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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have been so excited for this book: A Wall is Also a Door by Annalee Newitz. First time I’ve pre-ordered a book in awhile. I’m not disappointed. Incredible world building.

Cover image of the book A Wall Is Also A Road by Annalee Newitz. We see a human face in a space mask gazing at at artistically rendered spiral galaxy.

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have been gifted a free “Claude code” license. I tried it a few times and I am really baffled about why anyone thinks this is a good idea. 😳

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given that the technology - and how we use it - makes little observable difference to the outcome, we sure have spent a *lot* of time on it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Software developers make easy scapegoats because people don't know or understand what we do. The move, in some circles, to eliminate developers entirely stems directly from that ignorance. They don't understand what we do, so they imagine it's easy (and easily replaced by AI). 1/2

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This all sounds rather familiar

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Adding features (and complexity) makes your program less appealing, not more. Software systems exist to solve a problem. Anything that's not laser-focused on the solution is an annoyance, and building that cruft is worse than money down a hole. It can lose us customers. 1/2

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heads up! <thing that I was telling you 2 weeks ago you had to get on board with or get left behind> is dead. Anyone who isn't <thing I saw Boris Cherney talking about this morning> will get left behind.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When some nice young presumably lesbian people at the zine fest asked me if I was comfortable answering why I, a presumably not lesbian person, made comics with lesbians in them, I showed them this page from Smooth Moves and I'm happy to say that it resulted in both laughter and sales.

A comic page: Marisol and Janice have a conversation about how most of the women they know are at least a bit gay, but the dudes are mostly straight. They wonder if it's that women are more sexually fluid than men, or if it's related to the growing influence of porn on mainstream media. They joke about how maybe whoever's in charage of the universe is just a boring straight dude who likes watching girls bang it out. The last panel is me drawing a comic, looking over my shoulder at the reader, saying "what."

The cover of Smooth Moves, which features Tori and Val. Tori is carrying a box of stuff and Val is carrying a suitcase and wearing a gym bag. Also featured in little circles labeled "old boyfriends" and "ice cream" are Dr Manhattan and Janice

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I miss the old days before AI, when - according to my LinkedIn feed - we didn't think about code semantics, only syntax, and wrote software without intent.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

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rat-bag.bsky.social @rat-bag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can you imagine the state of SRE if all the trans women weren’t there?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The problem with any sort of story-storage system, even a shoebox, is that stories age very quickly. Releasing something into the domain changes the domain, and we release into the domain constantly. The stories are based in the domain, so they change accordingly. 1/2

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Making up a statistic to sound authoritative does make you very much like an LLM but you choosing to do it is the difference between thinking and not. For what it’s worth.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The theory's almost complete. Set your bar for shippable code to even just one-9's reliability, and the human has to stay very much in the loop. Set it to two 9's, and the human *is* the loop. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Out-Of-Distribution Checks – How Human Intelligence Stabilises Agentic Workflows

Back to my “Special Theory of Autonomous Agent Reliability” (STAAR). The reliability of a step (a model interaction) in an agentic workflow: R = 1 – (1 – C)(1 – P) Whe…

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Give me a date, I can guarantee we'll hit that date. I just can't guarantee what we'll hit it with. Give me a spec, I can guarantee we'll deliver that. I just can't guarantee by when. Software development has its own Uncertainty Principle. To deny it is your golden ticket to disappointment.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if you want to speedrun developing the level of personal and political brainworms that were characteristic of the elites in the Confederacy I highly advise telling a chatbot all your problems

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't punish teams for making mistakes. We all do - especially when we're trying something new. Failure is part and parcel of innovating. But we *can* learn to fail at lower cost. And we *can* learn from our mistakes. Arguably, it's all we learn from.

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just had a very frustrating day with colleagues, trying to figure out why we could not understand the technical documentation we were reading. Turns out it was written with AI and only appears to make sense. 🤯😡🤬😳

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What would crush the technofascists is better open source UX

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This was hands-down, the best version of Batman. I remember watching this with my college friends every Saturday morning and we were so into it.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Your regular reminder that there's no credible evidence of reliable long-horizon autonomous agentic coding. Literally none.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I read the first Harry Potter as an adult and I thought, I would have liked this as a kid. I went to the first movie and walked out because it was boring, so it's easy for me to say don't watch Harry Potter. It's even easier for me to say buy my comics instead. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wan...

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Tina and Ellie Take the Case: comics about work and life

In the third Meeting Comics collection, Tina and Ellie solve a couple of mysteries. Plus: COVID! Infidelity! Jokes! and more!

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the correct position.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you can get the *results* of Test-Driven Development without doing Test-Driven Development, then it doesn't matter that you didn't do TDD. The fun starts when you try to get the results of TDD without doing TDD, and realise that TDD is actually the easiest way to get those results.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A good example of this is the wormhole sequence in Interstellar. Double Negative worked with Kip Thorne to use Einstein's field equations to produce a very detailed visualisation of a wormhole - instead of an artist's impression of one. Not more CGI. *Better* CGI.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Productivity is a systemic measure, not something you can isolate to a team or department. If "more productivity" in engineering creates a release that makes tech-support expenses go up, you are not more productive. Sorry.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Have you seen Anthropic's AI-Native SDLC playbook?" No, but I've seen the Claude status page and the Claude Code issues page and I've read reviews of the leaked source code. I think I'll be looking for advice on software engineering elsewhere, thanks.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

OK, I censored this one a little bit (cussin', very small nsfw stickers, one comic page because of dialogue) and uploaded it as the official "discover video" for the kickstarter app. It works even better with the censor stuff, to be honest. I expect to be rich soon.

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“The problem most companies struggle with is that they're "terminally bad at running software projects effectively". Adding AI to the mix doesn't solve this problem – it just adds a whole new range of ways that software deployment can fail.” 💯💯💯

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I introduced the concept of a “theory of change” this week. “OK, I hear you want to do thing A in order to achieve outcome C. Please explain to me how that’s going to happen, and if you can’t, then it might be wasted work.”

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What if I told you there's a way to 10x the productivity of a software development team without making any improvements to their process? Tackle problems that are 10x as valuable.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"But Jason, self-organisation doesn't scale." If nature teaches us anything, it's that self-organisation is the *only* thing that scales.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don't take software engineering advice from a company that routinely fails to achieve even two 9's uptime, and I don't care what their market cap is.

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Bess Sadler @eosadler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got several raccoons so I can give them out to friends

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