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Ruby on Rails software engineer who dabbles in all the cool tech Love Rails, but not monogamous—Rust, Gleam, and Golang keep things interesting. Breaking down tricky dev concepts so we all level up. Always learning, always building.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1968 comments

We live in an age of anti-intellectualism

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We need more of this energy

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

SWE-Bench tainted by answer leakage; real pass rates significantly lower https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130732

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The US Internal Revenue Service is expected to fire about 6,700 employees, a person familiar with the matter said, eliminating roughly 7% of the tax-collecting agency's workforce in the midst of the critical tax-filing season reut.rs/4i7Rqe1

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

How many days are we at now?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Governments and economists need to wake up and realize that GDP is a horrible metric to determine the health of an economy

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t see how we won’t have a recession given all the firings that’s been happening

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The rate at which planes are crashing while Trump is President is getting scary, and meanwhile he's played golf in Florida every one of the last 3 days. What is happening here?

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

This is more terrifying than Trump getting elected

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I will drop my bid to buy Twitter if Elon stops acting like an idiot

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

Concerning 🧐

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I think what I find interesting is that I agree with some of Musk’s talking points, I just disagree who the culprit is.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Inflation is so high at this point these rounding errors aren’t worth it anymore

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky writes:

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

This energy.

submitted 13 days ago • 645 comments

The more these tech companies show their true colors, the more attractive a crypto-free decentralized web appears

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is starting to get exhausting

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Selective outrage of the right.

submitted 18 days ago • 528 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have arrogated congressional power to themselves, Jonathan Chait writes: “The true urgent cause is to return that power to the legislature before the damage becomes irreversible.”

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

There is still beauty in this world

submitted 19 days ago • 1452 comments

President Donald Trump issued an executive order late last week canceling recently negotiated federal union contracts in an effort to target federal workers who had inked deals allowing telework. This followed previous efforts targeting telework more broadly. Here’s what happened and what it means.

submitted 19 days ago • 45 comments

Like with every single negotiation he does, Donold is going to lose and then declare victory and then his fans will all call him a genius even though he’s a lying moron.

submitted 19 days ago • 355 comments

The same people complaining about tariffs are the same ones who said prices wouldn’t go up

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the job takes the other 90% of the time.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks Graze @graze.social for supporting as a Community Sponsor! They've just open sourced Grazer, their core feed algorithm engine, and have an article in TechCrunch today.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments