Ricardo Martins

"people are just so lacking in self-awareness", he thought, not realising the irony

> Typing is a sign of bad architecture, bad documentation, or/and lack of ownership. that's… a take, for sure. why do some people get so incredibly mad at optional types in Ruby? like, it's fine to say they don't see the value but to make accusations like this? wild.

happy mandatory jet lag day for those who celebrate it

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

Added some nice open graph cards for when sharing direct PDS urls for migrations. pdsmoover.com/moover/euros...

We're delighted to announce that the Eurosky Identity Platform has been officially verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good (DPG). eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

2026 is wild because you can just say shit like this and everyone will be like "oh yeah, the text elementals, that's a good phrase for what they are" instead of looking at you like jesse what the fuck

right, count on me to forget to mention the key detail: apparently some devices just… default to using the best encryption level that’s being advertised in the ssid (which is good) regardless of the actual bssid they’re targeting (which is bad)

Remember, at its base, the AI boom is about companies telling you they'd rather burn trillions of dollars in a furnace than pay you decent wages in exchange for the ability pursue their sci-fi and slavery fantasies.

did you know? crackle, pop and snap are named after the noises my knees make

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

running qwen3.8 flash next on consumer hardware at decent speed is just wild. absolutely bonkers.

just created an account in hugging face and I noticed something in the profile section… "Set your P(doom)", eh? really? y'all need to go out, touch grass and stop letting the text generator have access to important stuff. stop shirking your responsibilities as technologists.

I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...

migrated my account to eurosky.tech. surprisingly, that was entirely painless! thanks for all the hard work @eurosky.social

"A.I. is making me a better doctor. And I worry that it’s making doctors-in-training worse."

This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.

cool, got my first ever clanker reply 🙄

Enough of that ai doom discourse nonsense! My new succulents seem to be happy 🌱

The most generous assessment is that this was shitty, lazy engineering; the more in-character scenario is that the sandbox was intentionally breakable because of the story it would generate. Whichever you believe, the story is not "OMG, they made AGI!"

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

A new species of cat? That just brightened my week. Look at it, it's so cute 😻 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

😸 spying dad at work

homebrew dropped support for x86-64 macOS to tier 3, so I guess it's finally time to consider buying a new laptop 🫤 brew.sh/2026/09/13/h... on the one hand, I've been grumbling about this laptop for a couple of years. on the other hand, it still works fairly well