When to just stay out of the way...

dankim.com/when-to-just...

GOD DAMN IT

Your code is worthless Why "Vibe Coding" and vanity metrics are creating a technical debt bubble.

Good one by Nathaniel Fishel on hype bros locking in on AI vanity metrics:

"The winners will be the ones with the discipline to measure what matters: Does the user’s life get better, or did we just make our repo bigger?"

nathanielfishel.substack.com/p/your-code-...

Why You Hate Your Weather App As the weather becomes less predictable, we need forecasts and apps that are better at telling us what we don’t know.

oh hey, I'm in the New Yorker chatting about weather apps

www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

(I hope you don't hate @helloweather.com though)

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂
Best with volume up.

lol this almost seems not real and also those poor pups and also congratulations to that parrot

The KotlinConf’26 Server-Side track is coming into focus!

Explore in-depth sessions on high-performance Kotlin services, large-scale concurrency, cloud-native development, and real-world backend architectures.

Discover the full schedule and plan your experience! ➡️ https://kotl.in/conf26-schedu

ITS BECAUSE IM USING RSS OK 😅

Photo of Wailin reading the Planet Money Book while sipping from a big NPR-branded mug that says Public Radio Nerd. She is standing in front of a bookcase.

HOORAY, the Planet Money book is out today! We are so excited to get this book into all of your hands and we hope you enjoy it. It would be great to see you at one of our live shows too, especially if you are in Chicago! That's where I'll be on April 23! Exclamation points!

planetmoneybook.com

A Noodles listing for New Bulgogi Mac and Cheese from Noodles and Company offering dine-in, takeout, and delivery options with a Visit Site button.

I’m personally offended by this

It must be so annoying to be on the other end of a partner who's stuck in the AI hype bubble. That dude who finishes a day of work and then all weekend drones on and on about AI to their families about how it's changing the world and how they should be using it for everything. Must be insufferable.

Transitioning from being the young, rage-filled, justice-seeking guy to the old, rage-filled, justice-seeking guy really creeps up on you! (4/4)

So when you see me going on and on about some specific theme (layoffs, AI slop, hype bubbles of late), it’s very likely a flashback to a story line that ends badly that I’ve seen before and we probably want to avoid doing again. (3/4)

By virtue of sheer volume and having seen some truly brain-meltingly-stupid stuff, seems like the best thing I can do is to share my lived experiences and perspectives so we can hopefully avoid making the same mistakes for the 10th time (tech bros doing terrible tech bro stuff). (2/4)

It’s such an odd but kinda fun feeling to be the old, grizzled, experienced dude in the room. (1/4)

Say it with me for the people in the back (aka, those stuck in the AI slop hype bubble): WRITING CODE HAS NEVER BEEN THE BOTTLENECK.

To the fucking dude who didn’t pull over for multiple firetrucks and ambulances, allow me to remind you that karma is a bitch

TikTok Sparks Comeback for Weezer's "Go Away" The collab with Best Coast—an artifact from 2014—is surging at DSPs and radio.

It’s like, cool to listen to Weezer again?! Yes, I’ve been here for 30 years. =w= 🤓🤘

www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/streami...

I’m not a doomsdayer but there’s something very cool about someone taking the time to package up terabytes of human knowledge in case an internet disabled apocalypse hits, and wrap it up nicely in an open source app. Love weird projects like this.

www.projectnomad.us

omg savage 😅✊

This post exudes genuine excitement for the Kotlin community, but let's be honest, it's also a warning shot to all the speakers reminding them they have 47 days before they need to start building their talks... 🤣

AI can be a useful tool, but just like any tool, used improperly it can cause some serious damage. And if you take a hard look at the AI hype train, there’s an awful lot of that going on right now. (4/4)

It’s regularly being used as excuse for layoffs, accepting fast work over good work (and thereby causing long term fatigue), creating unrealistic/unfair expectations for job performance, and generally just devaluing the human parts of everything it touches. (3/4)

The very bright line I won’t cross though is to blindly accept AI with no regard for human impact. (2/4)

I’m pragmatic and a tech nerd, so I’m not gonna sit here and say I don’t use AI tools. I’ve seen it do some wildly cool, useful things. But I’ve also seen it fail miserably just as often, if not more. (1/4)

Whoa it sucks even more than I thought expected - it added a bunch of shit songs I never wanted to my library without asking!

Ha I just tried the feature and it sucks! 😅

"...we quickly enter a maze of a hundred little preferences that are altered by thousands of real-world variables. If the powers that be thought the game of Go was a good, complex task to prove out AI, wait until it gets a load of trying to book travel for a family with children." @mgsiegler.com