One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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This is half the point of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed! Being a leftist or even living in a utopian society doesn’t free you from the everyday pettiness and social conflict that come with just being a human being who exists around other human beings, especially when ambition is involved.
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
Is this… an allegory… for life?
I would bookmark this talk!
Relearning CORS (and OAuth) every year is a pain 😅
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book.
In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience.
I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.
Do not copy/paste AI-generated answer to a PR review comment.
Use your own reasoning and understanding. It’s both disrespectful and unprofessional to the reviewer ☹️.
If you can explain why that AI-solution works yourself, how do I trust you know what you are doing?
now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...
Last decade is the cognitive dissonance of discovering that a good chunk of the populace is far worse than you feared, and a good chunk are better than you might have hoped, but that most people just aren't paying much attention.
Panel 1: A cartoon worm appears out of a book, shocking the reader and saying "Greetings, booklover! I'm Wormy! Your virtual Reading companion!" Panel 2: Wormy continues "This is an enhanced Book! There's so much more to it than boring old words!" The reader says "I like the words." Panel 3: Wormy "Of course! I've promoted you to 'bibliophile' and added you to the 'hi-brow lit chat' group. You have 33 welcome messages!" Reader "I just want to read!" Panel 4: Wormy "Ok! I've set your status to 'monk-ish devotion?. You have earned 85 commitment stars and are now in the silver league!" Reader "Umm... How do I get into the gold league?" Panel 5: Caption "And so..." Wormy is saying "Congratulations! You won a (top networker' Trophy and 165 Community coins! Do you want to purchase membership of the 'diamond league Private library?" The reader has put the book aside and shouts excitedly "Yes! Yes!!"
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Momentum is self-fulfilling prophecy
"Quantity has a quality of its own."
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for these situations, i think:
- the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime
- the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying
- there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell
Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Vibe coding PRs - STOP please...
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Thank you for writing this 🙏🏽💙
Black Mirror really did a number on reality!
I've never met a good person who went out of their way to belittle waiters
the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
So much this. It's the follow through that brings it home.
Rails World 2025 summary slide of Marco's talk.
At Rails World 2025, I introduced ReActionView, an initiative to explore what's possible in the Rails view layer for 2025 and beyond.
As part of this, I announced Herb::Engine, an ActionView-compatible ERB engine built on top of the HTML-aware Herb Parser.
#RailsWorld2025
