I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Sometimes I wonder if even I am chronically online enough to run this thing

(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys

friends, what do you use to gather links? i’d love a tool to collect links, preferably with an api just needs to be easy to add to, and support arbitrary lists (so not restricted to articles to read for example) any recs would be very welcome!

📜 Lifenotes #46: September 2024 carol.gg/blog/lifenot...

Every single time.

does anyone have an arca invite to share pls? 👀

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

They should invent a kind of news that isn't bad

alabama shakes just posted tour dates so if anyone is on the market for an organ, hmu

"my existence isn't political!" - weak, meek, non-confrontational "my existence will shatter the foundations of society and the oppression for which it stands" - proactive, powerful, goal orientated

Well it worked, I definitely want to die now

ACAB - dashare.zone ADMIN

rot girl summer

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf

classic rule of thumb for writing alt text when you're lost, lands every time. i guess we just need the familiar social context, rather than thinking of it as an academic writing assignment

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Tech people think that "abstraction" is magic and a fundamental force of good. Thinking on a higher abstract level is extremely useful and powerful but if you can't understand how it is also definitionally reductive and the dangers implied by that, you're a threat to the dignity of all things.

Well, @frontendnorth.bsky.social has been a wonderful, inspiring day. Huge thanks to all the organisers and speakers!

HELL YEAH @joehart.bsky.social 🙌 #FrontendNorth

it’s @joehart.bsky.social time at #FrontendNorth 🎉

it’s @joehart.bsky.social time at #FrontendNorth 🎉

@amyhupe.bsky.social being on point as always #FrontendNorth

“The holy trinity of boring” – @ichimnetz.com at #frontendnorth

Katie Fenn kicking off @frontendnorth.bsky.social

if i see the word agentic 1 (ONE) more time i will scream

@rowan.fyi oh hi! we met ages ago in a meet up in london right?

TFW you get the platinum trophy for a game you’ve been obsessively playing for weeks.

see y’all there! 🎉

Shouting "hands" as you push to main

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

getting paged before breakfast is like a cold open to your workday

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Kat’s take is one of the best explained takes on genAI I’ve seen in a while. I’d recommend reading the thread. The argument that its cost-benefit case disappears as soon as its true cost catches up with it feels sound.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.

big up for the monzo pals on stage at #LDX3 #LeadDev ✨

i’ve been hibernating lately, but am at #LDX3 today, so if any pals are here pls come say hi! 👋🏼

there is no such thing as “ethical ai” given the environmental and labor issues inherent to literally all of it

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

*googles how to send Disney a cease and desist for remaking their own movies*

"I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Stop: making pull requests Start: making pull demands

it's gonna be may