@oreilly.bsky.social phrasing!? 😩😳

text messages in 2025 are a complete wasteland. Scam recruiters, MFA tokens, restaurant promotions, more scam recruiters, appointment reminders (if you miss these buried under the spam the appointment is canceled), receipts, scam recruiters. Maybe I send or receive one real text a week or so?

i've come to realize that improving at literally everything in my life comes down to pattern recognition. chess and other games, math, programming, interviews, relationships. There's a reason why our brains love searching for patterns in things from an early age.

I'm ready to get off this Optimizely B variant of the A/B test where the freaky literal richest man on Earth runs the U.S government now

Dear Kelly (doc by andrew / @channel5bluesky.bsky.social ) might be one of the most important documentaries of the past decade. good shit andrew

Normalize TOs banning people from events if they give people bad vibes

Over50, a team consisting of players over the age of 50, competing in the 18th Beat-Tribe Cup last year. Fighting Games have no age limit. Here's Gabriel winning for his team. #RecordingThoughts #SEGA #VF5FS #VirtuaFighter #FGC #バーチャファイター

it's always much easier to write SQL myself than to battle with an ORMs weirdo syntax

youtu.be/WrmgJQUmZ3I dream blunt rotation

dst got my kid going to sleep at 5:15 pm, can't wait to get up at 4 now!!

it's been 16 years since the fan translation of mother 3 came out and it still has never received an official localization yet by Nintendo. in contrast I think almost every ace attorney game has been translated by now including the ones with copyright infringement issues

Finally got around to doing the thing.

rachelbythebay is one of the most important tech bloggers of our time and I hope she gets all the flowers she deserves!!!

OK adding your own domain is sick

any cool/horrifying examples of how you or someone you know have dealt with daylight savings time in your codebase?

anyone here work on python discord bots interacting with aws? is aiobotocore the way to go with async functions or are people just using boto3 everywhere?

the rise of prop betting is insanely weird and we should probably rethink that as a society

IJBOL is cursed, long live LMAO

can someone explain how Wirecutter (NYTimes) can get away with endorsing leech ghoul vampire evil company HP printers for their top 3 printers? frankly embarrassing. I already don't think highly of their product endorsements but this takes the poop cake www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

DO IT FOR PLANK

Lebron James hits top 100 in Madden 2k15 Never tell yourself or anyone else that you don't "have the time" to grind to the top 0.01% of any activity you set your mind towards

Adding in my first hot take on this site - I long for the days of being able to search for information and not being shunted into a discord community. We need information to live _outside_ of the cozyweb!

the long process of dropping Twitter for bsky starts now