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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 10/09/2026

A @jennajordan.me peer exchange is a super-duper can't-miss. Make sure you get this one on your list!

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Changing my name to Claude so people give me context

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 13/06/2026

This is an absolutely extraordinary interview. So many stories!

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 08/04/2026

Absolute banger of a post today - go read about the importance of process knowledge with a glorious tumbler post as the centerpiece

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 21/03/2026

@quiche.industries I think I customised quiche so much that all of my settings buttons are gone 😣 is there a url scheme or anything to get back in?

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 09/02/2026

Bad news, team: showing people a raw transcript of your chatbot/agent session is like telling them about the wild dream you had last night. I know it was amazing for you while you were in it, but we're not there anymore.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

theverge.com

Best gas masks

“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Look it’s only Tuesday and it’s been a hard week so I want you all to know I’ve been calling this baby toy the “disco turnip” and I was only recently informed it is a BEET BOX

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/01/2026

This is a good post: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... As someone on the other side of the world, this is the most usable part of that post: www.standwithminnesota.com Contribute to rental assistance, food, legal funds.

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads:

The History of the January 1 Birthday
The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking

namecheap search result for the domain merry.christmas. the price is 2 million dollars

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/11/2025

I hope they mean like this, that'd be sick as hell

Screenshot of The Verge's headline "A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns" superimposed on an ai-generated image of a giant bubble wand creating a robot

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/11/2025

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 19/11/2025

Excellent advice for job seekers from Abigail Haddad, succinctly summed up by an amazing tl;dr title: Make Things, Tell People presentofcoding.substack.com/p/make-thing...

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Make Things, Tell People

On side projects and finding work

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/t... Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev

jacobtomlinson.dev

The Majority Of Your Users

The majority of your users don’t read your changelog. The majority of your users only upgrade to new versions when forced to.

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arynndoesdata @arynn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/10/2025

Physics Insight xkcd.com/3154/

Comic. PERSON: Sure, when *Einstein* suggests using the Lorentz transform to explain the connection between velocity and time, people call him a genius. But when *I* suggest it, it’s “basic physics” and “undergraduate stuff.” PERSON 2 with white hat: Such a double standard!

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 07/10/2025

E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in. But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map. My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 04/10/2025

Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work www.theverge.com/column/79101...

A screenshot of the linked article:

Another time, I asked what it thought of my day. (Because really, how does one strike up an organic conversation with an always-listening AI?) It responded by saying, “What makes you think I have thoughts on your day, Vee?” That’s a weird response considering it’s the entire pitch behind the device.

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 29/09/2025

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

a checkbox on a website that says "keep me logged in"

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 24/09/2025

When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week

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Jonathan Capps @cappsy.co.uk · 17/09/2025

I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program. Ever.

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 12/09/2025

Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 09/09/2025

Orange telephone lets goooooo

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...

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The Cost of Costing Nothing

The emotional labor of reading your Chat

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 18/08/2025

Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/08/2025

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

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Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template

Your slides are not your talk.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/08/2025

different day, same internal struggle

heavily modified meme image depicting spiderman confronting a dinosaur person, saying "you can write concisely about complex topics and you're using it to shitpost? But with abilities like that you could write a book" to which the dinosaur person responds "but I don't want to write a book I want to shitpost"

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

there are hot* singles** in your area*** *unexpected **items ***bagging area

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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 24/06/2025

TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum". E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles

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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

A screenshot of the billionth repository created on GitHub.com. It’s titled “shit”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 02/06/2025

Just when you thought the OTF fuss had died down and you could get on with using Iceberg (ok ok, or Delta), DuckDB goes and puts the cat (duck?) amongst the pigeons with DuckLake: rmoff.net/2025/06/02/d... #dataBS

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Digging into Ducklake

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 28/05/2025

Elias is a great presenter, and the audience is definitely vibing with him - big tone shift in the chat

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/05/2025

It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...

anildash.com

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 14/05/2025

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 01/05/2025

If you missed the live dbt Labs State of Analytics Engineering virtual event yesterday, no worries - you can catch the recording here: www.getdbt.com/2025-state-o...

getdbt.com

2025 State of Analytics Engineering Virtual Event Recording | dbt Labs

dbt is a data transformation tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse.

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mariah @handle.invalid · 15/04/2025

Hi #DataSky 👋 The Data Angels 2025 Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups for its 4th cohort which will run from June to December 2025! If you’re interested, sign up for Data Angels and join the #mentorship-community channel where you'll find the mentorship program details and interest form!

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Home

Building community online and in-person!

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 31/03/2025

An Apple Intelligence update where the keyboard knows I never end emails with "Thanks, hotel" and puts my actual name in instead

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 17/02/2025

I've got a 16 hour layover in SF this Saturday (22nd), so I'll be heading into the city. hmu if you want to get a coffee! #databs

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Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

what are your timelines for AGI? now, what are your timelines for when a robot can cook up a chicken noodle soup from scratch using the ingredients in your fridge and the appliances in your kitchen? are they the same or different?

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