Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026RE: mastodon.social/@verge/117377492674… Where there's smoke, there's fire.mastodon.social 101
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026I'm completely done with the Gunnverse. Listen, I *loved* Superman. I thought it was really good. Then Supergirl came out, and because the reviews were so bad I didn't bother watching it. Peacemaker *never* clicked for me, I'm not interested in the show. (Sorry.) I hear Lanterns has been […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 000
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Portland•cafe @portlandcafe.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Fantastic new café/workspace/hangout spot dropped in the Richmond District (SE Division St.) called Modhaus. It's co-located with a bunch of awesome food carts including Jojo (which makes the best fried chicken in #Portland. There, I said it). And because I can […] [Original post on pdx.social] 013
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026OK awesome! Signal is working great on iPad making video calls, which make it easy for me to talk with a podcast guest while I record my mic via my Linux box (and they record their mic.) I'd be a little less nervous if I could capture the raw two-way audio, just in case the "double-ender" […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026RE: mastox.eu/@BernieSanders/1173677966… Yep. Being a progressive in America today is just a regular mainstream position.mastox.eu 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Spread the word! ☺️ no-sloptober.com #NoSloptoberno-sloptober.comNo SloptoberThis October 2026 we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you. 1022
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026The willingness of "smart" people to rush to use Dots or Muse or whenever these shitty systems are called now never ceases to confound me utterly. 100
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026I say all this because anyone who compares how humans learn and know things to how synthetic digital computer software "learns" and "knows" things, as if we can compare the two at all, is either wildly misinformed or willfully attempting to deceive you. I find this all so basically obvious that […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 001
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026I can also tell you how I personally learned things, where I learned them, and even who I learned them from. I have a history. Earlier today I walked by a closed building that used to be a Starbucks, and in that Starbucks several years ago I first heard “Everyone Else” by London Grammar. My […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 101
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Now it's true that we all walk around with plenty of knowledge that we haven't experienced firsthand. We got the knowledge secondhand by reading books, watching videos, by people telling us stories, by learning about a topic in a systematic fashion, etc. But all of that is built upon an […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 101
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026I burned my hand on the stove. No I didn't, thankfully! But I've done it in the past. I know what it feels like, because I have a hand, I have nerves, and I have memory. I know it feels terrible and to avoid it. I also know what someone else is going through if they have that unpleasant […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 101
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026I burned my hand on the stove. No I didn't, thankfully! But I've done it in the past. I know what it feels like, because I have a hand, I have nerves, and I have memory. I know it feels terrible and to avoid it. I also know what someone else is going through if they have that unpleasant […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 101
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Took the Blue Line out to #HillsboroOregon for a bit of nostalgia. 😊 Today marks the 9 year anniversary of me & my family moving to #Oregon …and although we'd thought about settling in Beaverton, we decided on Hillsboro instead. It's a cool suburb to the […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 130
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1173561777… OpenAI wants to be like Apple much more than Apple wants to be like OpenAI. Which is good for Apple twice over.mstdn.social 100
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Latest on Vibe Coded: How would an LLM conversation go if you were running it inside of, say, Cyberpunk 2077 vs. “the real world”? What would happen if you were engaging in a conversation (of sorts) about events, persons, and problems occurring in that […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 011
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@brettcodes/1173550… If we had just a few more Bretts in the world, the software industry would be in much better shape. 🤝 Never give up! Never surrender! By Grabthar's Hammer!mastodon.social 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Latest on Vibe Coded: How would an LLM conversation go if you were running it inside of, say, Cyberpunk 2077 vs. “the real world”? What would happen if you were engaging in a conversation (of sorts) about events, persons, and problems occurring in that […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 011
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/11735171… and currently my cat is outside (sneaky lil' bastard!) so yeah.infosec.exchange 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026RE: social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/1173506… Cheering you on, Vivaldi! I'm in all general respects a fan of Safari and WebKit, and I appreciate them on a technical level; even so, I'm 100% in favor of user choice and open computing. People have the right to run *whatever* they […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026RE: thepit.social/@APBBlue/117340682546… 😀thepit.social 000
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White @jaredwhite.com · 25/09/2026I'm not going to complain about this list, and I'll shock some people by saying I have not seen Breaking Bad, nor have I seen The Wire. So I'm happy that the first show at the top I've seen, Mad Men, is at number three. I would personally put it at number one. It is perfection. 🧑🏽🍳💋 121
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026I have a shortlist of The Greatest Episodes of Television I Have Ever Seen. An episode from Mad Men is on there. One from Stranger Things. Pluribus. Others of course. And now, #DarkMatter has reached that echelon. Didn't think this show had it in it to be honest. Season 2, Episode 5 “Love and […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 231
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@verge/117327396959… “in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first” Spoken like a true abuser.mastodon.social 001
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Honest question: Is there any open source community of any meaningful size *not* currently being torn asunder by fashtech and slop? It feels like everyone has reverted to 90s-era runaway flame wars on mailing lists level of bad. Maybe even worse. Clearly, whatever was once working ain't […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 110
