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• Post #4416097

  “Taste is built the slow, stupid, humiliating way: you make something bad, you are forced to live with it, it fails in front of you, and some part of you files the failure away. Then you do it again.” https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left

• Post #4012025

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@larsmb/116963060933074394 As a Codeberg user I propose Codeberg introduces a hardwired 30 second delay on all page loads, pushes, and pulls

• Post #3761314

  Every time someone asks for feedback I do a calibration. What level do they want? L0: praise. “You did great!” L1: small. “That font could be larger” L2: medium. “Your story would be stronger if you ran these other simulations.” L3: large. “Your need for external validation is preventing you from being decisive.” L4: existential. “Your field is steadily becoming irrelevant. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. We’re decaying into fascism. None of this matters.” #ActuallyAutistic

• Post #3727126

  iykyk

• Post #3499027

  I’m hopeful that the VC bubble for humanoid robotics died on the vine. That physical robots, a source of happiness for me, have been declared a poor investment and spared the humiliation that has been inflicted on machine learning.

• Post #3424208

  I shut down my online courses at End-to-End Machine Learning 18 months ago. Wrote a blog post and everything. But the platform I was using hasn't bothered to take them down. So they're just sitting there, all for free. Prego. https://end-to-end-machine-learning.teachable.com

• Post #2723275

  I appreciate the downdetector traces that are essentially a map of when their customers are awake

• Post #2723274

  Ok laptop is ready for the new job

• Post #2723273

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116576618789110588 More cursed marketing please. (I’m a cleric)

• Post #2723272

  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116602377072630702 Going back to sticky notes on my monitor is starting to look pretty good right about now

• Post #2548047

  A tricky thing about work is that things that feel useful and things that are useful are different things. They overlap, but not as much as you think.

• Post #2477882

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116520252059894695 “what the coding agent is good for is mostly writing code that you shouldn't be having to write in the first place” A truly excellent piece on the interplay of engineering judgment and LLM coding tools

• Post #2380976

  I can’t decide whether LinkedIn is the San Francisco of social networks or San Francisco is the LinkedIn of cities

• Post #1841263

  No one captures the dissonance quite like Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale. Their latest has been ricocheting around my brain for days. Strong recommend, especially if you're leading a team while navigating this. https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/the-people-who-care-are-having-the-hardest-time?e=78d81a5fcd

• Post #1807283

  in fantasy stories I've seen a recurring theme of naming things. A true name of a thing has great power and is inconveniently long. Ents in Lord of the Rings. Wolves in Wheel of Time. Sorcery in A Wizard of Earthsea. This is how I like to name my Python variables.

• Post #1807281

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116477949716199030 Most of us have the “it can’t happen to me” blind spot. Human brains seem weirdly susceptible to delusion. And stubbornly reluctant to admit it.

• Post #1704623

  RE: https://jawns.club/@vicki/116443019455384006 How to keep the joy in ML. Hopeful and grounded and a delight to read.

• Post #1597034

  There is a staples dot com and a stapleslocations dot us and they give different store hours.

• Post #1597033

  Is this the long-awaited sequel to Two Girls, One Cup?

• Post #1597032

  Life’s short. Wear the comfy socks today.

• Post #1597031

  Indiewebbers rejoice! bubbles.town

• Post #1597030

  Front end is my passion

• Post #1597029

  Being bored is like being hungry, but for something other than food.

• Post #1155239

  My blog had evolved into an unfriendly wall of links. To fix this I added an on-ramp section at the beginning. https://brandonrohrer.org

• Post #1155238

  RE: https://indieweb.social/@chadkoh/116392567578809987 50 over 50 is the new 30 under 30

• Post #1155237

  Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger. https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/ai-prototyping-harder-worser-faster-wronger

• Post #1155236

  RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116402217632593593 @jonny watching you descend into madness as you plumb the depths of coding depravity is a special kind of catharsis. I award you a Purple Heart. 💜

• Post #1155235

  RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116402677301385826 “AI can do the job of all managers, middle managers, VPs. But not mine. As the Big Manager I bring something unique, a special human-only contribution which is…ummm…uh…hold on just a sec I have something for this. “

• Post #1155234

  This from @vicki came across my RSS feed. Chef’s kiss worthy, as always. https://vickiboykis.com/2026/04/13/mechanical-sympathy/

• Post #1155233

  The latest stage in my quest to build some a small/local/purposeful artisanal language model: Giving it a job and writing evals https://brandonrohrer.at/alms_task.html