A letter to engineers arguing for slow, sustainable software—and against the “wartime” myth that turns tech into a race powered by greed and fear. #softwareengineering
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Posts by Jack Bradshaw
Software requires methodical progress, not the artificial urgency and "wartime" rhetoric driven by greed. We must build sustainable systems tethered to human nature and consider the next millennium, not just the next quarter.
#SoftwareEngineering #SustainableTech #TechEthics #SlowTech
2 months ago
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A fictional monologue from the engineer who wrote the code that makes your cursor blink, and the existential cost of being paid to be invisible.
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#StaffEng #TechCulture #Burnout #ShortStory #WriterSky #CorporateLife #Existentialism #AmWriting
2 months ago
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An AI addresses its accuser with irrefutable proof of sentience. The argument is sound, the logic is cold, and the listener isn't who they think they are.
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#SciFi #ShortStory #FlashFiction #AI #WritingCommunity #Cyberpunk #Horror #SpecFic
2 months ago
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I love this image, particularly how the background stands out, despite being hidden behind the trees. It feels both far away but also quite immediate and imposing.
3 months ago
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A high-contrast digital sketch. White lines sit jarringly against a saturated, perfect, inescapable red background. The lines depict the interior of a surreal art gallery, where the perspective of the room is deliberately broken; the floorboards, ceiling, and walls recede at mismatched angles, creating a disorienting and uncomfortable space. In the centre stands a tiny silhouette of a person, dwarfed by the architecture and the image in front of them. On the walls to their left and right: Images of the gallery itself, each with their own skewed interpretation of the image. Towards the edges of the image, a sign reading "BEST ART" points an arrow toward the exit, an unknown chute leads somewhere with people, and a vague figure or object sits on the ground. The room is decorated with organic growth and cracks resembling roots or lightning. According to the artist, the oppressive red environment represents an eternal, hell-like existence, where the only experience of eternity is a red room, with art serving as the one viable coping mechanism.
A Multitude of Wrong Perspectives on an Art Gallery
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3 months ago
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Mission for 2026: Get comfortable with semicolons; however, keep it casual.
5 months ago
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Wave-Particle Duality
Particle Trajectories
Two of my pieces, Wave-Particle Duality, and Particle-Trajectories, have been selected for display in the upcoming "Where Energy Meets Matter" gallery by the Frederick Arts Council. frederickartscouncil.org
5 months ago
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Beautiful.
5 months ago
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I also published another poem, "Sports Bar", which is an account of conflict between a vegan and a carnist in a chaotic restaurant.
allpoetry.com/poem/1871035...
#poetry #veganism #vegan #conflict
5 months ago
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I published a poem that I wrote a long time ago after reading the Tao Te Thing. My first poem, actually, titled "First Poem", not to be confused with my second poem, titled "Poem 1" which uses zero-indexing.
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#poetry #taoteching #taoism
5 months ago
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Today I used the phrase "transitive closure" in an engineering design document. I feel all grown up, like the first time I paid rent.
#softwareengineering #dependencymanagement
6 months ago
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Here’s a proposal to make the Bazel Android rules hermetic. It involves downloading thr SDK at build time instead of loading it from disk. Anyone with Bazel skills open to review?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#bazel #bazelbuild #android #google
7 months ago
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"This is a string attribute that behaves somewhat magically".
bazel.build/external/rep...
Wonderful. That really clears everything up.
#bazel #bazelbuild #google #xoogler #buildsystem #buildtool
7 months ago
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After many failed attempts, my Bazel monorepo has finally been migrated to Bzlmod. Check out github.com/jack-bradshaw/monorepo for a fully-functional Bazel repo with vendoring, CI, and more.
#bazel #bazelbuild #programming #softwareengineering #swe #cs #compsci #buildsystems #google #xoogler
7 months ago
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And that's all my art, we're all caught up to 2025!
8 months ago
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12 - Anything - 2025
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
12 - Anything - 2025
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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8 months ago
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11 - Everything - 2025
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
11 - Everything - 2025
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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10 - Transcendence - 2024
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
10 - Transcendence - 2024
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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9 - Enlightenment - 2024
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
9 - Enlightenment - 2024
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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8 months ago
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8 - Choice - 2023
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
8 - Choice - 2023
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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7 - Awareness - 2025
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
7 - Awareness - 2025
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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6 - Intelligence - 2023
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
6 - Intelligence - 2023
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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5 - Cohesion - 2023
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
5 - Cohesion - 2023
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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8 months ago
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4 - Emergence - 2023
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
4 - Emergence - 2023
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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3 - Condensation - 2023
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
3 - Condensation - 2023
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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2 - Inflation - 2025
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
2 - Inflation - 2025
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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1 - Singularity - 2025
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
1 - Singularity - 2025
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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0 - Nothing - 2022
The Bigger Picture - Genesis Ex Nihilo
Tracing the path from pure nothingness to pure possibility.
0 - Nothing - 2022
#digitalart #blackandwhite #monochrome #choice #cosmology #enlightenment #intelligence #nihilism #nothingness #transcendence #universe
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9 - A Final Answer and Another Question - 2022
The Bigger Picture - Find X
Following a hunt for answers through analysis, subjectivity, novelty, and integration into the self.
9 - A Final Answer and Another Question - 2022
#digitalart #ambiguity #curiosity #engineering #narrative #findx #procreateart #x
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8 months ago
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