I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do
So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
Speaking of fun writing...
In the physical copy, this has the headline "Out On A Limb", but either way, the intro is fantastic
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
aww buddies
Orange cat
Buddy
out on the road today
i saw a subaru
with vanity plate
POOBARU
a little voice inside my head said donβt look back, you can never look back
New post building on this idea, if you are feeling blue as a developer, build your own stuff. It won't fix everything but it can fix some things. vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/a...
![[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: γγγγΉ, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur.
Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading βMaybe it will happen todayβ.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36gpex3fzmk2meh2rpuehgri/bafkreidhzodfrcwjn6fpvyw6brx6y5us5pxfj6r2ctmt2naojydy7nqov4@jpeg)
[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: γγγγΉ, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading βMaybe it will happen todayβ.
Guy who's paid to be really into sonic the hedgehog: The Democrats lost because they didn't talk enough about sonic the hedgehog
SIGBOVIK has a Bluesky now! Follow to learn more cutting-edge research from the worldβs most comedic and occasionally scientific academic conference
I have a graduate level internship opening this summer in advanced security. The goal is to simplify security systems so that users can get it right and formally verify that fact.
ping me for info.
#security #formalverification #privacy #dafny #intern
hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobsathpe/jo...
Letting Fetterman score clean dunks like this is a threat to national security
Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
I can easily imagine people who are not as experienced thinking "this is great you write that for me pull this into that structured format make me that scorecard" I just happen to think that would produce mid crap, but I guess I'm not quite ready to eat trash and be free as a manager
Trying to get the AI to tell me ideas it has for making my job easier and my impression is that it still doesn't have very good ideas about what my job is. Great at writing job specs though.
βThe Ayatollah thought he could drive on the parkway, but now heβs parked on the driveway.β
Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon
Smarch
Whyyyy is it snowing againnnnnn
Getting a bit buried in the news cycle but this is an extremely good story showing the NYTs investigative skills at their best - and exposing some shocking complicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
This is alarming: ICE is moving its vehicle fleet from Minneapolis to Hagerstown, in advance of a possible deployment in Baltimore projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-moves-...
If anyone hates submitting out of network claims to UHC as much as I do, I've (w/ my friend Claude) created a Claude Code skill to automate a lot of the pain away. github.com/jlintz/claud...
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Elizabeth Moss was born to play her in a movie
The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.
Gift link:
that's what my allergies are saying
I STG does anyone know the @nymag.com tech team because their site is basically unusable on web and mobile lately and I can't believe no one has bothered to try to fix it yet
