So often the inventor does not know what the invention is

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · yesterday

Airtable should have taken over the world. so many of the problems caused by spreadsheets were elegantly solved by Airtable's combination of tight schemas and user-friendliness. but I think deep down, none of them understood what they'd actually built. bsky.app/profile/tech...

people underestimate the amount of engineering effort that goes into constructing a load-bearing narrative

dont tell anyone, only the cool kids embracing intellectual curiosity at the crux of overlapping disciplines get it

Ana Hevesi@anthrocypher.bsky.social · 5d ago

Humans make tools and tell stories. Those are our core competencies and the joke of it is these aren’t even distinct activities

Humans make tools and tell stories. Those are our core competencies and the joke of it is these aren’t even distinct activities

I've spent just enough time thinking about music production, musical structure, and computational loops that the intersection of all three that strudel.cc lives in is a pretty navigable space. Seeing proof of learning = magic

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

buff.ly

Still thinking about the wonderful conversation I had with a new friend about chronic illness, of all things. Mentioning the unmentionable is magic sometimes

I’m a simple woman: all I want is a renewable energy transition, ecosystem repair, and to create new forms of collaborative computing in the AI era

Cold brew in the hammock like it’s a goddamn three day weekend

Facts

brent@bront.rodeo · last mo.

ultimately every vision of a better social web ends up either being “Twitter with my politics” or “what if we made Something Awful again”

TIL Yo-Yo Ma put out a collab album called “The Goat Rodeo Sessions” This entertains me thoroughly

My wife wrote what is soon to be *the* canonical book on the psychology of software teams, and you can now order it! 🎉 And really, this is for more than just software teams. It's for anyone doing technical work, including scientists. It's about how we can empower people to do their best work.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last mo.

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

I guess I just think making other people pay for your unwillingness to change is a crappy move

As an emissary to many large, engaged developer ecosystems over the years I'm basically the human version of an instrument that tracks contributors' Give A Fuck scale which is a thing you may not even know exists

If y’all keep up like this I’m going to have to issue a liberal arts-style essay on the poetics of tech company swag

If outrage is the only thing you revel in then you are doing yourself a great disservice. Please celebrate the wins. Please be kind to yourself and others. Share the things that make you happy and or approve of. Honestly it's a fucking superpower.

As I work with Claude Code more deeply and on a wider array of tasks, there’s something I’m trying to bear in mind: Interestingness is distinct from meaning

I’m convinced the abandonment of platform and ecosystem models came from it being really hard to measure what’s going on in them, then us devising ways to make money that fit into simple* “line go up” equations *frequently extractive

Curiosity and imagination as survival imperatives, not nice-to-haves

Of course now it’s a question of whether we’ll be wise enough to realize that it’s deeply profitable to *remember*

Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)@ashley.rolfmore.com · 3mo ago

We started with cybernetics in the 1950s that brought human and computer together and then we got super excited about the computer part and forgot it all because it was *deeply* profitable to do so.

Why do we call it “vibe coding” and not “conjuring”?

Weird theory: shared success is more profitable than destruction

Our obsession with software developers for so long has resulted in a collective pretending that they're the first/only ones to have a wide range of human experiences This is why it's so difficult to connect up evidence from existing domains to this space

tfw your current work absolutely requires re-reading Clay Shirky even though your list is already a mile long

Just realized I entirely missed SXSW coming and going and I am honestly so proud of my personal growth 😌

“Do you DJ?” “I make noise.”

I will go to my grave hollering IF YOU TEACH PEOPLE WELL WHILE TREATING THEM WELL THEY CAN LEARN

When we talk about whether something or (ugh) someone is "technical" do we actually mean "computational"?

Deep gratitude to this crew for the chance to talk my book in this kind, insightful space #monkigras

Ernest Post@monkchips.com · 5mo ago

@anthrocypher.bsky.social bringing an amazing energy into the room. Properly making us think about communities, feelings and why tech actually gets adopted. A lovely poetic presentation.

It's early on a cold, sunny Saturday morning, and I have a contribution to the "can an AI be conscious and have feelings?" debate: the strong empathy I have for this recycling bin that partied too hard last night, and is undebatably conscious of that fact right now