Friday nights are for learning docker and spinning up backends

What % of “AI-powered” companies are AI slop under the hood?

dirty wedding dress

Jack Antonoff has a pretty good handle on the E-Street sound as well. But he’s from Jersey so he couldn’t escape Bruce if he wanted to. open.spotify.com/track/75GyGL...

Sax. Glockenspiel. “Sha la la”’s ✅✅✅

Max Weinberg-style drumming? ✅
Glockenspiel? ✅
Rippin’ Clarence-y saxophone? ✅
Lots of “ohhhh woah oh ohhh”’s ?? ✅

And yet still feels fresh.

Seventeen Going Under

Exhibit B: open.spotify.com/track/5rF6YU...

People Watching

Sam Fender is the modern-day Bruce Springsteen. Exhibit A: open.spotify.com/track/6gBjUi...

Angels in the Outfield def Adrien Brody’s most underrated performance

One commercial break during the #Olympics on peacock: weight loss drug, weight loss drug, weight loss drug, AI, candy.

During curling.

Bad Bunny respects his forefathers

It would seem the technical skillsets are mattering less and less. What matters are your abilities to learn and to communicate. If you can do those things well, you will be just fine. If writing code is all you bring to the table, you could be in trouble.

Ricky Martin walked so Bad Bunny could run.

Uh, duh?

There are good one-liners in Independence Day, but the most underrated one is “you are never going to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper”.

lol is it because money?

It’s amazing to me how many people’s idea of “software” is just web apps. Everything through the lens of “full stack”.

Made my first meaningful contribution to an open source project people actually use… feels pretty good!! I see why people like it!

“I’m not sure I can do this”
“Welcome to the Rebellion”

This might be a top 5 Star Wars moment for me.

#Andor

Nothing new here but Andor season 2 is fantastic.

I recommend everyone go on an Iron & Wine kick at least once a year.

If every state required basic economics to graduate high school, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Helluva time to be taking an economics class

What on earth kind of journalism is this?

Democrats calling for bipartisanship or “working across the aisle” right now seem pretty foolish to me.

This is excellent graphic design.

Theory: US car companies blew it so badly in the 80s and 90s that an entire generation grew up seeing them as inferior. 15 cars at school drop off this morning and not a single American brand.

Fair warning to my parents, if this whole engineering thing doesn’t work out I’m moving to plan C, standup comedy.

I’m convinced the Democrats are really the just the Washington Generals in this basketball game.

Checks and balances, anyone?

It feels like we are in an AI race to the bottom.