joshmock @joshmock.com · 19hAn expert on the internet trying to tell me that my brain's reward system is fucked up. Ma'am, I spent the first 36 years of my life with undiagnosed ADHD and have been extremely online since the late 1900s, my brain's reward system never had a chance. 020
joshmock @joshmock.com · 15/09/2026Excited and proud that the project I've been leading at @elastic.co for much of this year is now available to the community. One of the most rewarding, "love it when a plan comes together" experiences in my career so far. www.elastic.co/search-labs/...elastic.coElastic CLI: One command for every API, built for agentsElastic CLI gives every Elasticsearch, Kibana and Cloud API one shape: JSON in and out, schema validation, and allow lists an AI agent can't bypass. 000
joshmock @joshmock.com · 31/07/2026who needs coffee when you can listen to Fucked Up's seminal experimental hardcore album The Chemistry of Common Life loudly in a good set of headphones? (I'm also drinking coffee) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3h...youtube.comSon The FatherYouTube video by Fucked Up - Topic 010
joshmock @joshmock.com · 18/07/2026Listened to Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child for the first time in years and I'm happy to report it still fucking rips. 000
Reposted by joshmockmolly. 🏳️🌈 @mollymcdeath.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Our dearest friend @purplewitch11.bsky.social is abandoning us for Colorado because our state legislation is bullshit. You can help her on her journey find safety there. She’s heading out tomorrow 💔 Anything is appreciated! 4188
joshmock @joshmock.com · 26/05/2026Pope condemning AI is good. Now apologize for the decades of priest SA coverups and we'll be square. 030
joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/05/2026I'm obliged to tell everyone that my favorite album of all time, no hyperbole, is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp right now. thiswilldestroyyou.bandcamp.com/album/tunnel...thiswilldestroyyou.bandcamp.comTunnel Blanket, by This Will Destroy You8 track album 000
Reposted by joshmockSylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 07/05/2026"This skill should have been a script" is the new "this meeting should have been an email". 2249
joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/05/2026It's astounding how often someone would rather vibe code their own OSS project from scratch well before contributing to (or forking!) a more mature solution that already solves the same problem. Like... did you even search the web before you started prompting? 010
joshmock @joshmock.com · 03/05/2026- Dillinger Escape Plan + Mike Patton - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things - Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely - Nothing - Hymn to the Pillory - Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine - Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (live/full band version) cont'd next post... 120
Reposted by joshmockSpencer Sharpe @jspencersharpe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Product, Engineering, Marketing 081
Reposted by joshmockSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/04/2026The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/...simonwillison.netThe Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policyZig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the … 919024
joshmock @joshmock.com · 28/04/2026Spent several hours over the weekend trying to get local coding models working with Pi on a 5 year old Thinkpad with a 4GB VRAM Nvidia GPU, and all I learned is how quick and easy it is to create an OpenRouter account. 100
joshmock @joshmock.com · 15/04/2026Happy "Almost Forgot To File My Income Taxes On Time" Day, America. 000
joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026btw, I blogged about AI coding again a few weeks ago and forgot to tell literally anyone about it. joshmock.com/post/2026-sp...joshmock.comOn using spec-driven development and agent swarmsInitial experiments in search of the elusive order-of-magnitude productivity boost. 130
joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026When the AI bubble pops and we have to remember how to write code again, at least we'll have a lot of good advice in our now-useless system prompts to remind us how that works. 011
joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/03/2026OSS is used to build the models, and OSS code is consumed to train the models, and OSS is used to consume the models, all of which makes building OSS easier, diluting the value, and often the proposition of high quality, of OSS. 010
joshmock @joshmock.com · 12/02/2026TIL my employer's endpoint security scanning agent is already flagging OpenClaw as possible malware on company laptops. A true infosec nightmare. 110
Reposted by joshmockBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child 334571574
Reposted by joshmockSylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 09/02/2026Not the first time I hear this. Brace yourself for a wave of "agentic burnouts", in particular among ADHD people where the continuous dopamine fix resulting from agents producing stuff leads people to endlessly keep feeding them. 5208
Reposted by joshmockProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (Published 2023)propublica.orgHow Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body CamerasHundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe... 14836288
joshmock @joshmock.com · 07/02/2026I've put a dumb amount of effort into building an immutable desktop setup with a declarative config that didn't require me to learn Nix, but I fear I'm running out of energy to resist. 000
Reposted by joshmockChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.” 2045766
joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/02/2026In retrospect, I should have guessed that accelerationism would dramatically change the way software is built. 010
Reposted by joshmockThomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 30/01/20262006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us 212930
joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/02/2026I want to see studies that compare multiple implementations of the same software spec: entirely by a coding agent, "hybrid" vibe coded by an experienced dev, and entirely coded by hand. 120
Reposted by joshmockThe Needling @theneedling.com · 02/02/2026Six More Weeks of Wet Season Predicted as Geoduck Squirts All Over His Shadow: tinyurl.com/mu6br7ye 6330109
joshmock @joshmock.com · 23/01/2026Dusted off the old blog to write a quick thought about putting an `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md` file in your repo. joshmock.com/post/2026-ag...joshmock.comAGENTS.md as a dark signalIs an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file in a repo a sign of possibly poor code quality? 131
Reposted by joshmockJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder. 11135491023
joshmock @joshmock.com · 09/11/2025Instagram's iOS app has decided to play the closing music from Hereditary every time I open it today, so I guess I don't use Instagram any more. 000
Reposted by joshmockSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 22/10/2025I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...steveklabnik.comI see a future in jjBlog post: I see a future in jj by Steve Klabnik 6738448
joshmock @joshmock.com · 26/10/2025@mikerugnetta.com on Never Post a few weeks ago you mentioned offhand the name of a mobile puzzle app that you recommend... I can't remember the episode, or the name of the app! 000
joshmock @joshmock.com · 14/10/2025I don't know which secretly ailing celebrity sits at the third point on the Diane Keeton/D'Angelo triangle, but someone please keep an eye on Springsteen and Tom Waits. 130
joshmock @joshmock.com · 09/10/2025[toots his own horn] I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that. blog.google/technology/d...blog.googleNow open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensionsMake Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most. 031
joshmock @joshmock.com · 06/10/2025The daily discovery algorithm gave me "Jesus Christ" by Brand New, Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek," and "Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene, all in a row. Because apparently it doesn't understand I was a legal adult listening to these songs when they first came out? 000
joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/09/2025Gun deaths are bad. But the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Sometimes you have to embrace contradicting ideas. If we can think about sexuality, gender and identity on a non-binary spectrum, certainly we can apply that thinking to how we address violence and fascism. 040
joshmock @joshmock.com · 09/09/2025Why aren't the youths playing some gen alpha version of Slug Bug when they see a Cybertruck? I'm disappointed. 010
joshmock @joshmock.com · 07/09/2025Sabrina Carpenter's "Goodbye" into "American Standard" by Uniform, because I contain multitudes. 000
joshmock @joshmock.com · 04/09/2025Google just informed me that I'm an engineering manager at Tailscale. What up @tailscale.com. 170
Reposted by joshmockSylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 16/07/2025AWS announcing their MCP server marketplace at AWS Summit in NYC. Behind the Elastic logo is what I've been working on over the last few weeks, with @joshmock.com's invaluable help to adapt to AWS constraints and process. 2144
joshmock @joshmock.com · 21/01/2025I guess now is a good time to make my second post to Bluesky, if only to reiterate the message of my first. 270