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austin @aparker.io · 16/10/2026

i think we should be optimistic about the future

αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Designing software that agents can operate and designing software that incorporates / embeds agents are two very different engineering problems, and I'm convinced that the former is the more durable long-term investment for infrastructure projects.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ah, the pesky maths / physics always ruining a perfectly good "optimization".

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The logical conclusion of security through obscurity. Security through non-existence.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bit of a delay in posting, but I completed my peak long run last weekend. Over 1000 ft of ascent. 🥲 Kansas ain't all flat. #runsky #marathontraining

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Open source but not open contribution makes sense imo. The act of opening a PR used to carry a burden of labor that is now trivial. And when you know the codebase better than anyone and care about the outcome more than anyone, why would you not just do it yourself?

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spent 3 full days scoping and designing a refactor. Currently baking bread while the robots get it done. What a time to be alive. 🤖

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I might get slimed for this. 🤭

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Them: you should get Botox, everyone over 35 is doing it. Me: but then how will I make a face of abject disgust when I find out someone is a MacOS user?

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've noticed lately that many of the Rust evangelists I come across online are... frontend devs? Ha. I'm no hater, I love what Rust has done for systems programming. But also, as a former embedded engineer, watching people discover structs like they were unearthed from an ancient temple is amusing.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Working up to 20 miles in a couple of weeks, then a very quick taper before the Garmin KC marathon. I'm just aiming for completion this year (and no injuries lol). #RedKingdom

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A few pics from my runs along the creek this week. The bobcat was chasing a little rabbit -- so I either deprived it of a meal or saved the rabbit's life, depending on how you want to look at it. 🙃 #runsky #kansas

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Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I really miss about the time before cell phones is being able to sit in a waiting room without listening to people have full ass conversations or watching weird videos super loud on their phones. Bring a book or sit there awkwardly waiting like everyone else you assholes.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gotta laugh when I see a tech company boasting about how great their culture is, and I check their org chart and see... 20 male software engineers who look like they could plausibly be related. I mean, yes, your "culture" certainly produced something, but it's not what you think. 😑

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh my, she's beautiful. I thought I had my 2027 cosplay plans locked down but now I'm seriously reconsidering.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

4/ Although I'm not particularly sad to see the culture change ("sponsor me", "buy my course", "come to my talk"), a lot of infrastructure we build on was paid for by attention. If agents intermediate that away, the future looks like #OSS that is unfunded & maintained by agents themselves.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

3/ I do think we're losing something valuable. Watching genuinely good educators step back is sad. And I can certainly sympathize with the devs seeing years of specialized expertise become less economically valuable.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

2/ Meanwhile, someone using the same boring stack for years could feel weirdly antiquated. AI is definitely changing this. The constant FOMO around tools, frameworks, libraries, etc. is... dead? Or at least it has pivoted to AI.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ For a long time, #webdev had this bizarre tendency to treat technology selection itself as some kind of engineering achievement. Which is why so many were able to build careers around having exquisitely informed opinions abt bundlers, or whatever niche / new thing. nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/t...

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The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development

A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-…

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wow! It looks so good. I can't wait to see all the reimagined character designs and dungeons.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ah, the way your soul absolutely leaves your body when you encounter a snake while #running. 😂 As someone who runs mostly wooded trails, it's why I wait for the sun to come up at least a lil bit, even in this heat. ... .. . Anyway, beautiful copperhead snake! ❤️ #runsky

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

CairnCMS v1.5.0 is out, now with realtime WebSockets! I put an enormous amount of care into the whole subsystem, and it's definitely a big stride forward in making CairnCMS the best #opensource #CMS for #selfhosted teams. Maintainer notes: cairncms.dev/blog/coordin...

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

✅ Saturday run ⬜ Saturday nap (WIP) #runsky

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Key takeaway from the robot Olympics: human biomechanics are crazy impressive. You might be smarter than me, robot, but at least my ass doesn't catch on fire when I fall down.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I thought this was an Onion article for a sec...

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I totally understand that feeling of not wanting to miss anything! I am pumped for this release, and so grateful that Sai King has revisited this world. 🙏

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oops, my uncle Steve would be annoyed to know that I forgot to mention his dear friend, the late Peter Straub, as co-author of Black House.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#currentlyreading (re-reading) Black House by Stephen King. Anxiously awaiting the third installment in the series in October! #booksky

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sooo you did a migration rehearsal first, right? ... .. . Right?

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 27/08/2026

I was today days old when I learned Dolly Parton covered Collective Soul’s “Shine” alongside Nickel Creek and the dobro player from Alison Krauss & Union Station. She won a Grammy for it. Blew me away. youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...

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Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(5/5) This is how I run my own projects, and honestly my workflow hasn't changed much from the "olden days." I still spend 90% of my time up front on the requirements and V&V, so that the code generation step is trivial.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(4/5) The same idea maps onto agentic workflows. A model samples from a huge space of plausible outputs, conditioned on whatever context you give it. More constraints = less variance. The solution isn't to "prompt more better." It's to reduce the dimensionality of the problem before generation.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(3/5) Ex. under the DO-178C, every line is wrapped up in formal process (or bureaucracy, whatever). Requirements traceability, DALs, tests written from the requirements, coverage you had to prove, etc. You don't start writing code until you know how you'll prove that it's correct.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(2/5) The avionics codebase I worked on had millions of lines. No single person could understand the whole system, and no one needed to, because intent lived outside the code. Most bad implementations were literally unrepresentable. It was really, really hard to ship bad code.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(1/5) "But the most productive software creators will be ... directing AIs, creating harnesses, and software factories, and QA and verification systems ..." A lot of folks in the industry may not like it, but I think Dix is right here. pauldix.com/the-end-of-p...

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The end of programming — Paul Dix

Creating software by writing code by hand and having humans review it is coming to an end. Why the Bun 1.4 release marks the end of programming as we've known it.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When it's sprint interval day and you hit that long incline and you're about to have a cardiac event and you have to tell the person with the three oblivious golden retrievers that you're coming "on the left." #runsky

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Total Recall: Iconic Scream Scene

ALT: Total Recall: Iconic Scream Scene

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's the only thing that makes sense. Once the conversation became, "data centers are a front for government surveillance," I lost the plot.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of these things is not like the others...

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Beautiful, rainy morning here. ☺️ Looking forward to picking up the mileage as I start training for my fall races. #runsky

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Came out of a store today and someone had set this sticker on my windshield. I had to wonder, do they just carry these around? Is it like the rubber duck thing, but for outdoorsy folks (my car is covered in national park stickers)? Anyway, thank you stranger, I love it. ❤️

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nobody built the global software supply chain around the ice cream machine.

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What's the difference between GitHub and a McDonald's ice cream machine?

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αℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hi! I'm a former embedded avionics engineer, now running a software agency and maintaining CairnCMS, an OSS content and data platform. Would love to connect with maintainers, #opensource, #selfhosting. Also here for books, gaming, fitness, hiking, cat memes, and hot takes about the tech industry.

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