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Graydon Hoare

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wholly and un-ironically believe that versioning ought to make up a significant fraction of any formal training in computers. Multiple full year courses in your degree. And there should be a set of journals and conferences on it, endowed chairs, advanced research institutes, the whole nine yards.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've never not had an insightful interaction with Quinn Wilton. This talk, "The Graveyard of Good Ideas", is an absolute delight. I can't describe it; just listen to the first 5 mins and if it doesn't grab you…I dunno, you're just not my kind of nerd. (-: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlQ...
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The Graveyard of Good Ideas - Quinn Wilton | ElixirConf US 2026
YouTube video by Code Sync
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 14/08/2026
looks very interesting
practices that made it effective. I argue that the most significant impact of LLMs on programming language development may not be faster implementation, but making rigorous specification, validation, and design practices practical for language projects that lack the resources of large language teams or industrial standards bodies.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I wonder if LLMs-constantly-attacking-everything will further entrench fully private WANs (eg. the "fast-lane" cables owned/managed by hyperscalers that currently accelerate POP-to-cloud traffic). I guess there's always a perimeter somewhere, but seems like "bespoke airgaps" have a brighter future.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
(re: last post I do not really think go is a C it's much closer to a lisp but really it's a bit more like a CLU or M3 or sather which is a harmonious point on the spectrum that everyone tragically neglects. just make a safe compiled language with a GC. it's ok! you can do it! people love that shit!)
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Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 03/08/2026
Panel 1: Writing some code? I'll show you something interesting
Panel 2: There are two types of languages: C, and Lisp
Panel 3: Python? Lisp. Go? C. Despite looking like C, JavaScript is a Lisp
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In his 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton identified the passions that had animated fascistic political cultures over the previous 80 years. These may sound familiar.
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hem "mobilizing passions":
• a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;
• the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;
• the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;
• dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
• the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;
• the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny;
• the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal
reason;
• the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success;
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you’re picking fights with Canadians, you don’t have a friend in the world.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 17/07/2026
Canada is burning, and America is complaining about the view.
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Canada is burning, and America is complaining about the view.
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
in the future everyone will get to live in the city with the worst air quality, for somewhat longer than 15 minutes!
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
followup filter round: disabled people. super bonus round: stateless people.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15/07/2026
The most effective heuristic I've found to quickly show whether someone is a shitty person is to see what they think about homeless people. They're telling you who they really are. Those red flags have an undefeated record, e.g. Gavin Newsom. Wurman used an encampment lawsuit to burnish his rep.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/07/2026
Open source has entered the chat
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
All I ever do is heckle this site for being itself. I'm sorry, that's unfair. You can all keep being your precious selves. In the meantime I will share a thing I discovered today which is fun, like we used to do on the internet: www.openhistoricalmap.org
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OpenHistoricalMap
OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I see we're still discussing air conditioning. good work blue sky! you've almost solved it!
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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Look it'd be nice to do something about climate change, but 100 of the dumbest, richest assholes in history would rather not, so oh well I guess
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
geez every time I return to peek at bsky the takes are just that much hotter than last time. dangerously hot. I only repost the ones cool enough I can touch 'em but my popular-with-friends feed is hot enough to fry an egg. needs some air conditioning!
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Personally, if I were one of the Third Way ghouls who helped to hollow out labor, vilify the poor (especially when they’re black), and lay the ground work for furthering private profit over public good, I would shut the fuck up when a new era of young politicians attempted to revive my party.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Progress in cancer research has been one of the incredible areas of biomedical advancement over the past two decades. Many cancers which were absolute death sentences just a few years ago are now chronic, managed conditions. And this was only possible through NIH/NCI/NIAID research/funding.
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
yes "comments LLMs leave to explain their work" (especially when talking to one another) read uncomfortably like "teenage twitch streamers detailing incomprehensible fandom lore" only like if it was corporate software scrum master lore. they are so into every story point they give them little names.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I had a conversation recently in which I admitted to belief that programs can be "done" after which they just need ongoing maintenance / fixes / ports. That writing a new program can serve everyone better than constant overhauls to an old one. I know this is controversial, and that seems sad to me.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II
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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm *very* excited to report that we got initial funding and have hired our first Rust maintainers! RustNL's Rust Maintainers Team starts out with two full time maintainers, one intern, and five part-time maintainers, now stably employed to continue their work on Rust! 🎉 rustnl.org/maintainers/
Screenshot of the website, listing the eight team members: Oli (full-time), Waffle (full-time), Tiffany (intern), Mara (part-time), Jana (part-time), Nia (part-time), Bjorn (part-time), and Folkert (part-time).
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
im glad scott is finally figuring out what project hes been working on all these long years lol
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
feeling the bsky rando-heckling repulsion field strongly enough to step away again. contact elsewhere.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
CVF are proud supporters of the other important event at the UN today highlighting the need for "Clean Indoor Air". It is of vital importance to *everyone*, but especially for Clinically Vulnerable people. Thank you @drbronking.bsky.social 💙💜💗
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Clean Indoor air is a gap in our public health frameworks. We need to close that gap."
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I agree with this so much. Every time people get all critical about the social function of shame (and even the legitimate self-critical, reflexive, not-meeting-my-own-standards function of shame) I wonder what exactly they have in mind to better serve that function. What else is moral condemnation?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
At this point I have seen so many people with medical tragedies that at long last boil down to either "mis-dosed drug" or "drug side effect" or "drug interaction" that it's now the first thing I ask about when discussing health issues. "Do you by any chance have some medication you take regularly?"
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm very very very slightly torn on this. I mean obviously the whole tylenol prenancy autism thing is just another "punish women for everything" piece of right wing garbage. But also tylenol is incredibly dangerous and causes acute liver failure and death at astonishing rates nobody talks about.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 23/09/2025
👋 FEEDBACK WANTED ..on this preliminary #rustlang reflection MVP design by oli: github.com/rust-lang/ru... (the PR works, you can compile it and play with it, see rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org)
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Reflection MVP by oli-obk · Pull Request #146923 · rust-lang/rust
I am opening this PR for discussion about the general design we should start out with, as there are various options (that are not too hard to transition between each other, so we should totally jus...
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Look at academia giving me a little hope
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2025
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 17/09/2025
A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The most enduring American values are moral obtuseness & rage. In 1970, a majority of Americans polled thought students were to blame for Kent State Massacre; most opposed simple traffic blockades to protest Vietnam and would consider assaulting activists & resorting to firearms
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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
every time i see a link preview for a gist here my heart quickens because i briefly think i'm seeing a link to something else
the link preview tile for a github gist. grey on black with a distinctive pattern of dots and squiggles. a 3rd edition amiga rom kernel reference manual, with a very similar graphic design on its cover
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad" rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
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