Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. I see more and more in the lives of people around me every day.

I pay Fizz $31.64 CAD each month for my mobile Not paying Bell or Rogers is especially nice

the emotional roller coaster conference speakers love riding... dankim.com/the-stages-o...

Founding Fathers, 1776: We declare independence for these United States of America from the tyranny of the King. United States, 2026: To mark our 250th anniversary, we have recreated the Tyrannical King from the classic Declaration of Independence From the Tyrannical King.

While Apple's blog post about CSS Masonry/grid-lanes is making the rounds, in case you had missed it, we (Edge and Chrome) also have a testable version of it, and had published a similar article in 2025.

noted: Tailwind is having a hard time dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

It’s January 7 and there’s snow and ice on the streets. And yet in the group for lunch today (not transportation advocates!), there were three who had biked to downtown Kitchener, and I wasn’t even one of them!

And what separates dishwasher loyalists like myself from the rest of the world is that, when this sort of thing happens to me, I do not blame the dishwasher or change my behavior. I shop for knives more carefully.

I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts

My hot take is that there’s way too much fucking around happening too quickly. The finding out needs to happen faster, it’s not keeping up with the fucking around.

I love this video mostly because a former boss of mine is in it. The band basically knew they captured lightning in a bottle and used the labels money to take all their friends from Canada to Florida to shoot a guerrilla video with no permits and party all week.

Fraudulent QR code stickers found in Whistler parking lots - The Resort Municipality of Whistler is urging anyone who used a QR code to pay for parking on Saturday to contact their credit card company immediately after fraudulent payment signs were found in municipal lots.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Kotlin compiler plugins are amazing! ✅ Expressive syntax ✅ Compile-time checked ✅ Fast at runtime

Wow, LINQ for #Kotlin Multiplatform! github.com/ExoQuery/Exo.... This looks really nice, especially coming from the developer of zio-quill (LINQ in Scala) 🤯.

Humanity’s use of AI, visualized

In the meantime, best I’ve been able to do is chronological feeds (I.e. scroll down to go forward in time) that remember your spot based on what posts the app says you’ve seen

I just wrote a poem for a friend’s engagement and was thinking about how fucking hollow and pointless it would make that if I’d punted to an LLM. Real gift card energy.

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packers send cease and desist to a tiny company making a cheese hat (petty much?), they pivot to a cheese grater hat, bears players wear it, hats go viral. seeing the bears defeat the packers in literally every way is truly :chefs_kiss: 🤌 blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/22/b...

there is something very cool (extremely nerdy?) about this explanation of stereo sound on a vinyl record sleeve

a beautiful website deuxfleurs.fr

playin’ It Takes Two with my twins

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install

I keep chilled water in the fridge, in Soda Stream bottles. Sometimes I use it uncarbonated, for coffee or whatever. Sometimes I make bubble water. Today I fucked up and made a carbonated protein shake. Surprisingly not bad!

"This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg." How do the HR departments of these tech companies keep letting this kind of thing happen? I've seen numerous cases like this now.

I’ve drawn a new spin-the-bottle icon Holo (2012) Material (2014) web (2025)

Why AGI Will Not Happen by Tim Dettmers This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective that is often missing in the current discourse: the physical reality of computation. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...

The stuff these guys are doing with SQLite is wild

This could, and I'm not overstating this, save human kind

I hope that every programmer I know reads and internalizes this pronto. A foundational document for LLMs in engineering practice. Much here should be obvious, but depending on your POV you will find crucial guidance here in one place or another

Climbing the engineering ladder means you get to go from being a person who is told not to do something stupid because it's wrong, to being a person who does something stupid in spite of it being wrong

Transit gets better with more frequency! Biking gets safer with more people riding! City streets get more vibrant when there’s more foot traffic!

Creating a universal app store for PWAs seems like an obvious win here vs. heuristics triggered installs. But think about smaller, more bespoke app stores! An app store for your intranet apps. An app store for your webring of online mutuals. An app store for kid-friendly apps. That's fun territory.

Whoa, just saw <editor-fold> in a generated .kt file. I love it.

I might be even more thrilled for the entire @fermyon.com and #Akamai teams here than they are. Akamai has realized that it could put together a next-gen cloud native platform that both enables and pushes a huge amount of work far, far closer to the users than ever. And Fermyon....

It's time for Advent of WHAM! The rules: 1. Play Wham's "Last Christmas" EVERY DAY because it's an absolute banger.

Today’s the last day to submit a talk for @kotlinconf.com. Go submit one! Teaching something is a great way to deepen your understanding of it.

Probably the best article about how big software companies operate and why that I've read in a while: www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...

Swiss cheese has something for everyone: cheese for the cheese lovers and holes for the cheese haters

2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.

"It's really good at summarising code I don't understand". But, weirdly, it's pretty bad at summarising code I *do* understand.

Didya watch Poker Face season 2 yet? Flopacopa was so silly I loved it

Nice! I love an excuse to post this gist.github.com/swankjesse/8...

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...