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I've always felt like I needed to earn love - and if it comes easily, I get suspicious. (Will draw strategies for this soon!) Also pre-order my book <3 link.tree/adhdalien/

so excited to get this in folks' hands and to see what people build with it! it’s been a lot of work getting here & i'm proud of where it's at check it out, bang on it, break it, see where it doesn't work. let's make sure this is something we're all excited about & can take pride in building on

The most significant extension to the protocol since launch—atproto spaces—is now officially alpha software you can start testing with. Here's more about the goals and how to start testing. atproto.com/blog/atproto...

ADHD Coping Mechanisms 101: ADRENALINE 1) Avoid starting 2) Panic sets in 3) Finally start 4) Get stuck on one detail 5) Rabbit hole 6) Meltdown about wasted time 7) Stay up as long as it takes (perfectionistic fear of failure) 8) Pull it off 9) Burnout recovery 10) Repeat

Seize the means of spreadsheet production

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vaguely annoyed to see the "I called it" posts in response to blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s... we knew this was possible when we built crates.io. everybody knows that it was possible. you are downloading and executing code off the internet.

FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐

claude's hands look like this, so my hands can look like that

I wrote this just over a year ago. Things got worse as I expected but there are also bright spots I did not expect. A new generation of young and energetic public servants like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed who want America’s power & wealth to help people not cater to billionaires and lobbyists

nice day for a new protocol

the atproto space race has officially begun

Jerry Falade and Jason Arday are two sides of the same coin: a Black person can’t be this smart, so it must be plagiarism/AI/pick-your-poison. AI will make this worse. Every Black intellectual achievement can be dismissed as Claude/ChatGPT with no evidence while the accused suffers the damage.

I see two key drivers behind Chinese citizens being more enthusiastic about AI than Americans. 1. Tech has primarily lifted people out of poverty in China in recent decades while automation killed manufacturing jobs in the U.S. 2. It’s illegal to fire people and replace them with AI in China.

They're getting along so well 😊

This is the first year of my career that I’ve gotten more LinkedIn outreach from former coworkers looking for work than recruiters. Is the tech job market really that bad?

Exactly what you’d expect when you put a guy who collects raccoon dicks and snorts cocaine off of toilet seats in charge of protecting our food supply.

to throw a flag when they go out of bounds

OpenCode is now defending OpenCode 1. wakes on schedule 2. finds scammers in our inference data 3. executes them 4. takes notes and goes to sleep good night

smoke (and active fire?) in PNE cascades, I-90 corridor east of Snoqualmie pass

Looooool @hailey.at what have you done 😂

Anyone interested in testing out my tree app prototype? It’s invite only rn because I have no interest in running a social app but if people want to collect tree pictures with me and give feedback I’d be happy to

One thing aggressive blocking reveals is that harebrained trolling bait posts are always coming from the same people; I barely see them anymore unless someone makes an actual quote post screenshot.

“I’ve heard a data center is being built in my neighborhood and I’m excited for all jobs it will create”

Slack just announced Slack Code which lets people tag AI agents like Claude Code, Devin or Copilot to create a channel where everyone can see the plan, code diffs and previews, then approve risky actions. This effectively makes vibe coding collaborative.

Beyond “originally pitching this” which the article cites as my only involvement, I also put a fair bit of effort into driving this resolution at the recent Berlin F2F, together with @tabatkins.com. I’m *delighted* we convinced the WG to do it. It will be a gamechanger for CSS utility classes! 🎉

So many career/life skills boil down to seeing things from someone else’s pov and focusing on value for THEM, not YOUR needs. The only variable is who you’re empathizing with (friends, customers, biz partners, etc). Perhaps Empathy is as fundamental as Math and should really be taught at school?

I need to put some real thought into this but there’s a strange sort of summoning magic we can perform in our lives. create the right conditions, send the right signals, and it will happen. maybe a bit woo woo, but I’m increasingly convinced that whatever you believe yourself to be, you’re right

@brettcodes.bsky.social appreciated watching your video on why you stopped using AI. Recently talked with Casey Muratori who also doesn't use it. Could I message you somewhere? Or you can also send me DM.

Also not a hot dog but felt thematic

The reason this works isn’t because LLMs are amazing magic, it’s because our programming tools are all utterly broken. When an LLM can make a correctly working 100-line Python script in seconds from a short English sentence, it means Python is shit.

Sunset.

Prediction: highly modular codebases are going to become the default, even for very small software teams that would've previously built a monolith.

Quite anticlimactic that after all the hype about Fable, it’s ended up one of Anthropic’s least popular models because it’s simply too expensive to use. Opus 4.8 continues to be GOAT Anthropic model.

