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JD.503
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Tech Tejano into cloud, data, 400+ abandoned hobbies, and Minecraft

Product manager in the streets, really bad at folding my sheets

He/him
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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shoving someone's face directly in unfairness and telling them the rules they have built their lives around don't matter because you're in charge and they aren't triggers fury on the lizard brain level and it's a huge contributor to how autocracies fail
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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this is my response to like 99.9% of "LLMs can't write production-quality code" arguments. "production-quality code" is a mirage in virtually every workplace as far as I can tell. what works gets shipped.
If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
Actual Engineering Manager here.

Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide”

The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
January 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Glad to see that donating MCP hasn’t stopped Anthropic from cooking up bigger and better security nightmares
In a strong push into the healthcare sector, enterprise AI giant Anthropic has launched a dedicated set of tools under Claude for medical queries, mimicking rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health that launched just days earlier.
After OpenAI, Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare
In a powerful push for AI in healthcare, Anthropic has launched a dedicated set of tools under Claude for medical queries and research.
www.siliconrepublic.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I was already tentative about my Claude subscription, but they made the decision easy. What a dumb way to tank your goodwill with devs.
January 9, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One more VS Code clone bro, I swear just one more VS Code clone will fix AI bro.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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J Rod has more rushing TDs than the Ohio State qb, just Sayin
#heisman
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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LINEBACKER TOUCHDOWN RUN

J-ROD LINES UP AT QB AND RUNS IT IN FOR TEXAS TECH
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The 3rd amendment failed to consider reverse quartering
And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases.

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Warm #cfb take from a former member of two Big 12 bands who marched/taught drum corps:

The best college marching bands are HBCUs and it isn’t even close
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I will take their VM + file system pointed at some text files any day over a black box marketplace run by OpenAI, especially when model-neutral AI platforms with skills support start crawling out of the woodwork.

(Please start crawling out of the woodwork)
cote.io Coté @cote.io · Oct 22
Anthropic is building a PaaS. So far, it’s a PaaS for one user, I think. They've got isolated VM's/containers, they've thought out support languages for the major languages. simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/...
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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bro did you just challenge portland to express oppositional defiance in competitively creative ways bro
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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it's just weird how we phrase it as "remote doesn't work" despite all the evidence pointing otherwise, rather than an abject failure of management "i can only run teams if i can physically touch them" and "three hours of traffic and wearing headphones all day is peak productivity"
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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using a self-hosted email server:

"I hope this email finds you,
..."
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It’s weird that Apple’s translation app only offers Spain Spanish. The company based in a state with a huge Chicano population couldn’t even pick a dialect spoken on this side of the globe?

It’s even funnier that Live Translation is blocked in the EU
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed.
Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week.
🔗 skylight.social
skylight.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM