Michael Melanson 🇨🇦
@michaelmelanson.net
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show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
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I am old. I’ve been through so many waves of hustle culture. Outside of occasional crunch times, the overwork is always unnecessary, performative nonsense that provides cover for some combination of bad ideas, abusive leadership, disorganization, a total lack of strategy etc etc.
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I am old. I’ve been through so many waves of hustle culture. Outside of occasional crunch times, the overwork is always unnecessary, performative nonsense that provides cover for some combination of bad ideas, abusive leadership, disorganization, a total lack of strategy etc etc.
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So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.
Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?
Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?
Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago
Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.
www.science.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.
Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?
Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?
Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.
IG risolve
IG risolve
July 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.
IG risolve
IG risolve
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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Yeah, this is on brand.
After Musk said Grok was improved "significantly", Grok wrote numerous antisemitic posts, sometimes without any clear prompting; some posts were later deleted (NBC News)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Yeah, this is on brand.
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If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
July 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
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Prime Minister Mark Carney laments Pride 'backlash' and rolls out money to make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safer
'We can take pride in how far we've come but we should also recognize there's far more to do,' PM says
/1 thread #Canada #PrideMonth
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
'We can take pride in how far we've come but we should also recognize there's far more to do,' PM says
/1 thread #Canada #PrideMonth
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney laments Pride 'backlash' and rolls out money to make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safer | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney raised a Pride flag on Parliament Hill Tuesday to kick off a month-long celebration of sexual and gender diversity while saying there's a brewing "backlash" to these sorts o...
www.cbc.ca
June 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Prime Minister Mark Carney laments Pride 'backlash' and rolls out money to make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safer
'We can take pride in how far we've come but we should also recognize there's far more to do,' PM says
/1 thread #Canada #PrideMonth
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
'We can take pride in how far we've come but we should also recognize there's far more to do,' PM says
/1 thread #Canada #PrideMonth
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Gives a whole new meaning to “personal software.” Scrappy, by @jrcpl.us and Pontus Granström, is a research prototype that helps you make software for just you and your friends. Hat tip: @scripting.com.
pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleApps
pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleApps
Scrappy
make little apps for you and your friends
pontus.granstrom.me
June 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to “personal software.” Scrappy, by @jrcpl.us and Pontus Granström, is a research prototype that helps you make software for just you and your friends. Hat tip: @scripting.com.
pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleApps
pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleApps
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americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois
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Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing
Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing
TORONTO - Following reports of Trump Cabinet members including journalists on private Signal threads, Trump officials have reportedly texted similar plans for an invasion of Canada to anchor of CBC's ...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing
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I don't think the average American grasps how concerned the average Canadian is about the annexation threat.
A lot of Americans are brushing it off a backburner ridiculous thing from Trump -- but here in Canada, our prime minister is literally telling us tariffs are part of an annexation plan.
A lot of Americans are brushing it off a backburner ridiculous thing from Trump -- but here in Canada, our prime minister is literally telling us tariffs are part of an annexation plan.
March 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I don't think the average American grasps how concerned the average Canadian is about the annexation threat.
A lot of Americans are brushing it off a backburner ridiculous thing from Trump -- but here in Canada, our prime minister is literally telling us tariffs are part of an annexation plan.
A lot of Americans are brushing it off a backburner ridiculous thing from Trump -- but here in Canada, our prime minister is literally telling us tariffs are part of an annexation plan.
Elbows up!
I greatly appreciate the general vibe in Canada about Trump’s Tariffs is…
Let’s fuckin’ go.
Let’s fuckin’ go.
March 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Elbows up!
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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
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I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...
Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.
railsatscale.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...
They had to make it weird. They could have just said “because it violated the terms of service”…
A swastika shirt would have been perfectly okay if not for fraud risk?
A swastika shirt would have been perfectly okay if not for fraud risk?
Internal message: Shopify's general council said Ye's store was banned because the swastika shirt listed for sale "brought with it the real risk of fraud" (The Logic)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
They had to make it weird. They could have just said “because it violated the terms of service”…
A swastika shirt would have been perfectly okay if not for fraud risk?
A swastika shirt would have been perfectly okay if not for fraud risk?
This is amazing and hilarious and I owe someone at @liberalparty.bsky.social a beer if I ever find out they made this.
🤡 pierresrecord.ca #canpoli
🤡 pierresrecord.ca #canpoli
20 years of Pierre Poilievre is enough.
Tune in to see Pierre's record over the past 20 years.
pierresrecord.ca
February 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is amazing and hilarious and I owe someone at @liberalparty.bsky.social a beer if I ever find out they made this.
🤡 pierresrecord.ca #canpoli
🤡 pierresrecord.ca #canpoli
Signed. ✍️
Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Signed. ✍️
“Al Capone in his syphilis phase” is such a great description of Trump’s second term so far.
With Trump we aren't seeing a return to gunboat diplomacy. It's more like Al Capone in his syphilis phase.
Here's my latest piece on dealing with the gangster president, Colombia and the value of roses.
Let's stand together against the politics of intimidation.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Here's my latest piece on dealing with the gangster president, Colombia and the value of roses.
Let's stand together against the politics of intimidation.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
TRUMP'S DIPLOMACY OF DISRUPTION
Roses and Rage in 2025
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Al Capone in his syphilis phase” is such a great description of Trump’s second term so far.
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I want to write a post about Pitchfork, but before I can get to that I need to share some thoughts.
I suspect this one may be more controversial than the optimizing JSON series 😅.
byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...
I suspect this one may be more controversial than the optimizing JSON series 😅.
byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...
The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much,...
byroot.github.io
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I want to write a post about Pitchfork, but before I can get to that I need to share some thoughts.
I suspect this one may be more controversial than the optimizing JSON series 😅.
byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...
I suspect this one may be more controversial than the optimizing JSON series 😅.
byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?