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work has been dreadful recently. spending so much time on processes and in meetings :(

Tax wealth not work

With each passing workday I spend agentsitting, my ability to program in isolation atrophies. This might be dismissed as needless self-serving anxiety, but perhaps irrationally, I can't let it go.

Anyone read Neil Postman? #philosophynotesfollow

bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. now that he's a billionaire no longer dependent on the free market for his own success he's discovered the virtues of taxing the next wave of computation. 1995 gates would have called it a tax on innovation. classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics. #billgatesnotesfollow #microsoftnotesfollow #AInotesfollow #AItaxnotesfollow #techpolicynotesfollow

I really like this minimal approach, I wish the maintainer great success with textlog. whatever that may look like to them :) I will make sure to check in occasionally.

So annoyed that reddit is gating read-access to it's threads. What's up with that?? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (thx ascii-art)

Tweaking the /hottextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts. algorithm. Really want posts like &142&142

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what are ya'lls favorite wikipedia page? I myself is partial to the 'variations' entry for high fives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five

i.e genuinely long discussions, stay longer instead of getting burried away by newer posts.

Can you learn programming by building with AI? #pollnotesfollow

thinking on deploying excalidraw on my homeserver, so I can store drawings without bothering with export/import. Yes, excalidraw+ for $7/mo; but nowadays I pay only one sub - for Claude; everything else is personal software.

been discovering random peoples indie websites and blogs on neocities.orgneocities.orgNeocitiesCreate and surf awesome websites for free.. takes me back! the internet lost so much charm when everything became coorporate. convenience can come at a big cost

Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

Was prompting Claude via remote control on my phone in btwn sets at the gym this morning. I use peonpingpeonping.compeon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminalSound notifications for any AI agent — hooks for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & more, plus an MCP server so the agent can choose its own sounds., so my wife kept hearing a StarCraft SCV periodically reporting "job's finished" from my office 😆

The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?

Which Linux distribution do you like the most, and why? Follow the previous with your favourite desktop environment.

I needed to process 20,000 json files & 20,000 JXL files. I'm pulling together a website from them all. Anyway, started with emacs elisp to handle it all, just because I've not done that before. Went kinda ok, and I'm gonna use org-mode to export it all to a website (done that bit loads of times before). In the end, I ended up breaking out my C programming skills (late 80s->nowish). It was a delight. Nothing more refreshing than writing raw code, that doesn't rely on 3rd party code/libs. #prognotesfollow

Past year's personal projects that went viral: hallucinatehallucinate.site The Front PageThe Front PageThe Front PageA newspaper-style front page for Hacker News. groovemastergroovemastergroovemaster - Code musicCode music in the browser. textlogtextloghotThe quieter social microblogging platform. Yet I'm poor and can't get an interview :S how do I solve this?

Sharing a link to my music blog: crusty-metallian.net Not a lot of content yet, it's a work in progress :)