Kurzgesagt is the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

TIL: October 8, 2025 - Weekly Reading: Programming and Kubernetes www.ianlewis.org/til/2025/10/...

Sora is perhaps the perfect name choice. Another reading of the kanji for sora is "kara" which means "empty". Endless possibilities of no value.

As I get older I feel like there are fewer and fewer people I want to emulate. I have less and less clear vision of what kind of person I want to be in the future. I'm mostly just living day to day.

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

Man, social media is so f'n dumb.

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Dudes thinking that America was "held back" by "stupid rules of engagement" in Vietnam of all places and that if we had just used "overwhelming force" that we would have "won" are just completely crazy and totally ignorant of history. What the actual f* are they thinking.

My CPU when I run `npm audit signatures` on my `node_modules`

Japan's medical costs seems likely to go up a lot. 83% of hospitals operating in the red sounds very unsustainable.

I'd like to have a word with whomever thought that `pathlib.Path("/some/path") / "more"/ "path"` in Python is an acceptable API for joining path components.

Claude is just like a junior engineer that pesters you every 2 minutes about what to do next. Has very little idea how to code, and almost no idea how to run tools customary to software engineers.

TIL: September 29, 2025 - Weekly Reading: Security, Programming, and AI www.ianlewis.org/til/2025/09/...

Toyota has opened the doors to the first phase of Woven City, its experimental town meant to act as an incubator for technologies from autonomous driving to artificial intelligence.

it bothers me that people who habitually wake up early do so by just sleeping less. Very few people walking up at 4am are going to bed at 8pm every night.

Most folks don't talk about it, but the Ruby community could have avoided a huge amount of problems if dhh just kept his mouth shut about things he doesn't know much about.

When I see stuff saying that Japanese words have many different unrelated meanings, I just think that those folks have a hard time with abstract concepts. www.youtube.com/shorts/u2Yo7...

Phishers seem to be in the middle of a sustained campaign on GitHub using bots to send phishing issues on GitHub and make them look like normal email. Bots also can't be blocked wholesale AFAICT so it makes it hard to avoid these messages.

"Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship" openssf.org/blog/2025/09...

I really don't like package managers. If you make a new language please don't create one. Package managers and registries are just terrible.

While I've always known about it, at-will employment in the US is always shocking to hear about. The idea that companies can legally fire you "because you wore a green instead of blue one day" in an environment without unions etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYzi...

Just finished a 2 week period of almost daily interviews. I'm pretty tired.

I real tired boss...

It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

PyCon JP（広島）9/26 14:15でPythonとRustについて喋る。開催まであと２週間くらいだけど、まだまだチケットあるので、興味がある方はぜひ参加してみてください。 2025.pycon.jp/ja/timetable...

What execs are going to take away from Silksong: More layoffs! Smaller teams! Make Metroidvanias!! What they should take away instead: Devs working on a game they're passionate about with no interference from execs and the time they need to get it done without shareholder pressure

I should have known that "honeypots" existed but I think this is the first I've heard about one outside of the movies.

Casting Liam Neeson in a Naked Gun movie is some kind of genius.

Japan will raise its minimum wage by a record 6.3% to ¥1,121 per hour, reinforcing the nation’s wage-price cycle and supporting the case for the Bank of Japan to keep hiking rates.

改訂版が出ます！ #golang gihyo.jp/book/2025/97...

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.) Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

I usually say don't wear your shoes in people's houses and wash your body before getting in public baths and you'll be ok. But I didn't think drinking beer offerings from gravesites was in the realm of possibility.

I think this is truly a core engineering failure if code can't be understood after it's been written. Writing maintainable code is pretty much the whole point of our profession.

Why exactly does Anthropic have multiple different account types? They have claude.ai but also the completely different console.anthropic.com. Apparently they are totally separate and you can delete one or the other? support.anthropic.com/en/articles/...

My GopherCon EU talk about Swiss Table maps is now available! youtu.be/aqtIM5AK9t4

So every civilian US citizen living, working, or studying abroad is hereby disenfrachised.

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

It cracks me up when I think about how Jung in #Andor had Meero's code cert for over a year before using it. Doesn't the ISB know about cert rotation?

Even if AI agents are like junior engineers, what junior engineer would you give your login credentials so that it can run anything it wants on your machine?

I agree that most tracking information on readers isn't needed but I do want some relative info about which of my writings are popular and which aren't. If nothing else but the improve my writing and better choose writing topics.

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I wrote some of my thoughts on AI IDEs. While AI vibe coders new to programming might get something out of them, they feel more like a knee-jerk land-grab. www.ianlewis.org/en/do-we-nee...

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

No shipping X-mas gifts to family in the U.S. this year I guess. "Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of Mail to the United States Due to Changes in U.S. Customs and Regulations" www.post.japanpost.jp/int/informat...

TIL: August 25, 2025 - Weekly Reading: Kubernetes swap, and beating Dijkstra's algorithm www.ianlewis.org/til/2025/08/...

connpassはBlueskyやmastodonのソーシャル対応してくれるとありがたいな。XのAPIでフォローのリストが取れなくなってから、だいぶ利便性が下がった気がする。

I really have no idea what compels writers who write about Japan to liberally force Japanese words on their readers. The Japanese word for "coworker" isnt doing any work in this article. You don't need it. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08...

SoftBank seems to just make only bad investments so I see this as just another sign that Intel is cooked.

TIL: August 19, 2025 - Weekly Reading: AI and more AI www.ianlewis.org/til/2025/08/...