RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

@jaredwhite and everyone who actually listened to what the tech bros were trying to sell was not surprised in the slightest

the way people are deploying LLMs is driving a freight train through the principle of least privilege and being surprised at the results

Training my catgirl to steal from the hardware store

@volpeon I like working in an office.

But it turns out I save almost an extra three hours with WFH once you factor in commute and how all the context swaps and thinking breaks that are part of life as a software engineer can be spent on chores rather than the coffee machine (so I get both decompression *and* a sense of actually having made a practical improvement somewhere).

I like that more.

That post is so on point. Here's a quote about the return-to-office coverage from a while ago:

These articles were effectively fan fiction for managers and bosses demanding we return to the office — ridiculous statements about how remote work “failed young people” (it didn’t) or how employees needed remote work more than their employers because “the chitchat, lunches and happy hours” are so important.
Had any of those reporters spoken to an actual worker, they’d say that they value more time with their families, rather than the grind of a daily commute softened with the promise of an occasional company pizza party — which usually happens outside of the typical working hours, anyway.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

[Companies] neither know nor care what the customer wants, barely know how their businesses function, barely know what their products do, and barely understand what their workers are doing, meaning that generative AI feels magical, because it does an impression of somebody doing a job, which is an accurate way of describing how most executives and middle managers operate.