joshmock

Excited and proud that the project I've been leading at @elastic.co for much of this year is now available to the community. One of the most rewarding, "love it when a plan comes together" experiences in my career so far. www.elastic.co/search-labs/...

People who are surprised that James Hetfield is not particularly left-leaning are gonna be blown away when they learn about the political history of black metal.

Happy indigenous peoples day!

Ben Affleck talking about... tensors, machine learning and Python? youtube.com/watch?v=Hzra...

An expert on the internet trying to tell me that my brain's reward system is fucked up. Ma'am, I spent the first 36 years of my life with undiagnosed ADHD and have been extremely online since the late 1900s, my brain's reward system never had a chance.

who needs coffee when you can listen to Fucked Up's seminal experimental hardcore album The Chemistry of Common Life loudly in a good set of headphones? (I'm also drinking coffee) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3h...

Listened to Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child for the first time in years and I'm happy to report it still fucking rips.

Our dearest friend @purplewitch11.bsky.social is abandoning us for Colorado because our state legislation is bullshit. You can help her on her journey find safety there. She’s heading out tomorrow 💔 Anything is appreciated!

Pope condemning AI is good. Now apologize for the decades of priest SA coverups and we'll be square.

I'm obliged to tell everyone that my favorite album of all time, no hyperbole, is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp right now. thiswilldestroyyou.bandcamp.com/album/tunnel...

"This skill should have been a script" is the new "this meeting should have been an email".

It's astounding how often someone would rather vibe code their own OSS project from scratch well before contributing to (or forking!) a more mature solution that already solves the same problem. Like... did you even search the web before you started prompting?

Product, Engineering, Marketing

PS Fuck the Supreme Court. What fucking year is it?

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/...

Happy "Almost Forgot To File My Income Taxes On Time" Day, America.

btw, I blogged about AI coding again a few weeks ago and forgot to tell literally anyone about it. joshmock.com/post/2026-sp...

When the AI bubble pops and we have to remember how to write code again, at least we'll have a lot of good advice in our now-useless system prompts to remind us how that works.

OSS is used to build the models, and OSS code is consumed to train the models, and OSS is used to consume the models, all of which makes building OSS easier, diluting the value, and often the proposition of high quality, of OSS.

Not the first time I hear this. Brace yourself for a wave of "agentic burnouts", in particular among ADHD people where the continuous dopamine fix resulting from agents producing stuff leads people to endlessly keep feeding them.

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (Published 2023)

I've put a dumb amount of effort into building an immutable desktop setup with a declarative config that didn't require me to learn Nix, but I fear I'm running out of energy to resist.

In retrospect, I should have guessed that accelerationism would dramatically change the way software is built.

2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us

I want to see studies that compare multiple implementations of the same software spec: entirely by a coding agent, "hybrid" vibe coded by an experienced dev, and entirely coded by hand.

Six More Weeks of Wet Season Predicted as Geoduck Squirts All Over His Shadow: tinyurl.com/mu6br7ye

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Instagram's iOS app has decided to play the closing music from Hereditary every time I open it today, so I guess I don't use Instagram any more.

I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

@mikerugnetta.com on Never Post a few weeks ago you mentioned offhand the name of a mobile puzzle app that you recommend... I can't remember the episode, or the name of the app!