midtown manhattan ads now indistinguishable from downtown SF truly we are in hell

how many outgoing requests per second do you think for it’s reasonable to expect an error reporting library to handle? assuming these are being sent to an aggregator over the network.

evergreen

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

second season of interview with a vampire is worse compared to season one in really unexpected ways?

he's a video game streamer turned pundit whose takes are informed by a warmed over millennial understanding of Chomskyist campism. this makes him more directionally correct than like 80% of federal dem electeds older than 50 and 100% of the MSM, but it also means he's really stupid

yea that’s not good boss

Shodan Safari@shodansafari.lol · 3d ago

ASN: AS3209 Location: Wismar, DE Added: 2026-07-05T16:59 #shodansafari #infosec

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The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

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okay new GitS is truer to the manga and i appreciate its lightheartedness but as a piece of media i think the 1995 film sits in an almost unattainable position

imagine if Astarion was French

okay so i‘m back to thinking that delivery estimation is a waste of time for software projects and we should just not really try for “this software will be delivered by this date” but instead build some sort of ablative shielding into every plan that can be discharged from a plan as needed.

/me at the Computer History Museum, looking at dead computers "VAX'd?"

yeah okay this is the first weekend i have not been DOING SHIT or NERD SNIPED so i guess it's a cooking & posting day.

this is downstream of me getting way too high last night and having the revelation that i want to go build AI tooling for the IRS more than anything else i have wanted to do in my life except for maybe work on rockets.

skyking@jkachmar.com · 4d ago

MOST IMPORTANTLY, if the LLM makes the meta-problem of scam & fraud & general corporate irresponsibility more profitable then you use your regulatory apparatus to capture that profit center! make it financially ruinous to commit these crimes and you either dissuade the crime or make more money!

“Interview with a Vampire fanfic written by Eliezer Yudkowsky” is this anything

pork & kimchi nabe; using roasted chicken stock + dashi as the base instead of water. somehow did not have spring onions so @isabel.kim thinly sliced half a yellow onion instead and that‘s probably fine.

i am mad at the computer again that means it’s time to put it away. coming up with a way to reliably swarm test code with external state that you can’t /quite/ consistently model in the test engine is extremely frustrating and i am Done for today.

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one old the other things is that apart from the trauma, WFH was both good and bad for us in a lot of ways, coming back from WFH was often done in an intentionally abusive way meant to assert the authority of the bosses, and in the immediate aftermath the layoffs began

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

i hadn’t really intended on making a testing library but since that did end up happening i’ve been thinking a little about testing libraries recently. it’s interesting how this stuff needs to be built with good copy/paste UX in mind because god damn are people gonna copy/paste test code.

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

"you fucked up a perfectly good loom, is what you did. look at it, it's got anxiety"

This has been an issue in tech for so long that the failure to correct it is really telling about the industry’s inherent lack of capacity for introspection. It selects for and rewards antisociality and then wonders why people don’t like and trust it.

dorian@doriantaylor.com · last wk.

there is a doctrine of product development out of silicon valley that goes something like "i think this thing would be cool to have for myself, i'm sure other people *must* also want it too, so i'll make it and they will fund its development and also it will obviously be a blockbuster"

This job has always sucked and AI psychosis of CEOs and boards is just creating a tipping point

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last wk.

Interesting trend: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break And they have v good reasons

The recording of my talk from Software Should Work is now up. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXu...

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concurrent property tests with an attempt at clean reporting

skyking@jkachmar.com · 2mo ago

work let me open source my meme library. big thank you to Antithesis for building a property testing engine called Hegel, without which i would not have put in nearly this much effort to produce something halfway decent.

this is easily one of the best films i have ever seen please watch it

Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social · last wk.

"Millennium Actress" by Satoshi Kon is available for free on YouTube (in North America only). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqg...

okay so i have concurrent property testing support now, wtf do i throw it at?

It is well-known that Mario is named after Nintendo of America's former landlord, Mario Segale. It has been discovered that his father, Louis Segale, was actually named Luigi before changing his name during immigration, making it an astounding coincidence that the real Mario's real father is Luigi.