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Actually there's probably a medieval German version that makes this one look pleasant.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pumpkin
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pumpkin
Actually there's probably a medieval German version that makes this one look pleasant.
What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/oTzW-mTQd5w
Why Good Engineering in the Age of #AI Matters More Than Ever
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-go...
I need to do an upbeat comic week one of these days. They all end with hooray.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Serve
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/serve
I need to do an upbeat comic week one of these days. They all end with hooray.
This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
Solar Warning
https://xkcd.com/3215/
This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3215
Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
Electric Vehicles
https://xkcd.com/3214/
Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3214
On the last Socrates joke, like a dozen people told me I should've called his nutritional supplements Himlock, and it just kills me that I didn't.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Athenian
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/athenian
On the last Socrates joke, like a dozen people told me I should've called his nutritional supplements Himlock, and it just kills me that I didn't.
I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
Dental Formulas
https://xkcd.com/3213/
I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3213
I wonder if you could trick people into paying more in taxes by calling it traditional crowdfunding?
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fund
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fund
I wonder if you could trick people into paying more in taxes by calling it traditional crowdfunding?
You should've seen the look on your face when you thought you'd gotten your mom killed!
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pulley
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pulley
You should've seen the look on your face when you thought you'd gotten your mom killed!
This is when she calls the cops.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cow
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cow
This is when she calls the cops.
SMBC is just propaganda for longterm relationships.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Artist
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/artist
SMBC is just propaganda for longterm relationships.
71% of developers and leaders agree that engineering discipline is more important in AI-assisted and agentic workflows.
So why aren't we seeing an increase in investment in engineering capability yet?
It doesn't come with your Claude Code plan.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/7...
I guess the answer is yes, but: will this be enabled by default on existing deployments?
Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
Amperage
https://xkcd.com/3211/
Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3211
This is what I think about every argument that involves humans agreeing to not doing something with AI.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Never
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/never-2
This is what I think about every argument that involves humans agreeing to not doing something with AI.
And they both interpreted their success or failure as deserved rather than a consequence of macroeconomic forces and chance. The end.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ant
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ant
And they both interpreted their success or failure as deserved rather than a consequence of macroeconomic forces and chance. The end.
as time goes on this sounds less like a warning that Democrats would destroy the country and more like a threat
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
Eliminating the Impossible
https://xkcd.com/3210/
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3210
My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
Plums
https://xkcd.com/3209/
My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3209
Still don't know why they kept asking their ghostly duplicates whether they liked that over and over.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Battle
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/battle
Still don't know why they kept asking their ghostly duplicates whether they liked that over and over.
It appears that Grok now gives navigational directions.
UPS was famous for a system that planned delivery routes without left turns, for efficiency.
This is similar, but turning right is mandatory.
You can actually do a lot of low-risk leveling up of the relationship just by using a bot to have your character run around stabbing rats all day.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quest
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quest-4
You can actually do a lot of low-risk leveling up of the relationship just by using a bot to have your character run around stabbing rats all day.
I don't normally post my email newsletter, but I thought this one was a banger: on the dualities between constructor injection, the reader monad, comonads, and effect handlers. If that sounds like your jam: buttondown.com/functionalpr...
(Or just grab the book! functionalprogrammingstrategies.com)
Why #AI always needs a human in the loop
www.linkedin.com/pulse/imperf...
The bound and gagged stripper also gets weird after the first amendment goes away.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Warrantless
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/warrantless
The bound and gagged stripper also gets weird after the first amendment goes away.
Why are Adam Sandler movies not perceived as moral cataclysms?
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moral
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral
Why are Adam Sandler movies not perceived as moral cataclysms?
'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination
https://xkcd.com/3207/
(alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead)
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3207
Humans are good at zoos since we're already adapted to captivity.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scripture
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/scripture
Humans are good at zoos since we're already adapted to captivity.
The value proposition of a "fractional CTO" is clear, but without somebody directly influencing teams at the "code face", it can end up being impotent.
That's where some of the highest-leverage improvements can be made, by accelerating the inner loops.
How about a "fractional Principal Engineer"?