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Pragmatic Bookshelf has 50% off nearly every book including mine: pragprog.com/titles/aapsq...
Use code "save50" to get the e-book for around $20. Please share in your backend engineering team chat. Check out quotes from past readers: andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
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Use code "save50" to get the e-book for around $20. Please share in your backend engineering team chat. Check out quotes from past readers: andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
Build fast, scalable PostgreSQL and Rails apps. Solve data growth, quality, and reliability challenges, for workloads from consumer Internet to enterprise SaaS.
pragprog.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pragmatic Bookshelf has 50% off nearly every book including mine: pragprog.com/titles/aapsq...
Use code "save50" to get the e-book for around $20. Please share in your backend engineering team chat. Check out quotes from past readers: andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Thanks for your support!
Use code "save50" to get the e-book for around $20. Please share in your backend engineering team chat. Check out quotes from past readers: andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Thanks for your support!
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I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
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After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
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Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...
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This is a DC area food bank that has helped laid off and unpaid government workers. They need help. If you have a few bucks to spare consider this charity. www.capitalareafoodbank.org?utm_referrer...
Food Bank for the Washington, DC, Region | Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.
www.capitalareafoodbank.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is a DC area food bank that has helped laid off and unpaid government workers. They need help. If you have a few bucks to spare consider this charity. www.capitalareafoodbank.org?utm_referrer...
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Today on my blog, I discuss My Fair Lady and why Henry Higgins would totally go for an AI girlfriend and why going "you are bigoted if you hate my GPTwife" sucks the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-inevitab...
The Inevitable Consequences of Sculpting your own Girlfriend
What My Fair Lady's original novel teaches us about AI
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A sculptor, Pygmalion makes a woman, Galatea, out of clay. Because she is made to his exact standards, she is imp...
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
October 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Today on my blog, I discuss My Fair Lady and why Henry Higgins would totally go for an AI girlfriend and why going "you are bigoted if you hate my GPTwife" sucks the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-inevitab...
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Idk why my art is popping off but I keep a tip jar here ko-fi.com/lmaoganma
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September 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Idk why my art is popping off but I keep a tip jar here ko-fi.com/lmaoganma
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After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
joel.drapper.me
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.
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As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...
The State Violence Apologia Machine
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We have this structured and almost procedural cycle of protest violence in the United States a lot. It goes like this:
1. Grievances bubble up en masse, and people the...
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September 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...
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Please stop immediately.
No ai was used to create this image.
No ai was used to create this image.
March 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Please stop immediately.
No ai was used to create this image.
No ai was used to create this image.
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Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
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I am available for freelance column , commentary and feature work on foreign policy lmk bluesky editors I’ll file on time and stuff :)
Hello. Writing for @cipolicy.bsky.social I wrote a breakdown of the place Marco Rubio occupies in Trump and Musk world and why it matters that mainstream republicans are willing to torch their foreign policy history internationalpolicy.org/publications...
Ordinary Republicans like Marco Rubio are Dismantling American Foreign Policy - CIP
Rubio is working with colleagues within the Trump administration to renege, avoid or otherwise thwart attempts to make good on financial and policy commitments in the international space.
internationalpolicy.org
March 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am available for freelance column , commentary and feature work on foreign policy lmk bluesky editors I’ll file on time and stuff :)
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conservative evangelicals spent a quarter century explicitly tying their religious identity to the most extreme and jingoistic forms of american nationalism up to and including embracing one of the worst degenerates this country has ever produced and they refuse to take responsibility for it
He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel
And the feeling isn’t good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
conservative evangelicals spent a quarter century explicitly tying their religious identity to the most extreme and jingoistic forms of american nationalism up to and including embracing one of the worst degenerates this country has ever produced and they refuse to take responsibility for it
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Trump paused military aid to Ukraine, I’ve paused access to my websites.
“Are we the baddies?“ Yes.
“Are we the baddies?“ Yes.
March 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Trump paused military aid to Ukraine, I’ve paused access to my websites.
“Are we the baddies?“ Yes.
“Are we the baddies?“ Yes.
This is probably why we need Sandi Metz herself to detangle our codebase
Don't know who to tell this to but I just had my Lead Dev earnestly ask me a very basic question about inheritance in Ruby and I'll be spiraling for a while if you need me
February 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is probably why we need Sandi Metz herself to detangle our codebase
Don't know who to tell this to but I just had my Lead Dev earnestly ask me a very basic question about inheritance in Ruby and I'll be spiraling for a while if you need me
February 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Don't know who to tell this to but I just had my Lead Dev earnestly ask me a very basic question about inheritance in Ruby and I'll be spiraling for a while if you need me
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wrote a blog post about transnational repression and why you cant skip over this term like its something egghead international studies people talk about ko-fi.com/post/Transna...
Transnational Repression and You: An American's 2025 Guide
BeanPaste published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
wrote a blog post about transnational repression and why you cant skip over this term like its something egghead international studies people talk about ko-fi.com/post/Transna...
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...