Anil gets it devastatingly right yet again
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
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January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Anil gets it devastatingly right yet again
I read this a few days ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since. ai slop images aside, I am truly disheartened with the direction my profession is headed. not that I'm blaming the author—he's probably an early harbinger of things to come—but I became a software engineer to avoid this shit.
Steve Yeggie wrote up his skeumorphic / Mad Max analogy driven multi-agent coding, Gas Town.
This is obviously ridiculous but also I do sort of love the idea of having a more conversant language, having more distinct roles identities tasks and ceremonies.
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
This is obviously ridiculous but also I do sort of love the idea of having a more conversant language, having more distinct roles identities tasks and ceremonies.
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
Welcome to Gas Town
Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
steve-yegge.medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 AM
I read this a few days ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since. ai slop images aside, I am truly disheartened with the direction my profession is headed. not that I'm blaming the author—he's probably an early harbinger of things to come—but I became a software engineer to avoid this shit.
30 years later this graphic design still slaps
From the first year of the program, here is a Music For Nimrods flyer circa 1996. Made at the Kinko's on Vine, I spared no expense and opted for the Astrobright card stock. The flyers were then left at my favorite record, book and video stores in Los Feliz and Hollywood.
January 5, 2026 at 1:35 AM
30 years later this graphic design still slaps
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This was a fun story to write, stick around to the end for a speed run through the past 500 million years of climate history
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
December 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This was a fun story to write, stick around to the end for a speed run through the past 500 million years of climate history
no appliances in my house should ever make any noise for any reason at all. I do not need boops when I set my oven to 375. I do not need beeps when the microwave is done cooking something. I do not need to hear yankee doodle dandy when the dishes are done. everything just shut up
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
no appliances in my house should ever make any noise for any reason at all. I do not need boops when I set my oven to 375. I do not need beeps when the microwave is done cooking something. I do not need to hear yankee doodle dandy when the dishes are done. everything just shut up
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I maintain fb opening up to non .edu accounts was a mistake and is part of how we ended up in the land of minion memes and Ai-generated sob stories.
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I maintain fb opening up to non .edu accounts was a mistake and is part of how we ended up in the land of minion memes and Ai-generated sob stories.
ah, a fellow dodger stadium enjoyer!
EVERYBODY CLAP YOUR HANDS
It's the bottom of the third in a 1-0 game with a 2-1 count and no outs.
It's the bottom of the third in a 1-0 game with a 2-1 count and no outs.
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
ah, a fellow dodger stadium enjoyer!
while burping her, my six week old just turned to me and said "the world you grew up in—the world in which Detlef Schrempf played for the Seattle SuperSonics—no longer exists. it will never exist again. never forget what they've taken from you." wondering what she meant by this..?
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
while burping her, my six week old just turned to me and said "the world you grew up in—the world in which Detlef Schrempf played for the Seattle SuperSonics—no longer exists. it will never exist again. never forget what they've taken from you." wondering what she meant by this..?
at cafe gratitude in LA all the menu items are "affirmations" and when I tried to avoid saying it by just ordering "the enchiladas" the server said "You Are Bountiful! got it!" smdh
if i were at ihop right now i would never say "rooty tooty fresh n fruity" to someone. i would rather point at the picture like a baby than say that series of words out loud . and thats the #IHOPRant #rants #foodrant #restaurantrant
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
at cafe gratitude in LA all the menu items are "affirmations" and when I tried to avoid saying it by just ordering "the enchiladas" the server said "You Are Bountiful! got it!" smdh
baby slept six consecutive hours last night. I'm back baby. please ignore all that stuff I posted about the mythbusters going to the Epstein island or whatever. that was essentially a different person who posted that.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
baby slept six consecutive hours last night. I'm back baby. please ignore all that stuff I posted about the mythbusters going to the Epstein island or whatever. that was essentially a different person who posted that.
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Wrote strange a story for @sciam.bsky.social about where on Earth you'd put a time capsule if you wanted to find it as far in future as possible. Maybe bury a laser-etched zircon in Namibia and hope it erodes out of central mountain range of Pangaea Ultima? www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Could a Time Capsule Outlast Plate Tectonics?
