Patrick McSweeny
@patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social
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Alex McMillan
4 days ago
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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jneen
5 days ago
Extremely good and concise summary of the statistical/methodological shenanigans involved in measuring the so-called "AI boost" Here's a couple of my favourites:
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Baldur Bjarnason
7 days ago
Software development practices spread using the exact same cognitive biases as beliefs in homeopathy
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James Martin
21 days ago
The world’s "safest" AI provider now runs on the world’s dirtiest data centre: Musk’s Colossus. Powered by 35 methane generators, most unauthorised. A massive slap in the face to locals - led by
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social
& co - and to all those who thought Claude was the responsible choice 🙄🤢
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It's usually more important to develop software right than to do it quickly.
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about 1 month ago
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I wrote a blog post.
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The Future Is Bright for Human Software Engineers
My reasons for being optimistic about the future of humans creating software despite the recent developments in LLM technology
https://patrickmcsweeny.com/blog/the-future-is-bright/
about 1 month ago
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Anna E. Cook is traveling
about 2 months ago
The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.
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I created my first Ruby gem. I mostly made it to use on my own projects and to give myself a challenge. I wrote the entire thing without the help of any LLM tools and I learned a lot in the process as a result.
github.com/PatrickMcSwe...
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GitHub - PatrickMcSweeny/rails-integration-test-generator
Contribute to PatrickMcSweeny/rails-integration-test-generator development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/PatrickMcSweeny/rails-integration-test-generator
3 months ago
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Matt Zoller Seitz
5 months ago
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
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Anton Tkachov
6 months ago
November ChicagoRuby Ă—
@cisco.com
— what a night 🔥 Thanks
@kphurley.bsky.social
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@alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen. 🎙️
@andycandrea.bsky.social
— Reusable JSON Schemas 🎙️
@patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social
— Hotwire Your UX Practical, clean, immediately usable.
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6 months ago
Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted
Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…
https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/
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Micah
6 months ago
"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?" apparently, yes
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Anton Tkachov
7 months ago
ChicagoRuby meets at one of the world’s biggest Ruby codebases —
cisco.com
🔥 Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM 433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago Speakers:
patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social
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andycandrea.bsky.social
❗️Registration & ID required Registration:
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8 months ago
The tech press are Tim levels of cooked. Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.
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John Allsopp
10 months ago
this from ‪@jono.id is a position I've been suggesting for a while now–that modern APIs and CSS like View Transition obviated the need for the SPA architecture.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
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Ed Zitron
over 1 year ago
Using OpenAI's new, powerful "reasoning" model to calculate the amount of states that have R in them. Welcome to the future, everybody
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Sy Brand
over 1 year ago
It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".
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