Mike G

@bobdobbalina.bsky.social

If you're gonna be a monkey, be a fucking gorilla

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch smiling in a selfie with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Of course the algorithm handles claims — it's more efficient" "Of course gig work is flexible — you're your own boss" "Of course the content is curated — otherwise it's overwhelming" "Of course housing costs that much — supply and demand"

You ever notice how in corporate environments, you have "Product Managers" and in agencies, you have "Producers". I never made the connection to how much the amount of work that gets done is directly related to the job titles of the people facilitating it 🤔

So let me get this straight... Mr. Rauch over at TriangleCo now essentially owns the top 3 meta-frameworks? Could Astro be next? 🤔 That, or he's gonna buy Shopify straight up, amirite

It feels like the Web/Software development industry is in a deeply fractured split personality phase where there is one side that believes AI is everything and others that are in complete denial. I'm just waiting for a Project Mayhem to kick off

I cracked open @adobe.com Photoshop yesterday for the first time in probably close to 10 years. I was astonished to realize I remembered all the keyboard shortcuts. I mean, I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I knew how to invert a layer mask with 3 keys