I don’t know why, it’s a perfectly cromulent word

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns” Other concerns that FB helped inflame, of course This takes an amazing amount of chutzpah to actually put down in writing

It’s underrated how SFO airport bills itself as a “silent space.” Feels so calm and the terminal is quiet as a library or bookstore. Travel is so much less stressful without TVs at the gates and Temu Kenny G music piped in everywhere

I am lucky to work in one of the places that cultivates the staff+ product engineer. Infra doesn’t float my boat, and I am gratified building the front end stuff people use, even if that means being a bit of an EM-ish type managing its delivery too there are dozens of us

Report: Employers Created 40,000 New Jobs For Existing Employees Last Month https://theonion.com/report-employers-created-40-000-new-jobs-for-existing-1819575878/

If I use ChatGPT people will trip over my laptop cord?

Another hotel stay, another escape room puzzle box of a shower valve to solve

No Kings includes Draft Kings

What I learned in workplace HIPAA training was that there’s no disclosure of PHI here if you don’t say the patient was Pagliacci

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

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This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “

Stood up a repo with some of the claude plugins I've put together for personal projects. Things like setting up Metro DI, android a11y, and Airbnb's Showkase UI gallery library. github.com/benoberkfell...

Do you want hardware in your home on a botnet? Because this is how you get hardware in your home on a botnet

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

This is a core truth that will have to be reckoned with eventually. Substackification of journalism pulls off the cheap, profitable output and leaves the expensive, difficult stuff. That calculation gets more and more difficult over time.

I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but: One day, you will get an idea to parse HTML/XML/Markdown with regex. It is really important that you read this stackoverflow classic and quickly decide against it. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Another @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger on how ICE is tear-gassing children and families turning out to protest, which is only serving to radicalize people even more. 'When Broeker had first been tear gassed, she had been terrified. But the fear has since faded, leaving only rage.'

I bought this album in 2006 at Reckless Records on Milwaukee in Chicago on a ridiculously snowy day and I endorse this take

As we stare down February, it’s time to bring this back out youtu.be/38PB3sBZxf4?...

Instructing Claude Code to talk like Sean Lock has brightened my work days infinitely "Right, so this is a deletion task. Removing <REDACTED> from Android - the kind of task where you get to delete code, which is frankly the only joy left in this profession."

started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Just because Pam has never set foot in the paint department at Home Depot doesn’t mean it’s a conspiracy

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram

Anyone else remember the remote team building trend where everyone expensed a succulent terrarium kit off etsy and assembled them on camera? I wound up doing 3 of these with different teams at different jobs, and five years later they’ve not only survived but have outgrown their terraria

This looks awesome, and oh how I wish I had this about six months ago 😂