hey bluesky, i've been unemployed since i graduated. i'm proficient in typescript and python, and can learn new stuff fairly quick. also familiar with using LLMs in various ways. Please hire me.
Steven
@stvn.sh
I help people, usually software engineers, do good work. Director of Engineering. ENFP-A, Bisexual, Neurodivergent, Ecosocialist.
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Dirk Diggler as Brock Landers (Boogie Nights)
ALT: Dirk Diggler as Brock Landers (Boogie Nights)
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VentyCZ@venty.cz · 6d agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!
pivot to jj, github is now called jubjubhub
Cassidy@cassidoo.co · last wk.should we just release stacked PRs this week be honest
new pet peeve: react native re-rendering and losing scroll position when my phone switches between dark and light modes.
This is a really excellent benchmark, pointing to some serious missing capabilities in coding agents: arxiv.org/abs/2603.247.... They don't write code with an eye towards maintenance!
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
Software development is iterative, yet agentic coding benchmarks overwhelmingly evaluate single-shot solutions against complete specifications. Code can pass the test suite but become progressively ha...
arxiv.org
We need more talent in the open social web. We need fresh talent in the open social web. Both technical and non-technical roles.
Applying AI to hiring is making everything worse for everyone. I wrote about why it's playing out the way it is. I originally gave this as a talk at a meetup called LGTM Berlin. Hope you'll give it a read & tell me what you think! stvn.sh/writing/regr...
How AI is quietly making your team fragile — Writing
Everyone adopted AI for hiring to get an edge, so nobody has one. What that monoculture does to the teams hiring builds, and why variety is the thing worth protecting.
stvn.sh
The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.
hey, we are testing ingesting activity from Activitypub / Mastodon into your Sifa /activity timeline. Anyone here that has an active account there and wants to test this?
Connect a Fediverse account
Link your Mastodon, GoToSocial, Pleroma, or other Fediverse account so your public posts show up in your Sifa activity feed.
docs.sifa.id
Today we launch the "Talks & sessions" section of your Sifa profile, aimed at people that... well... talk a lot 😅 Another example on how we can go beyond a "standard" CV or online profile and customize it to the things you actually did/do. 💪
I love you and your writing, but honestly DHH is spouting full blown racism, and I don't believe he deserves respect.
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/s...
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
we should probably rebuild the original foursquare experience on atproto huh?
nurse: hey whohw what happened to you? surgeon: dick blew up nurse: what? surgeon, throwing up, wiping blood from his face and clothes: his dick blew up man
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoGREG KELLY: Do you think we know the whole story about Lindsey Graham's death? TRUMP: Well, I *think* we do. We have great doctors and they talked about a certain part of his body literally blew up.
"verify your age" instantly recites 3 childhood friends' home phone numbers from memory
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w ago"Verify your age" Produces rotary phone, flawlessly dials a phone number
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
me coming back from gettin takeout: yeah guess you could say I'm a hunter gatherer.
The Palestinian author and visionary Ghassan Kanafani was murdered by Israeli agents on the 9th of July in 1972, together with his niece, who was a child. Kanafani's family was forced out of their home during the Nakba in 1948.