Health experts: THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION. Breaking changes will happen and database schemas may change without clean migrations. We strongly recommend that you do not migrate your real accounts to this version. Me migrating my main account to the spaces alpha PDS:

Ramp has launched an OpenRouter competitor called Router. Announcing the same week Stripe acquired OpenRouter is interesting. Payment companies have the clearest view of how much businesses are spending on AI and it seems clear that AI cost management is a huge opportunity. Long live tokenpinching

Interesting how different groups react differently to the same data. VCs see companies spending billions on API and so fund AI labs at crazy valuations. Ramp & Stripe see how much businesses are spending on AI and see a big opportunity in helping to reduce their costs because it’s unsustainable

welp, finally encountered something coding related that Sonnet wasn't smart enough to handle. Sonnet got a start of porting an assembly kernel another Go contributor had made, to a related problem space, but introduced a bug that caused it to infinite loop. /compact and /model opus, boom, fixed.

Stripe acquired OpenRouter because it believes "tokens are the central currency for companies building with AI" and companies will want to optimize across models not go all-in on any particular frontier model. Notably OpenRouter was founded by one of the co-founders of NFT marketplace, OpenSea.

brought a raincoat to an umbrella fight and lost (legs soaked)

so uh, today is a bad day to post our list of "how we work with AI" values, right?

who do I know who's a poweruser of vue-query/TanStack Query? 🙋‍♂️ (don't be shy!)

I ran a prompt for a completely new website without specifying *anything* about client-side architecture, just "keep code lean, modern, and elegant", curious to see whether Claude would use React. Apparently, to Claude "lean, modern, and elegant" meant "use no frameworks". Interesting. 🤔

Observed sequence of events: 1. Receive parcel. 2. 20 min later, get survey asking about the delivery (ignored). 3. 24 hours later, get notified the parcel has been delivered. Your question: Which company provides this service?

My 8yo's school had an open house today. We met her new teacher. I asked about computer usage in the classroom. She said "All computer usage will be purposeful. Btw we will not be using AI. AI has no place in 3rd grade." I was happy to hear that!

Yeah they're soo much better than before, nice work on this one!

That is kind of a good point tbh

every time I read “VSCode” I think it’s a fighting game

How about they rename E. coli after Trump instead?…

Few know this but Joe Spreadsheet and Professor DOS were an icon

This is the first year of my career that I’ve gotten more LinkedIn outreach from former coworkers looking for work than recruiters. I have no idea if my circumstances are unique or the tech job market is just that bad.

I thought the Zhang Yufeng (张玉凤) analogies were hyperbole. They're probably more accurate about Natalie Harp than literally any other theories!

Rip 💀

"it's almost like a Maslow's hierarchy of... awesome" — @marisamorby.com describing how self-efficacy has prerequisites like resilience, etc.

ornith 1.5 is out now!

@eurosky.social you have one public relay rn at relay1.eurosky.network, right? and any Jetstreams I missed?

Few science things to celebrate these days, but this is an amazing telescope that will give us among other things the first (tiny and fuzzy) direct images of many exoplanets.

I’m redoing my bedroom. I ordered the monkey wallpaper and everything. Muhahahahha. I can’t be stopped! 🙊 🙈 🙉

please don't judge the upside-down apostrophe in our caption @kelseyhightower.com @ashley.dev

If pretending intermediate tokens are "thinking" actually hurts performance, great. Then it'll get fixed. It's always so cringe to slap misleading words on technology the way some of these g'damn programmers who call themselves "AI researchers" love to do. arxiv.org/html/2504.09...

FINISH HIM* *missing semicolon at end of statement

I was looking for a photo of the G1 and discovered this wonderful site. The Mobile Phone Museum www.mobilephonemuseum.com

A great opportunity! Get to applying people.

The NDA for the Claude Toilet Early Access Program apparently means nothing to some people.

⚡lightspeed.ff ⚡ Re-released my one browser extension ~ (after long-needed updates and permissions removing) it's my favorite way to not use the mouse on the web ~ f ~ to go fast

Joined the Scotch Malt Whisky Society #stoked join me?! nerdy.dev/scotch-malt-...

Why are my posts (that I see in my feed) "Post not found" when I click into the thread… 🧐

Join us live on @whiskey.fm www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebA...

Quite anticlimactic that after all the hype about Fable, it’s ended up one of Anthropic’s least popular models because it’s simply to expensive to hele worth using. Opus 4.8 continues to be GOAT Anthropic model.

land acknowledgment for spreadsheet peoples

I've been doing some experiments with Pulsar, and I think I should have a better way to detect when a relay is doing something funky and should not be treated as authoritative 🤔

Anyone able to login to @firefox.com / @webdevs.firefox.com addon / developer area? I have an update to an extension I want to publish (that I've neglected for 3 years haha)

flag of spreadsheet peoples