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this year (next month!) is 10 years since I left the abusive household I grew up in and stopped talking to my family very thankful for my chosen family, many of whom are here. I wouldn’t be alive right now without you.

@thcrt@fops.cloud You hire an army of senior developers to audit the AI results *or* you don't do AI. One of those is more expensive, the other is what you did before AI. It should be very clear that there's no "keep the AI but make it cheap and effective" path available.

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An existential moment for Duck Alignment Academy. I've mostly tried to keep the content evergreen. I have proto-thoughts on the Mastodon announcement, but I'm not sure if DAA is the right venue or if I should put it in the DAA newsletter or on my personal blog (or as a thread on Mastodon for maximum obnoxiousness)

Attached: 1 image I now have a page which automatically calculates how bad #linkrot is on my blog. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/link-rot/

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

Get a job at GitHub and make it happen.

You mean the same dipshit billionaire who was wrong about knowing how to rescue kids trapped in a cave *also* doesn't know shit about fighting fires? Elon Musk is not really a smart person, but the people that think he's smart are among the stupidest people the world has ever known.

I'm sorry and I know this is so incredibly petty, but I find it really hard to take a person's salty rant about open source seriously once I notice they hyphenate open source

Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts Grow up

We get robins on our bird feeders all the time but I finally caught one on camera in the snow 😄☃️

Having a lazy morning in bed with two cats and Kim and I can’t adequately express how content I am. Traveling to NYC the next 2 weeks, and I’m already looking forward to coming home to more of this.

This bar just said to transition

Liberals: We love LGBTQ+ folks. Their bosses: New policy: fuck LGBTQ+ folks. Liberals: Well, that’s ok too, we guess.

I never would have picked LinkedIn to be the last social network standing

i’ve often had men and women who had more power than me in a situation come up to me after i said the shit that had to be said and thank me and i hope you know i hold you in all in deep contempt [contains quote post or other embedded content]

What the fuck is the point of holding power if you don’t use it for good? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

One thing I am sick to death of is guys telling me on private backchannels that it's really cool how I speak up, because they "could never do that".

Attached: 1 image Wirecutter delivering the hottest of hot coffee today 🍵

TOC Other People's 2024 My 2024 Medical Errands Some Events Other Things 2024 Goals 2024 In Numbers Work, Travel, Learning On this site Elsewhere Content creation Media consumption Gaming Trivia Team …

Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS

Made this to visualise what I did in 2024 through annual activity heatmaps. - Aebel-Shajan/year-in-data

Joined tech 5 years ago and it’s disappointing to see where the industry is going year after year. Same can be said about society in general but it’s kind of astonishing to compare 2019 tech culture with now.

i was thinking about how i'd like to set some intentions for the new year but have been blocked. i have more time on my hands than ever in my life, so i'm currently working on navigating that without the paralysis that comes from having so many options and ideas, and adhd - a damn hottie disorder. then i realized tonight, while scouring the live laugh blog archive, that i wrote one of these posts when 2024 started, so let's start there.

After a few minutes of wondering what I’m looking at, the answer turns out to be: Saturn

As the year wrapped up, I spent some time reflecting on my transition from a CyberSecurity engineer to Principal engineer which inspired me to write a blog about the steep learning curve of writing quality coding and—how I used #rust to reinforce my skills. Check it out and let me know what you think! https://tilde.club/~chimbo/blog/posts/rust-learnings-and-journey.html #RustLang, #Rust, #SoftwareEngineering, #CodingJourney, #CareerChange, #CyberSecurity, #OpenSource, #TechBlog, #blog

Redis' creator on why blogging is fundamental for successful projects, his writing process, and AI in writing

New job at a company where I'm customer-facing (professional services). I still don't know how much I want to cross my personal brand with the company brand, but either way I gotta start blogging and doing conference talks or I'm never going to meet my quarterly objectives. I wonder if there's a sweet spot where you can leverage the company reputation to build your personal brand as much as you're helping to build the company brand. Perhaps @shanselman may have advice here? #NewJob #EnterpriseLife

My favorite feedback I’ve every received in my life was when @krisnova.net was on a stage talking about the book we wrote together and she said how good of a dad I am to my kids ❤️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

You shouldn't expect your job to be interesting or intellectually stimulating. Those are needs you fulfill in your free time, for example while you're driving to or from work

That's nice, @sessionize.com gave me a badge for being in the top 3% of speakers on their platform in 2024 https://sessionize.com/most-active-speakers-2024/ (Congrats @virtualized6ix.wtf who is top of the list!)

I am disturbed to think how far I would travel to be able to swing dance to a live rendition of the Super Mario Bros 2 overworld theme as excellent as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSVW_H0ZyA

why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots

Folks, do you think if Threads/Meta/Mark Zuckerberg were really that bad, John Mastodon himself would partner with them? Do you think they’d even be allowed in the Social Web Foundation? No, surely you’re mistaken. Otherwise, what does that say about John Mastodon and the Social Web Foundation? https://socialwebfoundation.org #SocialWebFoundation #Threads #Meta #Mastodon #partners #JohnMastodon #MarkZuckerberg

Weird sponsored LinkedIn messages peddling testosterone. Read the room people 😂 🏳️‍⚧️

Pardon the cross post, but this is evergreen. Going through your partner’s phone, email, etc is abuse. I don’t care how you rationalize it, there’s is never any reason to do it. If you don’t trust your partner, end the relationship, but don’t become an abuser to satisfy your curiosity.

Okay fuck it. I need to share these tonight. This was so much fun. 1st time tying someone else. Rigger: me Model: @emmie.bsky.social Photos: one by her and one by me.

My new vacuum cleaner changes colour depending on how dirty my floor is. Someone somewhere thought the most valuable use of technology was to be judgemental about how often I clean my house. Some real @internetofshit@mastodon.social stuff.

I have been asked before how I could be nonbinary since I have a big beard. So here is how, explained in 3 easy steps! 1) Be nonbinary 2) Dislike shaving 3) Prefer how I Iook with a beard. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. #NonBinary #enby #lgbtq

Attached: 1 image @aaronpk@aaronparecki.com were you not a fan of the Hue switches?

OH (tongue-in-cheek): "Remember: it's a marathon, not a sprint. But now to sprint planning..."

Attached: 1 image Spent the past year working with Piotr on #Log4j. What started as patches turned into deep dives into #SBOM, VEX, and securing supply chains. In 2025, we’re building a small #Maven-based tool to help #Java devs write more secure software. No big funding—just two folks in the trenches trying to get it right. Let’s talk if your company’s digging into SBOM or #OpenSource #security. We’re happy to share insights or lend a hand!