me whose never seen an opera during act 1: oh they love each other completely I can’t wait to see these characters make logical decisions and live happily ever after! act 4: well fuck

Can’t wait to arrive in Barcelona and immediately try speaking french at the first person to ask me a question

I should have said: computers are really fast when you dont create munted queries

Thomas@thomasmcinnis.com · 7d ago

Used Claude to find a genuine 100x perf improve on a hot path due to JDBC mangling some SQL. It will end up being hundreds of hours of compute saved over a year. I don’t know dick-all about SQL really but I do know computers are really fast

Used Claude to find a genuine 100x perf improve on a hot path due to JDBC mangling some SQL. It will end up being hundreds of hours of compute saved over a year. I don’t know dick-all about SQL really but I do know computers are really fast

omg

🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨@jbranchaud.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can click and drag the subtitles in a youtube video to anywhere in the player. This is particularly useful for a software tutorial where the latest things being typed are at the bottom of the screen covered up by subtitles.

if apple were serious about making money they would make a usb-c to 3.5 audio cable for AirPods Max in matching colours and I would have no choice to buy it how can I short the stock

Oh fuck going to Spain for a month (yay!) 6 days from now omg I have so much to do before then (boo!)

Bill Cunningham refused to eat or drink at the fashion events he covered because he felt it would compromise him

What Bill Cunningham taught us about ethical journalism

A tribute to a legendary Times photographer, who insisted on staying in the background.

washingtonpost.com

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wolf Blitzer just presented the Wall Street Journal an award for uncovering Trump's ties to Epstein and reveals Trump doxxed the journalist's home address in his lawsuit causing her to move. Trump is sitting humiliated on stage as Karoline Leavitt comforts him.

one year later... Today I had Opus 5 create a fairly sophisticated new layer in a graph data service and it worked for 40min uninterrupted and I reviewed it in about the same time reducing some request times by 80% in the end to end perf run. My only feedback was some of its comments were excessive

Thomas@thomasmcinnis.com · last yr.

I set it loose to write tests and went for a coffee. Came back and it had 1. Added a clear state function to the module being tested, and 2. eventually gave up and just hard-coded the result it expected as the return value of the methods being tested At least it gave me a laugh for the day

My wife: “eugh… why don’t boys know what their favourite things are? Like what’s your favourite pasta shape? Mines spaghetti obviously but not the super fine stuff” all because I don’t know what my favourite flower is so now we have debated the merits of five different pasta

They also run three fantastic radio stations www.linn.co.uk/linn-radio

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Scottish audio company, famous for their turntables, once invented a CPU architecture.

 Their internal software kind of sucked. Somehow along the way, the company became convinced that the problem was that all Von Neumann-style computers were WRONG.

My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot

Best thing about setting up a home gym in Covid is how I can superset and hog all the equipment Worst is how dusty it gets

you have a people problem you try to fix it with technology now you have two problems

I am very lazy, so the Arch AUR is great for me... but supply chain attacks seem to suggest I will pay for this laziness. should I... Fedora? Would be great to have uniform system between my MacBook Air and WSL and linux box

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

web site: would you like to download the app for the full customer experience?? me: wOuLd You LIkE to dOwNLoAd the ApP FoR the fuLl cUStOmeR eXPeriENce? shut up web site i hope you fall in quicksand

belt-and-braces honest load-bearing pathological seam take

Just opened LinkedIn for the first time in weeks… the tone has flipped 180 from ai-to-the-moon-saas-is-dead to ai-causing-enshittification-and-ruining-business

1: You realize AI can do 90% of the work. You’re thrilled! You only have to focus on the last 10%. 💃 2: You realize that last 10% is the hardest, most grueling part of the job. 😰 3: You realize your entire workday is now spent exclusively on the hardest 10% of every project. 🤯 Uh oh... 🫠

One person getting AI to write quality code when they know how to build what they’re building is doable. Consistently getting AI to do that at scale for a whole bunch of people who don’t know how to build what they want? Totally different problem.

I am totally “locked-in” today My wife took both sets of keys so I can’t leave the house

Outstanding post start to finish I started programming after chat-gpt launched and see myself in the critique. Coding with no autocomplete or LSP has been a salve. Now learning set notation: the gap between “I can read this” and “I can describe a system” is enormous. Gotta write from memory.

gabby@fullmoon.id · 3mo ago

I wrote a new blog post explaining why I think more people should practice "freecoding" (coding as much as possible from memory) haskellforall.com/2026/05/type...

This seems like exactly the syllabus I want but no online offering bguppl.github.io/interpreters...

Thomas@thomasmcinnis.com · 3mo ago

Dying for a good online course for PL (as in study of… not vocational style programming courses) Self study is fine but I really miss the opportunity to talk to others and have the shared experience from uni

Dying for a good online course for PL (as in study of… not vocational style programming courses) Self study is fine but I really miss the opportunity to talk to others and have the shared experience from uni

I have only moderate hearing loss and back this completely. Being in a range of loss that I can take them out and use AirPods Max with Headphone Accommodations to listen to music is tantalising for what could be

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · 4mo ago

Hearing aids. They fucking suck. They SUCK. So fucking hard. The engineering details required to pump 65-70db volume boost out of a thing the size of an AirPod is ridiculous, but I’m confident that the Apple of its prime days could figure that out

I asked Claude for reading recommendations based on the new domain I find myself working in and it suggested two books I already own (unread) instead of new books to buy so AI is clearly anti-publishing industry this is bullshit

my dad: people today are too sensitive me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric

we desperately need a certain demographic to stop listening to podcasts, go pick up a book, do an online uni course on literature, or history, or anything

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /