Dan McKinley

let's go talk to the people who fucked up last time and ruined the entire world to see how we should conduct ourselves after this election

One thing I've internalised in my career: there's basically no correlation between "code that is well-written" and "code that makes money"

gotta assume he’s having a total meltdown about this

First job out of college was some nonsense webapp that they ported from php to Java not by rewriting but by building a Java based PHP engine. Instead of cordoning that and migrating to a proper MVC framework they instead used PHP as the view layer, with a hash table as the model.

this php vulnerability is serious but also i am lmao at all the “i never liked php anyway” posts like it has allegations of malicious behavior. some of you need to come up with other ways to respond to news

Feeling very Solow Paradox pilled lately

Piss Pissed Jeans

The DSA guidance on Tamzarian is “above replacement level and sure to be replaced by another white shoe lawyer by Newsom should he be recalled. But every cycle we are forced to affirm him is an unwelcome reminder of the beginning of the end for the classic Simpsons era. NO ENDORSEMENT”

Apparently nobody but me and @mcfunley.com is talking about the soundtrack for You Can See Everything so if you haven't seen it yet please take a moment to note and appreciate what is a very, very good soundtrack

Has anyone close to James Carville told him about the powerful persuasion features of seppuku

If I see another TikTok of 25 year olds on a podcast mistaking Holmes’ malevolent NPD / psychopathy for cute autism I’m going to freak out

Sometimes I see this guy on TikTok who specialized in an archaic form of tennis so that he could live for free in a palace in the English countryside and by the way this is also why Ivy League schools have fencing/crew/lacrosse/polo/whatever teams

Tesla Choadster

Seeing the term Dirtbag Left get thrown around again jump scared me today. Stranded solider in the South Pacific mindset. Next you’re going to be asking if Weird Twitter is still at it.

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

@jonbois.bsky.social Watching baseball

The plan? Get the dumbest motherfucker on the planet to reliably reproduce our desired messaging

I wonder what ad placement on the mlb app launch screen that’s shown for 500ms costs

New Peter Watts has two pointless r-slurs in the first 20 pages so I guess that’s the end of that

What was the point of building Google AI if it’s just going to report changes in OPS as an absolute increase in “points” rather than percentage increases to its constituent slugging percentage* and on-base, JUST LIKE A DUMB JOCK *which is not a percentage

(In mildly related news: Splice laid me off in July and I’m starting a job hunt in earnest this week. If your company needs someone to help engineering teams navigate the technological shift, cultural changes, and token-costs that agentic coding is unlocking, hit me up!)

Blog post: Managers are Catalysts, laughingmeme.org/2026/09/14/m...

Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by hand

The Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary is going to cause me physical pain to witness and no power on earth will stop me from seeing it opening night.

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY

I distinctly remember Patrick telling us he was an open borders everywhere radical

incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight

Only source for this right now is unfortunately the New York Post. Note: there are thousands (maybe even tens of thousands) of VPs at Bank of America nypost.com/2026/09/01/u...