We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
06.03.2026 04:02
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We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
i'm considering some nice soup... AMA
"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.
"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters
"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
Someone told me there aren't enough opinions about software engineering on the internet
Thought I'd better do something about that!
pauldambra.dev/2026/02/deca...
a screenshot of a Slack message. it says so many deaths because of Gen Z slang me: "that's fire!" them: "thankyou" *burns to death
it's friday
i did not think, when i woke up today, that i would twice endorse cigarettes for children
thrilling how good coding agents are now
prompted "when searching for person properties in the taxonomic filter why does a search of email a match the person property email which has label Email address but email ad does not match it"
it found the bug, wrote tests, & made a PR with the fix
a cartoon image generated from the the prompt: "gary williams, an unassuming economist is bitten by a radioactive cheque book and becomes the hero we need (but can't afford) "market force""
the robots are getting so good at text
yet another logs product advertised with the tag line "farewell, steve the horse"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_SI...
a prompt that says: "lket's include quick filter in the name so it ties giyeher"
prompt engineering is an important skill
Cow slippers
Ready to get moovin
i love the image i have now of you finishing meditation
getting up
looking at the news
sighing
lighting some more incense
and sitting back down to meditate some more
if you _are_ paying attention then you're 2 woke 2 furious
Ask PostHog AI to summarize those recordings... would love to hear what we come with!
episode 3 in "paul uses LLMs"
this episode is titled "the robot is getting clever"
pauldambra.dev/2026/01/how-...
I dual ran all of our CI in GH and Depot so we could be sure of the investment
The more engineers we hire the more that "devex" becomes a huge cost sink if we're not careful
For us depot is just a totally worth it spend
they now run github actions too
so we're not shipping the data backwards and forwards
it almost certainly costs us more then just using GitHub (because we're open source and get a high free limit from GH)
but it's measurably faster so it's money well-spent for us
All of the above :)
For us it started as a docker image build tool. They have lots of magic so that it is way faster in Depot than outside
But our image is very big so quickly the bottleneck was shipping from github to depot and back
luckily...
@depot.dev has been such a good choice for @posthog.com
more than once they've opened pull requests to fix our config for us (once cos they spotted we could reduce our bill 💖)
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
the goyt valley looking beautiful this morning
was lovely this morning, finally not wintry
(still _cold_ but i'll take any improvement i can get)
A screenshot from Reddit where it explains that starting a sentence 'chat' is referring to the group as 'chat' not asking chatgpr for help
Obviously I know this
fellow-kids.meme
i would absolutely have lost my mind if i'd had to read the thousands of lines of heap snapshots i've pumped into claude over recent weeks
the character from mean girls who says "duh, i'm a sexy mouse" while pointing to the ears she is wearing and otherwise only wearing lingerie. but she is saying "it's a fast paced environment"
ofc you can tell candidates things they could guess
or you could tell them what they need to know
here's how we try and make it super easy for people to figure out if they should apply for jobs at @posthog.com
newsletter.posthog.com/p/10x-job-po...
refactoring to use a new component
all the robot reviewers have decided the library doesn't accept `renderProp`
it does
so my PR has about a gajillion comments from robots telling me the change is wrong
the robots are great, but they are not about to replace us
a screenshot of the referenced book from the previous tweet "human use of human beings" on amazon. the publish date is showing as 1 Jan 1709
wait... published when?! :rofl:
The Onion nailed it:
"ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks"
"... seeing a man in tactical gear is far better than seeing a man without a face, staring deep into that empty chasm, and instantly going mad."
https://theonion.com/ice-confirms-agents-do-not-have-faces-beneath-masks/