Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history

Once again playing Elden Ring. I found out that, according to the community, the all-strength with big weapon build is called “unga bunga”, but if you split strength and intelligence it’s called “I unga therefore I bunga”

Increasingly convinced that the programming language I need to get better at isn’t R, Python, Julia or Rust. It’s awk

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

I just saw a job ad for Data Science at LEGO and I’m so happy to see that they use Databricks

I forget where I heard this, but someone once said that there are two rules to a question: the first sentence must end with a question mark, and there is no second sentence

Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · last mo.

All conferences should adopt @epidbydesign.bsky.social ‘s question rules as standard! #SER2026

There’s something about LLMs, I don’t know what it is, that makes them love verbosity. This makes them ill-suited to slides, which should be at most 15 words each. Also, more importantly, don’t use LLMs to communicate with people you respect or who you want to respect you

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

I want to share with you the advice an Indonesian chef just gave me regarding grinding spice mixes: the pastier the tastier

Never would have imagined the term “Butlerian Jihad” diffusing into everyday language

There’s a deeper skill that goes beyond specific technical expertise: can you articulate a problem you are facing with words such that others can understand it? You know the folks who just say “it’s not working” and give no details? They can’t prompt.

Jordan Nafa@ajordannafa.com · 3mo ago

The more I use AI for development, the more concerned I am about the fact that knowing what makes an effective prompt and the appropriate, opiniated, guardrails necessary to consistently get high quality output is much harder if you don't have quite a bit of experience doing things by hand first.

Finally, a sicko that I can identify with. Thanks to The Onion for this gem.

<rant> I can tell when a candidate is using an AI assistant in an interview. It’s obvious and insulting. It’s also incredibly common now. I’m at the point where if I saw a typo in a resume I would consider it a positive.

It is so nice to be living in Melbourne’s West where they have proper grocery stores selling the essentials

I judge people by whether they throw the ball for my dog when he asks

If it’s a personal tech blog you can just put in photos of whatever you want and no one can stop you. Anyone who reads my blog posts is also looking at my painted Warhammer models

Annie Sexton@anniesexton.com · 3mo ago

just a reminder that AI graphics in your tech blog posts still look lame ☺️ ❤️

Seeing a typo or an awkward phrasing in an email is like a breath of fresh air. A human being wrote this! This is an artisanal, organic, free-range email! I’m going to give it extra attention.

I’m YIMBY about housing and NIMBY about cars

I regret to inform you that consultants have started using the word “agentify”

New Murderbot and new Imperial Radch in May! It’s a good month to be a sci fi fan

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 4mo ago

Woohoo! Package!

What a lovely exploration of the sphere packing problem

SMBC Comics@smbccomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Does this change my imaginary Erdos number to a complex number? Click the link to read the full comic on the site! COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

I cannot believe this works. I’m both proud of my creation, and horrified by it.

David Neuzerling@md.neuzerl.ing · 4mo ago

I don’t have access to R in my CI/CD pipeline, so I’m recreating `R CMD build` in bash. This thing is going to be held together with duct tape and prayers

I don’t have access to R in my CI/CD pipeline, so I’m recreating `R CMD build` in bash. This thing is going to be held together with duct tape and prayers

Pandoc is pure sorcery. Imagine all of the markdown -> HTML conversion pain we haven’t had to think about

Finally got around to removing this sign that the previous owners had installed in the shed. What herb do I need to burn to cleanse the space now?

Listening to NASA nerds talk about sensors and algorithms and receivers is so soothing

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

I watched Theroux’s manosphere documentary followed by a documentary on an eccentric Icelandic man running the world’s only phallological museum, and it felt like the message for men was “fill your heart with hate, or fill it with weird hobbies”. And the hobbies route looked so much healthier

After a decade of Game of Thrones style edginess (people are self-interested, trust no one, power is everything) I’m enjoying Strange New Worlds and The Pitt. Shows about highly skilled people with good values trying to get through impossible situations

Painted this one up as a gift. Tried to make the fire reflect on the armour and terrain