Luiz E.
@kowalski.bsky.social
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Todo mundo vinha declarando que o fim do jornalismo estava próximo, ele chegou.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Todo mundo vinha declarando que o fim do jornalismo estava próximo, ele chegou.
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Sempre bom lembrar que o fascismo é, psicologicamente, o movimento político dos ressentidos.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Odeio esse vídeo porque ele me lembra que artistas medíocres ressentidos abraçam o fascismo com tudo
📍 São Paulo - Estádio do Morumbis
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sempre bom lembrar que o fascismo é, psicologicamente, o movimento político dos ressentidos.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
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AI efficiency gains are utter and complete bullshit.
WARN filings expose 4.7k of Amazon's 14k cuts last month. 500 PMs were laid off while engineers (1,800 laid off) were hit hardest, mostly SDE IIs which refutes the "management bloat" narrative.
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AI efficiency gains are utter and complete bullshit.
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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
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People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.
I like Mastodon's approach to IDs using Snowflake, and I packaged it into a gem that integrates with Rails github.com/luizkowalski...
GitHub - luizkowalski/snowflake_id: 💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL
💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL - luizkowalski/snowflake_id
github.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I like Mastodon's approach to IDs using Snowflake, and I packaged it into a gem that integrates with Rails github.com/luizkowalski...
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Everything I want I can afford, because if I can’t afford it then I don’t want it. A philosophy that has served me well for decades.
August 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Everything I want I can afford, because if I can’t afford it then I don’t want it. A philosophy that has served me well for decades.
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Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
August 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
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Playing Watchdogs 2 and it has a long prelude explaining the world where it’s like “every company is selling your data, people are profiling you and assigning a dollar value” and every time I start up the game it goes HOW ABOUT YOU SYNC THIS WITH AN UBISOFT ACCOUNT & TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
July 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Playing Watchdogs 2 and it has a long prelude explaining the world where it’s like “every company is selling your data, people are profiling you and assigning a dollar value” and every time I start up the game it goes HOW ABOUT YOU SYNC THIS WITH AN UBISOFT ACCOUNT & TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
I've been using Conductor (conductor.build), and it is insane what it can do. I revamped useswitchboard.app UI in record time
Switchboard
useswitchboard.app
July 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I've been using Conductor (conductor.build), and it is insane what it can do. I revamped useswitchboard.app UI in record time
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Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.
Germany in 2025
In 1948, President Mariano Ospina of Colombia signed a "tax on single men".
It imposed a 15% income tax for all colombian men above 35 who weren't married. This rule was in force for 12 years.
It imposed a 15% income tax for all colombian men above 35 who weren't married. This rule was in force for 12 years.
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Germany in 2025
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Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
me on every PR: "@/grok is this true?"
May 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
me on every PR: "@/grok is this true?"
yeah, I’m a big AWS fan (Apache Web Server)
April 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
yeah, I’m a big AWS fan (Apache Web Server)
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FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.”
#SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸
#SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸
April 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.”
#SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸
#SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸
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This is going to be the experience of lots of MAGA people who fail to realize how much their livelihood depends on imported products.
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
April 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is going to be the experience of lots of MAGA people who fail to realize how much their livelihood depends on imported products.
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
I reworked my "double click to submit" button component and wrote about it luizkowalski.net/double-click...
Double-click to submit form pattern with Stimulus (revisited)
Some months ago, I wrote about something I built, a component to submit forms with a double-click, where the user has to confirm the action, potentially avoiding miss-clicks and doing something irreve...
luizkowalski.net
April 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I reworked my "double click to submit" button component and wrote about it luizkowalski.net/double-click...
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This is going to be the vibe coding version of the Chernobyl disaster, a wholly preventable failure caused by a combination of hubris, incompetence and design flaws.
March 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is going to be the vibe coding version of the Chernobyl disaster, a wholly preventable failure caused by a combination of hubris, incompetence and design flaws.
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Cloudflare is now offering a feature called “AI labyrinth” where it serves a series of AI generated pages to AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt directives.
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 😈
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 😈
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.
arstechnica.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Cloudflare is now offering a feature called “AI labyrinth” where it serves a series of AI generated pages to AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt directives.
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 😈
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 😈