Dan Sandler
@dsandler.org
I live in Boston with my kids. I help make Android nice. I don't speak for my employer. Visuals not final.
I want to talk about being a software engineering manager in a world where AI is changing everything all at once. First, change is hard on humans. Even good change is stressful. People are built for survival, which means: if you aren’t dying, keep doing whatever already “works”
Depluralize a movie Dial M for Crow
gelbach@gelbach.bsky.social · 5mo agoDepluralize a movie The President’s Man
Slightly diminish a game: Mini-break from Tarkov
Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 8mo agoSlightly diminish a game: Sim Township
you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant what are you calling it? BBQ Continuum
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 8mo agoYou've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant what are you calling it? "IDIC" (it's a buffet)
Google Keyboard users: right now, go tap the mic button to start voice typing, and say: "I am Locutus of Borg" 🥺
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... a freak accident caused beds to get stuck upright? this is Murphy's Law
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
dexerto.com
This is such a great listen even if you aren't already absolutely in the bag for dropout dot tv, including insights about - Decisions - Making art you're proud of - Organizing your team - Exclusivity - The inescapable tension of running a company and being good to people - The number 3 - Homestar
Sam Reich@samreich.bsky.social · 11mo agocheckitout! chatted with my good friend Hank green about all things business but more importantly homestar runner
![A screenshot from Sam's conversation with Hank Green on The Verge. The excerpt reads: Interesting. Is there, on the list of reasons that you like this or want to do this, we talked about this before, but let’s end here with this. Is [the idea] that people aren’t doing things weird enough, and you want to do things weird, on that list? One hundred percent. You and I have connected a lot on the topic of Homestar Runner over the years. Homestar Runner may be hugely responsible for my career taking the direction it has. It was incredibly influential on me. And something I loved about it was like, it felt like a walled garden of weird that existed at a URL. Yeah. That resonates. And I think about how sometimes I wish that I could plant a forest full of weird trees on the internet. I wish that the internet were still a place where, just like there was really fun, mysterious, hopeful stuff that existed a URL away. I would hope that Dropout can just be one of those things."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uf7wpvqaghuj7rh4iwdauod/bafkreidh4pqxygxynzvh2g2pxgbnifou4w435zq5duk6igkpms2smqhovq)
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
started playing PEAK by @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social and all I can think about is the genius of the everything-meter
Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!
suddenly reminded of the way twitter felt in the late aughts / early teens: your friend texting you from the splash zone of history
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." - Glamorizes hustle culture - Speciest - Was taught to you in elementary school "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." - Metal as fuck - Implies that you are a wizard - No one will know you are testing out a font
My daughter saw my computer and said “you have too many tabs open.” I then zoomed out and showed her all the windows she couldn’t see (that had too many tabs)…
Stop what you're doing and read this. (unless you're driving or performing some kind of surgery, in which case you probably shouldn't be reading anything at all right now)
Angie Wang@okchickadee.bsky.social · 3y agoI made a long, long comic about AI and my toddler. It's a repudiation of techno-solipsism and it’s in The New Yorker. Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?
Too bad the star system for #android14 launch day only has one planet.
doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location
I have a website. For years I kept a blog there and then stopped due to social media posting and also game dev making me more boring. Now I'm pretty sure I'd never be able to draw eyes to a site. In a lot of ways the internet actually is worse now than it was a while back.
I guess, who among us hasn't gotten all the way to the party and then said "nah I'm not feelin it" and turned around
OK I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the ease of setting up a vanity profile domain on bsky
