This is such an important lesson. When you start out, it's easy to believe that success means joining the ranks of the people you already admire, but in practice, it's much more common for success to come from connecting with other aspiring professionals and lifting each other up.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 23h ago

Biggest thing I tell my students is to avoid thinking of their classmates as competitors. You are all on the same team, in the same community, with the collective goal being success. Their wins are your wins.

Everyone should be a nerd about something. Maybe it's tech or people or fiction or sports. Be an expert about something that excites you. Be the person that people ask. When I meet a new person, I try to find out what they know about. It's usually different from my knowledge, and that gives me joy.

Horrifyingly creative 👌 #art #painting #sculpture #creepy IG: @tanya

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

AI will never do silly right

Everyone asking for a follow up drawing with a line at their table… remember this sadness; internalize that pain. Think of these lice next time you’re at a con and see someone with no one at their table

beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5d ago

Would you get their autograph?

JSON Schema is not one flat list of keywords. It is seven vocabularies, each with a job. Core, Applicator, Validation, Meta-Data, Unevaluated, Format-Annotation and Content are all true in the standard 2020-12 meta-schema. https://standards.apievangelist.com/store/json-schema/

Hey @noodleawesome.bsky.social I know it's been a while, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Halo Infinite campaign and plot continuity coming from 4 & 5. I'll start gregsdennis.github.io/coding-for-s...

Having a bit of an emotional crisis about AI coding continuing to improve. In 6 months it's gotten better than I was after as many years. Already I feel like most of my 15+ years in the industry is for nothing.

"The more you share, the less accurate the results will be. That’s what happens when you overload an LLM’s context window. To understand why, let’s see how LLMs interpret an API and how that interpretation leads to a decision of which tools to use." apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-ai-age...

Why AI Agents Don't Need Your Full API

Stop paying the token tax on bloated prompts when a far cleaner pattern exists.

apichangelog.substack.com

@thatsabsurdshow.com

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

@levarburton.bsky.social I'm watching your #readingrainbow episode where you went over the production of #startrek, and it's as engaging (ha) now we it was when I was a kid! Thank you for this sneak peek!

I am continually and thoroughly amazed at how many people keep correcting @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social or getting upset at the information being presented. I mean, it's in the fucking name, people!

I'm tired of talking with robots on the Internet.

Introducing the Open Source Maintenance Fee for Polly thepollyproject.org/2026/07/14/p...

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

random question, what gives you hope and keeps ya going? Had a talk with friends yesterday, and hearing what uplifts people is such nice thing to share

PR descriptions before LLMs: “here lol glhfdd”. PR descriptions after LLMs: 4 pages of academic writing going into the intricacies of every change. Author still doesn’t check the “AI was used in creating this PR” checkbox in the PR template.

@12tone.nebula.tv you collab with @polyphonic.nebula.tv a lot (e.g. ghost notes), and I love that you two are such good friends. Have you considered making a musical analysis companion series to his cultural analysis series on Dark Side of the Moon? I think that would be amazing.

Today was a really, really hard day. I am choosing to believe tomorrow will be better. If you had a really, really hard day, I hope tomorrow is better for you, too.