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

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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...

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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 7 days ago • 565 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 8 days ago • 158 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 10 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 11 days ago • 154 comments

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

The best part about these Confluence ads during season 1 of the Severance Podcast is that they don't realize how appealing the idea of severance is as you're waiting for the confluence search box to load. "Ha ha obviously no one would ever choose severance over our product" ARE YOU SURE 👀😬😐😵😵‍💫

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Hey come hang with us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdYW... for a dev show & tell!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 36 days ago • 1571 comments

Well, it looks like they’re fixin to crash the economy, but at least you won’t have to see a black person at work.

submitted 38 days ago • 90 comments

18f.org

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

For a few hours I forgot everything.

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Dev Show & Tell #3 tomorrow, our first episode with all 4 "friends! with code." Come hang! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iv7...

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Last summer, I helped organize a triathlon at our company retreat. Obviously, I had to write my own timing app for it. I never blogged about it. I still haven't! But, I did finally publish some notes to my digital garden: sprouts.stevenhicks.me/sprouts/dev/...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

I've been a party-pooper lately, but 2 Rad Dads is back this week! Join us tomorrow (Wed Feb 12), www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpA..., when we will surely fumble with TypeScript....and also hopefully do some refactoring, and add a configuration setting to our Raycast wormhole extension.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Them, in an interview: "what's the common slogan used to describe the enforcement of a minimum dress code in a store prone to customers in swim-wear?" Me, sputtering top-of-mind somewhat related sentence fragments until my brain finally finds the answer:

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Can someone smarter than me plz phish the dorks currently hacking the US government out of existence, and get them to unwittingly install this?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I am back in the US after a week in Austria and... Holy fucking shit this is escalating quickly.

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Eek. It took me nearly all of January, and I almost missed my self-imposed imaginary deadline, but here it is! My 2024 year in review. Thanks for reading. "Verdict? I had a pretty good year, but need to figure some things out." www.stevenhicks.me/blog/2025/01...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

submitted 73 days ago • 123 comments

In a couple days, I am leaving the country for a week for work...and I have no idea what country I'm coming home to.

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AI Ruined My Tacos: a story about Google Lens completely mutilating an imo very clear screenshot of a taco seasoning recipe, telling me to triple the paprika and onion powder, and now gaslighting me with the exactly correct quantities when I try to capture a screenshot of the offense.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Some (ex-)Artsy friends and I are doing a Show & Tell in an hour. One of our favorite meeting, where people could join and show what they use, what they created, what they discovered, and more. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFb2... Join us! Or don't, that's point of this meeting. :)

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Big news! While 2 Rad Dads will continue, @jonallured.com and I decided we want more friends to hang with us. So the 2RadDads channel is now FriendsWithCode, and we're getting our friends @pav.vin and @jpotts244.bsky.social involved! www.youtube.com/@friendswith...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment