The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
I was the absolute BEST parent before I had kids. The way I had everything all figured out. Zero screen time, no juice, organic veggies, kids that would have patience and an attention span... My goodness.
None of those things worked out the way I thought they would 😂
I have blamed
The agents
That hacked
Your website
And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled
Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
They said like a 10% risk that isn't actually backed up by any facts. They made it up. But you know what is 100% risk to humanity backed up by science and data? Climate change. Why don't people focus on actual risk to humanity?
When I said goodbye to The Changelog in March, people asked me about this bit: Part of me wants to go get a software engineering job. Part of me wants to keep creating content. Part of me wants to …
Here’s a smattering of things I found interesting lately. Tools, articles, silos, and insults to all programmers.
Silo
I haven’t been this into a sci-fi / mystery box series since Lost.1 The setup:
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.
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Earlier this week I unsubscribed from #1Password and moved to #Bitwarden... due to their donation of 300k to DHH's #Omarchy.
I made sure to let them know about the reason, so that hopefully the company would notice those kind of decisions have an impact.
Day one I got messages from their AI system.
But today I got a response by a real human at 1Password (or so it appears).
If you are curious about the company's official response to the backlash, check out the screenshot (and/or #AltText)
Been experimenting with a tool for scanning git repos for detecting certain kinds of files and the tool I made appears to be hundreds of times faster than the existing alternatives, which just leaves me questioning what I’m doing wrong 😑
real quick:
you won't see my posting about the omarchy stuff much because i try to give dhh as little of a space in my brain as possible
keep on doing you though. my silence here doesn't mean i'm into it or whatever, or that i think yinz should not talk about it. i'm just not gonna
I'm still a huge proponent of the idea of distribution channels for packages where "production" is expected to be the slimmest functional build of your package and "development" includes markdown files, test directories, and other "useful" stuff that doesn't need to be in my production machine
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I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it. I embedded the post, but you can go to it directly…
including DHH on your website as an open source project in 2026 *is* a political statement, regardless of whether or not you feel like it is
we've learned over and over again that there won't be consequences for such statements, but it does help tell people who they can trust
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I could have just ordered a burger withou- are you listening to yourself? the metaphor is falling apart around your hole-poking, you clearly get assigned a specific combo meal at birth
Okay you know how they say that the way most people experienced the fall of the roman empire is that one day the bridge collapsed and nobody came around to fix it?
not sure how many years of my life this interaction took off 😆
to be clear, if you bully _anyone_, whether a maintainer or a user, in a repo I maintain, you will be banned from interacting with all orgs I administer on github.
and if you see bullying behaviour anywhere, please report it 🙏
Weekend by the lake, We stayed in a cabin in a Gloucestershire nature reserve, with Log House Holidays https://loghouseholidays.co.uk
📍 Monty's Retreat, Cotswold District, England, GB
#GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:j5ksi3y4tdtbp7vpsxsfyask/gallery/3msanqlduwx2e