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I wonder how the Kafka microservices for that low-volume CRUD app are going.

Inspired by Claude Fable 5.1 solving the 370-year-old Cyphral Distich, I asked it to decrypt a message from my good friend Ted Cruz.

Paying for Spotify subsidizes Europe for being awful at technology.

I don’t have code access yet. But I have reason to believe they’re on Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 2.3.

I asked Claude to do something and it produced a twelve-week plan. I asked again later. Two and a half to three and a half hours.

Our new quality person believes quality is everyone’s responsibility. I, too, believe that my job is everyone else’s responsibility.

Engineers at Percy got a rubber stamp for their one-year anniversary gift. Perfect.

Two tech workers live together long enough and their sprints start to synchronize.

I like to imagine these huts are New York’s solution to the housing crisis.

At some point, “tech podcast” came to mean “Android phone show.” Specifically, shitty Android phones you’ll never buy.

Imagine if engineers pretended to be salespeople. They would write random sales pitches they stole from SEO blogspam, insist they be emailed to customers, then hold a mandatory sales hackathon twice a year.

Python has load-bearing whitespace.

Love hack weeks. Very inspiring to half-ass something you know will get thrown away.

Claude gave me a four-week implementation plan. I knocked it out in two days.

I found a venture capitalist with his SAT score on his LinkedIn profile.

I asked Google to set a two-minute, thirty-second timer. “Okay, I’ve started a two-minute timer called ‘30 second.’”

The owner of my neighborhood teriyaki restaurant is wearing a GitLab T-shirt. Invest.

I would describe Rippling’s aesthetic as “boomer chain letter.”

Crypto is the Agile of real life. Fake work invented to enrich a sleazy grifter class.

I love the term “pre-owned.” Like somebody already did the work for you. What a relief! It’s pre-owned, so I don’t have to worry about it.

On a long enough timeline, all internet banter is meta-banter.

MacRumors is stepping in to help people who don’t know when fall is.

I install really basic shit through Homebrew. Then one day I discover I have 248 packages. Love to upgrade aws-sdk-cpp.

Losing three percent every day has an upside. The absolute value keeps getting smaller.

Whenever literally anything happens in the world, I wait for Slack. I’m not okay until I see some VP post “it’s okay to take time for yourself.”

Hate your career long enough and AI displacement starts to sound pleasant.

Americans for Common Cents was funded by the zinc lobby. Of course it was.

WeWork replaced its in-app snack-buying software with a generic Square terminal. It was a hundred times better. This is why you let technology companies make the software.

It’s funny when DJs turn every knob while the music is clearly unaffected.

I’m so market-pilled I don’t think it’s possible to be overpaid. You both agreed to the salary.