I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
This one resonates. It's great that we can build at an unprecedented rate, but to put it in Marie Kondo terms: it doesn't bring me joy.
Pottery is more fun when hands touch clay.
Painting, when hands brush strokes.
Music, when hands pluck strings.
And, for me: software dev, when fingers type code.
15.02.2026 18:26
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Generative AI is a slop generation machine by default. You have to put in a lot of work to get something of quality from it.
15.02.2026 21:02
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A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive:
L'OREAL
6,204,444 followers
Promoted
We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al.
WELCOME TO
NVIDIA
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I donβt want to seem out of touch but I donβt actually understand the economy anymore.
18.11.2025 03:23
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Also please don't restrict bundler and ruby versions like `bundler < 3.0` and `required_ruby_version < 4.0` π
30.10.2025 23:17
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β0% woke shitβ
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
07.11.2025 19:59
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apologies, this was too good not to bring over
07.07.2025 16:58
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
30.06.2025 14:40
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SW-4036-5475-0230
24.06.2025 05:39
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27.03.2025 21:47
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If you ever needed a physical demonstration of the primary role of police in society
10.03.2025 12:44
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Honestly fuck America for making me engage in any hint of nationalism because ew
02.02.2025 15:12
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Elizabeth May isnβt holding back about Elon Musk.
She said heβs been doing a βparade around the worldβ as βemperor of allβ with his buddy Trump.
I asked her about the emphasis on the threat of disinformation in the foreign interference report:
28.01.2025 18:01
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this never would have happened if GitHub was written in Rust
14.01.2025 00:09
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2025 will be the year of the luddites
01.01.2025 03:42
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Memories of Noah Gibbs
Responses will be shared with his family
If you have a story about Noah, please share here or in this Google form linked below.
forms.gle/zxzsXkSdun1a...
26.12.2024 22:02
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For years conservatives have argued against "hate crime" legislation, which exists to recognise the impact of violence on entire communities of vulnerable minorities.
But they're all for super-hate-crime charges (terrorism) when the vulnerable minority is "Health Insurance CEO".
20.12.2024 13:31
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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Think big, build small: When to scale and when to simplify (ARC331)
YouTube video by AWS Events
youtu.be/wnBzSpFyvYM?... Good talk I came across today
12.12.2024 00:39
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AI generated image of myself holding a plant in front of some mountains.
11.12.2024 22:30
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Full bracket of 32 names for The Worst Person in Tech 2024
π₯ THE BATTLE BEGINS π₯
The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?
π³οΈ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...
09.12.2024 14:09
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Don't know if official, but
bsky.app/profile/sign...
21.11.2024 21:17
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Microservices vs monoliths doesn't matter. Write modular code, abstract away services into reusable components, and combine them into one or more artifacts based on your needs.
25.10.2024 16:57
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our timeline took a wrong turn 15 years ago when techβs pr people decided ipad-like devices would be called tablets instead of datapads
29.09.2024 18:28
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"A small, cloistered elite of not-especially-bright billionaires have decided that they are very, very special, and that the problem with society these days is that people keep treating them like everyone else. "
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
16.09.2024 12:00
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Bitcoin 2024 headline speakers: Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cathie Wood, Michael Saylor, Russell Brand, Edward Snowden, Vivek Ramaswamy
nightmare blunt rotation
23.07.2024 00:22
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19.06.2024 04:28
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Solar storm
Solar storm
11.05.2024 06:27
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Screenshot of a Verge article with the title βRoku plans to start showing video ads on your homescreenβ
Funny you say that, because Iβm planning to start watching much more pirated material in the coming months. π΄ββ οΈ
30.04.2024 19:35
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Perfetto Yes GIF
ALT: Perfetto Yes GIF
Well, if I can post gifs now is as good a time as any to start posting...
26.04.2024 04:23
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