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suggested AI policy: any PRs written entirely by an agent must be <30 lines long I think it's a good balance. Allows vibe-coded tiny bugfixes or features that are simple extensions of current code. But stops people submitting vibe-coded features that require reviewing thousands of unreadable LOC.

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it's OK to disobey orders from your commander if you've got a very high level of sexual charisma

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OK here is my ultimate productivity stack for work. This is the system I use to manage developing KCL, managing my team, handling cross-team requests and bugs, and prioritizing issues. Developing this workflow took me several years of relentless experimentation and optimization. Here it is:

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 25/09/2026

men will really spend six months thinking hard about the future of artificial and human intelligence, the plummeting cost of software, the promise of intelligence on tap, and decide that what the world needs right now more than anything is a combined email + calendar + note taking + chat app

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Fillets are _much_ better in KCL 3.0 (try it now by setting your version to "3.0-preview"). We added a new feature where fillets will continue around your model, following tangent edges (defaults to true, but can be toggled off). This makes it _much_ easier to apply fillets to your whole model!

The same part, but with a single `fillet` call that fillets all the top edges.

The same part, but all edges have been filletted.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 25/09/2026

I thought the world had finished with life-altering transformative technology, that all the change was used up in the early 20th century before I was born, but it wasn't! Dramatic change is still possible. Dramatic change for the better requires dramatic change.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 25/09/2026

Is there any better feeling than showing Pantheon a sci-fi enthusiast with a young daughter

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 24/09/2026

Twin Peaks: Two ducks on the shore, from the opening scenes.

Two ducks on the shore, from the opening scenes. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 23/09/2026

incredibly bullish about Jev. No idea what it does but it's only a tiny typo away from Jew. Feeling a strong kinship with this product, whatever it is.

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I found the Yom Kippur traditional Poster's Confession really meaningful this year.

We have subtweeted. We have argued in bad faith. We have dogpiled. We have uploaded images with no alt text. We have read the replies of our mutuals without leaving a courtesy like, and we have become irrationally angry when our posts did not get a courtesy like. We have thirsted and we have judged others for their thirst. We have posted bait, and we have taken the bait of others. We have posted cringe, we have been horny on main, we have assumed that someone’s retweet was an endorsement. We have posted things which are true but unkind. We have posted things which are kind but we knew to be false. We have scrolled when we should be sleeping or paying attention to our loved ones. We have replied seriously to a joke. We have strayed from Your good terms & services and it has not made our lives better.

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I found the Yom Kippur traditional Poster's Confession really meaningful this year.

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Astra loves to write tests that all your dependencies work how they should. Shhh, Astra, it's fine. Serde is not going to suddenly start including fields that are set to None.

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i'm going to get an award from my CEO for excellence in the field of using "i.e." in technical writing

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profiling heap usage is so easy. tons of helpful tools to visualize everything. profiling stack usage is SO ANNOYING.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 21/09/2026

Shana tova to all of you here. I hope you had an easy fast or a meaningful yom kippur. I went to the full shacharit + mussaf for the first time since I was a kid and really enjoyed it.

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Daughter, lying sprawled out on my new pillow: "Read books to me daddy! While I am resting!"

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 21/09/2026

I told my 90-year-old grandfather-in-law last night, "May you be sealed in the book of life. And may your enemies not." I'm not sure if he appreciated the joke.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 20/09/2026

I hope this is all worth it.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 20/09/2026

MacOS 27 shows a different icon for Wired vs. Wi-Fi internet :') such a good QoL improvment.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 19/09/2026

Really cool to see Cloudflare Tunnel on the frontpage of Hacker News. Building tunnel was the highlight of my career. It was my second job, 2 years after graduation. Taught me so much about software engineering. In-person with a team of 3 great guys who are now my closest friends.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 19/09/2026

At a certain point you figure out the people you don't like working with, and figure out how to work around them instead.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 18/09/2026

you're reading about the crazy sex-and-drug-fuelled parties in SF engineering circles and you're worried about cults. I'm reading about the crazy parties and worried about what remote work is doing to engineering culture.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 18/09/2026

I love my daughter so much :') I took her to the grocery store to buy ingredients for dinner and she was so cute. I let her choose the shape of pasta she wanted ("the ridged tubes daddy! Not those twirlies! The tubes!"). We've been listening to Fleetwood Mac, today she said "I wanna listen to Mac!"

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 18/09/2026

"what are you working on?" "oh, yknow, new CAD software with a programmatic coder-friendly, AI-friendly angle. What about you?" "I'm actually developing a new kind of raspberry." completely mogged by my botanist friend

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everyone is agentic until it's time to brush their daughter's hair.

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God I hate when I'm reading a blog post and I can so clearly tell it's generated by someone who's put no thought into it, and blindly copied the output from Thomas Pynchon's Ghost, Bound By Dark Magick And Forced To Explain Kubernetes

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guy who is anti-AI because it lets kids cheat on their homework and is also anti-homework

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greatest honor of my life was tonight: a non-Jewish friend married to a Jewish woman telling me that this post has become a regular part of his friend group's vernacular. Real talmudic ball-knowers get it.

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