Ben Schwarz
benschwarz.bsky.social
Ben Schwarz
@benschwarz.bsky.social
Founder & Product developer @ calibreapp.com. Into sustainability, online privacy, cycling, photography, music, hiking, native country and creative pursuits 🌞
That’s the thing: a mild criticism of well documented, visible and studied negative impacts results in a tantrum.

These are just loud mouth, badly behaved children with over subscribed salaries. Intolerable, and no idea.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Exactly!! If the thing that’s gonna “solve cancer in 5 years” can’t read a markdown file without busywork from humans, what is the point? Boiling an ocean for that?
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How dare you for clearly, calmly pointing out very obvious things to the little genius. The manosphere is not going to be pleased. 🤪
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is there a centralised repo or list of examples that are already part of discussions?
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
And yet the energy cost for that quality level of output was enormous, it’s a con
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Reposted by Ben Schwarz
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Congrats on shipping 🥂

Looks like a great tool you’ve built there
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Who said I was offended? I was pointing out that Bsky leadership made a very poor decision, which made me question their viability as a platform that can be “nice”.

Being critical of something doesn’t mean I’m bent out of shape, it means I’m disappointed. Why shouldn’t we expect better?
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Look, I don’t think you are in the position to say what people should or shouldn’t get offended by.

In case you weren’t aware, 28k people signed a petition calling for bsky to uphold their own community guidelines on an abusive user. The ceo instead mocked them.

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November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And, how can your platform discourage people who intentionally post bad faith content in the first place? Wouldn’t that be nicer? just curb their virility entirely.

I get it’s hard and requires some courage, but isn’t it worth getting weird and trying something different?

Harm reduction works.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
How do you reconcile that Bluesky should be a nicer place while the ceo was intentionally trolling people with the infamous “waffles” post a month or two ago?

That didn’t feel nice at all, and felt just like another group of tech people who say they get it, but constantly show that they do not.
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I despise these stupid little boys
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I want this in the Ruby stdlib, and… everywhere
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Rental agents and landlords really need to get on the level of understanding that leasing a property should be a straight up business relationship with no strings attached.

Maintain the property, so it’s fit for purpose, and no double dipping.
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
No kidding! Tiny men don’t like to be challenged to grow by staff.

They’re not emotionally intelligent enough to accept any form of feedback, especially from a “subordinate”.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Renters need to stop disclosing if they have pets. Imagine if they had to disclose they had children! It’s an unacceptable ask.

(And, kids are quite good at putting their fingers through fly screens, drawing on walls, dropping things etc. likely far worse than most pets).
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The secret hack analytics companies don't want you to know
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM