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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Long day.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Love this: “Instead of buying new clothes, take that money and go travel. Because people there haven’t seen your old clothes yet.”

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Dammit. I love em dashes — I wonder what this means about me.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

OH one of the devs on my teams: “So, I lost some uranium in my house and was looking for it...” ☢️ 🫠

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Breathe, my friends. Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My driver from the airport today in Toronto: “Last year, I was excited to see Trump win. I wanted to see him get in and shake things up. But now, now, I think we’ve got idiots on both sides and I’m worried there’s going to be a recession and people are going to go hungry because of it.”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

So, we’re on approach on a 777 and the ceiling is low. Something about how the pilot is flying feels like he’s on edge. I start thinking “pilot is gonna do it. He’s gonna hit the TO/GA switch”. Not five seconds later, thrust comes up and we’re zooming up.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

In retrospect, “guy who has long wanted to build payment services and mint crypto currencies to replace USD manages to get access to government payment mechanisms” wasn’t on my bingo card just yet. I guess I assumed it would be harder than that.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck it. It’s an “imma gonna put sugar in my coffee” kind of morning after reading up on the news.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Somebody wants to come along.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

With the big scale solutions costing so much capital, and in this case precipitated by embargo, Deepseek was inevitable. Simon Sinofksy writes: hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Reading Avery’s @tailscale.com post from earlier this month injected some optimism into my day. The c10k problem is now the c10000k problem. It’s a thought-provoking piece showing how we can do more than ever, with less than ever. Are we keeping up with our tools? tailscale.com/blog/living-...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Same! I was quite surprised to find out that the diagram wasn’t from the original work, but something that came 60 years later.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

beautiful. resonant. theoatmeal.com/comics/150_c...

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

duncan.dev/power-reveals

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Congrats to Blue Origin for making it to orbit!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

So much has happened already in 10 days of 2025 and my head is spinning, but I’m still pretty happy about settling into my refreshed terminal setup with Ghostty, Berkeley Mono, and Starship.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Thinking a lot about LA and the people I know there. I hope y’all are (and stay) safe.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments