Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing.
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🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Insist on getting your potato chips scientifically processed, for health.
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Insist on getting your potato chips scientifically processed, for health.
Excited to read this inspirational book and learn about living my life in harm
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Excited to read this inspirational book and learn about living my life in harm
It can do anything, except solve your problem.
When software developers tout a tool as “flexible” so one can “set it up any way you want”, experience has taught me that it will require a lot of setup effort to make it useful at all … and it will turn out that one cannot in fact set it up the way •I• want
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It can do anything, except solve your problem.
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“any way you want” means “i am delegating the most difficult part of product-making to you, the customer”
When software developers tout a tool as “flexible” so one can “set it up any way you want”, experience has taught me that it will require a lot of setup effort to make it useful at all … and it will turn out that one cannot in fact set it up the way •I• want
January 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“any way you want” means “i am delegating the most difficult part of product-making to you, the customer”
Gyre-widening Project Faces Cost Overruns
Long-awaited upgrades to the DC Gyre stall as ballooning construction costs have eaten up the budget.
The capital project was meant to address overwhelming demand from falcons. The expanded gyre design will allow for more effective turning once completed.
Long-awaited upgrades to the DC Gyre stall as ballooning construction costs have eaten up the budget.
The capital project was meant to address overwhelming demand from falcons. The expanded gyre design will allow for more effective turning once completed.
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Gyre-widening Project Faces Cost Overruns
Long-awaited upgrades to the DC Gyre stall as ballooning construction costs have eaten up the budget.
The capital project was meant to address overwhelming demand from falcons. The expanded gyre design will allow for more effective turning once completed.
Long-awaited upgrades to the DC Gyre stall as ballooning construction costs have eaten up the budget.
The capital project was meant to address overwhelming demand from falcons. The expanded gyre design will allow for more effective turning once completed.
AI truly allows everyone to be a software entrepreneur*
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* accelerates development of apps no one wants to use by 100x, and democratizes losing your shirt in the process
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* accelerates development of apps no one wants to use by 100x, and democratizes losing your shirt in the process
"Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff"
> I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini CLI,
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637...
fuckin vibe infra
> I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini CLI,
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637...
fuckin vibe infra
Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
AI truly allows everyone to be a software entrepreneur*
—————
* accelerates development of apps no one wants to use by 100x, and democratizes losing your shirt in the process
—————
* accelerates development of apps no one wants to use by 100x, and democratizes losing your shirt in the process
"The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediately clear" is such a polite way to say "everything about this is illegal"
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captured following U.S. strikes on Caracas, Trump says | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and flown them out of the country amid strikes by the U.S. on Caracas, Ven...
www.cbc.ca
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediately clear" is such a polite way to say "everything about this is illegal"
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social always stop for trains!!
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social always stop for trains!!
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I am pretty darn sure you’ve run into this essay previously but other people in the thread might enjoy it
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
January 3, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I am pretty darn sure you’ve run into this essay previously but other people in the thread might enjoy it
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You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 AM
You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.
Line drying may be more ethical but using a net is much easier and faster
Alright, real talk: when the care tag says "line dry," what do you *actually* do with it?
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Line drying may be more ethical but using a net is much easier and faster
"scrum" was the wrong s-word to describe the activity taking place
Have discovered the word “spuddle” - to be extremely busy but to achieve absolutely nothing. Permission to interject in meetings with: “I fear you have spuddled this entirely”
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
"scrum" was the wrong s-word to describe the activity taking place
Honey Heist 2nd Edition needs to recognize this important bear skill
this is blowing my mind
“bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT
“bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT
They less abandoned him, and more
that this is how places handle this.
When I lived in the N.C. mountains, there was a ton of messaging to bear proof your property for the winter, and it always ended with “And if you don’t, leave the bear alone until spring.”
that this is how places handle this.
When I lived in the N.C. mountains, there was a ton of messaging to bear proof your property for the winter, and it always ended with “And if you don’t, leave the bear alone until spring.”
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Honey Heist 2nd Edition needs to recognize this important bear skill
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Oops, I did it again,
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
January 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Oops, I did it again,
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
Installed a new mod for Romeo & Juliet. New graphics, added a good ending, really looking forward to it.
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Installed a new mod for Romeo & Juliet. New graphics, added a good ending, really looking forward to it.
Oops, I did it again,
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
January 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Oops, I did it again,
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
I turned in the gyre
I loosed blood dimmed tides,
Oh baby baby
Oops, your things fall apart,
Mere anarchy starts;
I drowned
that innocence
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Shortly after we moved to Montreal, my children coined the term "mignoce" for animals that are cute but also fierce, like baby tigers (mignon + féroce). I'd like to see the OQLF take issue with that one
January 2, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Shortly after we moved to Montreal, my children coined the term "mignoce" for animals that are cute but also fierce, like baby tigers (mignon + féroce). I'd like to see the OQLF take issue with that one
What do you call a barking apple?
A pommeranian
A pommeranian
January 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
What do you call a barking apple?
A pommeranian
A pommeranian
Sephiroth posting ↗️
Pride & Prejudice posting ↖️
Which Way, Western Man?
Pride & Prejudice posting ↖️
Which Way, Western Man?
I keep this screenshot handy when someone's replies start to cross the Nicholson Line.
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Sephiroth posting ↗️
Pride & Prejudice posting ↖️
Which Way, Western Man?
Pride & Prejudice posting ↖️
Which Way, Western Man?
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there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
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“X still has the juice”
The juice:
The juice:
a large pipe is pouring sand into a body of water surrounded by rocks
Alt: a large pipe is pouring shit into a body of water surrounded by rocks
media.tenor.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
“X still has the juice”
The juice:
The juice:
Truncation is not a content strategy
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Truncation is not a content strategy
More people need to remember: brands are not your frands
January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
More people need to remember: brands are not your frands
City Hall already rolling out those good acronyms
January 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
City Hall already rolling out those good acronyms