tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻

watching Microsoft sully a space mission, it is a truly embarrassing moment to be a software engineer

In what world does it literally take 10 days to remove someone from an email subscription list *they didn't sign up for*

I keep getting emails about musicals in Slokie, Illinois. I live in Seattle. What is happening

Kotlin updates are a fucking nightmare

you know that tech interviews are pretty silly because they'll hire contractors without making them jump through leetcode hoops

I get most of my news from an actual daily paper, which is, frankly, often a day late. So the news is usually two days out of date. This has materially improved my quality of life

The only exception to this is literally anything about how much AI sucks; Mastodon provides that almost faster than it can be produced

I started writing this because I thought it was funny, and then I realized I had to admit that the relentless negativity here is probably materially worsening my quality of life

"ai skills" are just docs written in response to someone saying "ELI5." That's it.

the only thing that would bring me hope at this point is every member of the US administration hanging from a noose (this is what everyone means when they say they want a Nuremberg style situation for the US when this is all over, if it ever is)

they want you to be an interchangeable widget

https://autonomousapps.com/blog/business-geniuses-and-bus-factors/post/