@hiandor.bsky.social
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So is there a new dipshit management book out or something? Because the worst people in the world are ALL using the phrase "our North Star" this week. This guy, Bari Weiss, the Firefox CEO.
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So is there a new dipshit management book out or something? Because the worst people in the world are ALL using the phrase "our North Star" this week. This guy, Bari Weiss, the Firefox CEO.
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yea honestly i tried reading about publishing lexicons in the official docs and i felt like the docs just want me to reverse engineer whatever they're saying back into human language. hard pass. same feeling about permission sets docs.
I thoroughly believe more people would build for #atproto if the documentation wasn't so dry and technical.
I learned more from @nickthesick.com's 5-minute blog post about lexicon publishing than I did from the official @atproto.com docs.
nickthesick.com/blog/Publish...
I learned more from @nickthesick.com's 5-minute blog post about lexicon publishing than I did from the official @atproto.com docs.
nickthesick.com/blog/Publish...
Publishing ATProto Lexicons - Nick the Sick's blog. Writings, projects and ideas.
Publishing ATProto Lexicons Created: 2025_05_07 07:53 Tags: ATProto ATProto has recently updated their specs to include a way to publish Lexicons in a similar way to their handle resolution. This is …
nickthesick.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
yea honestly i tried reading about publishing lexicons in the official docs and i felt like the docs just want me to reverse engineer whatever they're saying back into human language. hard pass. same feeling about permission sets docs.
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20 years as a web developer
10 years as a senior web developer at one of the largest health networks in the country
And I STILL have to prove myself with code tests and five rounds of interviews per company, just to justify that I deserve a job with a livable wage.
FUCK TECH.
10 years as a senior web developer at one of the largest health networks in the country
And I STILL have to prove myself with code tests and five rounds of interviews per company, just to justify that I deserve a job with a livable wage.
FUCK TECH.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
20 years as a web developer
10 years as a senior web developer at one of the largest health networks in the country
And I STILL have to prove myself with code tests and five rounds of interviews per company, just to justify that I deserve a job with a livable wage.
FUCK TECH.
10 years as a senior web developer at one of the largest health networks in the country
And I STILL have to prove myself with code tests and five rounds of interviews per company, just to justify that I deserve a job with a livable wage.
FUCK TECH.
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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For software developers: there's currently a highly sophisticated hacking group targeting developers with backdoored coding skills tests. They typically take the form of large source codes specific to your skillset. Please email any suspicious code to me on: suspicious-skill-tests@protonmail.com
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November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For software developers: there's currently a highly sophisticated hacking group targeting developers with backdoored coding skills tests. They typically take the form of large source codes specific to your skillset. Please email any suspicious code to me on: suspicious-skill-tests@protonmail.com
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Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
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claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"
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deleted my posts and comments on /r/programming subreddit and will not be posting there. truly one of the few remaining places on the internet with the worst of 2000 pedant troll forum energy. always a mistake to engage there as it completely drains me
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
deleted my posts and comments on /r/programming subreddit and will not be posting there. truly one of the few remaining places on the internet with the worst of 2000 pedant troll forum energy. always a mistake to engage there as it completely drains me
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it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
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Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture.
But let me elaborate. 🧵
But let me elaborate. 🧵
July 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture.
But let me elaborate. 🧵
But let me elaborate. 🧵
Tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible.
Some devs: We do a fine job abusing one another. Let's try to fix this.
Same tech spaces: It is what it is. Not true, we are great. Post removed by moderators.
Same tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible...
Some devs: We do a fine job abusing one another. Let's try to fix this.
Same tech spaces: It is what it is. Not true, we are great. Post removed by moderators.
Same tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible...
July 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible.
Some devs: We do a fine job abusing one another. Let's try to fix this.
Same tech spaces: It is what it is. Not true, we are great. Post removed by moderators.
Same tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible...
Some devs: We do a fine job abusing one another. Let's try to fix this.
Same tech spaces: It is what it is. Not true, we are great. Post removed by moderators.
Same tech spaces: We are victims. Managers, HR and AI are horrible...
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One takeaway from the Soham story (dev from India with likely a fake CV hired to 10+ AI startups in Silicon Valley, working parallel to many):
Demand for AI Engineers (devs who built real-world AI applications) who worked at startups FAR outstrips supply
Use this if you can
Demand for AI Engineers (devs who built real-world AI applications) who worked at startups FAR outstrips supply
Use this if you can
July 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
One takeaway from the Soham story (dev from India with likely a fake CV hired to 10+ AI startups in Silicon Valley, working parallel to many):
Demand for AI Engineers (devs who built real-world AI applications) who worked at startups FAR outstrips supply
Use this if you can
Demand for AI Engineers (devs who built real-world AI applications) who worked at startups FAR outstrips supply
Use this if you can
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The worst thing you find out in school is that some universal child bonding rituals require a victim, or a target.
Actually, the worst part is realizing if they pick you, there is nothing you can do about it but to try to throw some other victim into their jaws.
Actually, the worst part is realizing if they pick you, there is nothing you can do about it but to try to throw some other victim into their jaws.
May 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The worst thing you find out in school is that some universal child bonding rituals require a victim, or a target.
Actually, the worst part is realizing if they pick you, there is nothing you can do about it but to try to throw some other victim into their jaws.
Actually, the worst part is realizing if they pick you, there is nothing you can do about it but to try to throw some other victim into their jaws.
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if anyone makes a t shirt version of this I'll buy it and wear it everywhere
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
May 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
if anyone makes a t shirt version of this I'll buy it and wear it everywhere
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I'm making a bunch of code I use in my games publicly available. Lots of good stuff like 2d drop shadows, pseudo 3d effects, vfx, npc vision, IK, save system, level system etc.
#godotengine
github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...
#godotengine
github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...
May 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm making a bunch of code I use in my games publicly available. Lots of good stuff like 2d drop shadows, pseudo 3d effects, vfx, npc vision, IK, save system, level system etc.
#godotengine
github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...
#godotengine
github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...
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If the recent prompt-to-code AI tool explosion will force the tech industry to reflect on, but properly:
"How much of software engineering is the act of writing the *code* itself?"
It's a key part: but it turns out that there are many other things that are key to software
"How much of software engineering is the act of writing the *code* itself?"
It's a key part: but it turns out that there are many other things that are key to software
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If the recent prompt-to-code AI tool explosion will force the tech industry to reflect on, but properly:
"How much of software engineering is the act of writing the *code* itself?"
It's a key part: but it turns out that there are many other things that are key to software
"How much of software engineering is the act of writing the *code* itself?"
It's a key part: but it turns out that there are many other things that are key to software
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Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
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Always reblog. Happy Easter!
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Always reblog. Happy Easter!
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i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc
April 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc
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HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
March 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
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It's infuriating that the "we need to repeal Section 230 so we can sue Meta and Elon Musk" never ask themselves what a lawsuit would do to Meta or a half-trillionaire vs an individual running a forum or Mastodon instance using the $50 left over from their paycheck.
I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.
March 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It's infuriating that the "we need to repeal Section 230 so we can sue Meta and Elon Musk" never ask themselves what a lawsuit would do to Meta or a half-trillionaire vs an individual running a forum or Mastodon instance using the $50 left over from their paycheck.