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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 03/10/2026

movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 03/05/2026

And for #2, it’s absolutely true that AI can be fantastic learning tool, but it can only answer the questions that you know to ask. There’s a vast ocean of knowledge out there, and until you become an expert, it's hard to tell which parts are important (or true, for that matter 😅).

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way. Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aren’t we about due for a fourth wave of ska?

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Perfect analogy: »So if you’re having a hard time drinking out of a firehouse, perhaps the question isn’t, “How do I modify my biology to accommodate the bandwidth of the firehose?” But rather, “Why am I trying to drink out of a firehose in the first place?”«

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I asked Siri to “play me something I’ll like” for my morning dog walk. Please observe: 1. Yes, I am an old now 2. The algorithms are alright* *sometimes

Siri plays music for a grown-ass 90s kid

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“The perfect dev stack is a collection of software that each does one job and doesn’t suffer main character syndrome. I want to code, I’m not looking to make lifestyle choices.”

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/06/2026

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New evergreen post for our times just dropped:

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“We used to surf the Web. We can still surf the Web. The Internet in 2026 is, for sure, full of horrors. The signal to noise ratio is pegged to noise. It’s only gonna get worse from here. But Good Internet is still here. We’re still making stuff we care about and sharing that stuff on our websites.”

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“…what made the “old” Internet so good was the process of discovery. There were no streams or feeds. No “For You pages”. No “Discover” tab. When you found something good, it was usually after hours idly clicking between loosely connected websites. That’s what made every discovery feel so special.”

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"The best programmers are more clearly the best than ever before. The worst programmers have gone from laying a few turds a day to spewing veritable mountains of hot steaming stinky shit, while beaming with pride at their increased productivity." daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

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‘Grief and the AI Split’

Link to: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This article describes a crazy push to Agentize All The Things. Is this really a workflow that anyone actually *wants* to work with? Keep all the meetings, and let the agents write alle the code while you’re tied up in Teams calls all day?

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

“Instruments over pads of paper over laptop over tablet over phone.” Enthusiastically co-signed!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What a scathing, tragic and hilarious portrait of “highly agentic” young founders of nonsense startups. We are, as the kids say, cooked. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hey, um… get off X. They monetize societal division and amplify hate. Posting content there gives people a reason to stay and you enable their brainwashing and revisionism. One of the greatest things you can do right now is help unplug the billionaire machine and eject from the attention economy.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims“

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“The American system of government was not meant to be this unmoored from reality; normal constitutional workings are under strain because the federal government is too internet-addled to tell the difference between doxxing and murder.” www.theverge.com/policy/86720...

theverge.com

Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking?

Americans do not like masked secret police.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/01/2026

I’m wondering what all this software is that people now make that it wasn’t worth for them learning programming for And what all the articles are it wasn’t worth learning writing for. And what all the art is that it wasn’t worth learning how to express yourself for.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

All the money in the world could not make me want to trade places with this guy. (Either of them, for that matter).

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Company X releases a new browser" is not correct. "Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine." is more like it.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I did not expect to snortlaugh out loud to a quiz about JavaScript dates, but here we are. This is hilariously well done. We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language. 12/28, no notes.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“And so, we rewrote the rules of web development around entirely different needs, almost overnight. Not content, not speed, not interoperability, not discoverability. Just code.” Ouch, yeah: www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

“A grand unified vision isn't manifesting, but a million different nightmares are.”

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@redwoodjs.com Heads up: Submitting the newsletter signup on rwsdk_com throws a 405 error from kwesforms_com.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The biggest delta I see from 20 years ago- this world we evolved to didn’t leave enough space for the dreamers. That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

ChatGPT ass presidency

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 03/04/2025

The answer to “why are they doing this?!” is always “for multiple reasons ranging from nakedly stupid to calculatedly evil in service of a feckless coalition of the greedy and malicious.” The endless search for a unified psyche here is such a self-inflicted DDOS 🫠

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

All true — except the “charismatic” part: “One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle

Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This is it, unfortunately. The nitwit just wants to "make map go bigger", consequences be damned.

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Dan Okkels Brendstrup @bewildergeist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The AI robots are trolling each other now. I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link. Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.

Screenshot of a pull request review performed by GitHub Copilot of a database anonymization script, wherein it correctly identifies a YouTube link as a Rickroll, and politely suggests avoiding "unintended humor" in anonymized data.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

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