@djhoffman.bsky.social
Huh, I wonder if a side-effect of the AI craziness might be an actual introspection at what makes a good software engineer.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Huh, I wonder if a side-effect of the AI craziness might be an actual introspection at what makes a good software engineer.
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When your one-drop is hosted on AWS US East 1
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
When your one-drop is hosted on AWS US East 1
Of the 78 cents that is the current rate for letters in USPS, 13 cents of the increase has happened under Trump, and 13 cents under Biden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia
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October 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Of the 78 cents that is the current rate for letters in USPS, 13 cents of the increase has happened under Trump, and 13 cents under Biden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
Join yesterday to get points on your time traveler frequent travel program.
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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So @theasianavenger.bsky.social just referred to fantasy football as a "buff men autobattler" and I simply cannot handle it.
a football player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on it
ALT: a football player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on it
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
So @theasianavenger.bsky.social just referred to fantasy football as a "buff men autobattler" and I simply cannot handle it.
It's not often that my penchant for always including "I asked X interview question which the candidate answered in <Language>" as the first line in my interview feedback is relevant, but when it is it's a huge lifesaver. (where X is an unambiguous name for the question internally at the company).
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's not often that my penchant for always including "I asked X interview question which the candidate answered in <Language>" as the first line in my interview feedback is relevant, but when it is it's a huge lifesaver. (where X is an unambiguous name for the question internally at the company).
Threat modelling is Clue for IT professionals.
August 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Threat modelling is Clue for IT professionals.
It's been so weird at my company and having some switch flip on where I'm all of a sudden older than most of my co-workers, have been working in tech longer than many of them, and being further along in relationships, housing journey, etc.
August 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's been so weird at my company and having some switch flip on where I'm all of a sudden older than most of my co-workers, have been working in tech longer than many of them, and being further along in relationships, housing journey, etc.
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🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.
Also, at the risk of coming off like a paranoid IT person, I'm not here to volunteer for voice samples to train AI on. If your robocall is recording the conversation, I absolutely do not want to contribute my voice. So yeah, you gotta say hello first to prove you're a human and not a threat vector.
I have learned that Gen Z expects the person calling to say "hello" first, instead of the person answering; upending a century of phone norms. You know what? fine, I say. Phone calls aren't what they used to be anyway www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...
Gen Z doesn't say 'hello' when answering the phone. I'm concerned.
Gen Z is making up its own etiquette rules when it comes to answering the phone. Some of them aren't saying "hello." They want you to first.
www.businessinsider.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Also, at the risk of coming off like a paranoid IT person, I'm not here to volunteer for voice samples to train AI on. If your robocall is recording the conversation, I absolutely do not want to contribute my voice. So yeah, you gotta say hello first to prove you're a human and not a threat vector.
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Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally.
status.cloud.google.com
Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
#hugops
status.cloud.google.com
Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
#hugops
Google Cloud Service Health
status.cloud.google.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally.
status.cloud.google.com
Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
#hugops
status.cloud.google.com
Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
#hugops
(I do not have a product to sell). If you could buy a subscription service that gave you an extra hour of sleep every night, how much would that be worth to you? I'm pretty sure I'm in the hundreds per month.
May 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
(I do not have a product to sell). If you could buy a subscription service that gave you an extra hour of sleep every night, how much would that be worth to you? I'm pretty sure I'm in the hundreds per month.
Popping over here quickly to say that you can block the outgoing requests to Gemini by adding `appsgenaiserver.*google\.com` to your pihole denylist. Also recommend adding `(\.|^)gemini\.google\.com$` just because. Google, please, just stop.
January 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Popping over here quickly to say that you can block the outgoing requests to Gemini by adding `appsgenaiserver.*google\.com` to your pihole denylist. Also recommend adding `(\.|^)gemini\.google\.com$` just because. Google, please, just stop.
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Contemplating Church numerals through the crutch of Peano axioms: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck
Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck
January 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Contemplating Church numerals through the crutch of Peano axioms: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck
Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck
So, at the risk of angering tech folks, I find the drive towards LLM generated unit tests somewhat baffling, especially for net-new code. When I was in college, we were taught test-driven development, because tests specify what your code should actually do.
I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec.
I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec.
December 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
So, at the risk of angering tech folks, I find the drive towards LLM generated unit tests somewhat baffling, especially for net-new code. When I was in college, we were taught test-driven development, because tests specify what your code should actually do.
I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec.
I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec.
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Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
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Saving "effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming".
Goals in trauma recovery are not about setting up unrealistic expectations. They're about inserting into ou internal conversation the idea that life won't always be like this-- that we can effect change we explicitly choose.
Effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming.
Effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming.
December 10, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Saving "effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming".
Working at a B2B tech company startup is searching through your company's internal search for how to use your benefits, and finding results for your sales _to_ that company before finding results on how to use the benefit.
December 2, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Working at a B2B tech company startup is searching through your company's internal search for how to use your benefits, and finding results for your sales _to_ that company before finding results on how to use the benefit.
I have, as a 30 year old dude, needed to remind myself that if I'm in a big box store on a stressful day, that opening up a lootbox of Magic cards won't actually make me happier. Lootboxes are capitalism's second-biggest innovation in making people spend money without restraint.
BTW if you're thinking about how younger kids are safe from this form of predation, we need to talk about lootboxes one of these days
The amount of money and effort currently being invested in trying to addict young people to gambling in the USA can only be compared to when Philip Morris actively targeted 10 year olds to have active customers for the next 40
April 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
I have, as a 30 year old dude, needed to remind myself that if I'm in a big box store on a stressful day, that opening up a lootbox of Magic cards won't actually make me happier. Lootboxes are capitalism's second-biggest innovation in making people spend money without restraint.
using ancient magical animals shapshifted into human beings to fix the relationship between a dancer and his tea merchant father in a comedic dramedy set during the Chinese New Year.
Waterfowl-based property damage and vandalism.
daddy issues (Hades)
February 27, 2024 at 2:13 AM
using ancient magical animals shapshifted into human beings to fix the relationship between a dancer and his tea merchant father in a comedic dramedy set during the Chinese New Year.
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hello, good morning
i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
December 12, 2023 at 5:36 PM
hello, good morning
i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
TIL, astronomers can have a different year length than the rest of of (sidereal years). Which makes me wonder if timestamps for astronomy software uses terrestrial time or sidereal time.
December 4, 2023 at 6:04 AM
TIL, astronomers can have a different year length than the rest of of (sidereal years). Which makes me wonder if timestamps for astronomy software uses terrestrial time or sidereal time.
I don't think we've reckoned with the psychological damage of fraudsters. Not even the large ones, I'm just thinking of the barrage of DMs from fake profiles in any online space. It makes us so unable to trust the humanity of others who want a new connection.
November 30, 2023 at 3:52 PM
I don't think we've reckoned with the psychological damage of fraudsters. Not even the large ones, I'm just thinking of the barrage of DMs from fake profiles in any online space. It makes us so unable to trust the humanity of others who want a new connection.
yep, this tracks.
November 29, 2023 at 5:49 PM
yep, this tracks.
Alright, this is not tech related so hope you're not following me just for that.
The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns).
The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns).
November 29, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Alright, this is not tech related so hope you're not following me just for that.
The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns).
The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns).