My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
Wholesale stealing Single Point of Excellence for future useβ¦
I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development
localthunk.com/blog/balatro...
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Mark is good people
How yesterday has been brewing for months: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.
what idiot called it DeepSeek and not DeepSix? Certainly it feels like that's what it's going to do to plenty of folks in the valley's ambitions.
Literally every company now
youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery
My game Stimulation Clicker is out now, enjoy :)
> neal.fun/stimulation-...
Mugs or stickers. Court-appointed postmortem lawyer.
I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.
This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.
charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
Interesting to see how much is now possible on (an admittedly high end) laptop, rather than a data center of servers til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-p...
Someone on substack shared this as the best thing they read recently. I don't have a ranking system but it's pretty damn good indeed open.substack.com/pub/experime...
Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
Bell Brothers never miss. Kevin McCallister gets about youtu.be/X7-zid7QD_Y
The definitions of false positives and false negatives here are useful, Iβm stealing them for later.
That looks great. Firm handshake.
(I ditched it a couple of years ago, making my account private, but was looking to delete my archive after hearing new nonsense about training AI models.)
Whatβs a good way of deleting all my old tweets? After manually deleting itβs now not showing any posts for my account, but I know I wasnβt done.
the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness
I'd say eighteen books in this set of twenty occult tomes deal with getting ghosts either into or out of things or people.
Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.
Hereβs a few things you can expect temporarily when thereβs an outage:
- βInvalid Handleβ everywhere
- Likes donβt seem to work (theyβre just being slow)
- Your post isnβt showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff
Introduce yourself with some jobs youβve done apart from what you do
- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)
I havenβt made it out to much, but I do check on calagator.org to see whatβs upcoming.
BOSS: you're late
ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks
The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.