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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 21/08/2026

"don't get left behind by ai." by Jane (@janebwriting on IG)

"don't get left behind by ai."

so leave me behind. leave me with the long speech written by ink-stained hands for the best friend dressed in white silk. leave me in art galleries and bookstores and theaters that house decades of ghost stories. leave me with the family photograph where the dad is blinking and the cousin is talking with the aunt and the dog is a blurry smudge. leave me with the typos. leave me deep in the forest with only the hum of the honeybees and the rush of a stream. leave me with the flyer drawn up by a local artist or designed in a rush on canvas or scribbled on a piece of lined paper. leave me with the google search that pulls me down a rabbit hole. leave me on the couch on a tuesday night, white wine in hand, crying "how do i get over him?" to the sister. leave me at the computer, typing an email that takes up only thirty fucking seconds of my time.

leave me behind with the things that make us human.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 15/08/2026

"Managing Humans" by Rands was one of my favorite books as a new engineering manager, so seeing this is a bummer. If you're using genAI to build your next book and are rage-quitting over watermarks, that means you're hiding your AI usage from your audience. randsinrepose.com/archives/rip...

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RIP Claude

I've used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I've done for years, I've

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 04/08/2026

Pretty excited to be attending the Software Crafters Unconference Online. I really like the open space / lean coffee format and I'm hoping there's space to talk about how people are using agentic coding with pairing / mobbing. scunconf.com

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Software Crafters Unconference

A loosely structured gathering where topics and themes are generated just in time. Participants gather, build an agenda, and convene sessions.

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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/07/2026

Finished game 5 of "Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic" last night and geez. It really feels like they put all the ideas in this game. But we've finally figured out the strategy for bosses, so that's helpful.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 01/07/2026

Huh. I can't recall ever getting a solid yellow row before. Neat. Wordle 1,838 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/06/2026

In the middle of reading a book and noticed one chapter near the end was 1.5h compared to the other 20m chapters. Figured that'd be the big climax with lots of action. Nope, it's a brain dump of world building, presumably setting up the second book. Bleh.

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David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

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About - 4 Pillar Games

About 4 Pillar Games The people and philosophy behind our company 4 Pillar Games is building a living historical record of the tabletop game industry. We cover current tabletop news while preserving t...

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 17/04/2026

"Playdate doesn’t ask students to master it before they can use it — they can be prototyping a real, playable game on physical hardware within hours of picking it up. Students aren’t waiting to do game design someday; they’re doing it now." news.play.date/news/duke-pl...

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How a Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design - Playdate News

Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.

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House Rabbit Society @houserabbit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

At House Rabbit Society, we believe rabbits are wonderful companions, but they're not for everyone. If you've never had a rabbit before, we encourage you to spend time on our website, houserabbit.org, learning more about them, and not purchasing one impulsively for the Easter holiday.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/03/2026

One of the worst parts of this change is how it punishes the loyal monthly subscription customers. They get less V-Bucks each month for their money PLUS the four battle passes they pay for each year give less V-Bucks. It's the equivalent of raising $144/year cost to $200 without admitting it.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 08/03/2026

A little rant about a so-called "AI Maturity Model" that's just really a CTO waxing about the stick he and his friends are using to beat engineers into using agentic coding. jon.camp/software-dev...

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A So-Called AI Maturity Model

A critique of a viral ‘AI Maturity Model’ that reframes forced adoption and performance review enforcement as maturity. Contrasted with …

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 01/03/2026

After a free preview, Blink wants me to pay $8/month more for AI descriptions of the video clips from my camera. During the preview, the descriptions were always useless (e.g. "a person is walking in the room") and one time scared my wife (it mistook a shadow for a person.) Who asked for this?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Hey Philly! I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city. Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible. Please help us spread the word! Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

a 4 by 4 grid of insects that has a metallic grreen tiger beetle, a teal and black speckled sharpshooter with a yellow underbelly, a reddish brown stag beetle, and handsome meadow katydid, with the following words superimposed "Call for mural walls! we're making 3 10x10ft murals about philly's bugs. submit your walls at bit.ly/bugwalls

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 22/02/2026

Decided to experiment w/ the AI coding technique "ralph loop" while also toying with an older "Recipe of Theseus" idea. How many substitutions can you make in a recipe before it's no longer the same dish? (Spoiler: It seems like recipes have load-bearing ingredients) jon.camp/software-dev...

