DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 17/09/202620 year old me was confused about where happiness actually came from. What he thought doesn't matter. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A belated happy Rosh Hashanah to everyone. youtu.be/TzKeqa5VblQ Some song ideas for Broadway Rosh Hashanah: The Man of L'Mancha Avenu MalQnuyoutu.beTekiah song on the Shofar (To the tune of "Tequila")YouTube video by Ari Aranov 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If I never had to hear the word "friction" outside of a physics context, I'd be so so happy. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If you're celebrating that LLMs are answering 30% of your support load, remember that 70% of your support tickets are now having a worse experience than they were before. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A Magic the Gathering card. (Or at least, that's what my mom would tell me based on my room growing up) 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wonder if anyone has data on how the way in which you gather feedback about an event changes how people see the event. In this case, offsites, but one could imagine something similar with religious ceremonies, government functions, etc. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Net promoter score may have had a use-case for sales-focused data collection, but using the formulation "would you recommend <X> to your friend/colleague/etc." in increasingly more domains is a recipe for treating those domains as external sales products. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Today's Torah portion reads very much like the last season of a soap opera. Two major characters (Aaron and Miriam) got killed off and they introduced a talking donkey. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce on Very Hard mode. 020
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026On top of the datacenters for the LLM training and inference, even if all LLMs do is making writing code incredibly easy, the datacenter infrastructure needed to just run all the generated code is itself a huge infrastructural burden. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026If civil engineers behaved like software engineers: Why is this skyscraper made of reflective glass? I copy-pasted the design from a building that worked. But we live in a very sunny city. You copy pasted from a building in Seattle. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I wonder if migrating off of Github is a project I can use to get a promotion... 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Year long review periods are too long. I can barely remember what happened 6 months ago at work, let alone a year. At the same time, companies would buckle under the strain of doing multiple full review cycles per year. Solution: don't work on anything meaningful the first half of the year. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026hugops to all the folks at Github. It's not fully down, but it really has been "another day, another noticeable amount of instability from Github" for a while, and that's almost worse over an extended time? 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I wish companies allowed opting out of performance review season. "I accept that the most I can get is an inflation adjustment to my salary" and in exchange I don't have to write a self-reflection/peer review. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026🎵And I said, what about... Breakfast at Sparticus No I said what about Breakfast at Sparticus No I said what about Breakfast at Sparticus No I said what about Breakfast at Sparticus 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I know nothing about football scouting, but even aside from the efficacy of such a decision, you don't want your scouting team subject to the whims of GitHubstatus.com when it comes to reliability. Go read the incident history for yourself.githubstatus.comGitHub StatusWelcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026@wotcmatt.bsky.social Rules question: I control both Ashling, Rekindled and Avatar Aang (front-sides), and move to main phase, putting Ashling's trigger on the stack, then turn Ashling into a copy of Aang using Fleeting Reflection. I keep the Ashling copying Aang and pay to transform. What happens? 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Someone could make a killing by selling the product "Github, but it's 10 years ago and stable" 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Sora now has an opportunity to ditch AI and become a video game company. I bet shipping Kingdom Hearts 4 will be more profit than actually training/running their tool. 010
Reposted by DJ HoffmanChris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 11/12/2025Someone please remind the folks at the top of GitHub and the owners at Microsoft that being the default code hosting platform is *earned* and *can be lost*. Getting the core value proposition right is *the job*. 2254
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Healthcare in the Us is so broken that we will build LLM-powered assistants to compare plans rather than offering reasonable coverage for everyone. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Huh, I wonder if a side-effect of the AI craziness might be an actual introspection at what makes a good software engineer. 110
Reposted by DJ HoffmanMagic Data Science @mtgds.bsky.social · 20/10/2025When your one-drop is hosted on AWS US East 1 0258
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Of the 78 cents that is the current rate for letters in USPS, 13 cents of the increase has happened under Trump, and 13 cents under Biden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...en.wikipedia.orgHistory of United States postage rates - Wikipedia 020
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Join yesterday to get points on your time traveler frequent travel program. 010
Reposted by DJ HoffmanBrian Kibler @bmkibler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025So @theasianavenger.bsky.social just referred to fantasy football as a "buff men autobattler" and I simply cannot handle it.media.tenor.coma football player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on itALT: a football player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on it 718216
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025It's not often that my penchant for always including "I asked X interview question which the candidate answered in <Language>" as the first line in my interview feedback is relevant, but when it is it's a huge lifesaver. (where X is an unambiguous name for the question internally at the company). 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025It's been so weird at my company and having some switch flip on where I'm all of a sudden older than most of my co-workers, have been working in tech longer than many of them, and being further along in relationships, housing journey, etc. 000
Reposted by DJ HoffmanPro-Algae Leftist @robinvetskeptic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. 1350060
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Also, at the risk of coming off like a paranoid IT person, I'm not here to volunteer for voice samples to train AI on. If your robocall is recording the conversation, I absolutely do not want to contribute my voice. So yeah, you gotta say hello first to prove you're a human and not a threat vector. 020
Reposted by DJ HoffmanCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 12/06/2025Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally. status.cloud.google.com Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare. www.cloudflarestatus.com #hugopsstatus.cloud.google.comGoogle Cloud Service Health 3136093
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025(I do not have a product to sell). If you could buy a subscription service that gave you an extra hour of sleep every night, how much would that be worth to you? I'm pretty sure I'm in the hundreds per month. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Popping over here quickly to say that you can block the outgoing requests to Gemini by adding `appsgenaiserver.*google\.com` to your pihole denylist. Also recommend adding `(\.|^)gemini\.google\.com$` just because. Google, please, just stop. 000
Reposted by DJ HoffmanNintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Contemplating Church numerals through the crutch of Peano axioms: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck 3825
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024So, at the risk of angering tech folks, I find the drive towards LLM generated unit tests somewhat baffling, especially for net-new code. When I was in college, we were taught test-driven development, because tests specify what your code should actually do. I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec. 020
Reposted by DJ HoffmanAnne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way. 1943560608
Reposted by DJ HoffmanYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Saving "effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming". 192
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Working at a B2B tech company startup is searching through your company's internal search for how to use your benefits, and finding results for your sales _to_ that company before finding results on how to use the benefit. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 17/04/2024I have, as a 30 year old dude, needed to remind myself that if I'm in a big box store on a stressful day, that opening up a lootbox of Magic cards won't actually make me happier. Lootboxes are capitalism's second-biggest innovation in making people spend money without restraint. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 27/02/2024using ancient magical animals shapshifted into human beings to fix the relationship between a dancer and his tea merchant father in a comedic dramedy set during the Chinese New Year. 010
Reposted by DJ Hoffmanbubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/12/2023hello, good morning i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off 25271951563
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 04/12/2023TIL, astronomers can have a different year length than the rest of of (sidereal years). Which makes me wonder if timestamps for astronomy software uses terrestrial time or sidereal time. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023I don't think we've reckoned with the psychological damage of fraudsters. Not even the large ones, I'm just thinking of the barrage of DMs from fake profiles in any online space. It makes us so unable to trust the humanity of others who want a new connection. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 29/11/2023Alright, this is not tech related so hope you're not following me just for that. The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns). 340
