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Power and money somehow emit the whackadoodle in all of us.

It's cookie o'clock, y'all.

how are you guys doing

Someone can create enormous value while their manager controls the narrative around that value. Conversely, a manager can conceal structural problems because the people capable of exposing them depend on that same manager for evaluation and promotion

This could just be on Activity Pub tho right?

code quality is about coupling. coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes. code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning. two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept. if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing. to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.

Sipping Choya’s ウメッシュ　ノンアルコル。😋

AI hai ya kisiko de ayi hai?

hello all and good morning. i need to go buy coffee

The interface here is clean and simple; I really love this design.

The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

Returned from the gym. Good day.

I made a thing: SwiftTUI.shSwiftTUISwiftTUIBuild terminal user interfaces in Swift with SwiftUI semantics: views, state, focus, gestures, and animation, compiled to one native binary for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Try the live demo, then run the same app in your own terminal.

I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. #educationnotesfollow #programmingnotesfollow

shower thought: swap 'is a model' for 'is constructed' and postmodernism suddenly becomes a lot more palatable without losing much of its core message. #philosophynotesfollow

Built a couple lambdas today to send account verification and onboarding drip emails for folks who sign up for my app but don’t make it all the way through the onboarding flow. Pretty cool to be able to quickly bang out self-contained infra for this instead of having to pay some SaaS vendor.

hmmm... what about geo hashtags? I'm in #lakecountycanotesfollow

mornin' i can't believe i slept like 15 hours.