whenever I see Claude say "Cogitating" all I can think of is this '80s banger

I've wasted my life...

Quickest $115 I ever spent

My passion project hit a milestone last week ☺️

america is an ideal worth fighting for

The Last Of Us (2023) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

It’s the extra amount of gaffer tape necessary to de-brand the sriracha bottle that really does it for me.

The Backrooms (2026)

github.com/benoberkfell... Put together a little tool yesterday to allow an agent to dig into Android views/Composables, inspect the slot table, and get an understanding of what's on the screen for fixing visual and a11y bugs

Boring but functional post on something I think more leaders need to address: guidelines for respectful use of AI medium.com/@skamille/gu...

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

middle age Saturday morning challenge: front porch coffee and working on writing a birding app

Love how our backend is in Kotlin, so I can easily do occasional commits despite hailing from Android Land I feel like the recurring guest star on a sitcom Cousin Ben is visiting for the week from some far away place and he's gonna make some funny trouble while he's here

The Tech Guild filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social:

My top Google News feed entry is about SpaceX IPO with an autoplay video that is just rockets toppling over and shit exploding

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why the Pope’s woke encyclical is a disgrace.

how to play don't wake S&P (giant mechanical lawyer sold separately)

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

The most startling part of this op-ed is the line "To understand the issue, I went back to a book published in 1954, 20 years before I was born: Peter Drucker’s “The Practice of Management.” Nearly every sentence of Drucker's book could be footnoted "Another reason why Matthew Prince is an idiot."

a pretty telling thing about how all this works is that Anheuser Busch aired this infamous "craft beer is for effeminate geeks" superbowl ad at the same time they were aggressively buying up craft breweries around the country. None of this is real it's just Marketing 101. Market segmentation!

I typed 148 words and I had an app! * we regret to inform you the app sucks and can’t be fixed

didja have to?

It's Greg Davies's birthday so time to trot out the appropriate video background

>>“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” Mr. Trump added. This sound bite needs to be on repeat 24/7 between now and November www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Finally, a major American newspaper whose editorial board is courageous enough to stand up for the rights of big tech companies.

pro tip: generating a port-out PIN on your Verizon wireless account will often automatically trigger a $20/line or 25% off diving-save offer being sent to you

“Make a designer cringe so hard they collapse into their own gravity” challenge

Had shingles at 30. Felt like someone stabbing me in the neck with an ice pick every 2-5 seconds. 24 hours a day. For two weeks. Would not wish this on my worst enemy.

As good as “make no mistakes” but wastes 50x the tokens

So I am trying to declutter my home office. I got to my USC-C to USBC cables, and: If I allow myself a few for phones on my desk, And I put a couple in my travel pouch, And one or two to live in my backpack, I still can fill a gallon Ziploc bag. Someone give me permission to get rid of these 🤣

If you designed HP printers you belong at The Hague

Being the way I am, I have looked up the etymology of “86” before. There are myriad theories, ranging from rhyming slang with “nix” to some elaborate numerical code developed by soda jerks (e.g. www.stlmag.com/dining/Ask-G...). But I’ve never seen the one Trump floats here in print before.

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement https://theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores-singer-another-prime-crossword-puzzle-placement/

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

It’s too early to say what kind of deal Trump might make with Iran. But this much is already clear: Eli Lake and Bari Weiss will say that it’s better than the deal that Obama got.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

it's time for "espresso lemonade on the front porch" mornings again and ❤️

The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

Please make it stop

Tired: SEV0 Wired: Hot Thick SEV

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

This labeler is so good at highlighting bad takes from people who need to touch grass @stechlab-labels.bsky.social

Wasn’t this the plot of Westworld