Luc Perkins

It feels like we're in an awkward historical phase in which both of these things are bad: 1. Being a meat proxy 2. "I dunno, have your LLM look at it 🤷"

Traveling through Jujuy, Tucumán, and Salta and the idea that Argentina is some lily-white, snobby country that we should root against in the World Cup in favor of global empires like Spain, France, and England is just so utterly laughable

Somebody saying something about Argentina online without someone making a Nazi joke challenge (impossible)

RIP the word “ahistorical”

For those who do this: you are not alone, and you have my support

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

Omarchy is not good software

Nobody at the airport has ever been to the airport

It seems probable that we’re on the cusp of a golden age of pharmacology

So I guess we're all just saying "indexes" now 😡

YAML thought leaders

The expression "most amount of" is never correct

Anybody have any takes on the Massachusetts lesbian bar saga? I can't seem to find any on social media.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWaD...

Thinking about turning this into a Father John Misty hater account

“We must protect women’s basketball, a sport that I revile and mock at every opportunity, at all costs”

I think I’m using the word “anodyne” a bit too much these days

Hard to explain how weird Threads is. For some reason, maybe purely aesthetic, every post just *seems* fake. An obviously not-fake Threads post by a personal friend somehow feels faker than an obviously fake tweet. Cursed platform.

Very cool to find out they’ll be at NixCon!

Thing we're going to have to reckon with: LLMs bring massive productivity gains in software, and if you're a solo dev, the gains can potentially redound directly back onto you, whereas if you're salaried and working for someone else, the gains simply turn into the new baseline expectation.

What a profoundly stupid thing

Thing I'm excitedly hacking on: a very very densely annotated version of Hobbes' Leviathan

Prediction: within one calendar year, the scientific (and especially medical) benefits of AI will be so unmistakably clear that the groupthink-y anti-AI discourse will quietly taper off

Arguably the most important muscle to develop working in software in the age of LLMs is the "naw, we probably shouldn't" muscle. And it's really hard to do when code is ~free.

Never thought burrito tortillas could be too chewy but welp, Chipotle, here we are

I am biased but I think it's very pretty 🥰

The "block first, ask questions later" nature of this website is annoying sometimes. Makes you never want to have a good-faith discussion with strangers.

Here is a simple trick for evaluating takes, or honing your own, that I've been meaning to formalize: try replacing "AI" or "datacenter" with "computer" (or "software") and see how it sounds. Does it still hold up, our does it sound wrong or too broad to be coherent?

I just can’t be arsed to rummage around in the bargain bin for models. So glad other people are doing that and reporting back.

If you’re going to be at NixCon in Kraków 🇵🇱 and would like to attend an event with @determinate.systems folks there, we’d love to get your input docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We urgently need to revive concepts like selling out and being a poser

For the amount I spent to store my crap for four years and finally move it today, I seriously would’ve been better off just tossing it all out back in 2022 and starting over today

Stop 👏 making 👏 headless 👏 CMS 👏 platforms

Speculation around the 2028 GOP presidential primary seems utterly pointless to me. The only thing anything will be talking about is Trump insisting he can run and forcing a constitutional crisis.

Absolute brainrot post. The actual infographic shows that inflation dropped dramatically right as he came to power.

Not necessarily on board with these specific terms (I'll need to mull a bit more), but I would love to see more terminological convergence in our domain point.free/blog/termino...

du du -h du hast du hast mich du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt

It is challenging but also exhilarating to build foundational infrastructure

Any Nix folks in Chišinau? 🇲🇩

Mocking Starbucks (and other) employees for not knowing how to spell every name in every language ever feels really mean spirited and punch-down-y