Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...

I never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.

aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-...

The Tip of the Iceberg YouTube video by Southern California Linux Expo

A recording of my SCaLE talk, “The Tip of the Iceberg”, is now available! It’s an overview of the Iceberg table format, diving into why it exists, how it works, and how to operate it. #databs youtu.be/RErvQrA7VZM?...

In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world.

RIP Tony Hoare, who created quicksort: computerhistory.org/blog/in-memo...

This very much feels like a “anything you can buy, I can buy better” between Anthropic and OpenAI. No shade to Astral, I’m sure this was a nice exit, but man, these companies sure have money to burn, don’t they?

Relational algebra is the most formal kind of mathematics because of all the little bowties ⨝

I think it’s one of those policy vs mechanism things. Policy being “multiple people should know how the system works, and be capable of debugging it in the absence of the author”. It feels like we were over-rotating on code review as the underlying mechanism for that policy, even before agents.

Huge +1. Honestly the only use case I can think of for those things is “take pictures of our bird being cute without the bird being immediately distracted by the big shiny thing in my hand”

I oscillate on a sometimes-hourly basis between cautious optimism that this will just raise the complexity ceiling of what we can build and blind animal panic that 90%+ of companies don’t _need_ that complexity ceiling and that I should start looking for any available lifeboat. It’s … stressful.

Please oh please won’t somebody stop him

I believe I speak for everyone when I say let’s-a go.

A tweet advertising Magibook, a service that “turns hard books into easy books”

“Things good. Also bad. Good time for smart. Also for dumb. For believe things. Also for not believe things. Lights on, but also off. People happy, but also people sad.” Great book.

FWIW that’s exactly what I’ve got MeetingBar configured to do: it blurs out the whole screen and plonks a big “open the meeting” button in the middle of it.

MeetingBar - Simplify Meetings on macOS with One-Click Access MeetingBar is a macOS menu bar app that lets you view and join upcoming meetings across 50+ services, including Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and more. Stay organized and join meetings with a single click...

At least on macOS I’ve had a lot of success with meetingbar.app for dealing with that problem. idk if a Linux equivalent exists, though.

You might want to check on your apps. There’s some 🔥 🥒 🔥 spicy unpickling going on …

How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles

I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles.
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...

Art by Becca Snow. A woman struggles to keep her head above water as she in ensnared by various objects: a boat, a hammer, a helmet, etc. Sundew stalks surround her head.

The men knew before she did. Before this boy, before sophomore year, before even her twelfth birthday, they had jostled her on the sidewalk and hooted from cars, searching for something just past her skin. But now, with her panties stripped off and the boy’s eyes on her, Jackie felt a strange prickling. A warning pacing behind her ribs. A mouth about to drip.

🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸

“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.

Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...

Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina

Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social

The only time my network has truly and completely face-planted was related to a controller replacement. Lots of SSHing into devices and re-running adopt manually.

It’s probably a tie between

www.truepeacein.space - a password generator for the original Metroid

and

patches.fm - probably the world’s most comprehensive collection of instrument presets for the Yamaha DX7, the signature FM synthesizer of the 1980s

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response.

so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

left: the interview questions

right: the actual job

The thing I find funniest about this: “Buscaglia said he was working for King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst, to produce content …”

Makes me want to drive out to Colma and tell Hearst’s bones that his dream of making bank off shitty journalism is still alive and well long after his death.

(Resets the “days since it was DNS” counter to zero)

Bubbles, a rainbow-colored puppet, Bits on Disk’s new Senior Director of Positive Vibes

I have no plans to hire employees. Bubbles — Bits on Disk’s new Senior Director of Positive Vibes — provides the vibes for free, so I’m making an exception. Welcome to the team, Bubbles!

Shoutout to @ragmopandgoose.bsky.social - I’ve never had a better officemate.

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

There’s a weird and unexamined tension between the “AI makes it possible for unskilled people to write complex code” and “you need to start learning how to use these tools or you’ll be left behind” lines of rhetoric in a lot of recent AI codegen writing I’m seeing.

A great retrospective on a tool that saved my ass during my brief stint in engineering leadership. We would all benefit from more people sharing organizational infrastructure like this publicly.

That Daffy is _cursed_ 😂

I continue to believe that the discrepancy in the idea that the silicon valley "elite" read "seeing like a state" but still obsessively believe they can monitor and drive scaled efficiency across millions and billions of people is simply: they didn't actually read it

Billy corgan high register: it's time for breakfast
Billy corgan low register: who wants pancakes