@APBBlue it's gonna be 101 in Boston tomorrow, absolutely absurd

Time once again to post Get Your War On #1. From 2001. Time is a flat circle.

"A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent software engineering skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand the systems they’ve built, and move the business forward a little bit more, day by day, week by week."

— @mipsytipsy from https://charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-praise-of-normal-engineers/

@APBBlue or they're just potheads

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

Pretty much every software development related email I've received lately...

#SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #LLM #AI

with each new dawn we're reaching new levels of someone should do something about that guy.

@m750 yep, we worked together at Sonos!

@m750 oh hey, I used to work with a guy from the Amazing Royal Crowns

father’s day also means going to one of only two “cinnabon swirl” locations in the nation, a new concept that combines cinnabon with carvel ice cream — and features this mind-boggling invention, the “Bonini”

yes. its a cinnabon, with ice cream inside, sealed in a panini press. we did it folks

If the 5 million number is accurate that means one in every 70 people in this country was on the streets today.

UFO shit is all fake, the result of a mostly pointless and very sloppy cold war psyop that got out of hand and whose blowback has created a permanent information fog that reduces overall trust and institutional competence + clarity: https://archive.ph/2025.06.07-021826/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e?st=28Hj5L
A good study in why it's not worth doing that bullshit.

in other news, this Notch NA Pils is quite good

no chain problems today, though I did avoid shifting off of the middle front gear, which meant some slightly tougher hills, but I guess that's how you get stronger

@rowmyboat barf!

@rowmyboat as always, I really appreciate your help with this stuff!

@rowmyboat makes sense!

@rowmyboat I trust you, and I'll look 'em up! but as long as I'm in the 30-day window, I also want to check if the shop will fix it for free.