Carl Poole

@carl.codes

Staff Software Engineer working on Mobile. Content here is personal but may contain work related things like Android development. He/him 🏳️‍🌈. British expat masquerading as an urban cowboy. Austin, TX.

I’ve started answering my phone calls to see if I was ignoring anything important and it’s 99% spam. Phone calls are dead. The user experience was allowed to be ruined by telephone companies and it was probably intentional. Why do we even still use this system?

Sunflower CPU socket, created with AI. Inspired by my current woes with my 14th gen Intel CPU and the time I've spent troubleshooting the past few days. Intel RMA process going well so far at least.

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The enshittification cycle. Make good product. Build good network. Slowly undo all the good. Product slowly dies. New “disruptor” appears. Make good product.

Good job guys, we made fun of his video game abilities and made him mad and now he is going to destroy the country. See what you did? 🤦‍♂️

Prediction: Elno Must will get mad people still keep calling Twitter by its old (proper) name and kill the Twitter domain in the near future.

Was clearing out old photos from my phone and found screenshots I took back when a startup tried to get me to work on a weekend after returning from my dad's funeral. I stood my ground and said no and it pissed them off. No regrets.

Apparently this warrants waking up the entire state of Texas. Great way to make an emergency alert system useless. I turned them off.

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I wish America would levy more responsibility on to obesity culprits like fast food, soda, and breaking bad habits vs. having the medical industry pick up the slack. Imagining a world where everyone eats what they want but has a sub to Wegovy is a tad dystopian.