In my opinion, these are the top 3 software dev traits: 1. Kindness 2. Willingness to figure things out 3. Knowing how things work/wanting to know how things work

I was just talking to a friend about how, growing up in Utah and knowing very, very few Black people, there’s this pervasive idea that Black musicians sound good, but don’t actually know what they’re doing. I don’t remember being expressly taught this, but they fully agreed that the idea is there. 🤦‍♂️

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

yeah it’s like, these guys are professional wordsmiths? and the best of them operate with a genius level understanding of language? of course they read

One thing Jiu-Jitsu has taught me: it’s ok to suck real bad at something if it’s fun.

Instagzam is when a magician does a trick really fast. (Computah, write hashtag newinstagramlogo.)

It’s true; eventually you will die. But not right now.

“But the millionaires will sell their second homes!”

Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile Head Nod

Alt: GIF of Jack Nicholson looking kinda evil and nodding eagerly

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo ago

Sometimes people on the internet get up on a high horse and say, “This jiu jitsu person wouldn’t win in a real fight!” If you think they would do the same thing in a “real fight” that they are doing in a competition with rules around a specific skill set, you’re kinda dumb.

Some black coffee drinkers are so weird. Their takes would be very odd in any other context. There’s no one out there saying, “You don’t actually enjoy cereal unless you only eat dry corn flakes.”

AI flyers are a scourge.

Whenever I see someone write “balled my eyes out” instead of “bawled my eyes out”, I imagine someone removing their own eyes with a melon baller.

For over a decade, the consistent messaging—even from one pope to the next—has been humility, love, and dignity. Growing up Evangelical, and being told that Catholicism wasn’t “real” Christianity, I would NEVER have thought that the pope would come to be the most Christ-like global religious leader.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

I’m sure this is a bad idea for a zillion reasons, but what if every vote for political office was write-in only?

Going bald? Nah. Face card so rich it’s buying more real estate. 💅

This seems like the most inanely obvious thing on earth to me, but art IS THE PROCESS OF MAKING ART. That’s where the beauty is, not just the outcome.

The worst part about being a person who works in tech and who actually wants to do good in the world is that the "leaders" of your industry don't care about that at all. (They actively do the opposite.)

It’s so weird that we sometimes live in a world where it seems like hope and whimsy are to be avoided. I fucking love hope and whimsy.

Enthusiastically accepting your encroaching baldness is a heretofore unseen level of body positivity. Y’all aren’t ready.

AI “art” and videos are so bad that I’m convinced they’re just a data-mining grift. I’ve literally never seen AI-generated visual content that was good. And surely someone will argue with this by posting something they think is good and I’ll be proven right once again.

From a Christian theology perspective, if you believe in the Trinity, this means that you implicitly believe that Biblical understanding can evolve over time. This means that your own current understanding of scripture could also evolve.

@43081j.com are you still actively maintaining this postcss-lit syntax? I posted a PR last week for a bug we ran into, but it doesn't look like the repo has had much activity since about last October or so. Either way, thanks for your work on that! It's been helpful! github.com/43081j/postc...

Ensuring multi-line transforms are tracked by stevematney · Pull Request #118 · 43081j/postcss-lit

Fixes #117

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We’re at the point in this country where there is an unaccountable masked force going door to door, ripping people out of their houses, and tearing apart families for the alleged misdemeanor of illegal entry into this country. (Also now just murdering American citizens for opposing them.)

Did you guys know that it was perfectly legal for them to crucify Jesus Christ? And that it was illegal to be a disciple and espouse the views of a known political agitator? A lotta criminals from “sh*thole” places (like Nazareth) in early Christianity.

I keep doing this thing where I figure out the answer in the exact moment I push the button for a Tip, so I’m inflating my result by one because of my own impatience. SLOW DOWN STEVE On Word Case #2026-1-4, I got triple bogey! Three over par. 3️⃣ 🟠 🥵 💡 💡 🥵 💡 🟠 💡 🔥 💡 🏆 wordcase.co

Word Case

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I’m so glad we’re no longer in Biden’s Christmas-free Happy Holidays hell now that our dear fascist savior king has taken back his throne. Finally the public executions of those daring to utter “Merry Christmas” are at an end.

“We’re going to make a technology that will solve climate change and cure diseases!” *builds a stealing machine*

I’m coming to a realization that a true apocalyptic future for me is one where everything is moderately shitty and no one cares.

Everybody say goodbye to my gallbladder!

@aptshadow.bsky.social 1) Two Hugo noms in one year in the same category is CRAZY work. 👏 2) The metaphor in Alien Clay about communication of dropping a pebble in a well and trying to read the ripples completely blew my mind. I was listening to the audio book and literally paused it to process.

I’m excited for when Zohran wins and everybody is outraged saying stuff like, “She wasn’t even his real aunt!”

Sure—when it has been tried—the percentage of people on SNAP benefits who come back positive on drug tests is infinitesimally small. But have you considered that people on drugs also deserve to eat?