nickrw
@big.nick.energy
Former twitter engineer, now turned evil.
A clown once described me as a "genius[...] with immense talent".
A clown once described me as a "genius[...] with immense talent".
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nickrw
@big.nick.energy
· Jun 24
Currently writing my next bestselling novel - Don't Create the Distributed Torment Nexus
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One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
Feature request that will never happen but would be cool: sending your @nytimes.com game solve times into Apple Health, so you can track your cognitive abilities and correlate with other data
October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Feature request that will never happen but would be cool: sending your @nytimes.com game solve times into Apple Health, so you can track your cognitive abilities and correlate with other data
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Any new industry musk wades into gets its "1000 poorly-batched RPCs" moment www.reddit.com/r/ATC/s/nZxo...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Any new industry musk wades into gets its "1000 poorly-batched RPCs" moment www.reddit.com/r/ATC/s/nZxo...
@plex.tv please reconsider removing the watch together feature from your native apps. Your web app is not a substitute as there are formats which some browsers/platforms cannot direct play but which your native apps can.
This will stop me from watching some shows with friends
This will stop me from watching some shows with friends
February 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@plex.tv please reconsider removing the watch together feature from your native apps. Your web app is not a substitute as there are formats which some browsers/platforms cannot direct play but which your native apps can.
This will stop me from watching some shows with friends
This will stop me from watching some shows with friends
Very strange energy from people who quoteskeet your posts and don’t add anything instead of just hitting the repost button. More and more people are doing this. I don’t like it. It’s unsettling.
February 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A reminder of what Musk did to Twitter and an explanation of what he's doing to the US government. It's the same autocratic gameplan: slash, purge, break things.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter
Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 08/01/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A reminder of what Musk did to Twitter and an explanation of what he's doing to the US government. It's the same autocratic gameplan: slash, purge, break things.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans.
All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...
All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...
Musk’s Twitter Takeover Offers Trump a Blueprint
Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans.
All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...
All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...
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As someone who went through an eerily similar episode of hostile takeover that also played out in public in real time, I want to tell all the fed workers, “I’m so sorry this is happening to you, I know how this feels.” And here are some of my learnings:
January 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
As someone who went through an eerily similar episode of hostile takeover that also played out in public in real time, I want to tell all the fed workers, “I’m so sorry this is happening to you, I know how this feels.” And here are some of my learnings:
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🚨New episode out🚨 Can we call it fascism yet? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social respond to the disturbing displays at Trump's inauguration and the many similarities with fascist parties of the past.
Listen ⬇️
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
Listen ⬇️
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
January 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨New episode out🚨 Can we call it fascism yet? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social respond to the disturbing displays at Trump's inauguration and the many similarities with fascist parties of the past.
Listen ⬇️
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
Listen ⬇️
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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Just a warning about Casper mattresses: they do NOT hold up. I’ve had mine for just a couple of years and it was doing fine, but recently got into a Little Nemo-type situation and the bed broke up over the North Atlantic. Ended up needing a Coast Guard rescue and they laughed at my big nightshirt
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Just a warning about Casper mattresses: they do NOT hold up. I’ve had mine for just a couple of years and it was doing fine, but recently got into a Little Nemo-type situation and the bed broke up over the North Atlantic. Ended up needing a Coast Guard rescue and they laughed at my big nightshirt
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I understand that some people still (for now) need X for bare bones promotional stuff but it's deeply embarrassing to see anyone I know posting there for fun
Bemused as to how people who claim to be anti-fascist are still posting on X after Musk’s salute at the inauguration yesterday
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
January 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I understand that some people still (for now) need X for bare bones promotional stuff but it's deeply embarrassing to see anyone I know posting there for fun
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It's really hard to explain to people who think tech CEOs are like the final boss of programmers that AI actually won't replace programmers, because it has no ability to reason and only a small portion of software engineering is outputting code (the only part LLMs can actually do).
January 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It's really hard to explain to people who think tech CEOs are like the final boss of programmers that AI actually won't replace programmers, because it has no ability to reason and only a small portion of software engineering is outputting code (the only part LLMs can actually do).
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Free Our Feeds! What is it! @freeourfeeds.com
F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky.
It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.
F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky.
It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.
January 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Free Our Feeds! What is it! @freeourfeeds.com
F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky.
It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.
F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky.
It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.
Which celebrity would you be just completely unsurprised if they turned out to be a shit man?
January 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Which celebrity would you be just completely unsurprised if they turned out to be a shit man?
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The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood
January 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood
For no specific reason at all today I'm recommending you listen to an old ep of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social about the origins of the word "woke"
www.podmasters.co.uk/os-episodes-...
www.podmasters.co.uk/os-episodes-...
Woke: The word that splits the world
Who turned Woke from a badge of African-American pride into a hammer to beat liberals with? How does it relate to PC? And what are Erykah Badu, Piers Morgan, the weaponisation of African-American slan...
www.podmasters.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
For no specific reason at all today I'm recommending you listen to an old ep of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social about the origins of the word "woke"
www.podmasters.co.uk/os-episodes-...
www.podmasters.co.uk/os-episodes-...
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paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it
January 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it
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Just saw Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican and it’s an absolute hoot. Perfectly done, the kids were rapt from start to finish and loads of proper laughs. Apparently tickets are “from” £25; we paid more than that to sit in the upper circle, but that’s still a great view. Ends 18th Jan.
December 31, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Just saw Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican and it’s an absolute hoot. Perfectly done, the kids were rapt from start to finish and loads of proper laughs. Apparently tickets are “from” £25; we paid more than that to sit in the upper circle, but that’s still a great view. Ends 18th Jan.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
we are looking in to problems with search indexing of some accounts. this impacts type-ahead search of handles, for example, and has been ongoing for a couple days.
not any intentional suppression, just an operational bug.
not any intentional suppression, just an operational bug.
November 28, 2024 at 9:02 AM
The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Sorry to do this all the time but I am afraid to make stuff these days you have to be a shameless self promoter — I have started a new show and it is out now, and there are bonus eps and whatnot you can sign up for. So if you can listen to it, that’d be amazing.
HyperFixed | HYPERFIXED
Alex Goldman's new podcast, Hyperfixed, gets to the bottom of life's most intractable and annoying problems and has fun along the way..
Hyperfixedpod.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Sorry to do this all the time but I am afraid to make stuff these days you have to be a shameless self promoter — I have started a new show and it is out now, and there are bonus eps and whatnot you can sign up for. So if you can listen to it, that’d be amazing.
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My latest labeler is finally working!
What it shows for each politician
- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them
Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
What it shows for each politician
- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them
Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
November 22, 2024 at 10:45 PM
My latest labeler is finally working!
What it shows for each politician
- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them
Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
What it shows for each politician
- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them
Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
April 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
Every few months I check to see if @incident.io has Teams support and today I was in for a treat
November 21, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Every few months I check to see if @incident.io has Teams support and today I was in for a treat