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pfrazee.com
If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they're trying to accomplish
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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astriddeilmann.bsky.social
Diese Warnung ist unmissverständlich.

@francescabria.bsky.social & @josebautista.bsky.social haben das Vorgehen von US-Big-Tech kartografiert.

Ihre Fazit: Ein autoritäres Netzwerk ist auch hier dabei den Staat zu privatisieren.

Wir müssen #Palantir & Co den Stecker ziehen bevor es zu spät ist.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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likethecolour.red
me and the homies buying each others art
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Oct 22
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
Graphic depicts select capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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jurgenappelo.bsky.social
It's us humans who will have to deal with the wicked problems.
thestillwandering.substack.com/p/5-question...
5 Questions to Reintegrate Your Individuality
Factories needed consistent output, so their workers needed to be predictable, reliable, and remarkably interchangeable.
thestillwandering.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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peterjelinek.bsky.social
Wenn wir doch nur so akribisch die Lücken bei der Steuervermeidung o. Cum-Cum schließen würden, wie CDU & SPD das gerade beim Draufhauen auf die Ärmsten dieser Gesellschaft tun.

Es wären Milliardensummen im dreistelligen Bereich, die wir zur Verfügung hätten – & niemanden tuts weh.
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Man, 80s computer books made even non-relational databases look fun. (Source.)
The cover to the book, "Writing Your Own Program: Creating A Database: Adventure Game." Each line is in its own font. The computer (a black affair with rainbow keys" depicts a scuba diver swimming, handcuffs in hand, as it is attacked by a giant cross octopus; the painted octopus is literally bursting out of the monitor. A tiny little banner in the corner states: "For Commodore 64 And Apple IIe Computers"
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
sbuettner.bsky.social
AI content is the new microplastic.
October 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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why.bsky.team
I'm just eight instances of Claude Code in a trenchcoat
jay.bsky.team Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Oct 1
Nobody even works here. It's just me and 29 advanced AIs.
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.
A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.
January 27, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
UNLIMITED VELOCITY
One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review. A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.
September 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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hsablonniere.com
👍 Really good article
😉 I would just nitpick on the fact that AI agents can help on other tasks than just coding

ordep.dev/posts/writin...
Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.
ordep.dev
August 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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stephango.com
the collective acceptance that all work must be inside a panopticon is depressing

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477...
If you're remote, ramble | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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krauza.bsky.social
Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school so you better start eating healthy.
August 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
has been an amazing few years for introverts who would never accept an invitation to a mansion party, a freak off, a private jet ride, or an island retreat
July 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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jooleanboolean.bsky.social
Berlin Sidewalk Generator - Made with Houdini

Curious how I made that? Check out my breakdown article! www.artstation.com/julianbragag...

#houdini #sidefxhoudini #procedural #3d #techart #tools #tech #berlin #technology #gamedev #architecture #3dart #proceduralmodeling
July 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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travisstreet.com
left: the interview questions

right: the actual job
June 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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ewolff.com
A lesson about iteration /via @FND@hachyderm.io theoatmeal.com/comics/creat...
Erasers are wonderful - The Oatmeal
An eraser is not a highlighter of mistakes. An eraser is a tool.
theoatmeal.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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krstorevic.bsky.social
Wer glaubt, die „Ausländer raus“-Stimmung würde verschwinden, wenn weniger Geflüchtete kommen, sollte mal nach Ungarn schauen.

Im Kern geht es nicht um Herausforderungen durch Flucht und Migration, sondern darum, die Lust am Treten nach unten auszunutzen – für den eigenen Machterhalt.
June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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lizard.tools
people who use weird firefox forks are like oh no i switched to FlunkWeb 2 weeks ago. I'm on PissWeasel now. Oh no I don't use that anymore, I'm on Dirt now. Download Dirt right now. Dirt kind of supports all your extensions. Let's get mad at extension devs if their shit doesn't work on Dirt.
June 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
sbuettner.bsky.social
Unfair: machines get human-readable APIs with MCP while we suffered through WSDL.
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
There are two problem-solving approaches:

1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it
or
2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems.

The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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seb.deleuze.fr
I have published a new blog post to explain what benefits Spring developers can expect from the next-level Spring null safety support based on JSpecify and NullAway. spring.io/blog/2025/03...

It will be available for general consumption in the upcoming Spring major version at the end of the year.
March 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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derbernd.bsky.social
Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko
March 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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royvanrijn.com
This feels *really* unethical…

What are your thoughts on Windsurf IDE’s experimental “motivational” prompt?
March 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM