Ryan Grove
@pie.gd
I like movies and pie! I build things at SmugMug. You might remember me from the thing with the guy in the place. https://wonko.com
I don't think we worry enough as a species about how easy it would be for a spider to crawl across our toothbrushes. I bet it happens all the time.
A comprehensive list of companies and executives that have cited AI-related productivity gains as the justification for layoffs is going to be a very useful decision-making aid over the next few years. We're all keeping one, right?
The immigration system is set up like coming to America is a privilege America bestows and applicants should grovel for, when in fact immigration is a gift that America desperately requires. We should be begging people to come here, not erecting further barriers.
I'd like to thank the state of California for providing a constant reminder that literally everything is slowly poisoning me.
me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes
I got the first news alert about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak within minutes of discovering a bunch of fresh mouse poop in our garage. For several surreal seconds, I thought the Washington Post was reporting about an outbreak in my own house.
Imagine being a mouse and just effortlessly pooping perfectly consistent little cylindrical poops all day long, no matter what garbage you eat. We should all be so lucky.
This paper by Margaret-Anne Storey is the most important thing I've read about the field of software engineering in years. arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106
From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI
Generative AI is accelerating software development, but may quietly shift where the most significant risks lie. As AI generates code faster than teams can understand it, two under appreciated forms of debt accumulate: cognitive debt, the erosion of shared understanding across a team, and intent debt, the absence of externalized rationale that developers and AI agents need to work safely with code. This article proposes a Triple Debt Model for reasoning about software health, built around three interacting debt types: technical debt in code, cognitive debt in people, and intent debt in externalized knowledge. Cognitive debt is a team-level, project-level property reflecting the erosion of shared understanding across a software system over time, leading to increasingly inadequate shared mental models for reasoning about and safely changing the system. Intent debt refers to the absence or erosion of explicit rationale, goals, and constraints that guide how humans and agents evolve the system. We discuss how generative AI changes the relative importance of these debt types, how each can be diagnosed and mitigated, and surface points of debate for practitioners.
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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
thinking once again about Marcia Lucas laughing her way through Eraserhead
it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page
Violence is the only remaining source of authority for a government that no longer has the consent of the governed. Every act of violence is an admission of weakness.
Has to be weird to be a Republican, where paying capital gains taxes is tyranny but getting shot in the face isn't
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Do you think the ICE agent should face criminal charges for shooting the woman in Minneapolis?" All: Yes: 53% No: 30% Yes Among: Democrats: 90% Independents: 54% Republicans: 14% YouGov / Jan 11, 2026
It's remarkable how unwieldy the Google Docs comment UX is for having discussions about specific content within a document given that (I would estimate) millions of people use it for this every day.
Was starting to worry that we were gonna have a garbage night without a high wind advisory but nope, there it is, right on schedule.
Sorry pie haters I couldn’t hear you over the symphony of god’s light
Thank you Google Nano Banana Pro, I definitely needed a storyboard for this scene I already shot. And I did a smooth dolly in but sure, let's reshoot it and do two jarring axial cuts instead. blog.google/technology/a...
Vaccines don't cause autism, but even if they did, sign me up for more of both. Enjoy your long covid and measles, allistics! wapo.st/4idz3Wn
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on rejecting vaccines-autism link
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he pledged not to remove language stating vaccines do not cause autism from the CDC website, condemne...
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Watching movie characters try to dispose of a body: “You idiots! You absolute fools! You’re doing it all wrong!” Disposing of an actual body: “Well fuck me this is harder than it looks. I hope no one’s watching me right now.”
Slack pro tip: be sure to always check the "Also send to [channel]" checkbox before sharing your wisdom in a long and complex thread! It'll help everyone understand that they can ignore all the other opinions and focus on yours.
Nice work everyone! We broke Apple TV by all watching Pluribus at the same time.
My brain likes to wake me up at dawn for no reason at all, regardless of when I went to sleep. Even when I'm wearing a total blackout face mask and ear plugs, it knows. The end of daylight saving time is the start of daylight zombie time for me. Do not approach me between November and March.
Tapestry has quickly become my favorite way to keep up with Mastodon, Bluesky, and other feeds. Everything’s woven together into a seamless chronological timeline with deduping, muting, and rock solid position syncing across devices. It’s great! usetapestry.com
Tapestry
Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
If you can break my code without making the tests fail then that’s a little bit your fault and a lot my fault.
Woke up laughing in the middle of the night with two words emblazoned on my murky consciousness: ROBOT SHART I don’t know where this came from, but the more I interrogate the concept, the funnier it gets.
"Can everyone see my screen?" is the ossified consequence of the UX failures of early video conferencing tools. Software is better now and we can usually see your screen! The question is no longer useful, but it will forever be part of the screen sharing dance. Usability matters.