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Bradley Momberger

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Front End Developer and Agile Consultant at large, Web artist, Web arts tool maker, former birdsite botmaker. Author of Eponymy in August, future author of What […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@air_hadoken, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026

New Blog: Programming Isn't Special Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists? blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i…

Deciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t Special

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The monster Charles Schulz created the torment chamber known as Peanuts to torture the entity Charlie Brown for five decades. Brown spent his existence an eternal child, unable to kick a football, win a baseball game, or earn the respect of his peers. In death, Schulz could no longer pile new […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Setting up a smart TV is one of the circles of Hell as described in the inferno, right?

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Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Source: www.tumblr.com/magicmooshka/8051248…

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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

A fun thing to do that will probably eventually get you killed is to encounter someone who is loudly reminding you about the 9/11 victims and respond to them with whatever they previously said about George Floyd, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor...

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/11724299… The Schemers are all right.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

awful.systems, the anti-AI lemmy instance I help administrate, now has a slop-free jobs board: awful.systems/c/jobs there aren’t any jobs yet and the instance keeps going down due to today’s attack from aggressive scrapers, but come submit some jobs (see the rules thread) and we’ll post […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I have been using "smart" phones for something like 18 years. Today for the first time I successfully rooted a phone and made it mostly usable. It was weeks of research and waiting periods, learning deep parts of Android spec phones that I've never seen before, and installing a lot of software […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1171… This article not only perfectly captures two things I've been trying to articulate for years (viz. the React ecosystem reflects nerdview for Javascript maximalists, and tools are not neutral) but also shows that the two ideas are […]

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

TIL about the "vibe bobsled", a useful-sounding cautionary term for LLMs generating production code, and the dependencies that tends to create: dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-v… Experienced developers know that every line of code increases both […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

No idea why we're modern-ricing this one, but... 20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could. Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

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20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

> I didn't, and I still don't, see the need for working faster. I really like what Cal Newport encourages in his book Slow Productivity: work at a natural pace. brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai This is it. This is exactly the thing that makes me feel like an alien in software […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

While I'm not leaving the fediverse, probably ever, I'm experimenting with giving my projects a public face on the moth site. bsky.app/profile/eponymyinaugust.bs…

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Just published my first Eponymy in August entry in almost seven years. Took a while to find my author's voice again. eponymyinaugust.com/lindy-effect

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Lindy Effect – Eponymy in August

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@loucyx/11701571392… "(avoiding unrealistic things like "full-stack" developers)" I nearly fell out of my chair.

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

MUTUAL AID POST I know the anonymous person being fundraised for in the linked GFM. She's trans and close to getting out of an unsafe situation, fur children included. Please give if you can and share widely. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-survivor-… #mutualaid […]

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Sebastian Kübeck @skuebeck.graz.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Parrot gets promoted to senior product director x.com/RyanEls4/status/2078389307602…

Breaking news: parrot learns
to say "let's add Al to it",
gets promoted to
senior product director at Microsoft

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

I signed up today to be a runway model at this year's Queer AF (Art + Fashion) event benefiting Love Your Labels. Had some great conversations with other aspiring models, and took away some thoughts. Queer joy is defiance, but it also brings people in. It reminds us what we are fighting for and […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Tips for ethical AI use: 1. Don't

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A couple weeks ago, a decision to go to the gym the day after doing 13mi on my bike triggered an experiment to see if I could do a regular gym workout (3mi bike or 14 minutes of elliptical intervals, stretching, and 3 sets of 5 different lifts) or ride 6mi or more every day for 30 days. I took a […]

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I demand a refund from all the gaslighting jerks who repeatedly claimed that water usage by data centers to power the slop machines wasn't a problem. **It's a problem.** And if anyone tells you otherwise, tell them they are inexcusably misinformed. archive.ph/0rwgt

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

#thursdaythoughts following on from mastodon.social/@deivudesu/11685024… , a general question to anyone reading this: is there anything that you would want to share, that you think would get filtered out on a big tech social platform, but you have yet to share on Fedi or other […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

[US Pol: Why do they want to "destroy America" ?] When I imagine the future of this country people like you are a part of it. A part of it. One of many parts. When you imagine a bright positive future do you see people like me there?

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Benn is just cranking out hits anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I way overpaid. And I completely recognize that FIFA is not just a corrupt organization but a corrupting influence. But if you can, go to a World Cup match at least once in your life. I went to GER-PAR yesterday and it was completely worth it, despite the disappointing result.

