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A long time ago, I deliberately got rid of the accent I grew up with, because in the UK it made me sound dumb to people from the South. Then I worked in Colombia and simplified the way I spoke even more. 10 years after that, and the consequence is that my accent is functionally American, and I… regret it quite deeply 😢

Having “maybe I should switch to being an Architect” thoughts about how much being an “engineer” sucks in 2026 🥲

Mental note: make sure to list a higher salary than I was previously making, even if I was comfortable enough at that amount, especially if the listing minimum is above that.

Curl had it's summer of bliss, @ecosystems is having it's Summer of Piss (taking) by security companies hammering the public api and ignoring the data license.

the masculine urge to use unstable apis

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Postgres database templates make pgtestdb’s per-test database isolation remarkably quick, around 100 ms of setup time, and within spitting distance of River’s schema-based approach.

Wrapping up the series.

Attached: 1 image Lego has released a French revolution commemorative collection.

Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …

i just realized you can do `git show <ref>:<file>` and this is a life-altering experience for me

i'm sick, this dog is living my best life

one thing I’ve seen a number of times is people say that they’re bad at writing and an LLM can do it better as someone who has made a career off writing, I would rather see your “bad” words than I would an LLM’s writing it’s a skill and getting better takes reps [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

My companies buzz word was paradigm. They weren't amused when I told them that paradigms is just twenty cents, so it was a two bit idea.

Celebrating 20 years with this one today! ( @kimmy.zip )

cuckingly optimizing my workflows

Anyone else get the fear when they get a dependabot update for anything called xz? https://github.com/git-pkgs/archives/pull/18

She's just like me

United States losing by 3 goals to a team wearing trans pride jerseys in Seattle 🙏

Cosy Christmas with lots of films

I knew that it would happen eventually, but I didn’t quite expect it to happen today. As of this post, myself and WebDevStudios have parted ways, after 13 years and 7 months. The type of work within…

Not a post I was expecting to write, but here I am https://michaelbox.net/2026/07/and-now-my-watch-has-ended/

A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and security researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code.

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How does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?

@wolf480pl please refrain from training JavaScript, it already knows too much

I haven’t been on LinkedIn (and thankful I don’t need to be) so I’m trying out @sifa.id https://sifa.id/p/justingarrison.com

nvm I figured it out

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Just realized I have personally donated $12,500 in last six year's , which is 0.01% of the total. Also my goal is to donate $50k to OSS by the time I retire, hope I can do that 😬

If I wasn't retired, I'd be going deep on LLMs to avoid getting fired, and remain marketable. However, I wouldn't allow an LLM to do work for me without eventually learning how to do it too. I'd use an LLM as a tool, not a replacement. I'd also start contributing to an open weight model as a hedge.

lol imagine being a spanish fan tonight staying up all night to party, flying back home tomorrow, and then having to go back into the office 2-3 weeks from now

Of all the themes in The Matrix, one of my favorites is the requirement of a land line to call the operator and exit the Matrix. Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking…none of it can be …

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From time to time, I have to admit that I just have too many tabs open. Which means I am not likely to get back to them any time soon. When that happens, I make a post like this and just link out to all the pages I’ve been holding open. That way, I can […]

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

i had to verify that it is not a shitpost and it is not a shitpost. Green commenters on HN have been more weird than usual.

me: "hey it's cool that we're friends" hacker news commenter: "do you know who else had a lot of friends? jeffery epstein" this is not a shitpost, it's an actual reply I just got

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💀people more concerned about not misgendering my kittens than they are about misgendering me. the cats aren't gonna give a fuck if you call them boys or girls my guy

oh man, one of my articles got onto hacker news and i have a new tagline for the blog!

In two weeks, @brittanyellich.com and I are running a workshop called "Putting Yourself Out There" for women and underrepresented genders in tech, here in Portland! It comes with a free ticket to Chain React. YOU SHOULD COME. https://ti.to/chainreact/chainreact2026/with/chain-react-conference-ticket-special-limited-time-copy

Man, @github.com sure does make it actively difficult to disallow Copilot reviews, both automatic and summoned by a user. Also not a fan of rolling out Copilot-related functionality and automatically opting you in. Thanks for creating work for us! Love that. Maintainers need more stuff to do.