A hastily sketched graph of programmer salaries on the X axis, and # of programmers on the Y axis, with two lines: a "before" distribution and an "after" distribution. The "before" distribution has a higher average salary, but there are less of them. The "after" distribution includes the entire "before" but is much larger, although with a lower average.

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

Over the past few months, I've gotten about a half dozen offers to do interviews for remote jobs, after which a team of people would do the actual work and I would be paid 50% of the salary.

For someone trying to run a real remote company, it's infuriating.

I’m not giving money to Democratic incumbents unless there’s a plan and it isn’t the usual bullshit.

Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms

@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web

Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

What the f is Lemon8

One of my biggest mental breakthroughs was when I changed my mindset from

"This system is stupid and I'm going to spend all my energy fighting it."

to

"Even though this system is stupid, I'm going to operate within it to my advantage."

Much better results, way less stress.

This might be the most niche joke of all time and I love it

Never in the history of software has a library had more breaking changes between majors than React Router

How I Automated My Job Application Process. (Part 1) A developer automated job applications, sending 250 in 20 minutes using Python scripts and GPT

It feels like the technology arms race between candidates and recruiters is accelerating. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of companies (especially smaller ones) stop allowing direct applications and instead source 100% of candidates from warm intros.

blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-automa...

Some of y’all didn’t watch Wishbone as a kid and it shows

The job market is so brutal that employers are just putting the rejection right in the JD

Trustworthiness in the Age of AI It probably feels liberating to be a little bit wrong, all of the time.

This is good
jfkirk.github.io/posts/trustw...

So that government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires shall soon parish from the earth.

Critical thoughts (long form) for saving a democracy: Where we go from here.

medium.com/@lessig/wher...

Indie hacking has always been this way. Sharing what you’re building is great, but time spent posting about your MRR is time not spent talking to customers or building your product.

It’s all masturbatory. Just build.

I think I inadvertently followed the wrong people on here because my feed has been full of pro-murder “revolution” nonsense for days. Like there’s no amount of blocking or muting that can stop it. I keep waiting for it to burn off but it hasn’t happened yet.

For the past few days my feed has been like 50% jokes about murder, cool

Love social media really a major plus in my life

if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

Someone I follow is reposting so much my whole feed is full, and I would be annoyed but they’re 100% bangers

What are some examples of great CLI tools for developers?

Finding founding engineers is hard. Really hard.

It’s tough to find someone with the combination of skill and appetite for risk, who also doesn’t want to try to start their own thing.

(For clarity, I’m offering at- or above-market comp in both salary and equity.)

Yeah, I’m not sure how sophisticated this survey was.

Anecdotally, lots of zoomers I’ve interacted with had very weird ideas about money, but then I’m not really close with any of them

I need a filter for people ending their posts in obvious engagement-bait questions, especially since it doesn't really work on here.

What do you think? Let me know in the replies

When I was in my 20s, $600K/year was an unthinkable, unattainable yearly salary.

Can't help but think this is primarily the influence (no pun intended) of social media

👋 still getting started on here, but building ardent.ai

Mona Lis Bob Li Beats, Noelle Johnson · Mona Lis · Song · 2024

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open.spotify.com/track/6XYBXX...

instead of scolding young people into having kids, try telling them that someday a crying baby turns into an eight year old full of wonder, and you will get to see art (or baseball games, or video games, or whatever you love) anew through their huge excited eyes

if bluesky doesn’t make it i’m not downloading another app imma just start screaming all my thoughts at the sun

That garbage brain meme infected my entire feed on Twitter

Baby brain nonsense