it baffles me to see academics from CS and adjacent fields openly announcing an indifferent and "politically neutral" position about AI in the current day and age

How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software YouTube video by CultRepo

i've used a bunch of lisp-like languages but never clojure. stumbled across this new video and it seems really high quality. kind of strange actually. it seems legit and i'm enjoying it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

That's so clever and adorable at the same time.

"Enshittification was a choice, not an accident."

"Enshittification isn't a force of nature. It's not a historic inevitability. It's the eminently foreseeable result of specific policy choices made by named individuals in living memory, after these individuals were warned that enshittification would ensue."

Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It YouTube video by CloudFest

Fantastic talk by @doctorow.pluralistic.net at last year's CloudFest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

This Week in Matrix 2026-04-10 Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

A new page to Try Matrix, a new client for macOS, and policyserver improvements.

That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

In all seriousness though, gender-sorting occupations because of our pre-existing biases (this trend is attributed in the piece to job growths in healthcare) is bad for humanity and we probably shouldn't have set the world up in this way!

live from the apple headquarters...

Who Built This? Tracing a dependency back to its source commit.

Who Built This? nesbitt.io/2026/04/07/w...

I strongly believe everything we do has an - often implicit - political component. In an effort to shift my contribution to the more explicit side of things and after much deliberation, I joined a political party today.
Coordinating with similarly-minded individuals seems like a good idea right now.

A white bunny with light brown markings sits at a table, looking at an open laptop in a kitchen.

Doomscrolling has made me unmotivated to do long-term work, so to force myself to be doing *something* besides doomscrolling:

n² likes = n obscure software engineering concepts/principles/memes I find super useful

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

The research they go through in this piece - a really nice synthesis of a lot here - is work I've also embedded into the social science I do with software teams.

www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

I met a guy a few months ago who owns a small consultancy specializing in IT emergencies. When things go horribly wrong & nobody on staff can fix it, he’s who you call.

In the past year, he essentially has a bidding war for his services every week.

This👇is effectively what he does now.

Amy's Dictum:

“AI” doesn’t reveal anything about what computers can do, but it reveals a lot about what humans can’t do

such as a good, thorough, professional job

that’s the most distressing thing about ai code/interface: so many people checked out of doing the real work a long time ago, so…

This is so, so well-articulated.

i called this phenomenon "the pachinkofication of intellectual labour" and this is very close to how i imagined it graphed:

buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

hence the problem with summaries (or really anything fact-based): the information you need to determine whether the summary is accurate is the information used to create the summary

ie making the summary worthless because it's untrustworthy

your alternative, of course, is to yolo it

A chart from al Jazeera showing the crew of the Artemis II (and the ROCKET itself). They are Reid Wiseman, 50. Victor glover, 49. Christina Koch, 47. Jeremy Hansen, 50.

People wanna say you're washed up by middle age, but the YOUNGEST person on this moon mission is 47.

This is such an excellent article: numerous lessons to be learned here and great advice all around – for any software team, really.

Wonderful demonstration that AI are -mostly- bullshit machines. And dangerous when misused.

@carlbergstrom.com ➡️ to be added to your course thebullshitmachines.com

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | The Haskell Programming Language's blog What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.

With "Haskellers from the trenches", the #Haskell blog lets experienced engineers talk about their subjects of expertise, best practices, and production tales.

We start with @iankduncan.com's "A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury"

blog.haskell.org/a-couple-mil...

And there's obviously serious issues with how it's implemented (data centers, stolen data, exploitative labeling practices) etc.

I'm hoping that the "rental AI" industry dies eventually and people use locally-run stuff with open source models (without stolen stuff) in the future.

Time to meet again 🥰

🙌 Scala Days 2026
🗓️ Conference 12 - 13 October
🛠️ Workshops 14 - 15 October
📍Berlin, Germany

Looking forward to welcoming you this autumn!

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Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly It’s great to see another European government, this time Belgium, using the Matrix open standard as the foundation for digitally sovereign communications. Matrix enables digital sovereignty through de...

💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform!

🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons.

element.io/blog/governm...