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Ralph's Chili aka Recipe of Theseus

Combining the Ship of Theseus with the Ralph Loop, I ran an AI agent in a loop substituting one ingredient at a time in a chili recipe until the AI itself …

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 14/02/2026

Late night reading about a very specific flaw in WolfSSL, a library I hadn't heard of, reminded me why I love reading niche blog posts. So I wrote about it on my own blog, lol. jon.camp/software-dev...

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Write About Your Niche Technical Learnings

@feld wrote a deeply specific blog post about WolfSSL’s broken TLS 1.3 implementation and it reminded me why niche technical writing matters more …

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/02/2026

"Strong pairing" has never sat right with me, either in concept or practice. IMO it eliminates the benefit of pairing by removing collaboration and honestly just seems like the polar opposite of the common "pairing is just a jr watching a sr code" problem. jon.camp/software-dev...

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AI: The Perfect Strong-Style Pairing Partner | Jonathan Campbell

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JSaundersWrites @jsaunderswrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@magpiegames.bsky.social is making a Temeraire RPG so if you think Napoleonic era air battles between entire crews on the backs of dragons sound cool than I encourage you to keep an eye on the kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

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Coming soon: Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game

The officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of the Temeraire novel series by Naomi Novik!

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 27/01/2026

I have no idea how Wheel of Time ended up higher than Taskmaster Australia or other Dropout shows.

A screenshot of a TV Time wrapped showing Most Watched Shows. The top four are Taskmaster, Taskmaster: New Zealand, Wheel of Time, and Game Changer.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 23/01/2026

When I was in college, one of the classes was Windows NT installation and configuration. During installation wizards, our teacher would repeatedly say "Ready everything, accept the defaults" Now that people are vibe coding, it feels very similar. Like AI told me that variable name was good, ship it

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/01/2026

Rogue Trader did a really great job of making Ulfar, the Space Marine, feel incredibly tanky next to even my shield-warror. It's rare that a game features an "overpowered" class/species/hero from the lore and they don't end up feeling like a level 1 grunt.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Do you like corporate satire, sexy demons, or crow familiars who want to steal your tortilla chips? I have an ARC of my upcoming book, STARTUP HELL, from @titanbooks.bsky.social. It's signed, with a doodle. And it wants a home (in the US because of the realities of shipping).💙📚

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 19/12/2025

After decades of tech marketing conflating machine learning, LLMs, computer vision and more as "AI" to sell the hype, now those same people are upset when others say "Ban AI". "AI is many things, it's not just genAI!!" You created this confusion for your own benefit. Now you can wallow in it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 04/12/2025

Our cats had a fun year watching videos. This is their YouTube Wrapped.

A screenshot of YouTube Wrapped that says "Moments from your years: watched nature documentaries, focused on pet enrichment, learned about otters"

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Wanna support SMALL BIZ SATURDAY? Wanna support a cool indie bookstore? Want my books signed, personalized with holiday horror and sticker accompaniment shipped right to you? DO YOU WANT TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY. Then @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social has you covered: doylestownbookshop.com/WendigHoliday

Chuck Wendig in a Santa with many of his books orbiting him or perhaps trapping him in the corner while also surrounded by holiday decorations and dripping blood

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Weird Al Lindsey Stirling In This Moment Papa Roach Halestorm

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 27/11/2025

First time playing Jackbox Party Pack 11 and I won Cookie Haus with this banger.

