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Hate to break this, but both things can be true: this guy is a dipshit and LLM code generation has reached an inflection point.

05.03.2026 05:55 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean the original Japanese version

05.03.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone should do Iron Chef on Tiktok

05.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

04.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 9932 πŸ” 1953 πŸ’¬ 274 πŸ“Œ 201

The resemblance is still uncanny.

03.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 1133 πŸ” 197 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 6

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.

So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

02.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 7219 πŸ” 1178 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 14

at the very least we gotta stop letting troops board planes first

28.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I've talked to a lot of managers who think they aren't supposed to provide their reports with technical feedback of any kind

28.02.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Situations where a team is wilding out and their management chain won't give them sensible feedback about it. e.g. where there's a clear mistake being made but the "pro management move" is considered to be to let them make it.

28.02.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One time I got to present to about 1000 people with an animated gif of this scene projected 40 feet tall behind me, it was pretty cool

27.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"It's a monkey pit:"

In the Simpsons episode where Flanders falls into the monkey pit at the zoo, the zookeeper refuses to intervene because "if they don't kill the intruder it's really bad for their society."

27.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to make a thread here to keep track of engineering leadership metaphors I would like to make happen

27.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be organizing the East LA bluesky posters meetup for this. Let’s meet on Fig and Ave 54, Sunday at 9am. 10 mile loop followed by 24 tacos at villas and then we close Gold Line

27.02.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.

27.02.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 3609 πŸ” 522 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 18

Wilhoit’s law

25.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

very annoyed that the socratic paradox is now more popularly associated with Rummy

20.02.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
19.02.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I also talked someone through the entirety of the Death Mountain dungeon in the first Legend of Zelda over the phone

19.02.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote a snail mail letter to someone about defeating Wart in SMB2

19.02.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
This is figure 5, which shows paleoart by Sophie Fernandez, depicting a specimen of Dimetrodon teutonis regurgitating undigestible remains.

This is figure 5, which shows paleoart by Sophie Fernandez, depicting a specimen of Dimetrodon teutonis regurgitating undigestible remains.

A paper in Scientific Reports describes fossilised regurgitated stomach content that represents the geologically oldest terrestrial regurgitalite and shows new insights into the feeding behaviours and the trophic network in a late Palaeozoic continental ecosystem. go.nature.com/46xl3Su #Paleosky πŸ§ͺ

16.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 27
Software Practices from the Scrap Heap? I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked o...

Blogged: laughingmeme.org/2026/02/15/s...

15.02.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œWe will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

β€œWe will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

13.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 283 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 36

Go read about the theory of the firm. When you feel like you understand why you aren’t living in a libertarian paradise where we sell our labor to different bidders in tiny increments, meet me on the mountaintop and then your training shall begin

12.02.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The surprise at the end of Cabel's talk was a personal highlight of 12 years of running XOXO, a secret quietly hiding on stage for the entire festival. Nobody knew what was coming but @cabel.panic.com, @andymcmillan.com, me, and venue/event staff. It was a surprise even to all the other speakers.

11.02.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Code has always been the easy part When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in...

Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...

11.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

09.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 2185 πŸ” 291 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 46

This is all very interesting but I was hoping for more content about its appearance in 1988’s The Naked Gun

07.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

06.02.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 5671 πŸ” 753 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 60

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

04.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 5672 πŸ” 1073 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 59

Also more or less the content of a hunters’ safety course delivered to twelve year olds

03.02.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0