People in tech need to read more humanities in general 🙌🏽 Tech bros think they're well-rounded because they've read some 3rd-hand quotes about stoicism but refuse to actually learn about stuff that would be genuinely helpful to not just continually make tech solutionist rubbish

Me watching Claude like a hawk as it powers through my current refactor but hallucinates SNOMED codes all over the place even though the correct ones are literally in the lines it's changing 😵‍💫

✨Senior dev discovers Gitmoji

Frontend Developer in 2016 vs 2024

If I had any wisdom to teach younger devs it would be this: 1. Program against, consider, and handle the error path first and foremost. Include useful logging, telemetry, and error messages. 2. Utilize your type system, whatever that may be, to make as many invalid states unrepresentable If you do this, regardless if you’re using OOP, FP, whatever, you’ll be end up with higher quality software that is easier to maintain and scale

hahahahaha this sucks man

THREAD: Meta is being sued for discrimination after censoring support for Palestinian freedom.

on asking for things

Me waking up this morning

Meta employees publish an open letter to management (see below) to show how meta has promoted the genocide. This is how the suppression happens 🧵

As a VC Scout at @adaventures I've hit a milestone of the number of pitch decks I've reviewed Alhamdulillah 🥳Some of you founders are working on some incredible stuff 👀 I've also seen a few recurring things in decks so adding some advice here.. hoping it helps someone... 🧵

omfg not @Dave2D with the killshot 💥

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Some of the takes around here are just pure comedic gold. 🍿 Please don’t make life choices based on someone writing engagement bait on this site.

When I say 'AI is a conspiracy theory' I don't just mean that it's based on compulsive pattern finding with a tenuous grounding in reality (it is) but that it fuels political forms that are tricky to pin down but all lean towards the far right in the end.

worth remembering: so often the shiny new thing quickly shows signs of being mostly hype, while the unassuming, homely option proves its staying power

NEW: My latest for @WIRED on the dark side of open source AI image generators for creating nonconsensual porn. Despite the efforts of some hopeful AI creators and platforms to deter exploitative uses, once downloaded its use is out of their hands wired.com/story/dark-side-op…

whatever this was, we need it for spotify