I love nothing more than spending my Saturday doing U.S. taxes. I can imagine nothing better than doing this. This is time well spent and I'm happy that I get to spend it this way.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Gemma 4 E4B (4-bit) completed a full repo audit by executing Bash code and tool calls locally.

Runs on just 6GB RAM.

Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands...

Chatto uses LiveKit, too, but we self-host LiveKit to avoid the issues described in this post. No idea why Proton doesn't self-host, it's trivially easy.

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20

The passive income movement was a fantasy about not having to give a shit. This is a terrible foundation for pretty much anything.

www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive...

I thought there were no windows in space but I stand corrected!

A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete | Fortune A 37-year-old leveraged voice AI and Anthropic’s Claude to create a consumer price index for a pint of Guinness across Ireland.

And people say AI isn't good for anything…

A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete fortune.com/2026/03/30/g...

uptime graph reading: 95 incidents in last 90 days - 89.91% uptime

classic meme image: "it's happening" with Ron Paul laser show

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

Nora En Pure - Purified 500 | South African Wilderness YouTube video by Nora En Pure

This set by @noraenpure.bsky.social has been my daily driver for the last few days. It's maybe her best set so far!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQaE...

Wat mooi zeg!

Goatmire Elixir 2026: Call for Speakers Goatmire Elixir is a small, single-track Elixir event. ...

2 weeks left on the Goatmire Call for Talks. The banger presentations are lining up but we still want more, and specifically you, in the mix.

sessionize.com/goatmire-eli...

#elixirlang #goatmire

No April fools joke today. The world is already ridiculous enough.

woah

damrnelson.github.io/github-histo...

Alright! Introducing Dux: distributed #DuckDB backed dataframes for #elixirlang. cigrainger.com/blog/introdu... v0.3 dropped today and with it, distribution is fully supported and Dux is officially outperforming Explorer. I'm excited to hear what you all think.

Proton Meet, secure video conferencing next to an image showing Proton Meet in action, a group of people on a video call.

Today we're launching Proton Meet: end-to-end encrypted video calls where no one can listen in, not even Proton. Built on the same zero-access architecture as Proton Mail. Read more: https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet

GitHub - software-mansion-labs/live-stash: Library that fixes problem of losing state on LiveView reconnects Library that fixes problem of losing state on LiveView reconnects - software-mansion-labs/live-stash

Software Mansion @swmansion.com releases LiveStash, a library solving LiveView state loss during WebSocket reconnects.

github.com/software-ma...

Wow, Anthropic really tasting their own medicine today.

First source code leak due to vibe coding bug. Then inability to exercise takedown notice, because the leaked code was rewritten using AI to a different language.

The average American worker using AI reports time savings of 6%, or 2.5 hours in a work week. Those are similar to the UK & Netherlands, slightly more than other EU countries.

There some early, non-causal, signs that this is translating into gains in productivity growth www.nber.org/papers/w34995

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Tidewave Changed How I Feel About AI-Assisted Coding I've never been a fan of coding with AI, but Tidewave is a game changer.

🚨 New blog post alert: Tidewave Changed How I Feel About AI-Assisted Coding

fabrithedev.com/posts/2026/3...

#elixirlang #elixir #tidewave #phoenix #ai #programming #dev #webdev

A meme with two panels. It shows two men in the car show room. One man asks the other “Cargo space?” To which the other man replies “Car no do that. Car go road”

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*

Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.

GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH

github.com/settings/cop...

GitHub - resumex/doom-over-dns: Play Doom entirely from DNS records. (PowerShell 7+) Play Doom entirely from DNS records. (PowerShell 7+) - resumex/doom-over-dns

This is what the internet was created for.

github.com/resumex/doom...

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

Our systems are ✅ down 👍

sBroker (part of Sparkasse group)

Yep, the Dutchies know what they’re doing, even in Germany.

I wanted to use Sparkasse (sBroker) but not for any price. So, I moved my depot to NL now

And that's why I live in the Netherlands. The end.

While walking my dog, I open a bank account with ING. They scan my Dutch driver license with NFC to verify my identity. In 2 days they check my data. I get a push notification that it's all good, here's your bank account. I add the depot as a product, answer some questions, 5min later I'm done.

She says that maybe I gave my parents' German address in the initial form, but now my Dutch proof of residency has a Dutch address and they need to match. She asks me to hand in the initial form again, but now with my Dutch address. I tell her to delete my request.

Now, the Dutch version: