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"i'm not doing X for ethical reasons, and also I think X is bad for pragmatic reasons" is a suspicious stance. It's correct in some circumstances, but most people have strong motivated reasoning to believe X is pragmatically bad if they also think it's ethically bad.

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Every time you repost it i get jumpscared by 30+ notifications

"Give me an hour to fix a bug, and I'll spend the first 55 minutes writing tests"

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Lumping games from one series together (e.g. all the Myst games, Dark Souls 1 and 3, both Age of Empires and Age of Mythology), I can only really think of 6 games that influenced me.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 27/09/2026

what if our whole family got super into surf rock

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I've been obsessed with this one track, "No Werewolf", for a few months now. Today Eden decided that she likes it. "Can we listen to Daddy Music?" She got really into the groove. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHf...

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No Werewolf

YouTube video by Allah-Las - Topic

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 27/09/2026

Oh you're rewriting your code in assembly? That's cute. Probably makes your screensavers and toys run fast. But if you're doing anything serious, you should ditch the bloated opcodes and just etch your logic into silicon instead. It's way more efficient. Your asm is cute though.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 27/09/2026

I've nearly finished Factorio Space Age. Aquilo was fun. First image: top of factory, where heat + power are produced Second image: bottom of factory, where science packs (and soon, quantum processors etc) are produced.

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If you're a regular contributor and you know the codebase really well, then sure, use whatever tool you want. I'd rather read a 2000 line AI-written PR made by someone who really knows the codebase, rather than a 300 line AI PR from someone who doesn't.

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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 that's fine but if your dreams and ambitions are to write software for a note-taking or productivity app, uh, I think we've got enough of those. Consider writing some more useful software instead.

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- Keep a To-Do list in your Slack self-DM - Put stuff on that list - When you finish something, remove it from the list that's it. that's all you need.

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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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The people I'm talking about have access to capital and venture funding.

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Optimizing your note-taking has very marginal returns above something simple like a notebook or a Slack DM to yourself

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I'll write a really really good apology note with it.

Sorry, this was unfair. Not all of these talking heads are building notes+chat+calendar+email apps. Some of them are building AI orchestration tools.

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these people are Milhouse. Even in his own dreams, he's a sidekick.

dream a little bigger, you fucks! Go work on biotech, solar, batteries, fusion, robotics, manufacturing, rare earth metals, desalination, agriculture. You think that God has reached down from heaven and granted you unlimited software generation, and you're spending it on... a note-taking app???

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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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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 24/09/2026

Yeah, I think a two-tier system is definitely one of the potential, maybe even likely, outcomes. Like high-paid doctors vs. lower-paid medical techs, nurses, PAs, etc. Or high-paid lawyers and lower-paid paralegals.

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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

Benchmaxxing? How many times are we saying birkat hamazon now???

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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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Sometimes having two different ways to state something helps people understand it!

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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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every "e.g." bitch gets real quiet when a true "i.e." understander shows up

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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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(this happened because we realized the best way to work with KCL was to pass a single struct as the only arg, with optional fields, but then realized we should just make the language work like that)