This caused me to look up Fig Newtons and my beloved Leibniz-Keks on Wikipedia and learned that they were both introduced in 1891.
Independently, simultaneously. Remind you of anything?
What a ridiculous coincidence!
Me lying in bed doomscrolling: *repeatedly falls asleep spontaneously and drops phone on head*
Me putting down my phone, closing my eyes, and actually trying to sleep:
*becomes more awake than at any time during the actual day; alternates between worrying about everyone and writing code in head*
I was working on a few blog posts about LLMs, but then @aphyr.com started his series "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess" and said everything I wanted to say – better than I could – and then some.
Looks like the series is done now. They're all so good: aphyr.com/posts/411-th...
Microphotograph of a planarian, a kind of flatworm. It is looking particularly fat and sassy, and if you squint it kind of has cat ears
Planarian
I keep saying “there are no great consumer AI products” and people keep replying to me with like model capability updates and wild OpenClaw setups and I really fear Software Brain is irreversible
Nothing like having 11 job interviews in a week to remind me that interviewing is a *completely different skill* than doing the job you're interviewing for. The same is true for being the interviewer, test-taking, teaching, and probably a hundred other things. So I shouldn't be surprised, but...whew
righteous kill!!! Feeling a little burrito-brained today?
She may have all five fingers on her hand, but the way she’s grabbing the server rack door is physically impossible!
mild take:
we're watching silicon valley get very excited about their tools in the same way a guy with a huge wall of ryobi stuff thinks his collection is more important than what he does with the tools
mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts
I did this to someone earlier this week lol and, yes
I keep hearing people say "for the love of all that is holy, do not deploy on Vercel." If I want to put up a low volume web app with a very tiny backend, where *should* I host it in 2026?
Yes thank you so much!! This enrages me. It's such an inexplicable piece of bad design.
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
DLSS 6 replaces you with a different gamer who isn't irked about DLSS 6
As someone currently applying for software engineering jobs:
(unintelligible tortured blithering noises)
What happened while I was busy writing a Vue app for 4+ years? Well, according to every job description I'm seeing, React clearly won. 😭 Last time I was deep into React was when Redux was very popular and hooks were barely adopted. Time for some learnin'!
I’ve been using nvm without any trouble, but that might be an out-of-date opinion
So...anyone hiring? Suddenly I'm looking for a (remote) place to land. I'm a very senior (read: old) full stack dev and architect with strong frontend/UI/UX skills. For better and/or worse, I'm well versed in AI.
I'd love to do some good out in the world. My resume: suckminimally.com/resume/
Collage of 3 screen snippets from GitHub's web interface showing lines of code added and removed in pull requests. One shows +4264 -183. Another shows +4840. A third, bigger, shows +31780 -634!
It keeps happening!! I'm glad/sorry that it's not just me
Yes! Hyundai Kona EVs can also be found used inexpensively. I love mine (a 2019) and it even gets around 200 miles on a charge which is comfortable for almost any non-road-trip purpose.
Thank you! This is precisely what I wanted to express
I’ve been saying this but no one listens
Sorry, you can’t be named Al anymore because it looks too much like AI and that makes me do a double-take every time. You’ll have to pick a different name.
A charm bracelet with the following charms: dolphins jumping in a circle, the number 42, earth, a bowl of petunias, a whale, a square with large friendly letters that say DON'T PANIC, a mouse, and a planet with rings
Don't panic! My Hitchhiker's Guide bracelet is now available! It's ok if you still panic though. The vibes are off, to say the least.
Someone in a comment thread referred to AI-generated content as the “asbestos of the Internet” and I cannot stop thinking about it
Have you noticed that Dominos Pizza now features “Robust Insipired Tomato Sauce”? What exactly is the word Inspired doing in that phrase? Who is inspiring whom, and to do what?!
Twenty years from now everyone will be telling you it's the Epstain Files and it was always the Epstain Files. But we'll know the truth.
This came out so well!! I am very happy to have had a tiny part in making it happen. If you know me, you can probably guess what my contribution was :)
