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Jadon Naas

@djadonn.bsky.social
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A humble opinion merchant. Software dev, sysadmin, cloud, and other beep boop type things. He/him

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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This relates to why a college instructor I know would stop reading submissions if they went beyond the word count limit. The true challenge wasn't showing what you know; rather, it was showing you could carefully select from the near-infinite knowledge space and concisely to respond to the prompt
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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 16/02/2026
free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I am the proud architect of a private cloud going into production with not 1 but *3* different storage backends on EOL hardware cobbled together to meet the cloud's storage demands until we can get the real production storage backend in place that was delayed due to shenanigans.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/02/2026
have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026
olive oil is a legitimate interest
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The thing I have come around to is that educated people, and aspirationally this means everyone, should be *literate* in the full range of fields, from technical through humanities. We can’t all know everything, but all fields should be legible to us. We should know how they build and use knowledge.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I think a lot of the hypothetical use case for AI (LLM, especially) type tooling is papering over poor customer experiences, poorly designed user experiences, and poorly made things in general. Using an agent to pull info off a site because the site is too difficult to do that task isn't winning...
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I wonder if part of the allure for LLMs, esp. for coding, is that it taps into the procrastinator's work-about-work need, but you get to feel like it's work because you get something work-shaped at the end without actually doing the real work...
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Gonna give systemd timers a try instead of cron for a job to copy data from old OpenSearch indices into an archive index. systemd timers look like a neat thing. I wish they would have used a better variable name than %i for the unit name in templates, but that's my preference for more verbose names
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One neat small tech thing I have recently learned about is that you can capture all of the scrollback buffer from a tmux pane to a file to review later using the "capture-pane" command. I've had the pleasure recently of slowly and painstakingingly dumping a couple hundred old tmux sessions to file
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
At this stage of things, I feel like LLMs (and more broadly generative AI in its current form) are very much like a missing stair (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing...). Some think LLMs are genius wonders, but then LLMs facilitate real-world, significant harm on people with less power in social groups
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Missing stair - Wikipedia
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Accidentally wrote a mini essay on LI: Carrot-eaters and the psychological essentialism that's smuggled in when we divide people into technical and not-technical www.linkedin.com/posts/drcath...
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There's a study in developmental psychology affectionately referred to as the "carrot-eaters study," at least that's how I always remembered it when I was doing a PhD - I sat in the ...
There's a study in developmental psychology affectionately referred to as the "carrot-eaters study," at least that's how I always remembered it when I was doing a PhD - I sat in the upstairs of a chil...
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A message for you all to carry through the year
Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I got another bag of Harney and Sons Scottish Morn tea, and I must say that tea is terrific. It is a very nice, solid black tea, especially if you like drinking strong black tea. I also recommend Harney and Sons Milk Oolong tea. That tea is some of the best Oolong tea I have ever had.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I am wrapping up a fractional tech lead role for a small software engineering team, and I felt like sometimes my main role was to be an accountability sink for the engineers on the team. That is, they knew what needing doing, but they needed me to say "yes, let's do that".
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I wonder if we shouldn't look at code in determining whether to use a monolithic or divided architecture and rather we should look at the experiences (maybe structures, like in Conway's law terms) of the teams and organizations managing the code...
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I'm not up-to-date on the state of the art, but JSON Web Key Sets are still one of my favorite machine-to-machine authentication methods when I need to auth communication between services I develop. Mostly because it's stateless, and I don't have to worry about revoking/running a DB/managing state
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I wonder if demystifying technology work would help foster healthier relationships around technology. Sure, it is magic, but it's not magic in the Gandalf/Merlin/wizard sense. Oftentimes in my experience, it's just pushing buttons until the computer-shaped thing does what you need it do
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I let audit logging for a software feature get cut in the name of trimming scope for an MVP, but I'm inclined to believe that if you think audit logging would be a useful thing to have at any point it's probably worthwhile to include in the current MVP. I can't say why, but cutting seems incorrect
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Software cultures are absolutely deprived of compassionate moments where we get to be human together and experience being on the same side together. I really believe that humanness changes people's lives and I'm not giving up on its power. I have seen it measurably work, again and again.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Some recent posts about focusing on the velocity of shipping code at the expense of quality and other things gives me big "I Love Lucy working at the chocolate factory as increasing amounts of chocolate spills out of the machine" vibes
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two women are clearing a queue in a kitchen
