justin from the internet

justin from the internet

@threlk.net

community knowledge gardener and research trailguide, using the ladders of inference and abstraction like a via ferrata, watching the yaks get shaved from behind chesterton’s fence, dancing with systems in the meadow next to your data lake

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Fred Hebert
@ferd.ca

Replying to @ferd.ca

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.

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

today in fun regional differences: in denver i was using ~30kwh + 0.15 therms per day for peak summer energy: - multifamily midrise building - 2000s construction - north-facing ~1200 sqft in nyc it’s ~20kwh/day (no gas): - multifamily high-rise building - 2025 construction - north-facing <500 sqft

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

adding “sent from my iPad” to the end of every post from now on

Bluesky@bsky.app

Also new in today’s v1.136 update: iPad support! One of our most-requested features is finally here in beta. Try out the Bluesky app on your iPad, and if you see anything off, let us know under Settings > Beta features.

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

the rice cooker conversation ties into something that’s been really interesting to me while living in a 400sqft studio: i routinely find myself wishing for more counter/cabinet space versus the mini-oven+cooktop combo. i think i’d prefer a bigger toaster oven+rice cooker+induction cookpad

justin from the internet@threlk.net

settings haven’t seemed that useful to me either, so really the main thing is that you can put it anywhere and let it rip without thinking about a hot stove or whatever

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

okay so from the responses it sounds like the options include - aromaco (affordable, reliable) - zojirushi (spendy, versatile) - microwave donabe (very cool) i don’t have a microwave at the moment and the zojirushi might be more than i need… but i just tried an aromaco hated it lol

justin from the internet@threlk.net

turns out a rice cooker is a load bearing part of my life and i need a new one so… hit me with your recommendations

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

the number of good reviews of the aromaco make me suspect maybe i just got a dud or a terrible model? so i might give them another shot before going with a fancy machine (god knows i love a fancy contraption that earns its keep)

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elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

“Authorities report 1,200 arrests and 150 injured police officers as unrest erupts in multiple French cities.” How cool that we only get injured police officers numbers. Those same officers who have been beating up literal children

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

Photos: Protests across France spiral into looting, blazes and clashes https://aje.news/z04se7

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

i'm really not sure what exactly to say about it aside from it is truly a wild and very thinky film and i personally believe nathan fielder may be one of the greatest interviewer-interlocutors currently alive

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Dan Hon
@danhon.com

love how mapquest is leaning into a new sense of purpose in the 2020s

MapQuest@mapquest.com

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

today in “how does anything function at all?” i’ve received a spam-flagged sms message from an alleged debt collector regarding an account for an apartment i moved out of nearly 5 years ago, claiming that i have an unpaid balance of $26.47 i have so many questions

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

my first question is “wait didn’t this same apartment complex send us a check refunding an account overage after we moved out?” and the answer is yes, they did indeed refund us for an overpayment

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

oh yes also that refund was like four or five months after move out, so it’s not like things were still settling against the account. this isn’t terribly surprising: i’ve seen how companies do back office work, truly amazing anything works at all

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

time to aggressively short marxism don’t worry i’m also planning to buy on the dip

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.

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Kurbs
@kkurbs.bsky.social

Replying to @sarahmay1.bsky.social

I mean this as no shade to Chumbawumba. But all things aside can you imagine your band being called “Metallica” and being out-metaled by a band called “Chumbawumba”

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

i wish i was more confident about the amount of blame attributable to a) regression of my ability to type b) exhaustion of my capacity for giving a fuck c) regression of technical quality at the app, platform, operating system, firmware, and hardware levels

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rain 🌦️
@sunshowers.io

Replying to @sunshowers.io

Code that works at a point in time is mostly uninteresting. What matters is building structures to ensure code stays correct over time. That to me is the essence of engineering in software

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

accelerating iteration only leads to better solutions faster if you approach the iteration methodically, with intention and goals. shitty first drafts are useful only insomuch as they force you to wrestle with what you actually want to say

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io

Look this is sometimes true but also most of nextest's core architecture is basically the same as it was day 1. Plenty has changed around it but this page, extracted from the first design doc I wrote for it, has not nexte.st/docs/design/...

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justin from the internet
@threlk.net

anyway the point here is it’s all well and good to be like “okay your first ten will be bad so just get to eleven as fast as possible” but the first ten are only bad and the eleventh good because *the work of making them* helps you figure shit out

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

i am currently fighting this battle against designers who want to prototype faster with vibe coding and my position has been and will remain “lots of cheap high fidelity prototypes” only help you skip a bunch of foundational problems that will eventually bite you in the ass

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

accelerating iteration only leads to better solutions faster if you approach the iteration methodically, with intention and goals. shitty first drafts are useful only insomuch as they force you to wrestle with what you actually want to say

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io

Look this is sometimes true but also most of nextest's core architecture is basically the same as it was day 1. Plenty has changed around it but this page, extracted from the first design doc I wrote for it, has not nexte.st/docs/design/...

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justin from the internet
@threlk.net

and like, my spicy take is that sometimes it is better to wait and do nothing, to let an idea simmer or ferment until you have a clear enough idea of what you want to say, walking the edges of something till you understand it and can get it out in the first go. sometimes that is worth doing.

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

and other times you do want to move fast, to create a velocity that pulls you through a learning process. a first draft, your own critical eye, peers, friends, a second round of edits, another attempt… “co-evolution of the problem and solution space” by way of interventions and stimuli

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

accelerating iteration only leads to better solutions faster if you approach the iteration methodically, with intention and goals. shitty first drafts are useful only insomuch as they force you to wrestle with what you actually want to say

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io

Look this is sometimes true but also most of nextest's core architecture is basically the same as it was day 1. Plenty has changed around it but this page, extracted from the first design doc I wrote for it, has not nexte.st/docs/design/...

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

this is a thing that comes up a lot in design innovation practices, where the goal is to iterate into a problem-solution pair: a misguided belief that since your first proposal is unlikely to be correct (usually true) it’s always most effective to accelerate iteration

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

I really need to get back on my (other) bullshit and start cleaning up (finishing) and publishing some of these ridiculous game bits I've come up with over the years

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justin from the internet
@threlk.net

I really need to get back on my (other) bullshit and start cleaning up (finishing) and publishing some of these ridiculous game bits I've come up with over the years

justin from the internet
@threlk.net

bolt on mechanics for turning critical failures into ongoing curses, an inventory/gear management module that makes you fall over (inspired death stranding and fallout), a skill progression modifier that gives your character adhd, a roleplay heavy minigame about digging in the dirt, etc