Jack Jackson
scubbo@fosstodon.org
<p>Engineer at Vercel. He/him.</p>
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@losttourist &quot;Don’t ship before you walk out the door on *any* day.&quot;
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When you get a pedantic correction from a FOSS maintainer: https://hackaday.com/2025/06/28/open-source-knob-packed-with-precision/
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Extremely bleak that the comically-overpriced &quot;combat healthcare&quot; in Cyberpunk 2077 costs within an order-of-magnitude of standard American healthcare.
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It&#39;s surprising there aren&#39;t more dating apps explicitly catering to poly people, since they&#39;re the only demographic for whom &quot;successfully using the app&quot; doesn&#39;t lead to &quot;deleting the app&quot;.
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Just had an important NAS drive die. Test your backups!
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Ok, time for a social media break. I am already keenly aware that: * America is a fascist shambles * AI, often (not always! but often), was sourced, and is deployed, with paltry regard for creators&#39; rights or for long-term sustainability (of product quality or of the environment), respectively I can do very little about either of these; but what I can, I am. Being reminded of them does not spur me to greater action, it just pushes me into despair. I hope for a happier time when I can...
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I&#39;m still 99% Not On Social Media (and much happier for it), but thought it was worth acknowledging here (as I have already done on my blog) that my opinion on AI coding tools have one a full 180 since I was last posting. When used judiciously and with appropriate safety tooling, they can be an enormously powerful lever. (The valid concerns about intellectual property, capital accumulation, and environmental impact, persist - but I cannot and will no longer say that the tools don&#3...
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Wake up babe, Godwin&#39;s Second Law just dropped