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Always Be Refactoring
Great engineers refactor constantly, even if they have to slip it into their normal workflow.
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Too many engineers spot messy code and simply move past it. The best ones fix it — quietly, constantly, and without asking for permission. Why you should always be refactoring:
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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This is bonkers but then so is so much about the Trump Admin.
Doesn’t make the underlying actions any less dangerous and abusive. But crazy on top of that.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Doesn’t make the underlying actions any less dangerous and abusive. But crazy on top of that.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is bonkers but then so is so much about the Trump Admin.
Doesn’t make the underlying actions any less dangerous and abusive. But crazy on top of that.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Doesn’t make the underlying actions any less dangerous and abusive. But crazy on top of that.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Trump tearing down the People’s House to build a ballroom for his rich donors…just about sums it all up, doesn’t it?
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump tearing down the People’s House to build a ballroom for his rich donors…just about sums it all up, doesn’t it?
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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I was going to cancel #Hulu and #DisneyPlus on Monday, but got distracted, then they brought back #Kimmel. But they they raised prices on Tuesday and I’m like great timing idiots. I cancelled today. Disney and ABC are cowards and don’t deserve our money.
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I was going to cancel #Hulu and #DisneyPlus on Monday, but got distracted, then they brought back #Kimmel. But they they raised prices on Tuesday and I’m like great timing idiots. I cancelled today. Disney and ABC are cowards and don’t deserve our money.
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“Free speech is ultimately instrumental. It ensures accountability, fosters wisdom, protects against civil violence, and more; in essence, it underwrites every other liberty.”
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
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Donald Trump in the 9th Circle of Hell
His two huge betrayals of the Constitution
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Free speech is ultimately instrumental. It ensures accountability, fosters wisdom, protects against civil violence, and more; in essence, it underwrites every other liberty.”
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
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"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"
Be Loud — For America
By Governor JB Pritzker
contrarian.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"
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This morning in #Pittsburgh the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch was visible from the West End Overlook and it was incredible to see. The rocket and exhaust were illuminated by the rising sun just as it was centered over the city. My favorite rocket launch image to date.
September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This morning in #Pittsburgh the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch was visible from the West End Overlook and it was incredible to see. The rocket and exhaust were illuminated by the rising sun just as it was centered over the city. My favorite rocket launch image to date.
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Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US.
Pips #15 Hard 🔴
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September 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Pips #15 Hard 🔴
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CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
August 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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the thing is basically all interesting art happens when the next token isnt predicted by the previous ones
August 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
the thing is basically all interesting art happens when the next token isnt predicted by the previous ones
All this advice to get the best out of #LLM coding agents basically boils down to good software eng practices: Break things down, be precise, ask lots of questions, have patience. A human coder still needs to build up an internal understanding of the code so they can debug, optimize and secure it.
August 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
All this advice to get the best out of #LLM coding agents basically boils down to good software eng practices: Break things down, be precise, ask lots of questions, have patience. A human coder still needs to build up an internal understanding of the code so they can debug, optimize and secure it.
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Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
August 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
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August 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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In which the WSJ Editorial Board screams into its pillow about Trump's fucked-up economy and tariffs "among the largest tax increases in recent history."
Gift link.
Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
Opinion | The Trump Economy Stumbles
The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good.
www.wsj.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In which the WSJ Editorial Board screams into its pillow about Trump's fucked-up economy and tariffs "among the largest tax increases in recent history."
Gift link.
Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
Gift link.
Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
www.bloomberg.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire
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And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.