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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 8h

And finally, there's just so much money Medians, p75s, p99s...they are in the data, they are in you, they are in your org chart, and they are in the society you operate within It's a firehose, and you're just sipping at it

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 8h

Third: the stupendous size and resources of a company like Meta does not actually breed freedom to think clearly. It does bring lots of opportunities to find inspiring people to think with! But it is also a maze that pressures you all to adapt to it and lose yourselves within it

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 8h

Second: shipping larger changes is much harder. I learned a lot there, have learned more since then, still have more to learn. But frankly, a lot of the difficulty comes from the fact that the presence of a problem is easy to show, even if that problem is very hard to identify.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 8h

First: safely shipping incremental changes to a billion devices is easier than you might think. It's mostly a matter of technique for a client engineer

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 8h

Working at Instagram gave me, more than anything, a series of stark revelations about large numbers

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 9h

I had such a stark realization about this when I started working at Meta and the mean was ~never used while looking at data. Everything was about percentiles: p50 (median), p75, p99, p99.9 etc

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 13h

😭😭😭😭🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry - guess I'm shocked at this plus the toronto bike infra teardowns

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 17h

Something in the brains of canadian car owners sounds seriously whacked

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 15/10/2026

Update on yesterday's post about Anthropic ripping off Mononoke:

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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

Answering questions and concerns.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As a Mississippi native, I know the odds are slim that this candidate will win their senate race, but... This ad is so great: www.youtube.com/shorts/PNpsN... These accents saying "Pick anotha protein?? I'd rathah pick anotha senatah" are gonna be stuck in my head for a long time

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GOP Senator Says Skip Beef? Voter FIRES BACK! #CindyHydeSmith #FoodPrices #LamontTyson

YouTube video by Lamont Tyson

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 15/10/2026

I have since privately received information that the lack of credit was in bad faith, and that this was a blatant and intentional ripoff. I'm not the only one disheartened by the lack of due credit.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reading this immediately made me think about this thought from yesterday: bsky.app/profile/jing... If rain writes strictly here (a good assumption) then consider the exceptions - the space of code that only needs to work at one point in time. Test repros, POCs, explorations, examples...

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Came across this cool terminal trick to batch renaming files on macos: benfrain.com/batch-rename... My use case was having a bunch of `MyFeatureV2_` files that I wanted to rename to `MyFeature_` now that the old version was deprecated. Super quick and easy.

Macos terminal command to batch rename files that contain MyFeatureV2 in the name to just MyFeature.

Command is: autoload -U zmv; zmv '(**/)(*)MyFeatureV2(*).kt' '$1$2MyFeature$3.kt'

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An honest reckoning with that fact must include facing the utility of the automation, though "We will write all code this way" is a straw man. A walking, burning straw man that hurt me pretty badly, but a false nemesis anyway. If their output is useful, how can they not be put to good use?

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Like, this is a true thing that is worth knowing and using. You don't have to be pro- or anti- AI to grok that fact and use it!

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Bankers came round at an early job of mine to discuss financing over bagels. I knew nothing about it, but my dog Chauncey had cream cheese on his back somehow? Found out years later he had jumped on the table and eaten a banker's breakfast He lived 17 years, I cried like a child when he died

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just make time for the essentials: Majulaar's comprehensive hours long ultima retrospective series One must stay informed

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Beats some Ezra Klein interview answer about Polaris and poles and humanity and blah blah blah Children can at least handle uncut truth

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I started with Cyteen, which I LOVED, and then my next favorite after that was the Faded Sun Trilogy "Hard" can be subjective sometimes, but I have enjoyed how crispy and explorative she is around technological and xenobiological developments and how they impact her world

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Forreal pca.st/episode/ed91... Notice that they have the same kind of urgency patterns as eg the old publisher's clearing house scams And, as with all things in US politics...Republican fundraising scams are even more blatant elder fraud

pca.st

How the Democratic Party Runs on Elder Fraud

Have you noticed the seemingly endless, catastrophic sounding text messages from political candidates? Messages like: “Barack Needs Your Help!”; “Social Security Is Ending!”; or “Help, We’re Losing…

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's very bad. The text messages are apparently essentially an elder fraud scheme that only transfers minute amounts of money to the candidates. And no, it is completely impossible to get the messages to stop

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you want to know who survives AI, look at what happened to Hollywood in the 1970s.   Movie Studios used to enforce tight “shooting ratios”; usually 5:1, maybe 10:1 TOPS. As in, for every 5 feet of film shot, at least 1 foot had to end up in the final cut (35mm was expensive!)

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FrontPage 12, no less It's a fun art piece: www.almaalloro.com

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Alma Alloro

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kinda liking the vibe of bank.si

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe more sympathetic to wasm's take on async (github.com/WebAssembly/...), which goes to such lengths to avoid function coloring that it requires you to build multiple call interfaces. It does mean that undoctored C code can call into IO libs marked async, but woof.

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component-model/design/mvp/Concurrency.md at main · WebAssembly/component-model

Repository for design and specification of the Component Model - WebAssembly/component-model

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, it's just surprising to run across corners of the world like this one lack of function coloring is a huge boon... could be the circles I run in, but I have never heard people beef on `suspend fun` in Kotlin herecomesthemoon.net/2026/10/asyn...

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Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?

It turns out that some issues people have with async Rust are just downstream of hard concurrency problems.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And I've sometimes wished it were more generic because that's the direction our APIs have grown! Context params and receivers are often designed such that if you pull them off the stack, bad things happen. Like here, with CoroutineScope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lss...

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Coroutines, Flow & Android- The Good Parts

YouTube video by The droidCon Archive

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I call it stack-affine because marking something `suspend` or not is a type that I give to a function that, like a parameter, is passed through my call stack, but unlike a parameter is fairly firmly bound to the call stack. I can't just instantiate something to make a function `suspend`.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today I'm trying to understand why some people have gone to extreme lengths to avoid function colored language features Having lived with Kotlin coroutines for a while now, I have more often wished that stack-affine typechecking (a term I made up just now) were more generic than

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Having a decent staff size might be even more important

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everybody starts off thinking the guy at the top of the evil leaderboard is the most evil guy Spend enough time on that board, though, and you realize that it's actually the guy who runs it that's the most evil

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a coincidence that this talk should have all the things that have been stirring in my brain - DHH's RailsConf keynote, the failings of OOP, the need for and challenges of abstraction... speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...

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Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity

Talk I gave at Monktoberfest 2026; video to come!

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Kirill Rakhman @rakhman.info · 30/09/2026

Companion Blocks & Extensions are ready for testing in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1. I've spent a good chunk of the last months working on this feature, so I'm very excited for the experimental release. blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/...

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The Companions to Come - The JetBrains Blog

Kotlin 2.5.0 introduces experimental companion blocks and extensions. Learn what they unlock, how to enable them, and what it means for companion objects.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He wanted to know nothing so hard that it would nothing away the whole federal government

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Before Gingrich, our electeds even had their own thing knowers!

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But how cool is Death and Rebirth of Superman tho

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm such a big nerd that this is what I get excited about but this is so rad: groundworkcollaborative.org/work/shopper... Skip to "Right to an All-In Price" for the good stuff

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Shoppers' Bill of Rights - Groundwork Collaborative

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Talking about the SF race without talking about the rent crisis here does seem like a miss. :(

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 26/09/2026

Fuck. You. Instagram/Meta. Niki and I hand-drew over REAL pictures. I spent HOURS working on graphics in After Effects doing mattes, pixel pushing, and adjusting music MYSELF. This wasn't even fucking enhanced. Apparently, the only mistake I made was using your platform to publish it. #FuckAI

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