A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun
www.scientificamerican.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wrote strange a story for @sciam.bsky.social about where on Earth you'd put a time capsule if you wanted to find it as far in future as possible. Maybe bury a laser-etched zircon in Namibia and hope it erodes out of central mountain range of Pangaea Ultima? www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
saddened to learn both of these guys were on the epstein list. gave a joint talk on the island actually: "Gravitation and the Laws of Attraction: What the Universe Tells Us About... Ourselves" 😔😔😔
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
saddened to learn both of these guys were on the epstein list. gave a joint talk on the island actually: "Gravitation and the Laws of Attraction: What the Universe Tells Us About... Ourselves" 😔😔😔
it brings me no pleasure to report that the entire cast of Mythbusters is in the Epstein files. even the walrus looking guy and also the crash test dummy. 😔
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
it brings me no pleasure to report that the entire cast of Mythbusters is in the Epstein files. even the walrus looking guy and also the crash test dummy. 😔
judging by my friends' stories on instagram they now let you use Benguiat (the Stranger Things font) for text overlays. this is my personal 9/11.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
judging by my friends' stories on instagram they now let you use Benguiat (the Stranger Things font) for text overlays. this is my personal 9/11.
sure nice of evolution to endow infants with the ability to crack off a 100dB death rattle in response to horrific threats such as "parent gently putting you down to sleep". I'm sure that was lovely when we were all
silently hiding from megapredators in paleolithic ice caves
silently hiding from megapredators in paleolithic ice caves
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
sure nice of evolution to endow infants with the ability to crack off a 100dB death rattle in response to horrific threats such as "parent gently putting you down to sleep". I'm sure that was lovely when we were all
silently hiding from megapredators in paleolithic ice caves
silently hiding from megapredators in paleolithic ice caves
turns out I'm the kind of guy who finds palpable joy and gratefulness in being able to get into my car, play the music of my choosing, and pilot that mechanical beast to pick up my to-go order at a nearby restaurant. this personality quirk of mine has saved me approx $24000 in doordash fees.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
turns out I'm the kind of guy who finds palpable joy and gratefulness in being able to get into my car, play the music of my choosing, and pilot that mechanical beast to pick up my to-go order at a nearby restaurant. this personality quirk of mine has saved me approx $24000 in doordash fees.
been watching a lot of 3am cricket recently, as my infant daughter lies on top of me, filling her diaper with fluids of every conceivable color and consistency. anyway cool sport, I like when the dudes have to run around holding their bats.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
been watching a lot of 3am cricket recently, as my infant daughter lies on top of me, filling her diaper with fluids of every conceivable color and consistency. anyway cool sport, I like when the dudes have to run around holding their bats.
[when my five year old kid and two week old baby let me get a good night's sleep] life is beautiful. I am a link in the eternal human chain. I can die happy.
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
[when my five year old kid and two week old baby let me get a good night's sleep] life is beautiful. I am a link in the eternal human chain. I can die happy.
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
I'm sure I'm on a million of these block lists because I riled up the Zitron zombies with my "pro-AI" opinions like "AI is taking jobs away and that's bad", but I'll never check, and wouldn't care if I were. if people want to trust others to mass-mute their feeds for them that's none of my business!
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I'm sure I'm on a million of these block lists because I riled up the Zitron zombies with my "pro-AI" opinions like "AI is taking jobs away and that's bad", but I'll never check, and wouldn't care if I were. if people want to trust others to mass-mute their feeds for them that's none of my business!
weird, all the talk that filtered into my feed about the nazi tattoo guy made me think it was a republican with a swastika. turns out he's just one of those hefty dropkick murphy guys who starts the pit for the opener and picked the wrong flash off a wall in Zagreb when he was 18
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
weird, all the talk that filtered into my feed about the nazi tattoo guy made me think it was a republican with a swastika. turns out he's just one of those hefty dropkick murphy guys who starts the pit for the opener and picked the wrong flash off a wall in Zagreb when he was 18
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More and more we're landing on LLMs are incredibly useful if what you're doing doesn't actually matter.
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
More and more we're landing on LLMs are incredibly useful if what you're doing doesn't actually matter.
I think on Bluesky the "social media swarm" has self-optimized over the past year into something completely worthless. even if I agree with the crowd's sentiment it's just so tiresome to see the same idea said 800 slightly different ways by avatars of fat sexual raccoons
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I think on Bluesky the "social media swarm" has self-optimized over the past year into something completely worthless. even if I agree with the crowd's sentiment it's just so tiresome to see the same idea said 800 slightly different ways by avatars of fat sexual raccoons