Hearing aids. They fucking suck. They SUCK. So fucking hard. The engineering details required to pump 65-70db volume boost out of a thing the size of an AirPod is ridiculous, but I’m confident that the Apple of its prime days could figure that out

“That moment when you realize that a tool simply fixes all the UI issues that you had and that you have been developing for the last 20 years was not exactly great." lwn.net/Articles/105... I’m glad git is leaning from #jj-vcs

I am honestly surprised that anyone is surprised by this. This design flaw is entirely inherent in any tool that exposes “run a sub command and communicate with it” - aka configurable client/server designs Like the api is: command = arbitrary exec code go here ??? That’s Surprising?

Every now and then I think about how gas and electric cars were identical to performance when we first developed them and I wonder what life would’ve been like if electric had won the first time around 🙃

I’m a big fan of “[Object, object]” Specifically including the quotes. They’re important

Age verification but instead of verifying your age via some weird numeric or biometric bullshit, have people swipe left (“I don’t get it”) or right (“I understand this reference”) on memes until your age is calculated.

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

Ok but this is a fantastic description of what a code library is

I liked this post -- it makes really similar points as I have made a couple times about technologies and effectiveness and implementation/intervention science vs idealize estimates of gains in RCTs (& even the RCTs in software spaces are troubled designs) aleximas.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...

OR, instead of these false dichotomies you could listen to the people who do biosciences and teach those who do the biosciences and have been spending years advocating for breaking down barriers to coding in these fields and are trying to grapple with this www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...

I wrote for @resilienceinsoftware.org on "Superficial Blamelessness", where under the label of "blamelessness", we avoid punishing people, yet still focus fixes and interventions based on the same individualistic framing rather than a broader systemic stance. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11502437

Good luck MAGA. You're never going to get Texans to boycott Halal meat, because it's every barbecue obsessed person's secret ingredient.🤷🏿‍♂️ Muslims and Jews don't like eating poo in their meat.🍖💩 The rest of us don't seem to mind it for some reason? Kosher and Halal meat have almost no poo in them

The RustWeek conference venue is right next to Utrecht Central Station, the biggest and most central train station of the Netherlands, just 30 minutes from one of the most connected airports of Europe, and very easy to reach by international train! 🚄

trying to post through it rn

It’s so heartening to see this after years of being surrounded by such dismal news regarding OSS funding It’s still dire, but let’s celebrate the bright spots where we find them ❤️

i miss deep communities of practice you don’t really find them any more. all the social media formats are against it

ATTN: honk

What’s the emotion for that flavour of anticipation where you’re waiting for a baddie to make eye contact with you in a public space so you can tell them their aesthetic is incredible and the vibes are immaculate? Asking for a me

It’s frustrating see a survey ask carefully designed questions that guide you to answer that the system is doing what it’s incentivised to do (vs what you think it should) I’d love to see more “Is this survey useful?”, “how effective are these measures”, and “are we asking the right questions?”

But our purchasing power is higher if you look at these carefully selected numbers and employment is really good if you use this very specific definition of unemployment! And we wonder why we’re building generations of people that distrust math and statistics

Really like this way of describing it! We (building software) have a lot of constraints, sure, but SO much power over so many more interfaces (snippets of human lives) than just "the UI" for "The User"

A type is a specification of correctness. `f :: Int -> Int` is the property `∀x ∈ Int, f(x) ∈ Int`. In most languages, the type system embeds all properties verifiable by the compiler, meaning not all "true" types are encodeable in the language. Existential properties are esp. hard to encode

Ok what is up with azure functions + application insights + opentelemetry ?? I spent over two hours today digging through every bit of docs they had and my conclusion was “shit is broke” I really don’t want that to be correct. I don’t even think it’s correct! But what the fuck

Remarkably this is exactly the same as the list of skills in high impact designers

Ecological awe is a thing I’ve mentioned about in a few talks, but I don’t think it has a super solid definition anywhere @grimalkina.bsky.social introduced me to the idea and I fell in love with it To me, ecological awe is a deep respect of and ability to articulate the nuances in an ecosystem

This should be at least half of the curriculum in every tech formal education. Learn the value of patience. Learn to respect others. Learn how to collaborate with others. Learn that tech is a means to improve the world for all of us.

If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include: - ecological awe - intellectual humility - respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems - cross functional communication - resilience engineering - marketing and sales (“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Haskell is WEAK on the type system

ms. rachel is WEAK on the economy

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

This preprint is about this! THIS!! Mindblowing.

There is going to be a big wave of "omg what if you didn't treat this as an answer machine" "what if we rediscover active learning" commentary from CS in about six months, especially the voices currently describing everything as "brain rot and cognitive decline," and I'm already a bit tired

My publisher for this is

When’s the special edition of your book dropping, @skamille.themanagerswrath.com? It looks amazing

Ran into one of my old college buddies today dude was one of the most cracked devs I knew. like reverse engineer a os from binary cracked found out she transitioned. I asked her why, and this hit me like a ton of bricks, "kiran, a computer contains no techbros, but millions of trans sisters"

keming. not even once.

Security folks: have we considered *not* releasing security patches for the avalanche of bugs we're about to deal with? Hear me out. Given how much faster it's getting to reverse engineer an exploit from a patch and that we're expecting to fix *so* many bugs at once, maybe do a full release.

This is one of my most favourite parts of the internet experience

A core feature of the internet

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Tiling window management in Firefox when?

github.com/Navigators-G... It updated this to have more detailed introductions and more information

The research they go through in this piece - a really nice synthesis of a lot here - is work I've also embedded into the social science I do with software teams. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

I love how our sentient plant based alien life forms look like biblically accurate pigeons And they’ve survived every mass extinction so far! (So far)

I will go to my grave hollering IF YOU TEACH PEOPLE WELL WHILE TREATING THEM WELL THEY CAN LEARN

I feel that "you are no longer allowed to observe even mildly that learning to code pathways are difficult for people to access" is a depressing direction for the tech left to be so committed to now

Really if one wanted an accurate picture they would do BlueSky monthly starting from the closed beta I’d be fascinated to see the data around how treating certain demographics poorly reflects in long term engagement numbers 👀