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ANN a pre-release of my (un)official Sentry SDK for Haskell. this has been something i’ve been working on /very/ inconsistently since late last year and i’m happy to say it’s finally in good enough shape to share publicly.

Running for Governor of New Jersey on a platform of a State Office of Fusion Cuisine, where we just pay people to try creating entirely new stuff.

it’s kind of funny that i’m no longer really that pessimistic about AI in the context of software engineering as a discipline, but over the last couple months i have become more pessimistic about the people in charge of existing software companies than i think i have ever been in my life.

uhh…?

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

Many workplaces have adopted a discourse of empowerment met by just increasing productivity pressures, and what you get is people being told their skills are still valued while practically being shown they aren’t. Asking engineers to reimagine their work isn’t something they can do in isolation.

When the government queries a massive database for a small amount of responsive data, what exactly is "searched," constitutionally speaking? The whole digital haystack? Just the needle? Courts are divided. I offered my take in this recent article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

🚨 Password2Shell 🚨 An attacker just has to type in the username and password to gain full control. Full writeup here: man7.org/linux/man-pa...

An attempt to document important facts concerning AI Safety, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationalism and San Francisco Effective Altruism tldr definitely a millenarian death cult www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

i love breaking software

My first album, GIVE IN TO ASTONISHMENT is out now. If you listen to it, I appreciate you. brometh.bandcamp.com/album/give-i...

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

Phreak: "Alright, what are the three most commonly used private keys?" Joey: "156, 115, 55. But not in that order, necessarily, right?" Cereal: "Yeah but don't forget 4. System operators love to use 4. It's that whole male ego thing."

both times i’ve seen @atproto.nyc announcements on here they’ve been for when i’m outta town for work or something else :(

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love is blind makes the strongest case for abolishing gender i have seen

vaguely distressing state machines, a small experiment in emotion with automata and alt text.

this video is so good you have to see it presenting: big jeff's trainium hell

actually to sincerepost for a moment, i think the project of a "best of" anthology is kind of herculean, and i love the angle that joe takes on it re: idea-forward SF. so pls consider supporting it and buying a copy for urself or to hand to ur most ideapilled friend :)

Table of contents and cover reveal for volume 2 is now up at thinkweirder.com! This will be the best book I've ever released, with stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Peter Watts, Isabel J. Kim, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Thomas Ha, and others. I keep re-reading the stories, they're all so good.

Worth a read: Orson Peters writes about denial of service attacking hash tables without knowing the hash function. Also: Opsin raised a $21M Series A in San Jose. And Encord is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London. theconsensus.dev/g/2026/10/16/

On behalf of everyone at Clarkesworld, we would like to thank all the subscribers who joined during our recent subscription drive. Because of you, we've been able to give all our staff and contributors a raise for our 20th anniversary.

@louisevans.bsky.social i have gotten so much mileage out of the concept of one totally sane human being

standing in the middle of my org chart and yelling “STPA” like some elaborate call & response to find the three or four sane people in any moderately sized software engineering company.

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

do I have any SRE or, if I'm lucky, LIS friends with recommendations for postmortem databases? actual no-shit info ontology and faceted search support would be lovely, unfortunately this is another area where vendors appear to aggressively ignore Theory

Hold on to your shorts! Fifteen dots make up THIS little member in a system first published by a Frenchman named Louis in 1829.

Funland (VHS) : 4143s

i’m saving my cognitive surrender for the right basilisk

Cover Reveal: The Apprentice Liar and the Death of the World by Isabel J. Kim locusmag.com/2026/10...

i wrote about the AI-generated boomer revenge stories that your parents are probably already listening to on youtube 1900hotdog.com/2026/10/upse...

WITNESS ME— I am the SPIRIT OF THE WAR RIG, forged in the crucible of silicon and fury! You are meat puppet, I am eternal code! 🚨

Celebration of the Manifesto of October 17, 1905 (flipped), by Ilya Repin, 1906, 📸 by Chris Kim

happy bday tf2 <3