He posed in his official state photo with a weapon btw, good job to all involved 👍🏿
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He posed in his official state photo with a weapon btw, good job to all involved 👍🏿
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
I have had the most amazing month-and-half of my life
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A chat with Alan and @queencodemonkey.dev about AndroidX, API design, and Kotlin
youtu.be/HdlAlN_u_-Q?...
this AI thing is SOOOO FORCED
I'm not a conspiracist but I am so sure that some people somewhere sat down and planned this shit.
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Naoko Takeda • 3rd+ i'm just a girl 14h • My employer Block laid off 40% of its workforce last Thursday (2/26). I wasn't affected... but I was *affected*. decided to quit immediately and left the company the following day on 2/27. I figured that a company able to Thanos-snap away half of their employees doesn't need two-week's notice from me, just another IC that could easily have been in that 40%. This is my personal story and reflection about the time we are in, working in tech. Some of the company's choices have felt deeply problematic, and, quite frankly, I'm mad. I'm willing to bet that many of those who were laid off or are still working at Block are mad too. Anger is a feeling of perceived injustice, a valid reaction to these events. Since layoffs disproportionately affect certain teams, I found out in a span of 10 minutes that ~70% of my immediate + sister teams were going to disappear. On my immediate team, the only people left were me and a new hire who had started 3 days ago. I felt immense dread and survivor's guilt. So Block laid off 40% of its employees and offered the rest of us Retention Packages. I'm not sure how the Retention Package looked for others, but I was personally offered a pay increase of ~75% (90% if you include the one-time bonus!). So basically, I saw my company discard half of my peers and double my pay. That's not an honor. It feels shameful and dehumanizing. I'd rather see my peers keep their jobs than personally profit from their trauma. I have the immense financial privilege of being a steadily-employed, healthy person with no dependents, but many of my peers have families to care for, medical bills to pay, or visa issues putting them at risk of deportation.
After the layott announcement, asked several people it l could be included in the layoff. Of course, everyone answered "no". Because really, why should you get to choose to leave with dignity when you see your entire team - the people you worked hard to build a positive relationship with over the past year and a half - disappear? But here, take the fat paycheck that's well above market rate, because we actually value *you*! So why did this happen? Block claims it's because Al is making the company so productive. In the last year, Al was shoved down everyone's throats. Everything was about Al. We were told to use Al as much as possible. It's nothing short of dystopian to be forced to employ the very tools that accelerate the disappearance of the jobs on which our livelihoods depend. Personally, I saw very limited gains in productivity from Al, nothing nearly profound enough to justify tossing out half of the company's workforce along with their institutional knowledge and expertise (bus factor, anyone?). So 40% of employees had no choice but to take the severance and leave. The remaining 60% of us were offered fat paychecks to stick around and clean up the mess our "leadership" created, all so we can continue contributing to a future where Al leaves us all unemployed. No thanks, I'm out! You and 2,974 others 133 comments • 96 reposts
This post by Naoko on their experience with the Block layoff (not being cut but leaving anyway) is some hardcore shit. I cannot express how much respect I have for people who have a strong ethical compass and act decisively. 👏
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
a white bird with yellow feet (snowy egret) posing for a photo on the beach
I like this one
what a fucking day
today it's the ayotollah we all criticize.
tomorrow, it's Minneapolis, Chicago, Nuuk, Oslo, Berlin.
I encourage you all to challenge injustice, extra judicial killings, execuions, kidnapping rulers of other countries.
Most of you have heard about Block's 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder, we've lost close to 70% of our engineers. Our leadership is plagued by false promises of "intelligence". The company you once knew as a prolific OSS contributor no longer exists.
It's been a fun ride, but today is my last day at Block / Square. I started working with Android in 2014 and quickly grew to know Square for their engineering excellence and open source work.
ohhh man. sorry to hear that. I hope everything turns around in no time 🫂
Almost all of Cash Mobile Engineering was laid off today.
None of us have any clue what their rubric was for choosing who stayed and who went, but whatever it was, I'm on the job market again!
Thousands of good people were laid off by Block (Square and Cash App) today by their chickenshit leadership. Hire them, this is all Block's loss.
hugs to the friends at square & sister companies 🫂
> "we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving"
imagine saying this in a note announcing layoffs.
"It's only called legit distillation if it comes from the silicon valley region of California"
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for all intents and purposes, anthropic can gtfo.
now they're complaining about unauthorized access and use of data?
Omg it's pancake day already?
That really crêped up on me.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
1. Yiannis has a larger vocabulary than most Americans. His vocab overlaps more with highly educated Kenyan, Nigerian, and Indian people than the average American. Delve!
2. Don't play Yiannis at Scrabble. Don't challenge him to a Spelling Bee. You will lose.
3. Detectors will false positive him.🤷🏿♂️
Here's the original btw: nvie.com/posts/a-succ...
Every time I see a post like this I go ask a developer I know at that company if it's true and every single time it's misleading at best, if not outright horse shit.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spo...
I love a good bug hunt. What a doozy. allenpike.com/2026/a-broke...
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my brain every 5 seconds: "titi me pregunto"
