John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I saw helmet at a local tiny venue 2 years ago. Was very strange but good, would recommend 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026afgyc.bandtshirts.com.au/buy/afg-yc/a... kinda need another round of theseafgyc.bandtshirts.com.auAFG-YC WRISTBAND (LARGER VERSION) - AFG-YCHARDEN THE FUCK UP INSCRIPTION (THESE ARE SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE OTHERS LISTED ON SITE) 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i was at a conf in april and a lot of folks were like whispering and had an almost shell-shocked expression. i know i felt like that a lot the last few months. gotta make sure we take care of eachother y'know? just like, a fire pit and beverages and stories and a hike or something 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i dunno really. my wife held up the entire house on her own while i was at the bottom of a force-fed ai-pill hole the last month. when i came up for air i told her to spend a weekend at a retreat or something to reset. then she suggested i do the same and i was like "i bet its not just me" 101
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026so i'm thinking about organizing a kind of NYC-based outdoor/camping/catskill retreat for the AI shellshocked. I don't know like a touch-grass for folks deep in the mines, around the ai.engineer conf NYC in 2 weeks. Thoughts on that? does anybody else do things like this?ai.engineerAI EngineerAI Engineer is the community and conference series for software engineers building with AI. Join thousands of AI engineers at our events worldwide. 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026if we thought engineer ai-induced culture shellshock was bad before man it is COMING 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026is everyone else on this page already? like how are you even coping? 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026like at this point i think i have to take a step back and figure out how much of what i know that i want other people to know that i know, it's that fucking unsettling 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i have seen the future and... i can't figure out if it's good or bad yet but it's very very unsettling 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026so i don't think I hate coding with AI. I think I hate coding with AI with other people and I hate the politics around it, but like, just using it, using it well, it's fine. It really is insane what you can do. Everything else though, burn it all down. 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026current status. been sitting in the corner of my screen for like 3 days 001
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 20/09/20264yo son's current haircut makes him look like Florence Henderson. 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026cause i am having a hard time figuring out how much juice is worth the absolute ultraviolence of the squeeze 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026how much would it take for you to take on an insanely stressful ERP modernization project for 6+ months requiring customer onsite travel on a weekly basis and occasional full weekend work. and be the face of the project to the client. 100K? 200K? 5K? base salary? 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i think secretaries and assistants are going to be in vogue again as people struggle to just keep up with all the slop being thrown around 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Visualize that statement with venn diagrams it’s also poetry 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Might just be me but this Irishman’s non-poetry podcast is more poetic than most non-Irish poetry 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Absolute all timer there Mr boatclub. Better than mist fiction 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social‘s very very Irish latest podcast episode is more poetic than most non Irish poetry 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026how many concurrent high intensity conversations do you have at work on a daily basis 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And then I was almost like “nope not my kid wearing shit like that“ and I remembered how pissed I got when my mom did shit like that to me and I just wrote about it here instead 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My kid got a hand me down shirt that said “it’s not that deep” and I was offended 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026postmodernist book idea: some shit about living in the current timeline like a hipster, but with the protagonist working on a book. the book-within-a-book is a spin on the Book of Job but God and Satan bet about whether Job will get alzheimers from being forced to use AI for dev in his day job 010
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026what does it say about my brain that I type "look" when I think "Luke" and type "8" sometimes when I mean "A" and "A" where I mean "8" is that an auditory thing? what is wrong with my smooth brain 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026youtu.be/bgK4Vw1-kZ8?...youtu.beThat One NightYouTube video by Jarred Dymore - Topic 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My marriage is fine though. I feel like I left that ambiguous 110
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026See I just buy lefty banjos and harm my children’s auditory cortex with analog 110
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026nice. Going to dublin in October to see @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social ‘s play “Animals”. me and Sach. so so psyched. Just a long weekend jaunt 001
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I don’t want anything for my birthday or Father’s Day or Christmas or Valentine’s Day or whatever ever again. Just the whole family suffering together in some vain futile fight against time and nature 000
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So my whole family helped me clean up some outdoor messes today. Everyone got dirt under their nails and sweat in their eyes and I swear it was glorious 100
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026death by a million things-that-require-my-immediate-and-undivided-attention 001
John Conn @johnconnolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There needs to be an emoji like 🫶 or something you can flash quick to be like “yo is the emperor wearing no clothes?!” and if they flash it back that means “yes!” and then you just have to figure out what it means 000
