Another day, another GitHub outage. Of course, there's nothing in the UI to indicate this, you just have to sit there and try to do something 5 times before remembering to check the status page. You'd think they'd have some sort of banner they could show to save you the clicks 🫩

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Spurs in Disarray

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I routinely see LLMs suggest 10x the amount of code needed to solve a problem. Something you could solve by changing a few existing lines of code is suddenly a whole new branch of logic with its own tree of classes and test cases.

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

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it's my belief and anecdotal observation that roughly half of the code written on a daily basis is strictly unnecessary, when evaluated on whether it solves the problem at hand.

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Finally released version 3.x of my testing framework Mockingbird. Rewritten as a Kotlin compiler plugin, instead of KSP, to improve the ergonomics and support Kotlin multiplatform targets github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

You may be wondering "Who the fuck is paying for Grok, the CSAM Generating machine?" And the answer is "These motherfuckers right here" Put some names to faces, and explore more connections over on www.butji.com/companies/gr... Give this a reskeet please

It's only been 12 hours since the US invaded Venezuela and there's already AI generated propaganda videos going around Instagram in support of the invasion. US tech is so innovative.

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.

showed my parents how to identify AI generated music yesterday, and proudly watched them identify which YouTube Christmas playlists were AI and then choose a playlist with real music

I never liked roast turkey until I convinced everyone to let me take over roasting duties and try butterflying the turkey last year. As it turns out, I just hate overcooked, under seasoned turkey and am now permanently in charge of roasting the family's turkeys.

Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.

I should have taken a screenshot, but I just got a full screen interstitial about using Gemini when performing a logged Google search about a programming topic. Never have I ever seen Google show interstitial ads on their search results. I guess search really is dead xd

fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/

GET OUT AND VOTE NEW YORK

it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.

this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.

Aurimas Liutikas@liutikas.net · 10mo ago

The recording for my talk from DPE Summit 2025 titled "Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules" is out! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWx_... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/grad... #gradle

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections. Added: - NVIDIA investing in OpenAI - NVIDIA investing in Intel - AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

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Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

This is what a bubble looks like (image with alt text)

anthony restaino@anthonycr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

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anthony restaino@anthonycr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed