Important @rebeccaplevin.bsky.social article captures so much of what's wrong with how tech is built + deployed into businesses. Top of my list: when you quantify a situation you don't understand, you wind up with data/systems/models that look neat on-screen but are really a mess on the ground.

Julia Angwin@juliaangwin.com · 3mo ago

Hotel housekeepers used to track their work on a clipboard. Now they work for an app that docks points if a room cleaning takes too long. “You have a device telling you, ‘move here, move there,’ like if you were a robot." The latest from @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/hotel-housek...

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

i’m on vacation this week and am not generally paying attention to social media, but i feel obligated as a member of the technology industry to say that i want absolutely no part of a “Technological Republic.” what a puerile, ahistorical and amoral set of aims. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...

I never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it. https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

A recording of my SCaLE talk, “The Tip of the Iceberg”, is now available! It’s an overview of the Iceberg table format, diving into why it exists, how it works, and how to operate it. #databs youtu.be/RErvQrA7VZM?...

The Tip of the Iceberg

YouTube video by Southern California Linux Expo

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RIP Tony Hoare, who created quicksort: computerhistory.org/blog/in-memo...

In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026)

CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world.

computerhistory.org

Relational algebra is the most formal kind of mathematics because of all the little bowties ⨝

“Things good. Also bad. Good time for smart. Also for dumb. For believe things. Also for not believe things. Lights on, but also off. People happy, but also people sad.” Great book.

You might want to check on your apps. There’s some 🔥 🥒 🔥 spicy unpickling going on …

Kelly Shortridge@shortridge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There’s a react2shell POC circulating that appears to be viable. Fastly verified our NGWAF successfully blocks this exploit variant. ⚠️ Our initial data points suggest attackers are actively probing for vulnerable apps. ⚠️ Identify and update your React & Next.js apps + layer proactive protection.

I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles. www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...

How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles

amusingplanet.com

🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸 “Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not. Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros... Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response. so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

left: the interview questions right: the actual job

(Resets the “days since it was DNS” counter to zero)

I have no plans to hire employees. Bubbles — Bits on Disk’s new Senior Director of Positive Vibes — provides the vibes for free, so I’m making an exception. Welcome to the team, Bubbles! Shoutout to @ragmopandgoose.bsky.social - I’ve never had a better officemate.

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

There’s a weird and unexamined tension between the “AI makes it possible for unskilled people to write complex code” and “you need to start learning how to use these tools or you’ll be left behind” lines of rhetoric in a lot of recent AI codegen writing I’m seeing.

A great retrospective on a tool that saved my ass during my brief stint in engineering leadership. We would all benefit from more people sharing organizational infrastructure like this publicly.

Camille Fournier@skamille.themanagerswrath.com · last yr.

Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that: skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...

I continue to believe that the discrepancy in the idea that the silicon valley "elite" read "seeing like a state" but still obsessively believe they can monitor and drive scaled efficiency across millions and billions of people is simply: they didn't actually read it

Billy corgan high register: it's time for breakfast Billy corgan low register: who wants pancakes

The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

Are you serious right now? Christmas isn't for another 11 months! 🙌 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts

aws.amazon.com

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

On Misery

Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.

mcfunley.com

Love to live in a world where the fact checks need fact checking, but here we all are. This whole thread is worth a read.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2y ago

I’m seeing two different and opposing fact checks, one of which claims the LAFD didn’t have budget cuts but that this is misinformation by “far left” activists, and the other of which says that there was a budget cut, even after contract negotiations.

Direct hit on the Sunset Fire in Hollywood. 🎯 Nice work, @lafd.bsky.social #LAFD c/o @nbcla.bsky.social 👨🏼‍🚒

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Wow that’s some shit. A policy carve-out to specifically allow users to accuse LGBTQ people of being mentally ill. > “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality”

Senator Scott Wiener@scottwiener.bsky.social · 2y ago

1. Meta’s policy bans allegations of mental illness *unless* the person is LGBTQ, in which case you can falsely say the person is mentally ill: (The policy uses the word “transgenderism,” echoing right wing terminology.)

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

I’m just gonna go ahead and advertise this. @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy class IS a class for all staff+/principal engineer/architect types. If you are on the IC track you will benefit from this class. Do with that information what you will as new year budgets are discussed.