The world sucks the job market is trash the industry is eating itself from the inside so go easy on yourself. More is being asked of you. We're all playing hurt. Good luck. I want us all to make it.

Don’t let the age of this article from @germsvel.com scare you off, vertically slicing features is still a great idea: www.germanvelasco.com/blog/break-a... #AgileDevelopment

"The stupidest way to get injured is to view everything through cynical wounds and never imagine a more generous world." That sentence hit me like a metaphorical fish in the face - an important wake-up for a lot of us, even outside the US in these dark times!

Because the Deaf community is extremely funny politicians definitely cannot count on a loving and complimentary sign name like this one—it really demonstrates people’s genuine enthusiasm

My fourth grader asked me today “Do you even know about 67? It’s very popular among my classmates. You’re probably not cool enough to know about it.” I didn’t have the heart to tell them my favorite internet linguist made a video about it (which I watched) months ago.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

In complex domains, doing tasks faster doesn’t necessarily mean creating more value.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Damn dude, a piece of media doesn’t map 1:1 to your preferred politics? That’s crazy, are you okay? Do you need anything?

Yes: hiring managers at one or two scaleups (Series A+) I talked with said they’re starting to hire juniors again because the talent pool is very good, and juniors use AI tools better+more productive+more creative than many seniors Feels like it’s some secret very few know…

Last league tennis match of the year this evening, barring a surprise wild-card invitation to sectionals. I'm hoping it's my last official match for a few decades at my current NTRP level, and that I get bumped to the next level in November. It's silly, but still a thing I've been working on.

“Leading provider of enterprise AI solutions.” Who are you kidding? You don’t even know what that means. Startups shouldn't pretend to be big companies. (You’re throwing away the advantages you 𝘥𝘰 have.)

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

i would absolutely keep a jumping spider as a pet. i love those guys.

Another 🔥 package release from @maennchen.dev 😎 AshDiagram is a library for generating beautiful diagrams to visualize your #AshFramework applications. Generate Entity Relationship, Class, C4 Architecture, and Policy diagrams directly from your Ash resources and domains. 🚀

Dismantling ICE and prosecuting every single agent is the moderate position.

We launched Ash Typescript at Ash Summit after Goatmire and this is an excellent demo of how it works. Check it out!

very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

The real cure to male loneliness is earnestly giving a shit about literally anything other than being a vague centrist troll

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's so criminal. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

It's the South Park effect. That show taught a generation that caring about anything in either direction is dumb and something to be attacked.

CHOTINER: And so your roommate, he buys the groceries? ME: Yes, and I cover the utilities. CHOTINER: But the plums, those were a gift. ME: Now, wait– CHOTINER: Which he was saving, for breakfast? ME: *slamming my fist on the kitchen island* PROBABLY!

commoncog.com/how-to-use-a... I enjoyed this essay by @cedricchin.bsky.social quite a bit (which is a normal reaction for me). Super practical, super applicable, deeply rooted in humanism and compassion.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Static site generators can be hard for stakeholders to buy into because they don't have a familiar UI. I'm here to demystify adding a friendly CMS to your @11ty.dev site: ZeroPoint now includes good working examples of @sveltiacms.app and Decap CMS configurations! getzeropoint.com#adding-a-cms

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Happy Batman Day!

This is great advice for people of any/all genders. The way to be interesting is to be interested and follow those interests. Plus it makes life way more fun.

Don't be chickenshit.

48 hour FLASH! 45% off with code FLASHSALE @pragdave felt like stirring things up - he just put nearly every title on sale!

My team at Chime is hiring -- listing here careers.chime.com/en/jobs/8141... It's Ruby/Rails team working on internal tools and frameworks. The job is remote, about half the existing team is SF-based. US and Canada only, I think. Happy to answer questions in thread or in DM.

Everyone in your company should be on customer calls. Sales, Support, Product interviews, events -- it all counts. Even if unstructured, so long as it’s about their lives and interaction with your product & company. Empathy and insight comes automatically to everyone.

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

this is great for two reasons 1, the obvious: brilliant deconstruction of how patriarchy tries to sell total emotional isolation as not just a side effect but a GOAL of doing masculinity correctly 2: the repeated mentions of Buffalo Wild Wings made me laugh so hard

If you can't handle me at my [soft chittering] then you don't deserve me at my [ominous squelching]

It will be missed opportunity if no one in Congress proposes a Charlie Kirk gun control bill.

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way. by Ezra Klein

Also, people should realize that you could literally just define an Ash.Resource and use it for just one of your tables to use with Cinder. @ash-hq.org is not an all-or-nothing thing. Cinder is awesome, and it uses Resource info to do lots of smart stuff 😁 #AshFramework #ElixirLang

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Dr @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best & very succinctly-

If anyone wants to see the demo app from my TDD telemetry talk, here is the source! github.com/Nezteb/telem... 😄 #ElixirConf #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

The new Elixir LSP, Expert, is now available! 🎉

I need a truly cracked UI/UX developer. React, animations, juicy UIs, point-and-shoot type person who enjoys the craft.

In this episode of Beam Radio, hosts @ektastrophe.bsky.social & @lawik.bsky.social welcome @joshcprice.bsky.social. They discuss AlchemyConf, the value of smaller conferences & the importance of the #ElixirLang community. www.beamrad.io/90

The most interesting and satisfying work I've done has almost always been at the intersection of two or more domains where I got to "pretty good but not elite" (in an individual domain) but "really, really dang good" at the intersection. The combination of strengths is multiplicative, not additive.