Ryan Frantz

You Can See Everything Will Swallow You. A cross-over with @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social.

You should be able to get out of speeding tickets by describing how the song you were listening to made you feel

This is a joy to scroll and sobering to read. We take so much for granted.

A very old post from @jcsalterego.bsky.social is jerry-atric.

"None of it is novel. It’s almost exclusively old ideas poured into new containers." A lot of tech's disruption is just this. LLMs churning out code makes this fact more palpable to more people.

I hear Dora the Explorer's backpack voice reading this to me.

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

The nom de plume I use for all the engrossing books I write: Paige Turner.

💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥

Tag line for a coffee and candle store: We'll light you up!

I love this book. I wrote some thoughts on it to help me internalize the ideas: ryanfrantz.com/posts/system...

I've never forgotten something I saw ages ago, I think it was on reddit. "If the beat goes "Boots boots boots boots" it's techno. If it goes "boots cats boots cats" it's house"

Banana splits are the leading cause of banana divorces.

The time cost for generating code keeps dropping thanks to LLMs. Code is important in a sociotechnical system, but the more crucial bit has always been socializing the work. As in, you need folks that know the thing deeply enough to operate it and address novel failures.

Do I know any junior devs in the DC area? I’m likely going to be hiring soon and would love to make an introduction

🎵 Sweeeeeeet chiliiiiii liiiiiiime! Ba-ba-baaaaaaaah 🎶

I'm opening a dermatology practice that caters to athletes. Calling it Skin in the Game.

Second day of painting. Laid down drop cloths. Mostly to hide the fact that I didn't on the first day.

This reads like a @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social short story.

Her: It's called slow yoga. Me: "Slow" yoga? Her: Mmhmm... Don't do it... Me: ... SLOWGA?!

Pretty sure the Ewoks radicalized me.

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Nah, I think they'd prefer to stay off their phones.

what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

Hey y’all we are currently working on the PDS slow down, with the uptick in migrations (yay) we have to tweak a few things!

Massive apologies to all who tried to pre-order this from Blackwell's yesterday & found it had sold out. Temporary glitch & it's now available again. FREE international delivery I'll be heading up to Gloucester on Wednesday to sign all the pre-ordered copies. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it.

Of the groups that need stopping, sure, let's get them pedestrians.

Guess what I’m updating??! 😍 Updates I’m excited for: • EPUB & PDF published first • No email required to download • Many 2024-2026 comparisons

Not tryna brag, but I was running containers before it was cool:

How else do you deal with a, um, head ache?

The #GAAD promotion is still on and ends at the end of the month. Treat yourself to 25% off ($299 instead of $399) and level up your accessibility skills with me ✨ practical-accessibility.today #a11y

If you want to learn all about web components from a human then check this out: Web Components Demystified online course is $10 this week (it'll go back to the usual $25 deal after that). It's 8 hours of video lessons, or 4 if you listen at 2x, which wouldn't offend me at all. Use the code Just10.

Like I need a reason to register yet another domain name.

Been meaning to learn web development? Or you want to come hang out with some learners as they take their first steps? We're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp and will be livestreaming our first lesson working with HTML in under an hour

I like the web and I like people learning new things. So we're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp online, starting April 24th. 📍Free and not selling/pushing anything 📍Livestreamed lessons with Q&A 📍Expert guest speakers 📍Chill vibes 📍Kind learner community

"Software is free as in puppies. It will pee in your bedroom and eat your furniture. The weight of every line of code is real. We will need to maintain it. We will need to port it. It goes into the context window. Someone will get paged at 2 a.m. unexpectedly." ― @industrialempathy.com

On the Internet no one knows you're a dog but they can keep receipts, just in case.

(Me, frustrated that my chicken won't stop clucking after laying an egg): That's an oeuf outta you!

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

President Trump just voted by mail in Florida’s special election - even as he continues to call vote-by-mail fraudulent and attack the voting rights of millions with the SAVE America Act.

We're running a user study, maybe you can help! We're studying the effect of new ways to show code diffs to programmers, and looking for participants for a 1-1.5hr virtual user study. In the study you will be shown several diffs and asked questions about them.

Ah, that clears things up.

making a metal horse just to name it RoboClop