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»The people who seek to control this industry want to put a subscription service between you and your fundamental ability to do the work that you do […] while at the same time renting you the knowledge that might allow you to claw back some of that value.« — @wil.to

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die

And for #2, it’s absolutely true that AI can be fantastic learning tool, but it can only answer the questions that you know to ask. There’s a vast ocean of knowledge out there, and until you become an expert, it's hard to tell which parts are important (or true, for that matter 😅).

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way. Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

Aren’t we about due for a fourth wave of ska?

Perfect analogy: »So if you’re having a hard time drinking out of a firehouse, perhaps the question isn’t, “How do I modify my biology to accommodate the bandwidth of the firehose?” But rather, “Why am I trying to drink out of a firehose in the first place?”«

I asked Siri to “play me something I’ll like” for my morning dog walk. Please observe: 1. Yes, I am an old now 2. The algorithms are alright* *sometimes

“The perfect dev stack is a collection of software that each does one job and doesn’t suffer main character syndrome. I want to code, I’m not looking to make lifestyle choices.”

New evergreen post for our times just dropped:

“We used to surf the Web. We can still surf the Web. The Internet in 2026 is, for sure, full of horrors. The signal to noise ratio is pegged to noise. It’s only gonna get worse from here. But Good Internet is still here. We’re still making stuff we care about and sharing that stuff on our websites.”

“…what made the “old” Internet so good was the process of discovery. There were no streams or feeds. No “For You pages”. No “Discover” tab. When you found something good, it was usually after hours idly clicking between loosely connected websites. That’s what made every discovery feel so special.”

"The best programmers are more clearly the best than ever before. The worst programmers have gone from laying a few turds a day to spewing veritable mountains of hot steaming stinky shit, while beaming with pride at their increased productivity." daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

This article describes a crazy push to Agentize All The Things. Is this really a workflow that anyone actually *wants* to work with? Keep all the meetings, and let the agents write alle the code while you’re tied up in Teams calls all day?

“Instruments over pads of paper over laptop over tablet over phone.” Enthusiastically co-signed!

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

What a scathing, tragic and hilarious portrait of “highly agentic” young founders of nonsense startups. We are, as the kids say, cooked. harpers.org/archive/2026...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Hey, um… get off X. They monetize societal division and amplify hate. Posting content there gives people a reason to stay and you enable their brainwashing and revisionism. One of the greatest things you can do right now is help unplug the billionaire machine and eject from the attention economy.

“The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims“

“The American system of government was not meant to be this unmoored from reality; normal constitutional workings are under strain because the federal government is too internet-addled to tell the difference between doxxing and murder.” www.theverge.com/policy/86720...

I’m wondering what all this software is that people now make that it wasn’t worth for them learning programming for And what all the articles are it wasn’t worth learning writing for. And what all the art is that it wasn’t worth learning how to express yourself for.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

All the money in the world could not make me want to trade places with this guy. (Either of them, for that matter).

"Company X releases a new browser" is not correct. "Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine." is more like it.

I did not expect to snortlaugh out loud to a quiz about JavaScript dates, but here we are. This is hilariously well done. We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language. 12/28, no notes.

“And so, we rewrote the rules of web development around entirely different needs, almost overnight. Not content, not speed, not interoperability, not discoverability. Just code.” Ouch, yeah: www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism

“A grand unified vision isn't manifesting, but a million different nightmares are.”

@redwoodjs.com Heads up: Submitting the newsletter signup on rwsdk_com throws a 405 error from kwesforms_com.

The biggest delta I see from 20 years ago- this world we evolved to didn’t leave enough space for the dreamers. That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

ChatGPT ass presidency

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

The answer to “why are they doing this?!” is always “for multiple reasons ranging from nakedly stupid to calculatedly evil in service of a feckless coalition of the greedy and malicious.” The endless search for a unified psyche here is such a self-inflicted DDOS 🫠

Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.

All true — except the “charismatic” part: “One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is it, unfortunately. The nitwit just wants to "make map go bigger", consequences be damned.

Now imagine what the language models in our heads would be able to create if they had access to all of humanity’s knowledge for free!

The AI robots are trolling each other now. I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link. Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.