russ

russ

@qqrs.us

RC W'13

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when we all get augmented reality implants I’m setting this as my center field of view watermark

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"natural friction" that prompts the reader to slow down and pay attention

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July atproto.nyc meetup — who's in?! 🌀 Tues, July 7 🌀 5:30pm (talks ~6:30) 🌀 Brooklyn, near Atlantic Terminal 🔹 Pizza & drinks 🔹 A few short talks 🔹 Good conversation Please ping @schlage.town if interested in doing a ~10 min talk & share with friends / communities who might like to come!

atmo.rsvpatproto.nyc - July 2026Join us once again for pizza, a few short talks, and a whole lot of atmospheric conversation! ## When The evening of Tuesday, July 7, 2026. - Come at 5 to help set up - Doors at 5:30 - Pizza at 6 o...

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In case somebody missed this with all the AI thingy and world news. The 2nd edition of the best (imo) software engineering book has been recently released. Thanks for the gem, @martin.kleppmann.com

tante@tante.cc

"The basic strategy of all addictive technologies is very simple. They make you feel extra capable, they addict you, then they make you feel inadequate without them." How to smoke

TIL my urge to pronounce Classon Ave like it's French is entirely unfounded The origin is almost certainly Dutch ("Claes-son" or similar)

I'm taking this as a sign that I'm overdue for a trip to New Orleans or Montreal

unironically sīla, samādhi, pañña

what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

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what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

I'm tired of Optimum adding extra $15 fees on a whim, *even after I've called in and they "locked-in" a lower price for a year* bsky.app/profile/qqrs...

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periodic reminder to call your home Internet provider and tell them you want to cancel so they can find a "promotion" to bring your price back down

Prompted myself into a description of what I'm looking for in my next role

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The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone. But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.

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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE PICNIC (1930) 🐕 🐾 Little Rover barked onto the scene as Minnie’s dog in THE PICNIC (1930). He’d get a new name (Pluto) & a new owner, Mickey Mouse, the following year. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Yeah, I'd be pretty furious if I got spam email from some "AI agent" thanking me for my contributions too I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...

simonwillison.netHow Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
rob pike@robpike.io

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

the sort of wintry week in December where you linger after showering just for a crumb of humidity

"The children are alright. They are also incomprehensible. These two facts are not contradictory."

Thinking more about the 11ty phenomena… why am I seeing a giant profile photo grid of their 300+ contributors? who is andy bell and why am I supposed to care that he says Jekyll is dead to him? and then there are a dozen+ other testimonials from people I’ve never heard of

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Anyway this is what I gleaned from their home pages Pelican & Nikola - these are ssgs and have the features ssgs have Hugo - is 1. fast and 2. popular and 3. actively developed 11ty - affirms your identity as a web dev

the best I can figure is this is some sort of postmodern extension of “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”… -> “nobody ever got dunked on, on twitter, for picking 11ty” ?