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this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.
Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!
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Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.
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Thought about this latest Ruby drama a lot. I ❤️ Rails and I’m thankful for it, so by association to DHH even if his political blog posts wind me up. Frankly, what he chooses to write is his business and I don’t think it affects Rails. Don’t read it if it gets you worked up. Life’s too short, srsly.
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Thought about this latest Ruby drama a lot. I ❤️ Rails and I’m thankful for it, so by association to DHH even if his political blog posts wind me up. Frankly, what he chooses to write is his business and I don’t think it affects Rails. Don’t read it if it gets you worked up. Life’s too short, srsly.
today i learned: les goddamns
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
today i learned: les goddamns
judging by my bluesky timeline, i'm guessing the thought leader has shared another piece of wisdom with his views on society.
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
judging by my bluesky timeline, i'm guessing the thought leader has shared another piece of wisdom with his views on society.
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Diverse cities where strangers from different backgrounds respect, welcome, and care for each other are literally the most amazing thing to ever come out of civilization.
It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.
It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Diverse cities where strangers from different backgrounds respect, welcome, and care for each other are literally the most amazing thing to ever come out of civilization.
It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.
It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.
Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.
July 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.
ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.
July 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.
Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:
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This is an important question to ask. When mandatory ID verification is proposed, some of the first questions should be about how that data is going to be maintained, protected, and destroyed.
I wonder when we will see the first leak of children’s PII or IDs collected for ID verification schemes in the name of child safety
The only mitigating thing here is that the map doesn't contain PII, just user IDs. But still unbelievable* that this company promoted itself as a safe space for women and asked for driver's license photos and promised to delete verification images and did not and lost custody of 13,000 of them.
July 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is an important question to ask. When mandatory ID verification is proposed, some of the first questions should be about how that data is going to be maintained, protected, and destroyed.
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When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.
July 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.
"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.
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Your timeline has been blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
July 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Your timeline has been blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays
Migrating from Twilio's Authy -- because it refuses to run on my Onyx Boox Note Air 3C, despite the system being unrooted and secure -- to Bitwarden Authenticator and I already love the latter. Syncing the 2FA keys in Bitwarden Vault is *chef's kiss*.
(FIDO migration alongside)
(FIDO migration alongside)
July 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Migrating from Twilio's Authy -- because it refuses to run on my Onyx Boox Note Air 3C, despite the system being unrooted and secure -- to Bitwarden Authenticator and I already love the latter. Syncing the 2FA keys in Bitwarden Vault is *chef's kiss*.
(FIDO migration alongside)
(FIDO migration alongside)
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Privatisation is always the same.
Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases.
No one wins apart from shareholders.
Successful privatisation in the UK:
… … … *tumbleweed*
Unsuccessful:
❌ Water
❌ Energy
❌ Rail (service, tracks)
❌ Post
Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases.
No one wins apart from shareholders.
Successful privatisation in the UK:
… … … *tumbleweed*
Unsuccessful:
❌ Water
❌ Energy
❌ Rail (service, tracks)
❌ Post
Royal Mail can deliver 2nd letters every other weekday and not on Saturdays.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
How long before 2nd class post vanishes?
Email damaged RM, privatisation destroyed it.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
How long before 2nd class post vanishes?
Email damaged RM, privatisation destroyed it.
Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays
Regulator Ofcom says fewer second class deliveries will help Royal Mail cut costs.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Privatisation is always the same.
Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases.
No one wins apart from shareholders.
Successful privatisation in the UK:
… … … *tumbleweed*
Unsuccessful:
❌ Water
❌ Energy
❌ Rail (service, tracks)
❌ Post
Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases.
No one wins apart from shareholders.
Successful privatisation in the UK:
… … … *tumbleweed*
Unsuccessful:
❌ Water
❌ Energy
❌ Rail (service, tracks)
❌ Post
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GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵
Reviewing large pull requests just got a major upgrade. Try out our faster, more accessible Files changed tab—now in public preview.
Click “✨Try the new experience” in the upper-right corner of any pull request. (You can switch back at any time!)
Comment your feedback here. ⬇️
gh.io/new-files-ch...
Click “✨Try the new experience” in the upper-right corner of any pull request. (You can switch back at any time!)
Comment your feedback here. ⬇️
gh.io/new-files-ch...
July 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
June 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it
June 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it
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I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community.
I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?
No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.
I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?
No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.
June 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community.
I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?
No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.
I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?
No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.
My new laptop has an integrated GPU and a 2800x1800 screen, a combination which makes running new games sound impossible. But thanks to Gamescope's integer scaling and this iGPU being pretty decent (HX370), I got Oblivion Remastered look decent (no blur) and run at 35+ fps.
June 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My new laptop has an integrated GPU and a 2800x1800 screen, a combination which makes running new games sound impossible. But thanks to Gamescope's integer scaling and this iGPU being pretty decent (HX370), I got Oblivion Remastered look decent (no blur) and run at 35+ fps.
Heroku's outage now lasts over an entire work day and their communication on the matter is bad. Even their status page had an outage and there's no details on what's happening beyond "Engineers are continuing to investigate an issue accessing Heroku services.".
June 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Heroku's outage now lasts over an entire work day and their communication on the matter is bad. Even their status page had an outage and there's no details on what's happening beyond "Engineers are continuing to investigate an issue accessing Heroku services.".
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Almost every job I've left has been entirely because of this. Find a place where you're valued, and once that stops being true find another.
A piece of career advice I give people I mentor is to go where you are valued. It means it’s important to be in a role where you are respected, recognized and rewarded.
Sometimes despite tenure, it’s better to leave and accelerate your career trajectory versus staying where you’ve been written off.
Sometimes despite tenure, it’s better to leave and accelerate your career trajectory versus staying where you’ve been written off.
May 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Almost every job I've left has been entirely because of this. Find a place where you're valued, and once that stops being true find another.
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This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others)
These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.
They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.
These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.
They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.
May 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others)
These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.
They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.
These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.
They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.