Alt: A gif of the I Love Lucy TV show episode where Lucy and her friend Ethel, two adult women, seated at a conveyor belt in a chocolate factory. Individual chocolate candies move down the conveyor belt, and Lucy and Ethel work on wrapping the individual chocolate candies. The rate at which chocolates move down the conveyor belt gradually increases, and Lucy and Ethel desperately attempt to clear chocolates off the conveyor belt by wrapping them more quickly, eating them, and shoving chocolates into their clothes as the situation spirals out of their control.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I think one true sign of software engineering skill is when you can solve a problem without any new code. Even better is when you can solve a problem through only talking to people and building better relationships and mutual understanding
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I think one lesson folks should take away from using LLMs to make code is that the code wasn't really the important part to begin. Sure, you usually need code, but code is mostly the expression of someone's domain knowledge applied to fixing a particular problem at hand
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Honestly, I'd be willing to say Occam's Razor becomes a fallacy or a trap insofar as apparent simplicity isn't the same thing as real simplicity. Sure, pick the thing that appears simpler to you, but be ready to handle any unknown complexity that you missed in making that choice
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When I see folks on BlueSky mention some personal success, I make a point to reply to encourage and congratulate. It doesn't matter to me that they are strangers and I may never hear about their life again. What matters is that for the price of one reply, someone knows they're seen and supported.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
As it turns out, having 16000+ filesystem mounts on a single Linux machine is not a good idea. No one did that on purpose. It appears to be a configuration bug in Kolla-Ansible for OpenStack that mounts a Docker volume inside of another Docker volume. Froze up systemctl something fierce
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I saw someone on here talking about how metacognition is the way to save yourself from falling for LLM hallucinations. I think Baldur Bjarnason made a compelling case how that can precisely make you *more* vulnerable rather than keep you safe: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...
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Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/12/2025
Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I saw the post about the top 50 Devin user finding AI code harder to review. I think one important loss from using AI to generate your code for you is missing out on constructing your own mental model of how the code fits the problem you are trying to solve and how the code fits together
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 13/12/2025
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣
A two-part X (Twitter) post by Hunter Leath, showing the "life comes fast at you" concept through his use of AI coding assistants like Devin or Claude. The top, more recent post says: "an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves". The bottom, older quoted post says: "just found out that since this, i've become a top 50 user of Devin globally, now pushing ~60 PRs a day. AMA."
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today I learned you can use the date command from GNU coreutils to do things "date --date='366 days ago'" to easily get the date 366 days ago, among other date math things. I was using this to write a short shell script to delete OpenSearch indices that are older than one year to run in a cron job
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/12/2025
This was a whole ride woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
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You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI by Woe Industries
Let's make this sh*t too big to fail.
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I hope folks who think investing in their IT infrastructure is a waste of money/a cost center remember those words when the next big whatever is due in a week, everything breaks, and dozens of highly paid engineers can't do work because the team that keeps everything running was eliminated
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Apparently, Atlassian has partnered with some racing company, and, to celebrate, they are adding a "fun little racing game" as a treat in Confluence. I'm not sure why someone thought *that's* what will get folks excited about sort of meh productivity software
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design. You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I was reading the Wikipedia article about Context Collapse (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context...) to understand the term better. The article used the phrase "a surfeit of different audiences", and I would like to consider "a surfeit of audiences" as a collective noun for audiences henceforth
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Context collapse - Wikipedia
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I do wonder how much of OpenAI's plans to delay ads is because they can't figure out a way to actually do ads well enough to make money. I don't have any proof for this, I grant, but declaring a "Code Red" emergency before pivoting back to what you are comfortable doing sounds like a failure mode
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I once failed to convince a CEO with whom I worked for several years of this exact phenomenon. Meetings with this CEO and other folks in the company often were really frustrating b/c CEO would make some off-the-cuff remark that immediately turned into a multi-team initiative and waste of time
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After weeks of terrible customer support calls with the appliance maker Bosch, I wonder if decades of scripted customer service/support calls primed people to be more likely to accept the outputs from LLMs/generative text. There are uncanny similarities between the call scripts and AI slop text
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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 02/10/2025
I don't care how good LLMs *might* be getting at some things, *nothing* compares to how good it feels to *learn* something new and to acquire the knowledge you need to do something you've always wanted to do but didn't know how. 💪🏻
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oliver @eikopf.com · 24/09/2025
you cannot get good with a piece of software unless you kinda hate it
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Jadon Naas @djadonn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I saw a car commercial showing vehicles going through extreme environments to testify the quality/endurance of the vehicles, and I laughed at their idea of "endurance". Don't give me a car that can drive up a sand dune.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken. >>
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Chris @chris.blue · 06/09/2025
Interesting take on rewrites 👇
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/08/2025
I put away my phone for the day and instead of doomscrolling, I cleaned my room. Much better use of time! 13/12, highly recommend
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