I thought I wasn't patriotic, but my wife swears I'm one of the most patriotic people she knows because I believe in democracy, I believe that this experiment we embarked upon 250 years ago is worthwhile. Just because there's a bunch of fascist assholes in charge right now doesn't mean we give up.

Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · last mo.

Because we are America. Each and every one of us. America means all that is good in us, just as much as it means what's bad in us. I choose to believe that there is more good than bad among us. I choose to believe in us. I choose hope.

Happy bday, USA. I've come to hate fireworks.

New blog post: synthesis is harder than analysis surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/s...

Synthesis is harder than analysis

Over the years, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have developed various calculi. If you have a background in computer science, you’ve likely heard of the lambda calculus, a m…

surfingcomplexity.blog

Did you ever write Infrastructure as Code? Configuration Management? Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or stupid shell scripts? Read this. webframp.com/posts/you-we...

everything said by anthropic should be treated as a marketing campaign unless proven otherwise

Claude is just a sophisticated ETL.

So I have little/no exposure/use of GraphQL. But apparently it came out of Facebook? So apparently everyone thought that was a perfect idea.

If you thought adjusting the layout of a web page by modifying and tweaking CSS was hilariously bad before, just wait until you try and get Claude to do it for you.

Eisenhower

Burning both ends. And the middle too. hbu?

Until it’s too late

But no one reached out.

Fucking autocorrect. I’m not okay.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

the Black Panthers were right

Computers

Fiona Tribe@fionatribe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What tool/platform are you forced to use (by your employer or client) that you’d rather toss into an open fire?

Reminder that AI is marketing. From Claude:

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Jesus fucking Christ. What a year already.

I get it, Kubernetes is dope if you have services you want to run A LOT OF with varying needs for resource constraints, scheduling, etc. It's utter shit if you have a few one off things to run that don't change much, or need to manage state in themselves.

I counted it up the last time I saw KMFDM, I’ve seen them 13 times, in three different states.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: KMFDM KMFDM (or, Violent Femmes} KMFDM (or, VNV Nation) KMFDM (or, BT) KMFDM (or, New Order)

Mandi Walls@lnxchk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Scissor Sisters Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox Iron Maiden Black Sabbath Barry Manilow

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

I hate how accurate this is

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last yr.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Did it not occur to anyone that vibe coding is AI driven development, or "ADD"? Cmon now.

Me in 27 minutes

Rich Lafferty@rich.lafferty.ca · 9mo ago

me rn

a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too

NPR@npr.org · 9mo ago

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

I will fight anyone who maintains that spreadsheets are not programming systems. Excel is the most popular functional programming system in the world. Heck, the most popular of any programming system.

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PLATFORM ENGINEERING IS AN IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVOPS PRACTICES AND PRINCIPLES, IT ISN'T A COMPETITION AND IF YOU THINK IT IS I QUESTION HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHAT DEVOPS IS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH