I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

folks they are almost out of ai assistant names. there are not many left

Introducing the Cool S, For Her™

a perfect CVSS 10 😍

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

shapes in the sky

dudes rock

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

how to be a man

“c gets you close to the machine” is the kind of sentence that lands very differently after working in a factory you’re not supposed to be close to the machine! that’s where the finger munchers are!

So fun to watch programmers as they find out for the first time what happens when you employ programmers

I have just today discovered that podcasts can be chapterised, and that apparently @scwpod.bsky.social is painstakingly broken into chapters with often-joke names

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

"I'm gonna dump all my pent up angst and infodump material into a blog post about Itch/payment processing" I say to myself. It ends up like a million words, oops. but well, I got it out of my brain: voidfox.com/blog/payment...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

I scored 14/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. Don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed to get halfway

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.

This morning I read the phrase "the nazification of grok" and I wished for an extended moment to be a medieval peasant with no knowledge of any of this. Just give me a wheelbarrow and a 40 year life expectancy

happy america day

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

lol it was a null pointer

it turned out to be a bad year to work in international freight insurance, so i am on the hunt for a new staff engineering role tef.computer i work in the uk, but usually remote and in american timezones. postgres and dist-sys but i can sling json into any replicated log if needed

the ravages of age ------------------ patreon.com/nhoj

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

One random show, with no press or preknowledge. They should do the play as Bill and Ted, everyone else is normal, they are bill and Ted - it is never addressed.

Flashback to the time I realized "The Impression That I Get" was not about knocking on wood.

Huge news: following a decades-long public campaign, the International Recommended Maximum Line Length for Programming has been increased from 80 characters to 120 characters

Had a productive and emotional therapy session about my sense of failure for still having never really made something of my own and then got off the call and proceeded to make a list of menu items I would serve at a Talking Heads themed fast casual salad concept

Is it good that my daughter made this

"Masculine Energy"

fix their hearts or die

i'm pretty sure i posted this when angelo badalamenti passed, but, well, it feels pretty appropriate to post it again, now lynch has joined him. rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eq...

looking forward to when these companies just start to refuse to hire anyone from an underrepresented group under the guise of "merit"

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

“Christmas season is over! Easter is coming!” My daughter has a bright future in retail marketing, seems like.

Something something bilateral symmetry, my daughter’s new drawing book may need to apologise to pineapple purists

I've been doing Advent of Code in Java, which I've been enjoying, but it has a very uncomfortable "Enterprise FizzBuzz" feel to it. Maybe I need to give in and add some more interfaces and stuff.

A great article about how having an algorithm for something isn’t the same as having solved the problem: www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-...

You can't say for sure that adding rudimentary Unicode support to my Advent of Code solution isn't going to pay off later.

he's a recently graduated MBA with zero machine learning experience using a bespoke machine learning system on a self-selected set of companies to find engineers with relatively few commits, who are largely going to be tech leads and engineering managers

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no