A panoramic view of the inside of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, showing a crowd cheering on a soccer match.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1168… In the backs of our minds we knew, and kept buried, how we were not all on the same side. Most of us have never enshittified a platform or implemented a UX dark pattern. And we didn't know anyone who did or they just didn't tell us […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

#accomplished #today - pulled all the weeds around one of my zucchini plants and my cucumber vine. put fertilizer on the newly weeded part - checked out the Out To Lunch series that happens on the Worcester common every Wednesday in the summer - six miles on my bike - short core workout at the […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Today marks my last day at Bitovi. It's been a long chapter in my life and both the company and I have moved in different directions over the last decade. It's time for big scary change. I'm taking some time to get my house in order (literally) and will be contemplating a lot over this time […]

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random stranger @kyonshi.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Nothing means anything anymore. The stock market doesn't run on actual earnings anymore. Politics are based on proven falsehoods, money is tight for everyone but can be thrown at whatever stupid shit the oligarchs came up with now. War is used to make a quick buck in stocks. Science is ignored […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Going through a decade of work chats to remind myself of my greatest hits. This one deserved a post of its own.

Four panel meme comic showing a person talking to a genie.
First panel: person says "I wish to use Excel as a database"
Second panel: genie says "It is done." there is a "poof" in the lower corner of the panel
Third panel: person says "Nothing's changed"
Fourth panel: genie says "Correct"; in this panel, genie has the label "ODBC"

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Ever since generative AI, these startups have realized that they can use fear and public outcry over their product as free marketing. Every time a Sam Altman type talks about the “singularity” and how “dangerous” their AI is, they rise in popularity. It's a horrible marketing discovery, as […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@mhoye/1167153034991821… Almost every conversation I have with a motorcycle rider includes "that's how I got this [points at scar running up leg]"

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/1166406…

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Gitlab about to go to shit about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2

about.gitlab.com

A letter to our customers and our investors.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I'm thinking today of something that @aparrish said years ago, when generative text programs were still cool and artsy things, which I'll paraphrase: Making art and poetry bots on Twitter was like skateboarding, using infrastructure for something it wasn't designed or built for, without the […]

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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Yes, you can in fact reinvent the wheel. @enkiv2 did a bunch of digging and found ample evidence that wheels are constantly being reinvented—some more successfully than others. More in today’s @tedium: tedium.co/2026/05/03/wheel-reinvent…

Wheel Reinvention: Not Just A Common Metaphor

You’ve probably heard it’s futile, but that hasn’t stopped plenty from trying to reinvent the wheel—some successfully, shockingly.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Inspired by something @mcc said, and paraphrasing Debi Hope: Before diagnosing yourself with paranoia, make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by conspiracies.

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

RE: universeodon.com/@mathew/1165014626… This is an incredible deal on an incredibly useful product. I use my FLO pro almost everywhere; it makes a seal with less tension than a disposable n95, and even at full price a replacement filter is less than half the price of a 3M […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

RE: toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/116500651529… "Overreactors" is such a solid description of the people who refuse to let HTML and CSS do what they are good at in favor of JS'ing everything. "Overreactionaries" would be more accurate, but it's also too long.

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Mike @ Misaligned Markets @midnitemikewrites.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

(1/5) Loved reading this post by @pluralistic My blog, Misaligned Markets was born from taking seriously the idea that a runaway misaligned optimizer will lead to human extinction. We should be worried about killer companies who've harmed millions (like DuPont and the Ethyl Corporation) over […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

The red-button/blue-button psych experiment is trying to prime you for the future that your overlords want. "The red button is logical because I always live" is what they want you to believe. But... Once all the blue people are dead there will be another, greater atrocity that you must do to […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Periodic reminder, that even if you develop some proficiency with the slop machines, YOU DO NOT HAVE JOB SECURITY. Go look on LinkedIn at the posts of the smarmy shit-eating fuckwits who are like "We're going to cut 90% of jobs - adapt or die" and read between the lines. You're going to get […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

@existentialcomics nails it today with a double-tap, but the real message hidden in the alt text: "The reason tech bros think their chatbots might be conscious is because they already think of a human being as nothing more than an obedient task completer. The computers will never be conscious […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

"Mu," said Kelly Dahl. On one level mu means only yes, but on a deeper level of Zen it was often used by the master when the acolyte asked a stupid, unanswerable or wrongheaded question such as "Does a dog have the Buddha-nature?" The Master would answer only, "Mu," meaning—I say "yes" but mean […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Saw an AI influencer-type on another social network say > It’s been shocking to see Claude go from an AI model that seemed one upgrade away from taking over most of the routine tasks in my day job to not even being able to reliably download a webpage without lots of prompting. I'm excited for […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Re LB: If you need a quick reference: S.2581 (MA) is a bill regarding students having personal electronic devices in school. it passed the state senate with a large majority. the House Ways and Means committee added in the amendment H.5349 that mandates age verification for all online platforms […]

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Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTdTaNIUxo

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

"That just means you're interested in creating an echo chamber?" Yes, in fact, I am very interested in creating an echo chamber. I want to hear "I care about people who don't have a voice" echoed back at me. If I don't hear that back I don't care for the chamber. Thanks for asking

Bradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

[Summing up a conversation I had recently where I went yard on economic models, exponential growth, crises, and Keynes.] Economic philosophy hasn't really had a chance to absorb the lessons of environmentalism, and it won't until we have a major crisis. Even Marx wasn't considering that we […]

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