Sign in

nick-gard.bsky.social

@nick-gard.bsky.social
67 followers 174 following 233 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Slack has been getting steadily worse but I just started using MS Teams at a new job and it is excruciatingly bad. You can tell where the different teams were responsible for different parts because nothing works smoothly together. I think they also laid off their entire UX design team 😬
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
106138675604
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Sara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i do not want a simulated customer service experience to find a movie, either. i am autistic. a lot of my day is spent figuring out how to avoid social experiences, real or simulated.
271
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
After being laid off June 1, I landed a contract role that is set to start this week. I'm so dreading it. My fury with capitalism is at an all-time high. I'd much rather keep staying home with my family but fear of destitution drives me on 😩
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A clarification about point 1: GenAI is "surprisingly effective" if I don't know anything about what I'm asking it to do... _and I don't care about learning it_.
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
AI is about bringing the logic of fast fashion to new economic realms, so hey - caring about AI *is* a form of caring about fast fashion. We've got a whole book making that argument - here's a short form essay on that point:
hagenblix.github.io
Does AI Work? Some Thoughts on Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs, AI, and Deskilling
Does AI actually work? Is it fake? Let’s talk about Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs, and see if that can help us figure out what the question actually means.
0236
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is a metaphor so on the nose it hurts. Literally, they are removing knowledge from the public domain to feed their machines and permanently deny your access to it. The privatization of knowledge and information is their goal.
6495229
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Represent Palestine solidarity defendants too effectively, and the state may prosecute you too.
buff.ly
I was sentenced as a terrorist. Now my barrister is on trial for defending me
My lawyer faces jail over a speech to jurors – a first in English history – as state seeks to silence Palestine solidarity
8754292
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My wife is watching a drama series I've already finished, in which no main characters die. I'm ramping up the drama by asking "who's still alive in that episode? Everyone?! Oh, wait till the next twist!" 😉
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Job board: Municipal water facility: come help us make water safe for humans! Pays $85,000 AI SaaS company: Come help us poison water supplies worldwide! Pays $300,000
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
youtu.be/hiE7NvONU5U?... Could be that it releases at 6% and then you lose the money anyway.
youtu.be
How Millions of Americans Got Tricked Into Using a Bank That Isn't a Bank
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
0313
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ok, I want a new sci-fi show about androids that reflect the reality of AI. Instead of wondering whether "synthetic life" deserves personhood, the main conflict is people realizing the androids are just stolen identities plastered over mech operated remotely by underpaid humans in another country
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New newsletter: Generative AI is becoming the new crypto and multi-level marketing scam, promising non-techies that they can vibe-code their way to prosperity, without being candid about the costs and risks. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...
whatwelo.st
Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment
How predatory vibe coding startups are selling false hope to young people
9615144
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
**succumbs to peer pressure** www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
mohkohn.co.uk
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
45620
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
One nice things about being laid off is not having to go to work on Monday
110
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A few months ago, my manager told me that I needed to start using AI or I'd be in danger of being let go. He was careful not to say it was a requirement, but he said leadership was taking note of people abstaining from AI. I had already been job hunting because the company was going to hell 1/
120
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Christie 🖤 @ndchristie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Addendum from my years in game UX — Because light “bleeds” it’s important to have stronger fonts for dark on light, thinner fonts for light on dark THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF PRINT DESIGN where it’s the ink — not the light — that’s bleeding (also why screen and print fonts are optimized differently)
0257
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Cassie Evans @cassiecodes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.
241392165
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@netflix.com your android app keeps turning off my captions! Even when the next episode auto-starts, the captions get turned off. I'm deaf, so I don't realize it until I see lips moving with no words 😩
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Me when the "current tech" bubble bursts
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Help! I've made a horrible mistake! I focused my career on things that help humans, like UI/UX and accessibility. No one's hiring for that anymore.
