Brian Rinaldi

Elon Musk’s AI-Generated ‘Odyssey’ Is Here to Save Western Civilization. “Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.” 🤣 gizmodo.com/elon-musks-a...

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

Ironically, I wrote a post about why it's feeling so difficult to write about programming today and how AI can be a boon for the creative side of coding while it simultaneously kills the exhilaration of problem solving. remotesynthesis.com/posts/the-jo...

Credit to Ossoff for (I believe) coining "the Epstein class." It's such a fitting moniker that every day they seem determined to affirm it.

Arc is officially dead. This seemed inevitable. It's too bad too as I thought Arc brought tons of innovation to the browser market when it launched. I largely stopped using it when it was clear that they were focused on Dia instead (swapped for Zen and quite happy). mailchi.mp/diabrowser/a...

LocalStack released a survey of cloud developers earlier this week. Many of the findings surprised me, so I built this little quiz app based on the results. See if your expectations line up with what we found. blog.localstack.cloud/survey-quiz

Electronic Arts is cancelling the next Mass Effect game, laying off 400 people and shutting down Bioware to cut costs. It's the first major move after the company was taken over by Jared Kushner's private equity firm and the Saudi Arabian government's sovereign wealth fund. A huge loss for gaming.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

I've always dreamed of a future defined by empty spectacle with no greater purpose than justifying the merger of two floundering companies

Gotta hand it to Musk. No, not for the goofy showcase, but in the way he continuously shows how eager Wall St is to being duped. Even a ridiculously long history of broken promises and faked demos cannot dissuade them.

no surprise: Gitlin has been on the Tesla beat for long enough to know how to actually cover an event like this

Elon Musk is helping both the Russians and the Republicans. Not a coincidence.

I suppose this is another one of "my disagreements with management" for a certain crowd.

"journalists who can't be honest about their unrelenting quest for engagement – & don't really want to address broader public backlash to their boosterism – construct elaborate scaffolding to make themselves feel good about their decision to dunktank themselves in billionaire-sanctioned toxic waste"

It’s very funny to be like “X is once again important because it’s where executives post marketing material.”

Just because everyone at the Nazi bar isn't an actual Nazi does not make hanging out at the Nazi bar acceptable. Also, just because they are nice to *you* does not mean they are nice.

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

Cloudflare has been consolidating many key pieces of the JavaScript ecosystem. So far, (at least from the outside) they seem to let them continue more or less as is, which is good.

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

"Changes in one production stage may shift the bottleneck to another, and hence necessitate reallocation of labor." I feel like I've tried to explain exactly this phenomenon (in less sophisticated words) so many times my voice is cracking.

LocalStack for Azure is now in Public Preview. Build and test Azure apps locally with AKS, Functions, Container Apps, and more. Deploy your existing ARM & Bicep templates without a dev subscription or a cloud bill. Free during the preview. Read more 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

This post reflects my thoughts on Muse. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/m...

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Initial thought is that it's a brilliant idea for Cloudflare to use ATproto for the plugin registry for emdash CMS. This looks like it solves a lot of problems for ownership & distribution that these sorts of registries usually have. (Also emdash is looking solid) blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-cms-p...

This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered.

Sure, the company has a long and storied history of behaving unethically. Also, yes, part of that history involves misusing and abusing people's personal data. But, if I'm understanding correctly, what I think you're saying is that I should *not* hand over my bank accounts to their cool new AI?

the hard parts of building a business are - solving a real problem for real people - ignoring shiny ideas that are fun but distracting - prioritizing boring stuff that moves the needle - connecting with customers if anything, AI makes it *harder* to build a successful business

There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.

I keep hearing (intelligent, professional) people on podcasts say they use Grok. Isn't Grok.. kind of evil? And I don't mean literally, but how it works, what it is willing to do, who profits from its use etc.

🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨

One of my favorite cartoons of all time, so it's great to read details on how it got made.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

This plan is perfect. No notes. Yes, please do it.

WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

@annaspies.dev FYI someone is impersonating you and sending spammy DMs

If the post-Trump era isn't defined by putting all these mfers on trial, even based on only the things we currently know, we will have failed as a society.

dev.to/missamarakay... Where I learn GitHub Copilot didn't have access to browse the internet and just decided to make up npm package versions, because why not...🥲

A thoughtful post from @charity.wtf on why AI-generated communication/content can sometimes be enraging and other times be ok. It's about the distance between the expectation on a scale of personal to impersonal and the reality (AI communication is by default impersonal) charity.wtf/p/confession...

and there it is -- Trump says that if the Supreme Court doesn't allow him to put his name on the Kennedy Center then it will close down for good

I've literally never heard anyone ask Trump (or his sham board) how putting his name on the building would have magically solved their supposedly serious financial crisis.