Aaron Brethorst

We are anti-fascists.

This is a small but meaningful indication of where the John Ternus era is going at Apple. I have NEVER seen release notes this specific before.

wow, thanks for stressing me out, PagerDuty.

August? More like Smaugust here in the PNW. Weve been lucky so far, but i finally had to add an AQI widget to my lock screen 🤦‍♂️ 😬🙃😔

This is amazing! 🦝 🚌

This is an incredible project. Props to its creator. www.oneraccoonaway.org

I have a new essay up on my blog characterizing the two primary ways that I see developers using AI tools. www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/08...

I’m biased but I think the new UI looks awesome.

Poor puppy 🧨

A poignant reminder that any life can be unexpectedly cut short. Don't put off finding your joy to another day, because you might not have one. Life is too short to sacrifice your happiness to some tech oligarch asshole who wants to monitor your keystrokes. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

I'm watching "Spiderman: No Way Home" for the first time (the whole pandemic thing, and then I had a kiddo), and it occurs to me that Spiderman doesn't need another fight scene—he just needs a therapist.

@brandur.org "A new version of the company’s dashboard shipped on V3, and an unaffiliated developer who we’d never met before built Heroku’s first iOS app on it, without a single feature request sent our way" — was this me? github.com/aaronbrethor...

Amazing. This is a time to double down on common sense, high value light rail service expansions. Say, like, I dunno, Ballard. www.theurbanist.org/sound-transi...

I regret to inform you all that the bouncy castle skeet inspired me to buy this symbol of bourgeois frivolity for my toddler. Little Lord Fauntleroy loves his new toy.

Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.

I wrote down my thoughts on the importance of domain expertise in the world of agentic AI software development. (Spoiler alert: software engineers are less important than domain experts, imho.) www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05...

One of those “IN THIS HOUSE” yard signs, but it says that we never skip leg day 😅

NERDS! (complimentary)

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My “Americans are wrong: I am not a partisan hack” t-shirt is raising many questions answered by my t-shirt.

Our revolution endorsing Tom Steyer is good, of the candidates with a shot I think he’s probably the best one, it reflects well on them and shows policy seriousness. All that said: it’s still pretty funny.

I know that guy! 😆

LinkedIn can be good sometimes.

New on the blog: set up your own OBA Maglev server for the San Francisco Bay Area and use it to power your transit projects opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/sett...

@kateriga.bsky.social was right. Kamala could’ve run away with this. Being governor of California is not a bad consolation prize

CONGRATS GOVERNOR STEYER

Hey, so an acre of solar panels powers a car way more than an acre of corn. If they are growing corn for ethanol, create an incentive for them to lease the land for solar installations instead! Less labor and water intensive, they keep a stream of income, and we diversify our power generation!

They're not really being subtle about it any more

I can’t believe it’s not fascism

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

I’ve been hearing a lot of doomerism from friends about the midterms: Trump will rig it. Trump will suspend the elections. Etc. I think this is all rank doomerism. Even if he tried, I think he’ll fail. Even if I’m wrong, the response from the American people would be without precedent.

Just the absolute worst, most venal, mush brained man you could imagine. Congrats everyone, we could’ve had the nice Black lady instead.

Yes, I too find it very hard to enrich myself by 25% literally overnight.

A hit dog will holler.

READ THEORY!

Also the politician most feared by the notionally revolutionary socialist.

Welcome to life in your forties! 🫠