020
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Alright, which tech companies are actively anti-AI now? Surely not everyone has brain rot, right? Right!?
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why does Job hunting feel like, "the evil you know vs the evil you don't"?
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Congratulations to LLMs for destroying every single pillar of the "motivation MAP" Mastery - don't learn, just prompt Autonomy - there is no alternative, leadership demands AI use Purpose - ship. more. ai. Users be damned
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Features 📈 LOC 📈 Tickets closed 📈 Comprehension 📉 Job satisfaction 📉
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
GenAI is useful* and surprisingly effective** in exactly 2 cases: 1. I don't know anything about what I asked it to do 2. I don't give a shit about what I asked it to do * 🤢 ** 🤮
171
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Capitalist hellscape employment precarity makes me go :vomit:
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
thatprivacyguy.com
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
14246353429
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Anyway fuck AI and fuck data centers
251142102
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I realize this is a niche complaint, but the new hearing aid battery packs are impossible to open. A new law requires that the packaging is child-proof but I'm sure they're everyone-proof now.
010
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 25/05/2025
Stop saying "AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used." I'm tired. I'm so tired of reading, hearing, and seeing this phrase/argument. It doesn't only matter how a tool is used, but how it is made, governed, and the impact it has on our world. We must shape tools before they shape us.
frank.computer
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
6313102
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Why does everything beep and blink!? I bought a "whisper quiet" treadmill to use after the kids go to sleep but the 45db beep for every button press kinda defeats the purpose
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
To make things clearer, replace "AI" and "LLM" with "stolen labor" and replace "VC funds" with "stolen capital." "Investment banks prepare to give $400b of stolen capital to firms specializing in stolen labor." Much more accurate.
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Oh great, AI CEO said a thing. In 2 weeks my CEO will say the same thing somehow. Gotta tech harder to show how AI our company is.
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There is a notion that "productivity" is fungible — if AI makes people "more productive" then it will somehow result in more & better work. But individual productivity is only the limit on throughput of assembly lines. YOUR blocker is that your org uses the "garbage can model" to make decisions.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem
Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.
511221
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
After a 2 day AI hackathon (mandatory) I got to spend all day reviewing generated code. It was exhausting. Not because it was all bad but because you just couldn't know where it would veer into nonsense.
100
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
60134004668
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Just realized that by mandating AI use in daily coding work, our leadership is telling us, "don't care about the product so much!"
010
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Coining a new phrase: "data driven dumbassery." You know what it means.
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Enfinity Cast @enfinitycast.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The autism community has been quietly revolutionizing workplace communication for years — turns out clear expectations, sensory awareness, and direct feedback work magic for neurotypical brains too. Your son's teaching you management gold.
647816
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 09/04/2026
Worth your time: leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
2158
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I once heard that the original GitHub (pre-M$) had an engineering maxim "write JavaScript like it's 2015." This is clearly not the case anymore, as I suffer from their React-focused AI-slop interface. Not to mention whatever tomfoolery is happening on the backend causing such constant instability
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"speed ≠ quality output ≠ thinking fidelity ≠ usefulness" 👏👏👏
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Are there any job boards that allow you to filter out AI companies? I'm getting real sick of having to research companies and job positions to see if they're gonna force me to use AI.
000
Reposted by @nick-gard.bsky.social
Arpit Agrawal @arpit.codes · 29/03/2026
I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations. It's built on work by @bram.us and @miriam.codes. cascade.arpit.codes I wrote about how it came together on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...
cascade.arpit.codes
CSS Cascade
A visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the 'winning value' from a list of competing declarations.
05116
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🤞
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I don't have words for the disgust, anger, and shame I feel about this.
000
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I'm stuck trying to make AI crap features work with AI slop code in React version-whatever-with-breaking-changes, and some people get to actually make the web better.
010
nick-gard.bsky.social @nick-gard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Instead of introspection, this fucker wakes up and thinks, "how can I maximize my sociopathy?"
001