Stevan

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

So much of the AI conversation has do little to do with outcomes for the end user of the technology. It is largely just use it for the sake of saying it is used. Which really only benefits the companies monetizing that use. It is surprisingly transparent yet little discussed.

I think the side effect I hate the most of LLM-usage is this almost compulsive need to consult it on every decision. It generally undermines your own intuition and confidence to form opinions.

Yo .NET team killing it again.

I get real tired of the existential language people use around elections. I promise not *everything* is on the line this November. You and I will still wake up and go to work the next day. The rent will come due. The holidays will arrive. Life will go on. Trying to create fear and panic is lame.

Gawd damn this senate race in Kansas is between two old white dudes who are just basically calling each other pedophiles…why are these our options?

If you are over the age of 50 and you look at the world you are passing to those in their 20s and 30s and feel proud about it then I am confident that we probably don’t have much in common. I write that as someone raising two young men and hope to do better.

Remember Deno…😅…crazy what VC-backed open-source looks like. I think I prefer projects that follow a similar economic model to something like Linux or Zig.

Use at your own peril. But seriously learning to code was one of the best decisions of my life. Don’t really care what happens with AI. I get so much enjoyment from hacking on stuff like this. npmx.dev/package/@ste...

I needed to convert a png to a pdf. Obviously, the solution was to hack together my own CLI that does it. Basically, my days are spent looking for excuses to write code. I'm very pleased with myself.

Now that is the kind of protest you can be proud of organizing and being a part of. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTfPaS8AT/

I don’t get the hatred so many people have against DI and programming against an interface in C#. Those two practices alone make writing testable code so much easier.

Thankful to not be touching a computer today

If you are looking for a new YouTube creator to watch uou should check out Evan Monsma.

Heard @morganhousel.bsky.social on @profgalloway.com's podcast say something to the effect that debt is the tool people use to close the gap between their expectations and their reality. Not sure I have heard something more insightful about debt than that in a long time.

I've largely consolidated my political concerns to two issues: 1. Getting rid of the Citizens United ruling. 2. Some form of universal healthcare.

I'd also add shouldn't be able to be used to interview you.

I relate to this and the thing I keep telling myself is to focus things that matter. A good filter for that I have found is to ask if this thing will be relevant to me in 5 years. If I can’t give a hell yeah type of answer then probably worth not giving it much of my energy. Most things are tempt

Most of work is theatre ran by financial anxiety. When people are worried of losing their paycheck, they treat every minor task like a crisis. It can be exhausting when that panic bleeds into your day, especially when it comes from someone in management or leadership.

The time is going to pass anyways. You might as well do something with it.

I endorse this strategy. Side quests have gotten me through life to date and most have eventually led to some sort of career change.

I think the average US consumer is in a much more financially fragile position than what the financial media is portraying. I think most folks are navigating the current climate with a mix of debt or pulling from what small savings they have.

Trying to figure out how Russia captured the White House faster than the Donbas

Every October I make time to read Dracula. This year I ended up listening to this audio version Audible published. Fun way to get into the mood of the season. www.audible.com/pd/B0H956N76W

It’s okay, we can fix agent-generated code with better tests *begins generating tests* It’s okay, we can fix the tests with formal specs *begins generating formal specs* It’s okay, we can fix the formal specs with better intent docs *begins generating intent docs* It’s okay, we can fix the int

Spent the evening around a fire talking to my sons. Favorite part of the conversation was listening to them explain what they thought a spirit or soul was and whether or not they think we have them.

Could swap "allowed" with "paid" and it would be equally if not more true.

Average workers are getting raises on paper (+3% wages) while losing purchasing power to 3.7% inflation. Yet because the wealthiest 20% account for nearly 60% of all spending, their shopping props up the headline numbers used to dismiss everyone else's reality. None of this is some sort of mystery.

Life feels infinitely more peaceful and manageable when you keep a good amount of cash on hand. I know the opportunity cost is awful and I am always tempted to find a better place to put it, but when shit happens or an opportunity presents itself sure is to see it sitting there.

Everyone pretends that money isn’t important or that it isn’t everything. Yet most everything most people do each day and week is completely based around making a certain number of dollars each month.

Housing in the US is largely a bunch of folks deferring maintenance in hopes of finding a greater fool when it is time to sell. And there is a whole industry devoted to helping find the fools.

The reason why the citizens united ruling hasn’t been addressed with legislation is because the people in the legislature are the folks who benefit the most from its existence.

What a private company might not be leaking accurate financial information? No way! 🙄

Seriously this could really happen. Your taxes could go up and you'd HAVE to and you would figure out how to manage. So why not do it for yourself?

The hardest thing to do in your financial life is creating margin for yourself. The easiest way to do it is to automate it. Ideally that margin is gone before your check is ever cut to you. Think of it like the U.S. government showed up and increased your tax bill by 10%. It isn't optional.

I’m convinced software engineers have been LARPing for a living for the last 40 years. It took all of 18 months or less for an entire profession to declare most of what they’ve preached and held sacred as useless or ineffective. I am unlikely to put much stock in anything they say going forward.

If I had to guess most people who chafe at higher taxes on the wealthy are also the same people who don't really understand just how wealthy some folks are and just how powerful compound interest is.

Puppies are more work than babies.

I understand this. I agree with it. I respect it.

People using coding agents to build new coding agents…gawd damn when does this fucker pop.

Capital always out works labor. The people who benefit from that fact don’t want you to know it. In fact they want to make sure you derive your self worth from labor then convince you to spend what you do earn on consumption because “you deserve it.” It keeps you broke and them wealthy.

I think about this all the time. The avg car payment in the US is ~$800/month. Over 13 years that money compounded annually at 8% is ~$206k. The truth that tells is most parents say they’d die for their kids but most of them won’t drive a beater to pay for their college education. Actions > Words

I love listening to elected politicians who are actively doing nothing try to convince voters not to vote for the other guy because they also will in fact do nothing too.

Instead of worrying about AI I decide to get a puppy to preoccupy all my time.

We removed the compilers from the servers to make them more secure. Now we're racing to put the compilers back with tools that can generate their own code and use them.

Muse is Zuckerberg's latest attempt to control the next platform. He hates what happened to Facebook when the mobile platforms became the primary way his companies platform was accessed. They lost too much control. Every bet they make maps on to the desire to have that never happen again.

Most people are greatly underestimating how good their life is.

I do not dream of labor.