We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
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We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
As a company, we @moment_dev have a single ambition: to make it possible to run your entire business out of a Markdown file.
lol "wrote it with AI for a promo project" is also a good theory
Very generous of you, assuming it's implemented with AI rather than with a static list words! 😁
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
Over the last year or two, engineering blogging has gotten so ... bland. I feel like most of my tech reading is getting clogged up with posts written in a business hustle tone: overwrought and repetitive without saying much of substance.
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
My hot take on Taiwan is that I wish we would fully commit to the defense of Taiwan and also that saying that out loud may be an absolute disaster especially with this President.
Also you should visit sometime, it's nice.
Wow congratulations!!! Well-deserved!
We got married at NYC Marriage Bureau!
100% agree that it was so much fun seeing all the other couples, each with their own interpretation of how to get dressed up for it.
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
In college I took a class in history of animation. I remember reading somewhere that CGI didn't speed up production schedules all that much. It just increased the number of drafts / alternate scenes the animators did.
Maybe that ends up being the future of software too?
As a programmer, this matches my current pattern using agents to write code.
I find that I use the agent to explore a few different prototypes. They're wooly and over-engineered.
Then I go back and rebuild it with simpler abstractions based on what I learned from the prototypes.
Fall in love at the Dinosaur Bodega!
We are having a Valentine's Day Mixer at Rex's Dino-Store.
Make friends! Make enemies! Find roar-mance!
2/14, 4pm @ Grand Army Plaza 2/3 Station
rexs.nyc/date
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Haha kubernetes is a great example of a project that implemented custom tooling to deal with grpc incompatibility. Here's a fun KEP - github.com/kubernetes/e...
> tailscale is the secure way to connect all your computers!
> i've used tailscale to connect my molty to all my computers and internal services and gave it all my keys
oh no, not like that
I'm frustrated with how unstable the Go / protobuf / rpc ecosystem has been. Between gogo, grpc-gateway, jsonpb, protojson, and all the buf tooling, there's been a ton of churn.
Has it been like this in other languages or is this a Go-specific problem? #golang #protobuf
Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code
maggieappleton.com/gastown
This blog post is a cautionary tale of the disaster that is trying to scale PostgreSQL beyond its limits.
I firmly expect to have someone cite it to me as an example of how PostgreSQL scales extremely well.
I survived maternity leave heathermoor.medium.com/nypfl-f3cf23...
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
🐳 🐙Docker Compose Tip #4
Need private repos during build? Use SSH securely:
build:
ssh:
- default
RUN --mount=type=ssh \
git clone git@github.com:private/repo.git
Keys never stored in image!
Guide: lours.me/posts/compose-tip-004-ssh-build/
#Docker #Security #Compose
Graph of number of questions posted per month on Stack Overflow. It starts at 0 in 2008 and rises roughly linearly until about 2014. Then it's flat for a few years and begins gradually declining from about 2018. From 2021 until now it falls steeply, and it eventually goes very close to zero.
The rise and fall of Stack Overflow. Graph shows number of questions posted per month.
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648...
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
