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Ok, I guess I'm here now. Milwaukee, software, devex, trail running, triathlon, art... All of them with astounding mediocrity. Streaming to the void at https://youtube.com/@FriendsWithCode.
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Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

submitted 38 days ago • 127 comments

me solving a rubiks cube: algorithm based on mnemonics... more mnemonics....more mnemonics....COMPLETE BLACKOUT WHILE MY HANDS PERFORM WIZARDRY BASED ON MUSCLE MEMORY...mnemonics, mnemonics, done. I am astonished every single time that middle part works out and I don't understand what's happening.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

"I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Blink twice if you need help, YouTube ai caption robot.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, I am a creative professional. Generative AI is incredible and empowering, and will only get better. I love generative AI. In the last 12 months, my creative business has dropped more than 50%. I hate generative AI. Read more... reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This week's friday micro-improvement: a pre-commit hook to remind me when I've marked a file as `skip-worktree` from the git index. (Sometimes I want to keep a non-prod change locally, without accidentally including it in a commit.)

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

> Trump would be “a creative disposal strategy” sentence fragment of the year 👆

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

MY KINGDOM FOR A FIGMA CODE GENERATOR PLUGIN THAT *DOESN'T* USE AI.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

2 things I changed in my aerospace (nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/gu...) config while setting up a new laptop this week, both of which I am pretty excited about:

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

MY KINGDOM FOR AN LMS PLATFORM THAT USES THE KEYBOARD INSTEAD OF MOUSE INPUT ONLY!!!!!!!! IT'S 2025 WHY CAN'T I HIT ENTER TO PLAY THIS STUPID TRAINING VIDEO OR ADVANCE TO THE NEXT STUPID TRAINING VIDEO??!!?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Today I went whitewater rafting for the second the time in my life. We nearly flipped, the rower fell out, I chucked a rope across the river and dragged them in. It was....intense yet satisfying. I can see why people would do this. Also 10/10 sightseeing 😍😍😍😍.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Sssooooo today was my last day at Camunda! I wrote about my first experience as a "Developer Experience Engineer," and the things I'll take with me from that experience: www.stevenhicks.me/blog/2025/04... Shout out to all my friends at Camunda that I will miss dearly.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not sure who is a/b testing the new Spotify feature today that switches playback randomly between my laptop and my phone every ten minutes, but please add me back to the control group 🙅‍♂️

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I have been hemming and hawing about actually printing this shirt, practicing on white undershirts because I just could. Not. Get enough ink to transfer. I finally discovered a process that works reasonably well, and got this sucker printed.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

In an attempt to escape watching the great american collapse I've been finding time for art again. Working on a rainbow trout print to bring to my college bestie in a few weeks (which I *think* is his favorite fish but I guess we'll find out).

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 77 days ago • 115 comments

fr, if the COBOL works you just don't touch it.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Hey friends, come hang with me, @pav.vin, and @just-be.dev for a little dev show and tell in 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mve...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 87 days ago • 561 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 88 days ago • 156 comments

Uuuuggghhhh I just submitted a survey to our school district stating that my biggest concern with taking phones away from students all day is that, in the event of a school shooting, I want to get a text message from my kid that says they're okay. This is freedom? 👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

submitted 91 days ago • 152 comments