the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
Posts by Thiago Araujo
The thing that really makes people stupid is wanting to look smart more than they want to learn.
good horse deserves cake π°π
let's go!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...
Everyone talking about social media ruining attention spans, and no one talking about ruined attention spans undermining software development
If it takes longer than 2 weeks to do, you can't get anyone to understand it anymore
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First time speaking at city council, it was fun! π
Very excited that Calgary becoming a more affordable, diverse and inclusive city. Hope the trend continues! π
"a school may almost be conducted by machinery (phonographs)"
that could have been nice, actually. π£
craftsmanship? artisanship?
Black and White photo of a house.
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oof πͺ°
I love golden beets. π€
Picture of c-train arriving at the station and blowing off snow.
Picture of the entrance of a natural food market with bright green, yellow, red and blue colors. An accessible parking symbol painted on the floor with bright yellow and blue with patches of of snow.
Winter colors
A photography of a dark gray building with 4 yellow windows and snow-covered floor.
too cold for photos
lovely π
congrats! π
Look, it's a mess out there and you can react to that mess by deciding everyone else is a moron or you could react to it by deciding most people are trying to get by with a different context than yours and start working the problem. Those are your choices pretty much, can't choose "no mess"
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Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!
Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
this is nice
JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
the never nudes π
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJF2...
βA purely private language, which refers to experiences known only to the user, cannot function because there would be no distinction between following a rule correctly and merely thinking one is following it.
"it is easier to come up with a defensible idea than it is to come up with a productive one."
"By calling for a theory to be more comprehensive (...) we paradoxically end up with less clarity. We lose information by adding detail."
New blog post on the high costs of coordination and the implications for large organizations: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/24/b...
A squid working behind the counter of a sushi restaurant beside a human sushi chef. The chef is speaking to a customer and says "He feels he can do more good working within the system."
Evergreen
as somebody who trains adults, i've seen a lot of this
my THING is that i'm really great at explanations that stick in people's minds
but there's always like 10-20% of students who want to ask a question where the answer is literally just me repeating what i already said, but with their name
One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style
Do something nice to someone today, expecting nothing in return other than the joy of being a human being who cares about others β