Hey nerds!
I might have some upcoming availability for contract work.
Please get in touch if you could use some short/medium term help with:
- CD workflows
- Developer productivity
- Documentation
- Automated testing
- System architecture
- Web APIs
- Infrastructure as code
- Data pipelines
- Etc
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
Tech stack consolidation does not benefit the worker. The last decade feels like developers cheerleading their own inevitable layoffs. JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/React etc. now turbo-boosted by AI.
@reece I switched last year from Gmail + Google Cal to Fastmail; I’m quite happy with it.
Is this a bug in Claude that’s causing it to display this <thinking> block after my prompt? Or is this intentional? I really can’t tell.
So what are the career options for a senior engineer in the IT industry that avoid AI entirely in 2025?
I'm tired, boss. Tired of keeping my mouth closed about it at work. Tired of waking up angry that my employer and industry at large are:
* Pushing hard to adopt an absolute crap technology with very low accuracy and consistency, which additionally has had noticeable affects on certain co-workers ability to understand a problem and picture the solution (those who seem to be offloading their thinking to AI over the last year have notably degraded in these areas)
* Supporting the enrichment of billionaire fascists who want to manipulate and control the truth and control the population to make themselves richer.
* Supporting the re-ignition of coal power plants and burning significant amounts of power and water to fuel these inefficient garbage bots.
* Generally increasing affordability problems on all fronts while also accelerating the climate disaster that will be central to my sons future.
I wake up every day angry, stressed, and mournful that I am contributing the destruction of my son's future while begrudgingly going to work in the name of his present; in order to keep him clothed, fed, and try to eek out some chance of a better financial future for our family.
I'm not sure how much longer I can keep helping drive the engine of the very destruction I want to put an end to.
There must be some companies out there doing things without AI and making technology choices that are moral. They can't all be sycophants feeding the investor greed machine.. help me find them. I need to know there are some options.
This podcast episode — “He Lost His Legs - Then Revolutionised Bionics | Hugh Herr on Tilly Talks Tech!” — was delightful!
I just saw Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of the Richard Bachman (Stephen King) novel The Running Man.
If you like action movies, do yourself a favor and see this one on the big screen. Fantastic.
@eviltrout my PS4 has had a Netflix app forever, so I assume the PS5 does as well. Wouldn’t that count?
Matt Gaetz raped a 17 year old child after exploiting her healthcare needs for money and this is how the NY Times is framing it.
"ended up having sex with powerful men"
Literally whitewashing child rape.
Corporate media is dead. Stop subscribing to it. This is beyond saving.
I’d guess the dealership model is a huge impediment to more stable, predictable, and transparent pricing. Yet one more reason amongst many to kill that model. Direct-to-consumer is drastically better.
I wish US automakers would stop playing games with discounts. It just makes depreciation seem worse than it actually is (because it’s calculated from MSRP) and makes people hesitant to buy because you never know when a better discount is coming.
Ten years ago, this condition was still regularly ridiculed and treated as a joke.
Five years ago, the idea of the condition being anything other than a dx of exclusion was not even considered.
Now we have a blood test for it.
From: @corbden
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115498534065439589
Happy "open enrollment season" to all who celebrate.
Just a quick reminder:
UnitedHealth is a penny-pinching, soulless ghoul that makes Dracula look like a community-minded gentleman. At least Dracula kept his serfs alive for centuries as livestock; UnitedHealth seems content to bleed them dry and discard them in a frenzy of Wall Street gluttony. And you should see how subjective the ‘truth’ becomes in their billing department.
Having a conversation with someone on Bluesky who used to do IT in the 90s, he's talking about Tolkien ring networking, I'm a little confused
Marques Brownlee just reviewed a preproduction Aptera!
I love this thing. Psyched to have one, one day.
@octothorpe I’ve been trying out fly.io lately and so far I like it. Especially the scale-to-zero capability.
Hey nerds!
I might have some upcoming availability for contract work.
Please get in touch if you could use some short/medium term help with:
- CD workflows
- Developer productivity
- Documentation
- Automated testing
- System architecture
- Web APIs
- Infrastructure as code
- Data pipelines
- Etc
If you have influence at a company or organization that relies on Python, please consider wielding that influence to advocate for helping Kenneth Reitz through a tough time. From my vantage point, his contributions to the Python community have been foundational.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kennethreitz_venmo-kenneth-reitz-activity-7384366496149381120-aPvI