Jordan Orelli
Jordan Orelli
@jordan.orel.li
platform engineer at Whatnot, game design MFA from DePaul https://orel.li/
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My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence
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if a restaurant takes walk-ins I always walk-in. The tables reserved for walk-ins are often the better, more visible tables anyway; restaurants don’t want to hold a visible table without a customer because it makes the space look unpopular. Just walk in. You’ll be fine.
So it turns out that people have been using AI to create tons of fake restaurant reservations that they don't intend to use (very few restaurants don't allow you to get a refund if you cancel more than a week in advance). I've seen restaurants try to handle this a couple ways.
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explained how eater.com works to a gen z colleague today whose primary source of restaurant recommendations is google maps. They were surprised by the idea that the Eater writers are not paid by the restaurants. anyway the travel agent thing is true, hire my wife: www.timewelltraveled.co
Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh
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868-BACK is phenomenal. It took a bit for it to click but as someone that grew up obsessed with Castle of the Winds it really hits for me store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...
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I’m not really sure what the point of mastodon is if there’s not a strong sense of specificity of space. What’s the point of having separate domains if they don’t each have their own norms? It’s not clear to me what the value prop is of federated administration without per-domain culture.
it sure does seem like public sentiment for AI is incredibly low, but a portion of the tech industry is either unwilling to accept it or unable to recognize it
Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.
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I know that everyone is paying attention to IL-9's congressional race but locally I just want everyone to look at Adam Braun's 10% of the vote after Draftkings gave his campaign $160k. He worked at a law firm representing Draftkings. Fuck that guy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/2...
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GitHub with its one 9 emailing me about the release of the Copilot CLI, lol, rofl even. I don’t want a Copilot CLI I want @github.com actions to not have multiple outages in a 24 hour span. GitHub really seems to be on the path to collapse.
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back when I worked at Jackbox Games, we realized that people who were using Amazon Fire TVs would launch our games and then never actually hit exit at the end. The games were actually silently running in the background, continually reconnecting, continually refreshing their room reservations.
If your smart TV is more than a few years old, its built-in apps may be starting to slow down or even crash entirely. Here’s why that happens and what to do about it. nyti.ms/4bhpjIH
back when I worked at Jackbox Games, we realized that people who were using Amazon Fire TVs would launch our games and then never actually hit exit at the end. The games were actually silently running in the background, continually reconnecting, continually refreshing their room reservations.
If your smart TV is more than a few years old, its built-in apps may be starting to slow down or even crash entirely. Here’s why that happens and what to do about it. nyti.ms/4bhpjIH