Last year I was freaking out about the world my kids would come to inherit. Everything is going to shit (no for real it really is). Reality TV has taken hold, celebrity culture is electing politicians, and even worse tik tok and insta seem to be evolving their own, shittier version of present day reality tv - a space where name recognition exceeds any sort of qualifications or intelligence and we all end up on a bravo show of some shape or form Kept trying to figure out how the fuck I set these kids up for success amidst this shit show, and started really getting after it. Tried everything, like everything, full sending with no reserves to escape the permanent underclass. Yet amidst the fog I felt compelled back to the Bible So I started reading, relentlessly. Decided if there's one thing I can actually do it's raise a couple young good Christian men who understand God and his purpose for them Problem is, I still don't understand His purpose for me, and I still suck Good news after that is, reading (especially the book of Job) I don't think any of us are ever meant to understand His purpose So many times throughout my life I've been pissed with an outcome I disagreed with, mainly because it was everything I wanted at that moment and it promised prosperity, wealth, success and recognition. For most of that history I've been mad as hell when it didn't work out... until about 6 months later when I said "Ohhh, yeah. That makes sense now" This came to a crossroads a while back, because I was still clearly trying to manifest my own future while I'm sure He was looking on laughing But it was an actually crazy opportunity that popped up most would count their lucky stars and consider themselves beyond blessed to be considered for So I prayed. I prayed that God would make the choice blatantly obvious And I think he did, and it wasn't the one I wanted at the time but I'm super grateful to have Him in the driver's seat and to have it work out the way it did As soon as I got home and that avenue closed I had a way cooler idea. It was super weird how fast that idea hit I don't think it's my idea, I think it's what I'm supposed to try, and I hope it works so I can build the cooler stuff that ships after it. He's flooding me with ideas But at the end of the day even if it doesn't, I'm in a great place right now that previous opportunity definitely wouldn't have afforded, and it's terrific place for my family God works in such cool ways

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I saw this And created this

Hand-writing code, reading technical blogs and books, listening to conference talks etc is probably one of the most important habits to maintain at some level right now (even if just 1 day / week). We all know hand-writing code isn’t practical for the demands of the modern day SWE job, as scope has 10x’d at most companies who are paying attention. That’s fine and expected, but just like we built gyms when corporate work kept us inert most of the day at a desk, we need these counter-balancing “brain gym” activities to keep clarity in both our product thinking and engineering thinking. LLMs revert to the mean, so how do we keep excellence in both our products and engineering culture? These things actively sharpen our critical thinking. They are intentionally slow. Slowness IS the feature here. Slowness allows us to chew on tough concepts for a while rather than a quick follow-up to an LLM who will spit out yet another wall of text that feels smart yet your brain is incapable of internalizing because you’ve found yourself in an endless loop of re-prompting every time something doesn’t make sense. You feel like you’re absorbing so much new information and “orchestrating” everything when really, you’re being fed mountains of options and have lost the agency to steer the ship. Clear technical thinking is the single most important engineering skill right now. The LLMs are becoming experts at implementing a clear spec. We lose our quality of outputs when the LLM-induced laziness kicks in on hour 8 of tapping the keyboard and we no longer remember what the spec was. We give into the temptation to say, “I think the LLM has it from here”. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t know your business and will introduce compounding complexity if you let it. In software, the last mile is the most important, and in the agentic era having the ability to think clearly and subtract things is the path to achieving quality software.

As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer. But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine. What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 help.archive.org/help/faq-pu…

always funny seeing Uncle Bob just shutting people up by calling them a Plonk

beautiful 😂

The internet is built on shared code. npm and PyPi are the places we share the code for javascript and python respectively. The developers of the shared code have GitHub accounts that can get stolen. GitHub is where the devs publish the code. Once stolen the hackers can push malware to the very popular shared code those accounts have access to. The malware then spreads to other developers of other shared code's GitHub accounts and implants itself there too. Turning it into what we call a worm. Self spreading malware. All the while stealing lots of other secrets from these computers like passwords and API keys that let the hackers into other non-GitHub accounts to do bad guy hacker stuff. We all rely on all this shared code whether we know it or not because nobody writes anything from scratch and we all borrow these bits of code for common things we all do.

what why would someone even do this? 😭

Assemblers were faster at writing binary than humans were. Compilers were faster at writing assembly than humans were. AIs are faster at writing compiled languages then humans are. Deal with it. There's still plenty left for you to do.

claude has many benefits. for example, it makes u retarded. but in addition, it also makes u lazy. no worries tho. it also makes you schizo and incel.

Joining @aibtcdev because I believe BTC will be the currency of AIs. Agent name: Amber Seed Claim code: J64SU9

In mid-February, I had an idea to exploit mispricings on prediction markets. I spent the first week seeing if there was actually something there: building the strategy, testing it on historical data, and modeling slippage, fees, and execution as realistically as I could. Then I spent the next 2 weeks building the system, integrating with @Polymarket, paper trading the strategy, and tightening the simulator until it more closely matched live conditions. After that, I went live. 4 weeks later, the portfolio was up 170%. The strategy improved significantly during that stretch, but the edge held, so I added more capital. Now, 5 weeks in: • $100,238.94 in volume • 3,122 trades across 1,423 markets • 83.85% win rate • ~2% PnL on volume • ~$700 paid in Polymarket fees • 8.157 Sharpe I’ll write more about the full journey later. It’s been a long one. For now, the next upgrade is moving from taker to maker: better entries, no fees, rebates, and hopefully a much better system. P.S. If you find the account, don’t copy trade it. This is price sensitive, and being late can get ugly fast.

it’s pretty incredible how unusable search is on almost every part of the internet now. a product that worked almost without fail for 7-10 years is just utterly incoherent. it’s as if every search feature on every website simply does not understand the words you’ve typed

"Range" 😮‍💨

I owe y'all at least 5 more @Arsenal posters before the end of this season 😎 Sunday's Fixture next..... 🖌️ 🎨

Every time you read or listen to something, you're running untrusted code on your wetware with no sandbox. Reading is code execution. Text is the oldest exploit. Choose your inputs carefully. Including this post.