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026I'm a bit sick today, so resting at home. Which is still much rather where I'd want to be then stuck listening to that fascist DHH bloviate about agents and Rust in a keynote at #RailsWorld. Is #Ruby dead yet? 🙃 240
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White @jaredwhite.com · 23/09/2026My 15 Minute City conspiracy is that I'm a lazy SOB and don't wanna walk far to get all my stuff. That's it. That's the conspiracy. 021
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026RE: sauropods.win/@futurebird/117319995… What drives me nuts about all this is people have somehow gotten it into their heads that the job of "UX" is to be constantly testing changes. A/B all the things. No!!!! The job of UX *is to justify any changes at all*, and that should […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Trump is losing his own rural base. I guess, in a sense, we can be thankful for the cosplay-fascist incompetence of Trumpism. It precipitates its own demise. apnews.com/article/rural-voters-tru… 020
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026How does Apple TV keep doing this ?! #LastSeen is an absolute must watch show. I wasn't sure at first with the first episode, but by the second, I was already hooked and I binge-watched the third as well since it had just come out. Now finished the fourth and I was literally looking like this […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 010
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026I'm sorry, but anyone who willingly chooses to install Meta Muse on any of their computers deserves what happens to them. 🤷🏻♂️ 001
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Hello friends! I revamped my resume to focus squarely on my 20+ years of experience as a frontend engineer in the hopes of fitting into a specific role. I have many backend skills as well, but browser-focused dev & UX is my happy place. I'm definitely comfortable working on contract, but I'm […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 003
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026I'm sorry, but anyone who willingly chooses to install Meta Muse on any of their computers deserves what happens to them. 🤷🏻♂️ 001
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026It has taken time to realize we must accept a bifurcation within the software industry (and many other creative fields), and embrace our role as a resistance movement. We're slowly, but surely, learning how to face the political reality we now live in […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 122
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026It has taken time to realize we must accept a bifurcation within the software industry (and many other creative fields), and embrace our role as a resistance movement. We're slowly, but surely, learning how to face the political reality we now live in […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 122
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026RE: intuitivefuture.com/@shows/11731017… I decided to expand on this train of thought in my latest episode of Vibe Coded!intuitivefuture.com 001
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026I'm beginning to wonder if "handcrafted code" is the only ethical filter required going forward, as *all* the bad actors out there seem to be moving ahead lockstep (goose-step?) into a glorious agentic era. Perhaps the self-selection of people willing to write code by hand and build community […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 105
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026I love how a reply guy waltzed in and misunderstood what I said about something. I replied "you misunderstand what I said about this." Tried to explain further. They write back *still* misunderstanding what I said. I reply again saying I don't want to continue this conversation if you are […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026RE: mas.to/@PrinceOfDenmark/11730408235… I don't pay you for what you toot you taw, I pay you to taw!mas.to 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Seems ridiculous that I now have a dedicated ToDo list for "Migrate off #fashtech services" but such are the times we live in. It'll take me a while! 😅 But eventually… Bye DigitalOcean! Bye Cloudflare! Bye Dropbox! 001
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026My personal website homepage (aka "jaredwhite dot com") is definitely due for an overhaul! 😅 I'm actually still pretty happy with the design for the most part. Shocking for a theme I came up with 5 years ago and haven't touched much since. (In fact, this layout ended up informing later design […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 100
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026I'm not really a sports guy, but I could definitely get into listening to sports commentary more after hearing this show. These dudes really know their stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8HYiSoH5U 000
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026There are clearly many reasons why people are switching to Vivaldi. Interestingly, my little survey shows that the top reasons have more to do with our values than particular features. The #1 reason (77%) is the fact that we do not have built in AI. #2 is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net] 21046
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.geoffgraham.meWhy CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff GrahamBecause I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that 619680
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026It's good to be back in #Oregon. I'm home now, but earlier we were traveling through Bend and Sisters in #CentralOregon and this remains one of my favorite places anywhere. Look at my happy face! 😃 021
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026if there is one thing that should concern u about ai it is the leaders 1146644
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Trying to explain to a friend how agent harnesses work and what prompt loops are and how "agents have gone rogue OMG 😱" is just improperly monitored prompt loops not running on simulated internet within an airgapped computer cluster but rather on machines with actual internet access and LLMs […]indieweb.socialOriginal post on indieweb.social 005
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026I stand with the lands of my ancestors, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, in their quest to achieve independence, Celtic solidarity, and a return to the EU. And I yearn for the day when Ireland is reunited once again. 🇮🇪 🏴 🏴 000
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026RE: flipboard.com/@thecooldown/the-cool… ~$6.00 in California right now. flipboard.com 000
Reposted by Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem. tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grabtante.ccPower grabOmarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […] 1578