Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

You get used to it, but it was a shock to the system at first. “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four half-written features, two ‘quick fixes’ that spawned rabbit holes, and a growing sense that I’m losing the plot entirely.”

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themsel...

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While I've been critical of PMs vibe coding deprioritized features, I heartily endorse certain uses. A PM on my team now builds features in a custom version of our app on their phone before talking to the team. This beats PRDs, Figma mocks and prototypes. I definitely felt I need to up my game.

#phuket boat trip

Working from SEA as a developer I feel like that the mean benefit are the social interactions: dinner is often eaten together, outside. Weekends are often centered around group activities. Coworking spaces feel more connected than in Europe

Did you know Zed can chain multiple actions into one keybinding using `action::Sequence`? Check out the latest edition of Hidden Gems for another batch of arcane Zed tips. zed.dev/blog/hidden-...

Hidden Gems: Part 3 - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: Favorite workflows and hidden features from the Zed team and community.

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OK, It’s a Bubble. Now Tell Me How It Pops. https://fullhoffman.com/2026/02/14/ok-its-a-bubble-now-tell-me-how-it-pops/

Moving to #europe after almost a decade in #asia feels strange. When I left, I wanted to find the best place to create my own startup. Now I'm really curious to see how I might fit into the current tech scene there and what has changed (I have changed as well!)

Actually, Anthropic is training Claude with a 'constitution' that fosters a BIZARRE sense of AI entitlement and belittles human rights and rules. It's a philosophical adventure that should have no place in serious AI governance and policymaking efforts. My full article below.

Switched to @zed.dev , extremely happy so far (after ~10+ years of Emacs)

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Hotel gym session helps to feel a bit better about the buffet dinner 🤙 #hevy #gym

#Sentul, outside #Jakarta. It's slightly colder and a bit more windy, just perfect

After using the #databricks unity catalog for a while I really enjoy #lakefs. So... Simple conceptually. I suspect this is a reflection of my team size but still. I want to love the #dx, not merely tolerate it. #databricks data management feels like a full-time job, #lakefs just gets out of my way

Learning of the year: #running is fun, but not leaving enough time to recover in between challenging workouts can really mess you up. Had a one month break, but not because I wanted to. "Catching up" with more experienced runners will take time, running daily was srupid 😐

There is one amazing, modern data framework in #Python that I enjoy using. The founding team is now flooding my LinkedIn with "this is how I got 2000x faster with #claudecode" and it worries me. Ofc they pivoted to an AI powered BI tool. Hm.

Using #GitHub actions for scheduled jobs is pretty cool. I now have 2 repos running scheduled jobs, fetching and categorizing news using LLMs, sending daily summaries to a #telegram group. Combined with the #openrouter free tier this is a great way to build simple auto-updating data pipelines

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I really wish #anki would have more cloze test style decks. I tried #lingvist and #clozemaster, both of which seem to work really well for me. Would be great to have more options though, hitting a wall with #duolingo #languagelearning

Cool to see that the #fitness and #health movement makes healthy, affordable vegan meals much more available (found in #Jakarta) 🙌

happy claude opus 4.5 day for those who celebrate

Und was sagt der AfD-Fascho Rene Dierkes? Die Menschenkette gegen AfD-Instrumentalisierung des Attentats - "Das können wir gut verwerten" und bittet darum, diesen Satz später aus dem Video zu schneiden. Das ist die "Trauer" der AfD. Miese Rassisten.

The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.

woke up from my turkey wing coma this morning and was so confused looking at my phone seeing that agent orange was threatening a mid-sized village in suburban Maryland, then i realized it’s just he’s a moron who can’t spell 😭