James Linnell
@jamesnl.bsky.social
Reading yet another article on users able to host illicit content on public website and the challenges of moderating content, and all I can think of is how Bluesky's original and lobste.rs permanent invite system solves all those problems significantly. Websites should be invite-only by default.
Lobsters
lobste.rs
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reading yet another article on users able to host illicit content on public website and the challenges of moderating content, and all I can think of is how Bluesky's original and lobste.rs permanent invite system solves all those problems significantly. Websites should be invite-only by default.
See a tuxedo post a tuxedo
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
See a tuxedo post a tuxedo
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Remembering Santorini
September 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Remembering Santorini
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CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
September 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
Annoyed that this wasn't disseminated more during the time of all of those layoffs. I had no idea until today that the layoffs were fueled in part by a change in tax code in 2017. qz.com/tech-layoffs...
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
qz.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Annoyed that this wasn't disseminated more during the time of all of those layoffs. I had no idea until today that the layoffs were fueled in part by a change in tax code in 2017. qz.com/tech-layoffs...
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I always respect and appreciate Go's tendency to not add anything and everything into the language with a more strict proposal process. I love Swift, but it's very much becoming C++ with the many ways of doing the same thing and a lot of syntactic sugar. <3 Go go.dev/blog/error-s...
[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language
Go team plans around error handling support
go.dev
June 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I always respect and appreciate Go's tendency to not add anything and everything into the language with a more strict proposal process. I love Swift, but it's very much becoming C++ with the many ways of doing the same thing and a lot of syntactic sugar. <3 Go go.dev/blog/error-s...
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hats off to a true MVP this month
November 18, 2024 at 6:11 AM
hats off to a true MVP this month
#coachella organizers need to be fired. Over three hours in traffic to park because their greed outweighs just providing free shuttle service for everybody. Fix your road signs, fix your intersections, and maybe consider using your app notifications properly for this hell.
April 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
#coachella organizers need to be fired. Over three hours in traffic to park because their greed outweighs just providing free shuttle service for everybody. Fix your road signs, fix your intersections, and maybe consider using your app notifications properly for this hell.
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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
April 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
I've still got it in these old bones
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I've still got it in these old bones
Cursed phrase I just read: "... an url ..."
Pronouncing URL like "curl" is extremely cursed, even though I pronounce cURL like "curl"
Pronouncing URL like "curl" is extremely cursed, even though I pronounce cURL like "curl"
February 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Cursed phrase I just read: "... an url ..."
Pronouncing URL like "curl" is extremely cursed, even though I pronounce cURL like "curl"
Pronouncing URL like "curl" is extremely cursed, even though I pronounce cURL like "curl"
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That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
I got my third immersive! I somehow have more three star than two star cards now.
Yet all I want is that damn Mew. Nine away 😭
Yet all I want is that damn Mew. Nine away 😭
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I got my third immersive! I somehow have more three star than two star cards now.
Yet all I want is that damn Mew. Nine away 😭
Yet all I want is that damn Mew. Nine away 😭
Why have I gotten incredible luck on this Venusaur event (five!!) and yet I'm still ten away from Mew 😭
December 4, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Why have I gotten incredible luck on this Venusaur event (five!!) and yet I'm still ten away from Mew 😭
Work is making me try GitHub Copilot. I'd really rather not send out proprietary code to another service, utilize unethically trained models, or need a crutch to do my job less well than I could.
November 22, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Work is making me try GitHub Copilot. I'd really rather not send out proprietary code to another service, utilize unethically trained models, or need a crutch to do my job less well than I could.
Good morning, my fresh haircut. May it restore my gay powers for another week please 🙏
November 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Good morning, my fresh haircut. May it restore my gay powers for another week please 🙏
I am very happy right now
November 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I am very happy right now
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When I’m interviewing I have a neat trick to sus out the culture really quick:
Ask the interviewer “when was the last time you were paged?”
If they look at their watch, run.
Ask the interviewer “when was the last time you were paged?”
If they look at their watch, run.
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 AM
When I’m interviewing I have a neat trick to sus out the culture really quick:
Ask the interviewer “when was the last time you were paged?”
If they look at their watch, run.
Ask the interviewer “when was the last time you were paged?”
If they look at their watch, run.
I should probably have at least one selfie on here
November 20, 2024 at 4:31 AM
I should probably have at least one selfie on here
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he’s picking his cabinet like this is an episode of the celebrity apprentice. he’s gonna put judge judy on the supreme court & nominate lightning mcqueen for secretary of transportation.
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
he’s picking his cabinet like this is an episode of the celebrity apprentice. he’s gonna put judge judy on the supreme court & nominate lightning mcqueen for secretary of transportation.
Seeing my applications to work at Apple slowly wither away to "Not Available" as they're being filled
November 18, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Seeing my applications to work at Apple slowly wither away to "Not Available" as they're being filled
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline