, and share full agent traces, not just individual > messages > > Principle 2 > Actions carry implicit decisions, and conflicting decisions carry bad results cognition.ai/blog/dont-bu...

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

"avoid negativity echo chambers" brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06...

"Separate the intention from the implementation." open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirs...

Customer-focus is the necessary lens to focus curiosity. Expert generalists prioritize their attention that the things that will help them help their users to excel. This encourages learning about what their customers do, and how they can improve their work. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

Realization #1: you pay a large, ongoing tax in coordination and orchestration efforts between people and teams. I think pretty much everyone knows this much. You have to make the implicit explicit, and that goes for everything. This often manifests as an unusually high ratio of managers to ICs.

Ah now I understand the difference between a mutex and and a read/write lock. The mutex doesn't distinguish between reading and writing; it takes exclusive control of the resource for both actions.

"Yeah, you're right. We have to let go of deeply understanding every bit of code and feeling like that's where our control comes from. We do need to make the code report to us." www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

"We often ask “why are people doing X instead of the obviously superior Y“. This is an example of how we are likely missing the additional costs of choosing to do Y over X. Just because we don’t notice those costs doesn’t mean they aren’t there. It means we aren’t looking closely enough."

The main consequence of this AI stuff is that there is already a premium on human interactions and it will only grow.

Just discovered Wezterm's Quick Select Mode. Cool way to copy text from the terminal. wezterm.org/quickselect....

I am someone who takes their relationship with their tools very seriously. I have long hesitated embracing LLM coding and "vibe-coding" because I want to *learn*. @simonwillison.net's recent post helped me reframe my LLMs, and actually feel excited about them. simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

"And I need more grace than I thought" - mewithoutyou

As a electrical engineering summer intern at a small startup, I learned a lot about LabView controls. Something the senior engineer always told me was "Start with stopping".

I am reading @pragmaticengineer.com's deep dive on Kagi and Perplexity, paying close attention to the company cultures. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/perplexity...

I have long been an avid distance runner, but I haven't lifted weights in over a decade. That changed this morning. Oh, how I had forgotten how many muscle groups a dead lift exercises!

It feels highly ironic to post an article highlighting the dangers of ephemeral communication over great distances www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

Helix 25.01 is now available! I have found Helix's selection-action philosophy fits my brain better than vim's action-selection. Most of the navigation key bindings are the same as vim, so it is pretty easy to make the jump helix-editor.com/news/release...

fishshell.com/blog/rustport/ #rustlang

I tried out the recently public ghostty.org terminal emulator. I really liked the defaults, and updating the configuration was a snap. The `quick terminal` is also a neat feature.

check out ghostty.org I've been using for a while - it's great! ✨ ... and it's just been open-sourced on github.com/ghostty-org/...

Very practical insights from @jonhoo.eu. Thanks @timclicks.dev for the great interview. The sections on "how to approach a project refactor" and "how to approach a greenfield project" were especially helpful. timclicks.dev/podcast/reli...

The logic of enclosure seeks to lock us into a private virtual world of “bespoke realities,” thus excluding us from the common world of things that yields as well a public consciousness. -- @lmsacasas.bsky.social theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...

Working thru @steveklabnik.com's #JujutsuVCS tutorial today. "An interesting thing that I've noticed while using jj is that sometimes things feel the same, but backwards." An inversion much like ownership in #RustLang and "select -> modify" in #Kakoune steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto...

I learned a lot while setting up my PDS on Digital Ocean and my domain on Cloudflare. I had to remind myself that the worst thing that could happen was not "getting something wrong"; it was doing nothing at all. Default to action.