Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office Amazon rolls out an updated dashboard for managers to track office attendance and hours, expanding strict RTO policies.

Why does anyone work at Amazon? www.businessinsider.com/amazon-flags...

You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying.

So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.

It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.

My job has historically consisted of writing a small amount of code at the end of a long process of figuring out wtf is going on. This has left me in a poor state to evaluate coding models on my day to day, because I don't even know how I'd instrument the "wtf is going on" step.

A pop-up window from Adobe Acrobat indicating that it cannot verify subscription status. It suggests checking the internet connection and provides options to "Quit Adobe Acrobat" or "Try Again." An error code (12014) is displayed along with a link to a for troubleshooting.

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

Galen Hunt Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Software Engineer. The position is in-person in Redmond. My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines Of code". To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we've built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core Of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding. The purpose of this Principal Software Engineer role is to help us evolve and augment our infrastructure to enable translating Microsoft's largest C and C++ systems to Rust. A critical requirement for this role is experience building production quality systems-level code in Rust—preferably at least 3 years of experience writing systems-level code in Rust. Compiler, database, or OS implementation experience is highly desired. While compiler implementation experience is not required to apply, the willingness to acquire that experience in our team is required. Our team is driven by a growth mindset. We are diverse team with a wide range Of skills and perspectives. We take on bold risks. We work and play well with others. We love to bring value to internal and external customers. We have learned that our diversity and growth mindset is critical to success in the rapidly changing word of AI-based tools. (blah blah blah blah dipshit management speak)

So is there a new dipshit management book out or something? Because the worst people in the world are ALL using the phrase "our North Star" this week. This guy, Bari Weiss, the Firefox CEO.

yea honestly i tried reading about publishing lexicons in the official docs and i felt like the docs just want me to reverse engineer whatever they're saying back into human language. hard pass. same feeling about permission sets docs.

20 years as a web developer
10 years as a senior web developer at one of the largest health networks in the country

And I STILL have to prove myself with code tests and five rounds of interviews per company, just to justify that I deserve a job with a livable wage.

FUCK TECH.

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"

deleted my posts and comments on /r/programming subreddit and will not be posting there. truly one of the few remaining places on the internet with the worst of 2000 pedant troll forum energy. always a mistake to engage there as it completely drains me

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

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Someone posted a video of a husband and wife shopping for interior decor. They wrote: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay." Matt Walsh retweeted them and added: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." I screenshot Walsh's comment and added: "For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics bc they think this makes them noble." Finally, someone retweeted me and added: "Why does anyone listen to what this idiot has to say about aesthetics?" They attached a photo of Edward Hopper's 1942 painting "Nighthawks."

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture.

But let me elaborate. 🧵

One takeaway from the Soham story (dev from India with likely a fake CV hired to 10+ AI startups in Silicon Valley, working parallel to many):

Demand for AI Engineers (devs who built real-world AI applications) who worked at startups FAR outstrips supply

Use this if you can

The worst thing you find out in school is that some universal child bonding rituals require a victim, or a target.

Actually, the worst part is realizing if they pick you, there is nothing you can do about it but to try to throw some other victim into their jaws.

if anyone makes a t shirt version of this I'll buy it and wear it everywhere

I'm making a bunch of code I use in my games publicly available. Lots of good stuff like 2d drop shadows, pseudo 3d effects, vfx, npc vision, IK, save system, level system etc.
#godotengine

github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...

If the recent prompt-to-code AI tool explosion will force the tech industry to reflect on, but properly:

"How much of software engineering is the act of writing the *code* itself?"

It's a key part: but it turns out that there are many other things that are key to software

Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

Always reblog. Happy Easter!

i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

scrolling through linkedin is so disheartening. every single one of these jobs is 3 jobs they're trying to pay one person to do or requires a bachelors degree to like, work in a normal office. and it's only going to get worse considering our shadow government won't stop illegally firing people