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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 19/09/2026

absolutely. this question is for people who are very attached to the self-image of "being right" which often makes them quite obnoxious and also self-defeating

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 18/09/2026

“What if we could use AI to make the UX and UI custom for the user” What if we made a UX that actually supports people rather than making them figure everything out? What if our UI actually just respected system defaults so people don’t have to tell every site to do the same thing?

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 18/09/2026

there's an oldish saying, "do you want to be right, or do you want to be effective?" and i think it needs an update "do you want to FEEL right, or do you want to be effective?" bc really there aren't any points at all for "being" right. only being effective matters.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

"If you think it is bad that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and a handful of their billionaire buddies are effectively unconstrained, then the most effective thing you can do is pick a fight over data center siting in your area." by @davekarpf.bsky.social

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

lots and lots of things have gotten better, you're just in a (justifiably) bad mood

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

"i was trying to be helpful—" no, you weren't. helpful people ask questions and wait for permission, they don't charge in with zero knowledge whether you want it or not

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

men — and it is almost always men — don't do this. 1. i didn't ask for recommendations 2. those are NOT management theory books 3. i already own the book, trying to sell it to me like i've never heard of it is insulting 4. on no planet do i need a man to tell me what to read next

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

why did you assume i don't already have it? and it's not a management theory book at all

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

i read management theory stuff for fun and if you think it's boring, you're wrong there's SO much tea. "Physicists, unlike accountants such as Deloitte, are educated to ask fundamental questions to understand the nature of things and to understand them in terms of energy and speed"

intelligentmanagement.ws

Why the Network of Projects is a Real and Operational Alternative to Deloitte’s ‘Adaptable Organization’

the Network of Projects organization design is a real and operational alternative to Deloitte’s ‘Adaptable Organization’, based on systems science.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 30/06/2026

a product taking up space (in the abstract) nudges us to consider how much we need, or want, it. SaaS products are a perfect evasion of any sense of taking up space.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 26/06/2026

they keep saying they're gonna do it, but they don't. we should just take them at their word

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 24/06/2026

this is really true and it's really upsetting. software is getting less powerful, less service-oriented, and just generally worse.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 23/06/2026

we have a rare window of availability at @codetv.dev, so if you're looking to make something special that helps your company connect with devs, now is a very good time to get in touch. I love working with teams that have the courage to experiment & take big swings — if that's you, get into my inbox!

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is so dystopian. 💀 54 % of Americans read at or below a grade 6 level. Which means they can’t read for context, subtext, authorial intent or bias.

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Josephus Brown @josephusbrown.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Systems that function are invisible, unfortunately

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 20/05/2026

she said it was reassuring to know it’s normal to have to shovel shit we really have a problem with toxic “entrepreneur” media that talks about fake grind and ~mindset~ and not real brass tacks

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 20/05/2026

got to use my “do you want to eat shit or shovel shit?”* line on a friend today who was talking about how much shit it’s taking to set up her first real business vs just freelancing * about being an employee or an entrepreneur

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 06/05/2026

No one is ever completely “ready” for something difficult that they’ve never done before. So: Just start. But also: You know you’ll run into gaps, so realize that along the way, back off, get help, then get back to it.

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

we often use "medieval peasant" as a metaphor for superstitious, magical thinking, born out of ignorance, but the wooeyist wooey wooer in a rural town that's been cursed to stay in 1634 forever has less magical thinking than a modern billionaire

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 06/05/2026

it's super interesting when The Algorithm™ grabs something of yours and then lets go

youtu.be

2026-04-30 “our product lets you…”

YouTube video by dorian taylor

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 02/05/2026

also i have no clue what you mean with that “it may be obvious to you” jab. you think *researchers* shouldn’t know this? because wow that’s really something

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 02/05/2026

it can’t “cheat” because it is not taking a test or giving answers. it is simply playing improv.

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 02/05/2026

the worst part about the github outages is that the engineers will probably take the blame when it’s more likely the managers’ faults it’s hard for me to imagine an engineer asking their manager to do a shittier job; these outages are usually downstream of management pressure to punt on quality

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

yes past bubbles often exploded in an instant but the railroad bubble, for example, was a much bigger relative capex

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

interesting! but why? irc didn't require auth, except to optionally protect your username

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

i have been violently allergic to "product LETS users" since the first time i heard it like bitch. YOU are a TOOL. you don't "let" me do anything.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

i can think of some white voters who ought to fall off the raft and hit their heads on a convenient boulder

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

back in the day, i used to do a lot of consulting for small local biz to build custom apps and the average person is just not capable of making any of those plans or decisions they don’t think in an instrumental way about what they do or want to do, to say nothing of software

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

true vibe coders will only be able to get so far before they get stuck, if they don’t know how to think about software and how code works in general

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

it can’t tho. they’ll have to prepare a whole design plan and figure out the flow and function of the app or else it’ll be a garbage mishmash even if the code all works. scripts that do small things tho, that’s possible but, otherwise they have to be able to think about process, flow, function

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

do you remember that very popular web 2.0 bookmarking service that “lost” its db and had no backups?

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

i saw this one pop up on my reddit and omg the one thing i’ll say is that llm coding agents don’t do anything a shitty or brand-new developer hasn’t done and that’s not a defense of LLMs at all. they also can’t learn like a shitty or brand-new developer can

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

i’ve been using it to build little local apps for myself that i always wanted but never had time/energy for this sounds absurd but the right skills files help a lot that said, i absolutely don’t think i could even get these going without years of coding & coder-managing experience

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

it's not aggressive to say i'd be embarrassed (that's what "not caught dead" means, maybe it's not colloquial for you), and a similar example would be silly. the thing is, llm *facts* are your area, so posting an obvious joke and taking it seriously has a real weird vibe

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

if the damn thing would work, maybe!! i used to pay for nitro. i don't any more bc the basic functionality doesn't fuckin work.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

i'm not pissed off, i just think it's pretty clear you fell for it and it pays to admit it! it would be very silly to post "if A Modest Proposal is true and jonathan swift just admitted on main that he's willing to eat babies…"

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

You don’t understand scale. Use $50 to pay chatgpt for 10 feelings. In 6 months you have 250 feelings. Plant those into 250 morning scripts. 6 months you have 6,250 feelings. Seed them. 6 months you have 156k feelings. Seed them. 6 mo you have 3.9MM feelings. Sell them for $1 each.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

discord. guys. it's time for you to visualize a chat app that actually works irc did it in the 90s. you can manage it. come on now. pull your socks up.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

which is the other one you mean by "both"?

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

really good satire is subtle. this is like a sledgehammer. people are just having serious media literacy problems!

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

but it's not true. it's satire. and therefore it is "not like when people let their mask slip." i personally would never be caught dead posting an onion headline saying "if this is true" and then "well it COULD be true"

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