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Russia has embraced a novel technique: Sabotage-as-a-Service.💣

It’s outsourcing disruption like gig work. Immigrants and petty criminals are recruited via Telegram with offers of quick jobs: hang a poster, set fire to a telecom box, cut a cable, snap a photo. Cheap. Simple. Anonymous.

Chcete-li řvát na ostatní, tak zařvěte.

Sama se ta nová hodnota neudělá

but it doesn't work in browsers without nesting support. (around 14% of global market share)

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? One claim I see repeated widely on social media is that LLM-based coding tools are taking software engineering jobs. These are often accompanied by extrapolations that soon – any time now &#8…

Did you know the global software developer population's much *larger* than it was in 2022?

Did you know tech layoffs were in full swing when ChatGPT launched?

Did you know AI companies are hiring engineers in large numbers?

A quick fact-check:

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/i...

Enjoy, but it is a painful experience. CSS for print is great; support in browsers is terrible.

The word “vibe” is going to be near unusable for non-bullshit purposes for the next decade, isn’t it?

software is ultimately a sociocultural object, not a pile of code, not a tool like a hammer

vedeli jste, ze jsou vase sluchatka pravdepodobne toxicka? my uz to vime. vsechny, ktere jsme testovali, obsahuji toxicke latky. plast neni jen polymer a zdravi mame jen jedno.

For some reason, I'm being reminded of when they issued amphetamines to troops in WWII...

Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places) Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code.

But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted.

The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

"Rich asshole says some baseless shit" should not be news.

Email blurred the line between being at work or home.

Then came Slack + mobile.

Now what happens with “agents”?

Companies mandate standing Friday meetings to discuss “What are you having your agents do over the weekend?"

And Monday becomes standup for your autonomous weekend output.

Ai advocates are saying that *now* you don't need large dev teams - just a small team with ai agents.

Thing is, you haven't needed large teams for the last 25 years. Just a small team that actually functions as a team, as opposed to individual.

But I'm sure "that won't work in the real world".. 🙄

Samozřejmě je, ale i špatn vybraný a již nasazený zdroj světla jde "snadno opravit".

The computer hardware shortage continues:

2024: GPU
2025: GPU, Memory, and Storage
2026: GPU, Memory, Storage, and CPU

The Driver: Reinforcement Learning now requires 10,000s of concurrent VMs to simulate, verify, and "roll out" agentic reasoning. Furthermore, there is this rise of AI agents...

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

It's hard to take dev productivity research seriously that:

a. Measures output instead of outcomes
b. Focuses on individuals working in isolation
c. Leaves out customer feedback loops (because they do the heavy lifting)
d. Relies on self-reporting
e. Has no testable hypothesis

Sam Altman is one of the people I was talking about who is actively participating in devaluing labor. He is an active collaborator with the billionaires who want to use this tech to commodify all human activity to enrich themselves. No this is not hyperbole. I mean it quite literally.

as something all traffic goes through (and adds latency)

Probably nothing to do with The Great Firewall of Chine :)

Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so.

Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵

New follow-up: Many people helped Jeffrey Epstein whitewash his reputation. Reputation management firms billed for thousands of dollars; SEO consultants jumped in; and when called upon, scientists did him favors that helped his Google presence.

www.theverge.com/report/87608...

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"

Status dashboard:

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Atlassian is publicly traded in the US, so there is a lot of US influence. They also have a second HQ in SF.

A shocking 8.5% of sites that use CDNs deliver some static content directly to end users via cloud storage! Many are not compressing or caching this content either. This comes at a significant performance cost. Details, examples and @httparchive.org stats here - paulcalvano.com/2026-02-09-s...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.