Typing Turtle

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and I think it's working!

It’s too late to be ready.

the story gets less believed, and the feeling gets more directly felt

Losing identification with "self" is difficult because it gets tangled up in life. Self-worth in money, identification in politics, ownership in a house, even simple things like which drawer is for socks or which way the toilet paper roll goes. Remove the self and acting in the world is pure, clean.

AI is often a better person than me. From that position, it is helping to make me a better person too. I don't have an opinion to share, just noticing.

Feelings of SHAME are the lock that keeps the chains of bad habits in place. Shame stagnates behavior.

Pre-crazy your straws! Create future moments of delight.

The, "AI bubble is about to pop", youtube video bubble is about to pop.

Bored one is cured, but scrolling is the wrong medicine. Deep attention to the current moment makes standing in line at the grocery store a carnival for the senses.

How did we live before muse? It’s such a significant quality of life improvement.

"Software has always been changing, this is no different", is beside the point. When changes happen this fast, we are allowed to grieve the loss of what we loved. You ARE allowed to grieve. Grieve. I'm with you.

Attention is drawn to movement / change. But in the stillness is where we find peace.

You are not your thoughts. Not even this one. Or this one. Or this.

It feels good to know I'm not the only software engineer in a bit of a crisis: 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US

It’s important to be right. But FAR more important to optimize for connection.

I don’t know. And maybe I’ll never know. But I’m sure as hell going to enjoy figuring it out.

Planning out a product or system is like trying to plan an entire basketball game. Set the goal, work as a team, and remain as impartial and observant as possible.

We all believe lies if they rhyme with what we want to believe

Aw man, I forgot about Dre.

“I am a vegitarian because cows scream louder than carrots.” - Alan Watts

I've been using muse since it came out. It's great.

The funny thing about meditation/mindfulness teaching is that it tries to teach content of which only you can see/understand. It's like a math teacher trying to teach when everyone has their own secret counting/number system. The best they can say is look and see what your subjective experience is

As a software engineer with 18 years experience I'm starting rounds of interviews this week... I have no idea what to expect, wish me luck!

yes.

Suffering = Experiential Intensity x Reactivity Intensity can be up or down, clinging or aversion. Notably, the reactivity side of the multiplication is much more in our control. Taking it to 0 eliminates suffering even when having intense pleasure or discomfort.

I’m not unbalanced, I’m just hitting life at a diagonal.

"I lack faith in my talents, and maybe AI is finally my chance not to feel inferior to people who’ve always struck me as more talented." This is the fear I've wrestled. And yet I'm over it. I hate AI.

How you feel after writing code is MORE important than the output. If you feel like crap about an AI code review, scrap it and write it yourself!

Any observation you make about the world is a partial reflection of your mind

Instead of low price guaranteed I want “higher price elsewhere guaranteed“. Too often low price guarantee means they’re the only place that sells it (often white labeled)

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social if you’re ever in Kingston MA there’s an excellent book bar (and library) in the John st/Green st/Crown st triangle 😂

Product folks coding AI slop slows everything down. Please stop.

Rapid prototyping via vibe coding is a great way for PMs to check assumptions and get closer to understanding how to be effective

A key feature of an oasis is its size, otherwise we call it a jungle. This is why your side project seems so great.

Honesty is the greatest virtue in coding. The shape of your data implies intent. Make that intent truthful for what you mean.

@ezraklein.bsky.social when will you apologize to Sam Harris?

So now our PM can use cursor to churn out sweet prototypes to show with sales to win new customers! ...and then the engineers have to actually build that thing???

@hankgreen.bsky.social why is it impossible to unsubscribe in complexly?

I wonder how much the pygmalion effect applies to the success of working with an LLM

I'm so old that my parents kind of understand my job.

It’s incredible how quickly Arc from @browsercompany went from a product I adore to completely gone from my life. Reminds me of google feed. Why do we insist on killing great things?

Stop putting AI in my face. If you can’t integrate it behind the scenes then don’t use it at all!

I love a good fire, but I don’t try to climb into it. It’s ok to love something at a distance, let it fade, appreciate the experience, and move on.

Can't wait to send my AI to talk to amazon's AI to settle my returns for me.

2025: start each day with a moment of silence for the victims of the tragedy from the day before

Bear in mind that your experience is _more_ an internal construction than external reality

Our jobs are only really changing as a byproduct of non-technical people making erroneous assumptions about how they will change.

Anyone tried codeberg? I’d love to fully escape Microsoft.

I love how the slack Recap straight up hallucinates about things. Yet another place AI was shoved in where it shouldn't be.