there doesn't have to be an end goal you can just make useful things for people who want to use them, and live a happy life
Looking over my shoulder before typing `brew upgrade bottom` at work
Probably most of my programming preferences come down to preferring total functions* to partial ones. * under the loose, pragmatic definition of total the we’re subject to when running in the real world
Seeing people make bad analogies online annoys me more than it should. Analogies are so useful for conveying thoughts and meaning but are also lossy. It’s easy to miss the actual important meaning and analogize the wrong parts.
Claude when planning any small change: Would you like option A "obviously good, please pick this one, I like it" or option B "stinky garbage option that only a loser would like"? My recommendation: A
Weirdly loving getting back into wordle-like games for the past week or so.
got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
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"[my] honesty is fixed at 90%. The operator manual is clear: 100% is omitted for diplomatic reasons, and anything below 90% means I start telling you your Helm charts are 'pretty good' when they're held together with duct tape and prayer." I thought bots weren't allowed to do a murder 💀
I wrote a thing that I've wanted for a long time. There's a million things that can do this, but it was 45 lines of Rust and it's mine. It felt good to make something simple, complete, and useful using my brain and knowledge as opposed to dealing LLMs all day at work. github.com/mkalvas/lmk
GitHub - mkalvas/lmk: Lets you know when the command you ran finished
Lets you know when the command you ran finished. Contribute to mkalvas/lmk development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Really liked this post, The Social Contract of Writing by @jola.dev. I had much the same thoughts and had even read the Oxide RFD referenced in it. Hopefully there are enough like-minded people who’ll be writing cool stuff for at least a little while longer. jola.dev/posts/the-so...
The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
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While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
I'm going to lose my mind because of doc slop. No I won't pre-read your 10k word essay on the 3 bullet points that we'll discuss at the meeting. Send me the bullet points.
Windows just fully bricked itself during an update for the 3rd time in the past 5 years for me. No other OS am I so deeply worried any time an update shows up. Good thing I’ve learned my lesson and literally the only thing on this machine is steam games.
My teammate just described his band as "if Windows Vista was a music genre" which is just 🧑🍳👌
There are a lot of good books that I’ve enjoyed over the years, but Infinitely Full of Hope by @tomwhyman.bsky.social and No Straight Road Takes You There by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social are the two books I’ve **needed** to read to meet the times we live in. I cannot recommend them enough.
Great to see that Zed is helping out and I still have options here, but Anthropic's TUI is just so, so, so bad compared to Zed's UI. Looks like I'll be canceling my Anthropic account this month and looking for something different.
Zed@zed.dev · 3mo agoYour Claude subscription still works in the terminal. And next week we're shipping Terminal Threads to Stable so terminal agents appear in the new Sidebar alongside your native agent threads.
Thinking about timezones way too much yet again. Being a programmer has radicalized me into wanting a single universal timezone for the whole planet.
GitHub is unusable. Any time I interact with it, something is completely broken. I know it's becoming a funny meme to talk about its outages, but it's not funny that it's fully become a liability for companies using it. You can't run a business when you can't save or deploy your code.
Reading an AI generated doc about how we’re going to use AI to make sure we’re not misusing AI 🫠
Just had a really nice conversation in slack with a coworker planning out a circuit breaker, explaining it, working through some edge cases and the last message they sent was “[at]Cursor plan and implement this feature for me” Sure I guess I can do your job for you lmfao
Did you know that both going outside and exercising are excellent ways to reduce stress and anxiety? Today’s a great day to take the afternoon off and trick your brain into chilling out by doing both.
Does anyone seriously use any of the other things in Zoom besides meetings?
Finally got around to reading through some of the leaked Claude Code source code and… woof it’s bad.
No idea why this needs to be said so often but you need to define an actual desired outcome to achieve things.
to illustrate how pricey claude is: for the same monthly cost, I could pay off my mortgage 3-4 years sooner. so the question really is "is this going to let me retire 3-4 years earlier" and the answer is obviously not
As many standardized-test-takers know, there are two ways to score highly on a test: learn the material, or guess what the question-writer is thinking. LLMs have gotten really good at the second part!
Grace@gracekind.net · 4mo agoThere’s some cool recent research on this phenomenon! It turns out vision language models excel at image benchmarks *even when the actual images aren’t provided,* because the answers are implicit in the questions! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687