tfw one of the writers of the agile manifesto comments on *and then subscribes* to your software blog >>>>

The FIFA VAR interesting as window into how algorithmic governance can operate in practice outside of the China context: highly-surveillant and high-tech (ball sensor, graphs, etc.) accompanied by a form of transparency (replays, etc.) without accountability and still essentially a blackbox.

TIL

I’m a drown-my-sorrows-in-chocolate kinda girl. Will let y’all know how many bars it takes to feel “better” 😭

My LinkedIn is full of posts by former Microsoft colleagues who accepted the voluntary retirement offer. I counted at least 9 posts from people I worked with in the past. For some reason, it felt even sadder than layoff posts. It was hard to put into words until this post from a now ex-Microsoftie.

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favorite bougie thing to do now that I'm a real adult with money is preorder books from authors I like ✨

Chilaquiles for brunch (linner?) after yesterday’s taco night Not sure how authentic the recipe was but yum

Every quality-minded person who has been on a team that actually built products

I had some work planned for this morning. Instead, I’m sitting in the sun diving through @jrothman.com’s posts and taking so many notes I think doing this might be worth more in the end than the work I had planned anyway 😅

This may be terrible advice, but buy yourself the damn shrimp. Buy it twice in one day if you can afford it. Not buying the shrimp isn't going to save you enough to buy a house and they're going to find another way to denigrate you regardless. And then you'll be slandered and shrimpless.

Anyone else take breathers at family events? Hosting a large group of fam members for tacos + World Cup watching, listening to their joy while I take a few minutes locked in my bedroom 😅🤣

Gooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaalllllllllll!!! 🇪🇬

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

no. no no no no no no no. Beyond horrific, my God

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Wrote a new post and named it "Mystery Bread." It's about quality engineering. I know 🙃 theproductmindedqa.com/mystery-bread/

Not my best work, but felt like this was what's on the menu for Bsky today.

Empathy is a superpowerrrrrrrrrrrr -rrrrred chainsaw right to the heart

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Reskeeting this one again. Seriously thinking of having my 10yo read it… TBD but I’m a big fan of anti-complaints, and will be using them to redirect to gratitude with my boys. “I’m so happy someone invented toast.” 😄

go give it some love if you’re into art & healing through creativity 🌱 healingheartsandcrafts.com

my sister spent two years quietly building an art + wellness business while also doing the rest of life. it went live this week 🎉 It’s been so cool to watch her grow into herself as she built this 😍

Anyone know who I can direct this theoretical question to? I’m really curious! 😅

💡 Lasers (fiber optics, surgery, manufacturing). LEDs (every screen on Earth). MRI (40,000+ scanners worldwide). Atomic clocks (GPS depends on them, accurate to 1 sec per 300M years). All built on publicly funded research that physicists themselves rejected as absurd.

same but replace octopus with teenage me, shell with book, and ocean with any social event 🫣

Nostalgia or self-loathing?

It's like when you spend a lot of time around tiny humans then you go back to work and lapse into baby talk 🥴

I'm always polite in my chats with llms. I'm not worried about hurting the llm's feelings, obvs, bc math. I just don't want to get used to being demanding and rude lol

God I love him

if you told me in 2000 that in 2026 I’d be genuinely relating to leadership advice from Snoop dee-oh-double-gee on LinkedIn while a bankrupt reality tv actor slash real estate developer was running our country into the 🕳️ I don’t think there’s anything you could have said to make me believe you

Life changing #booksky

top chicken thoughts

how it started how it’s going

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

I have a domain I've been paying for for 9 years, but never did anything with. I originally bought it to build something based on the spreadsheet I've been using for almost 14 years (😳) to track info about books I've read

any other parents of younger kids whose laptops are always just a little... grubby?

Gas is $6, nobody can afford a house, and we just kicked starving people off SNAP so they now have to pay $8 for cereal. Why are we even doing this at all right now?

Demis Hassabis is the polar opposite of Anthropic’s CEO. Even though they both believe AGI is imminent, Dario predicts it will cause terrible things like mass unemployment (while making him rich) while Demis believes AI will cure cancer and help us colonize the galaxy. Why not both?

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

Octopuses are invertebrates (meaning they have no bones), they can squeeze their bodies through impossibly small gaps. The only rigid part of an octopus is its beak. As long as an opening is large enough for its beak to fit through, the rest of its squishy, muscular body can follow!

Kenichi Nakaya

Keezy's posts on this have gotten me to work hard to stop using "psychopath" and "psychotic" as pejoratives.

anyone else need to actually delete Slack from their phone to stop themselves from repeatedly opening the app for no good reason, esp during PTO? 😬 (not, like, for checking notifications bc I ofc have those turned off. what do you think I am, a monster?)

Electing Mamdani? Congestion pricing? Violent crime at all time lows? Balanced city budget? Taxing rich people? Free childcare? And now the Knicks are in the NBA finals? New York is up so much right now. The worst part is that NYC friends are not even rubbing it in anymore. They know that I know.

How cool is this?