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BlueSky should hire me to make commercial breaks for the Discover feed: www.youtube.com/shorts/TxXqa...

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 1 day ago • 837 comments

One pitfall of traffic analysis like this is that it omits an important confounding variable: sites that generate new user-generated content quickly will be more likely to be targeted by net-new scraping traffic. www.elenaverna.com/p/ai-is-kill...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I have a little script called "report" that I run when I log into this particular dev box just to feel the sweet relief of my non-Bayesian anti-bot blocking tools hard at work. (These numbers are the result of the box being online for a whopping 3m13s).

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

One of the product folks I worked with at Slack has also entered into this space--way faster than I have lol They seem to have gone the React/Electron route, though I haven't confirmed. Here's "Emdash", their take on modern collaboration for distributed teams: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318...

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Whatever side of this you land on, one thing is for sure: they decided to remove this text entirely instead of adding clarifying language. Even if it’s harmless, the level of tone-deafness here with the change is concerning—especially because this feels like a pattern. github.com/mozilla/bedr...

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Migrating my technical content over to a new home on the information superhighway: jesselawson.dev (And finally migrated away from Eleventy and am 100% on Zola. Neat!)

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Q: Why is it so much easier for the US right to organize and be unified than the US left? A: Anti-Black racism. The only consistent thing that the right agrees on, is this. It's what unifies them. But the US left is very anti-Black too! So they try to get the benefits, without helping Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 145 comments

I had a long talk with another door-to-door solar sales person (MLMs for Young Men) and I think I managed to convince him that he was being exploited. We unpacked some of the ways “solar brokers” prey on ambitious and impoverished young men with promises of money and power. It’s BAD out there.

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 4 days ago • 1187 comments

I've been screaming this for years.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

i keep reading posts from people getting laid off in genuinely every possible tech industry you can imagine and it's so fucking insane that the thing people have to worry about isn't "can an AI do my job" but "can a very stupid person convince my boss that an AI can do my job"

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

It’s interesting, and perhaps telling, that the internet’s aesthetic shift from SHOPPED to image macros to AI slop has also gone from apolitical/bipartisan to explicitly rightwing. Feels like thats already putting a limit on how gen AI tools are used.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A bad hire can introduce friction. A bad management hire can introduce friction and also convert friction into dysfunction.

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The fact that Chris Best couldn’t answer Nilay Patel’s clearly softball question about Nazi rhetoric tells you all you need to know about where their priorities lie. lawsonry.com/substack/

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Aeva is right. Anti-trans bigotry is not only wrong, it hurts our national interest by keeping out or suppressing skilled and talented people.

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While dropping my kids off at school, their district wifi had my Cloudflare Pages site blocked due to malware. That was surprising! It appears that they use a service by Akamai, and this service has provided a broad stroke of denial to most if not all cloudflare IPs. Anyone else experienced this?

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If enough of us store byte arrays in our PDSs I’ll bet we can get a working binary that’s assembled at runtime. What a stupid idea lol Who’s going to do it

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My god this is disgusting. My compliments to the chef: corporate.watch

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I've just published my second crate: Tasty! Tasty is a command-line tool that runs API tests defined and grouped in TOML files. Inspired in part by @alilleybrinker.com's notion of "personal CLIs" and my philosophy of tools as home-cooked meals. crates.io/crates/tasty

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My morning affirmations leading into the afternoon today: Say them with me: "I'm not going to spend all day building a bespoke static site generator..." "I'm not going to spend all day building a bespoke static site generator..." "I'm not going to spend all day building a bespoke static site ge-

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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“I didn’t understand why moving a blocking operation to a tokio’s threadpool should cause this kind of problem. If there was a deadlock or something like that, then sure, but tasks being randomly killed after approximately ten seconds? That was super weird.” kobzol.github.io/rust/2025/02...

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“Tools, virtual or real, are the primitives of craftsmanship. I think that is why I love watching people who build tools. It is a form of meta-craftsmanship that makes me starry-eyed about what I could potentially build.” bencornia.com/blog/the-sou...

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Anti-DEI is an attack on civil rights by segregationists. Most white "allies" are completely silent while segregationists attack Black people and our civil rights. These silent "allies" without a shred of shame or self-awareness, fully expect Black voters to make sacrifices to save them at midterms

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

One of my former students reached out recently and asked for my opinion on their choice of tech stack for a saas they're building. I shared them some Google Apps Scripts I put together way back when I had a managed wordpress hosting company, which I realize was Zapier but with GAS and Sheets...

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I’ll forever be impressed by this person’s dedication to my browser clicker game Existence Simulator: jessesgames.itch.io/existence-si...

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All I do is write rust and `jj split -i` It's wonderful

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