well, @notion.com silently set itself to be the default handler for Markdown on my machine, which is solid lead bar that broke the camel's back... Shame to see something so great go so enshittified. Gotta find a new spot for my personal stuff...
Baseball! (Honestly thought this game was in Milwaukee there's so many Brewers fans there)
Constantly finding connections between aviation and SWE. Today's: - Stay ahead of the airplane but - Fly the Aircraft First!
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2d agoAmazon’s guidance to SDEs and SDMs: do what works they’re not pushing for tokenmaxxing or banning AI, instead letting teams figure it out and focus on outcomes www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
It's important for folks to be very thoughtful and caring about job displacement and changes induced by automation. At the same time "all jobs must remain frozen in amber, exactly as they are today" is an absurd position that folks often implicitly wind up at
And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.
i think if you want to make the world better you have to start by understanding it, and that means--to be blunt--fucking charts, because large data sets and careful studies are one of the ways you escape the mind-prison known as "my gut tells me this is true, shut the fuck up"
I assume @swiftonsecurity.com's mentions just dominated by this right now. theonion.com/corn-named-w...
Corn Named World’s Sexiest Plant
theonion.com
This has to be the actual pitch deck of some of the AI products I've looked into.
Patrick@pck.rocks · 2w ago1. Start a convoluted company most people won't understand. 2. Manufacture some early momentum so people will feel stupid saying they don't understand out loud. 3. Roll momentum forward as quickly as possible 4. ??? 5. IPO
1. Start a convoluted company most people won't understand. 2. Manufacture some early momentum so people will feel stupid saying they don't understand out loud. 3. Roll momentum forward as quickly as possible 4. ??? 5. IPO
Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
Andy@andyoregon.bsky.social · 2w ago“Musk then prevented any community notes from appearing on Sortor’s post for many hours, ensuring that no one could debunk the bogus claim before it reached tens of millions of people, and suspended accounts that dug into its veracity” @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...
opus 5.5 just took me saying "ship it" in response to a code review change to mean "merge the branch" I don't care what you tell me they are nerfing this model now.
I hope city goes down and on the way they take points off everyone with crazy Doku goals like that.
I'm back to using opus 4.6 Opus 5.5 just frustratingly hard to steer. It doesn't feel like a helpful coworker but one that's alternatively too stupid or just goes off and does its own thing based on the tiniest misunderstanding.
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
sheets.works
I want Modal AI harness like vim. The eagerness of some models/harness to DO things in response to simple questions. They are all designed PLAN -> But real work is PLAN -> do -> learn -> do -> learn -> re plan -> do
It's a lot of words to say that web components compose poorly in large data-driven applications, but still a good read.
Web Components Are Not the Future
A few years ago I wrote an article suggesting that Web Components might not be the most beneficial...
dev.to