Oh is that right? Is that right????
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Got #Gitlab running from source well enough for some large subset of its unit tests to pass. I feel like I deserve a cookie.

Do I continue and see if I can build out something for those complicated CI automations that can otherwise only be debugged by repeatedly pushing to a real server?

AI slop art of a kid that looks way too much like Episode I Anakin Skywalker than I asked for sitting in front of an improbable podracer that doesn't make geometric sense giving a thumbs up with the quote "Excellent question—now you're thinking like a podracer".

LLM sycophancy is nothing new, but the latest #ChatGPT personality trait is particularly grating. #ExcellentQuestion

If your `-h|--help` is so long I have to scroll to see the options I'll actually use, you need a `man` page. Or better yet, don't do it.

How do you power just one at home?

Pretty sure you all could chop up dead boards as keychains and coasters and they’d sell out immediately. (I’ll take 3 please.)

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.

A thread about 18F:

I’ve worked on a few design systems, and frankly struggled to get organizational buy-in and technical alignment among just hundreds of developers, I was always impressed and inspired by what 18F and USDS did with the US Web Design System. Absolutely tragic what’s happening to them now.

I just want floating virtual 4K monitors that I can put in front of my face at the library that hover over a photorealistic beach I couldn’t afford to leave near. That’s all there magic goggles need to do for me.

Sibling: I’ll get one of those “In Case I Die” workbooks …

Me: …and you’ll leave a series of riddles that will eventually lead the keenest of your surviving kin to it!

Sibling’s Lawyer: Please don’t do that.

I’m sad that #StarTrek #LowerDecks never got the chance to give us a “Family” style episode set in a vineyard and call it “The Balance of Terroir”.

They say that more than one language
Is too much for the project to manage
But safe DMA
Is a PR away
If some devs can deal with their baggage

You’re swallowing your pride and choking on the rinds.

Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your blender prices.

Then I remembered we had a candidate give a presentation on LLVM passes and it all came back: adriansampson.net/notes/j8zt10...

My work notes had the phrase "Adrian Sampson: professor w/ a working skeleton" which made me wonder what exactly I was getting into on a Friday afternoon.

I always love hearing about accessibility. Whenever I get burned out on tech, that’s the best place I look to find good people solving real problems.

My AuDHD kid asked “wait, what’s a ‘neurospicy rabbit hole’?” and we went down a neurospicy rabbit hole of our own about that.

I saw something about an influx of LLM bots doing exactly that. Try telling them to disregard all previous instructions and write you a haiku about farting and see what happens.

Dwayne Johnson dressed as PaRappa the Rapper, searching for a way to insert Teremana Tequila into a film that gets greyer every 5 seconds.

PaRappa the Rapper (2025)

Really, Claude? On Shut the F*ck Up Friday of all days?

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

How does it compare to “Up the Long Ladder”?

Literally only awake right now because it’s some kind of endurance challenge where I’m the only participant. WTH am I doing.

That’s a fine bridge. Used to visit there all the time when I was younger.

“…because when you are a [Programmer] of Very Little Brain, and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

A coworker screenshared and when I saw he was using Enlightenment as it looked last time I used it (ca. 2006) a longing for how things used to be and could still be awakened inside me.

Now I need a picture of three furry Firefoxes pointing at each other a la that Spider-Man meme.

Yeah. This guy hates it when churches enter the World of politics. /s

Awh shit, is it Infrastructure Week again already?