An upside down top hat cookie, painted white and labelled "Maria Antoinette's Angel" It has a blood red mark at the collar and two feathery wings.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 16/11/2025

@chuckwendig.bsky.social @scalzi.com Ya'll are apple fiends, yes? Highly recommend the new Fuji Apple & Ginger Red Bull.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/11/2025

Very bizarre line from a @screenrant.bsky.social article: "Connie wasn't technically a member of the Cooper family. She wasn't related by blood to George, but since she lived nearby, she became a staple in the lives" Since when do we not consider the bride's mother to be part of the family?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I just donated $50 to the greater Boston food bank. if you match my donation to your local charity I will send you a personal picture of my son

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 26/10/2025

My wife & I both rushed to order from @aubryjoi.bsky.social's recent shop drop, without mentioning it to each other. We bought the same pin and variants of the same bookmark. Great minds! (except the lack of communication lol) Now we're just assuming Aubry was laughing as the orders were packed.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 20/10/2025

Kicking around the idea of a world where the only magic is teleportation. But over time, mages develop techniques to use teleportation to achieve the magic we know and love. Move Earth? Teleportation Fireball? Teleportation circle in a lava flow. Acid spray? Teleport a flask from you to target

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 17/10/2025

I too am attempting to commune with the fancy autocorrect through arcane ritual practices

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 16/10/2025

Perplexity CEO defends their product being "just a ChatGPT wrapper" by saying OpenAI is just an Azure/NVIDIA wrapper. As much as I dislike the LLM hypewave, it's incredibly disingenuous to compare models to services that just use an API to access that model.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 15/10/2025

There's something absolutely repulsive about a company conducting a round of layoffs, providing all the ex-employees a template to announce their job loss on LinkedIn, and then putting promoting other people FIRST in that template before mentioning that the poster themselves needs a new job.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/10/2025

I really dislike companies that disincentive their customer service reps from actually helping customers, either through policy or metrics. Best Buy just wanted to reschedule our delivery to the 23rd (originally the 13th) As soon as I asked to cancel the order, magically it'll come on the 14th.

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

And if you order from @bookshop.org today/tomorrow, there is free shipping on all orders! 😍

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 07/10/2025

Man, this panel from @thisecommercelife.bsky.social hits perfectly. What's the over/under on there existing a real tombstone with an LLM written epitaph?

A tombstone that reads "Sure, I can help you with that! Here is a concise epitaph for your father's tombstone: Robert Wimbly, Deceased"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2025

If there's just one piece of wisdom I can impart to everyone, it's that trying to post your way though it almost never works out the way you think it will

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EDHPlayer @edhplayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

They are so widdle and smol I love them

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/09/2025

Random musing: the fictional personification of user personas and trying to get your company to refer to them by name is counterproductive by harming your ubiquitous language. Fred Fish isn't an engineer's function name, an accountant's QuickBooks code, or a marketer's target segment. Chef is.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 21/09/2025

There's no reason this company needed to spend tons of money on domains to sell licorice, caramels and taffy. Probably explains why their Australian Red is $1.125 per oz while Wiley Wallaby is almost half that at $0.599 per oz.

A vending machine that contains stacks of cardboard tubes. At the top, it reads "licorice.com, caramels.com, taffy.com"

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Go @golang.org · 16/09/2025

Hi folks, it’s survey time! We’d love to learn more about how you use Go and what could be improved. Share your feedback via our annual developer survey at google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... It should take 10 - 20 minutes to complete, and will be open through September 30. Thank you! #golang

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Go Developer Survey 2025

Share your feedback about developing software with Go.

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Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Tonight, Hannah Einbinder gave a lot of Philadelphia HS seniors their yearbook quote.

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Developer Avocado 🥑 @devavocado.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Web developement seems easy untill you have to work on : - Scalability - CORS errors - Production bugs - Documentations - Web sockets - Time zone Handelling - Handelling traffics - Memory leaks - SEO optimization - Webpack config. - CSS specificity hell - Custom promises & Polyfills.

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

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