TIL I'm one of the top 1% of Ruby engineers globally According to some chart slop attached to the bottom of a recruiter email. Some may call this spam but it's good to finally get some recognition.
I wonder how much the agentic development experience would improve if we gave CI runners even a fraction the compute horsepower we're giving inference as an industry.
Working in a WeWork for the first time today and just relishing in the hum of business speak all around me. As someone who spends 99% of their work hours in a home office this is like LARPing for me.
My Steam account is approaching 23 years of age this fall but I still have to verify my date of birth to look at the sale page for Cyberpunk 2077.
Best championship parade speech by so many miles that second place isn't even on the same planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPJ...
Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech
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Thinking back to the first time I heard about billionaires as a kid and how it was about someone having a mere $6bn.
It took ~17 years of work and 7 companies but I'm finally getting to experience the shared human experience of: using Microsoft products in an office setting. They're not just for gaming PCs!
My take on the new Ferrari: I would be willing to trade my 2015 Subaru for one, 1 for 1, if anyone were to offer.
Niche issue that maybe only I care about but if I were the NBA selling off billions of dollars of media rights I would put a line in there that says you gotta have streams that are more than 3 Mbps. Just one man’s opinion.
Fever home opener tickets are currently about double the price of what I paid for the last 2 Pacers games I went to on a seat for seat basis 😳
I was hitting the same pothole on the way to school for like a month and I finally put in a 311 request to fix it and the city fixed it within 48 hours. Let this be a lesson — help the city help you.
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In this era of brand collabs I'm kind of shocked that all the good Car x Clothing Brand specialty trims are gone. Time to bring back the LL Bean Subaru Outback and the Eddie Bauer Ford Bronco. The Sony Afeela (RIP) was getting there but maybe they should have just done Honda x Sony branding.
Feeling overwhelmed with the opportunity presented by a new Diablo expansion coming out the day I sign an offer letter for a job I won't start for a month. 23 year old me would put in at least 200hrs over that month 39 year old me will probably play about 3hrs and go do house projects 🙃
Maybe a long shot for my limited audience but does anyone have a recommendation for where to buy watch straps for a Pebble Time 2? It takes any traditional 22mm strap but there are so many options I just want a curated site with a bit of taste.
TIL Youtube supports 360 degree video. Didn't expect to learn that on an Amtrak video of all places. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2g9...
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Didn’t get the Apple CEO job. Back to the drawing board I guess.
Piecing together a cohesive product design case study after an impromptu layoff feels more like an exercise in computer forensics than a design exercise. Some tips as I come upon them 👇
good way to troll a designer (or in my case, myself) — change this setting in one of your browsers and forget about it for 6 months
I recently came across a viral Thread where the OP returned to the thread to say “my friend told me this was blowing up and I didn’t realize I posted it to Threads”
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 4mo agoOn Threads someone is getting their ears pierced for the first time at the age of 65 and is looking fabulous and their post has 17K likes
Do you think this random Amazon phone accessory manufacturer would care if I lift their entire brand for my design portfolio presentations?
Consumer tech could stand to learn a lot from the Ubiquiti design team. It gets overlooked because most people aren't familiar with their product experience unless you work in IT or are a big ol' nerd who treats their home network like its a small business.
Half serious question: if you have to give a half dozen or more portfolio presentations over a short period of time and everyone wants to see different things would it be cool to do a single choose your own adventure slide deck?
Somehow I’ve ended up with more meetings in my first week of being unemployed than my last 3 months of having a job.
For all of AI’s faults it doesn’t get enough credit for ending the conversation around NFTs.
Every time I get mad at a piece of software for being buggy yet refuse to submit any bug reports I have to remind myself that an untold number of people using stuff I built are doing the exact same thing.
I made some space on my site to start documenting all the little tools I build for myself to help me build better as I've shifted out of using Figma as my primary design tool. The first thing I put up was "John Town" which is my web-based server/git/agent watcher. johndonmoyer.com/tools/john-t...
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