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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hi, Apple. I have no idea what you’re announcing at WWDC, and I don’t care. Can you stop adding shit no one cares about and focus on fixing performance and bugs for a while?

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Really missing multi-methods and multiple arity functions while using Ruby right now.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Neat (though I doubt I’ll ever remember to use it over an interactive rebase): git-scm.com/docs/git-his...

git-scm.com

Git - git-history Documentation

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

ABSTRACTION IS A TYPE OF DECADENCE

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The way companies are cramming AI into every product is starting to feel like an increasingly desperate attempt to force those of us who do not use it to come around. Fuck off already.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I would be slightly less annoyed with Tower if I didn’t genuinely like the product. I’ve been using it since v1, and one of the reasons I’ve been using it for over a decade is it makes it easy to break changes up into multiple commits.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Yesterday, I discovered an announcement in my email for one of the stupider AI “features” I’ve seen.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I find it interesting that I have yet to see anyone in tech discuss the supply chain impact of the Strait closure on chip production for our supposedly amazing AI future. Energy costs are only part of the equation.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

that's not software engineering. that's gambling. www.implicator.ai/werner-vogel...

He coins a term: verification debt. AI generates code faster than humans can comprehend it. The gap between generation and understanding allows software to reach production before anyone validates what it actually does.

"Vibe coding is fine," Vogels says, "but only if you pay close attention to what is being built. We can't just pull a lever on your IDE and hope that something good comes out."

He pauses. "That's not software engineering. That's gambling."

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I know this is literally the least bad thing about the latest macOS, but seriously? What other kind of headphones are there?

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“Liquid Glass” is the definition of premium mediocre. What I wouldn’t give for Apple to just focus on improving performance and fixing bugs for a while.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Back down the forecasting rabbit hole (a year on from my first pass). Looks like I’m going to learn R this time around.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN...

youtube.com

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

YouTube video by USENIX

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bring on the Butlerian Jihad.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

My latest newsletter is about how the double standards that allows big tech to commit the most appalling crimes -- and to get away with them. whatwelost.substack.com/p/big-tech-a...

whatwelost.substack.com

Big Tech Always Escapes Justice

How Google, OpenAI, and others get away with (literal and figurative) murder

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Recursive paths in Specter are a super power.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

There is an awful lot of “Look! It’s the Goodyear Blimp!” going on this week.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

So import maps work everywhere. Except web workers. Naturally.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

It’s been a year since I regularly used Slack. It gets more convoluted every time I use it.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Wow. Vanilla JavaScript in the browser has substantially improved since I last used it. Proper modules, import maps, ES6 syntax. All without build tooling.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Death Stranding 2 looks batshit insane (as expected).

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I still think it’s bullshit that Titanic beat out Gattaca for Best Art Direction.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

I'm failing at Unix this morning.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Also giving Polylith a try while I’m at it. It seems to provide an elegant way to maintain a majestic monolith while still being able to decompose that monolith into multiple services if so inclined.

polylith.gitbook.io

Polylith

Polylith is a software architecture that applies functional thinking at the system scale. It helps us build simple, maintainable, testable, and scalable backend systems.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Started experimenting with Rama and realizing I haven’t built a traditional web app (à la Rails) in about 6 years. And I’ve never built a traditional web app in Clojure.

redplanetlabs.com

Learn Rama

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

My Photoshop skills are very, very rusty.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

“Prompts” are a really shitty way to instruct a machine.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Learning more about the capitalization of names than I ever wanted to know.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Well, the second issue of Consular Update (ci.factpattern.io/consular-upd...) went out a lot smoother than the first. Helps not having to debug HTML in Outlook via screenshot this time around.

ci.factpattern.io

Consular Update – Fact Pattern

Weekly updates on consular processing for immigration attorneys.

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Shipped. Finally. (Fuck you, Outlook.)

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J.D. Hollis @jdhollis.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Doing markup like it’s 1999. (Fuck you, Outlook.)

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