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/g/ has been posting about this dude longer than my nephew has been alive

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

the longer i live, the greater my conviction that most people are pussies

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

“i love protesting technofeudalism but i would never, ever delete my facebook account”

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

a few objections i anticipate: “couldn’t you just use find+replace or vim?” not quite. there’s enough fuzziness at some call sites that regex capture groups won’t get us there “ok but how much faster is it really?” a double digit percentage, enough that it saves the business money at scale […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

tasks with this convergence of simplicity, tedium, and verifiability are uncommon. most of my day-to-day work is about design, not coding, and most of my coding is novel work with qualitative success criteria. but these tasks do come up a few times every year, and i see now that they can be […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

as expected, the performance improvement was significant (albeit less than the microbenchmark). as i’m our team’s slop champion, the SRE handed a draft PR to me for review. i’ve yet to look over the whole thing, but what i’ve seen thus far is usable as-is. because no logic has changed, i’m […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

this made enough sense that our SRE, who has little llm or programming experience, volunteered for the task and asked me for a walk-through of my process. i explained what little technique i bothered applying to potemkin, then set him loose on the refactor. his swarm ran overnight and yielded a […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

our TL, who’d watched my project potemkin with a mixture of amusement and intellectual interest, floated the idea of an llm-driven refactor. replacing one library with another was mechanical and parallelizable, so a sloperator could spin up a swarm of agents and have a draft PR ready overnight […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

during a recent meeting, one of our SREs identified a performance bottleneck in one of the low-level libraries we use. this library is ubiquitous; pretty much every file in our codebase imports it. in a micro-benchmark, replacing it with a faster equivalent gave huge gains. but a large refactor […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

at risk of a dogpile, i confess i’ve found llms useful lately, and for activities beyond corporate politicking

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

every morning the hot take industrial complex roars to life

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

“cognitive forcing functions,” i.e. pop-ups that force you to predict an outcome or restate a claim in your own words, allegedly help correct for these biases. in other words, to make a human-ai pairing track truth effectively, the human has to do a lot of the heavy lifting. which makes me […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

a few actual insights from ux researcher: - the mere presence of an llm-generated explanation makes people more likely to agree with the llm’s conclusion, even if the reasoning is a non-sequitor - “frictionless” designs, like one-click approval for plans and tool use, also increase acceptance […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

heartwarming: mandatory corporate ai workshop leader is a woman of color. the girls can do it too, y’all!

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

just saw a woman fill a bowl with cream cheese, then top it with smoked salmon. no other ingredients to speak of. what diet is this

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

stole a whole match via gimmicks but still went x-2

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

my kingdom for a stack of chorizo quesadillas

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

omw to nexus night, inshallah i shall steal a game via gimmicks

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

concerns about how tech platforms will eventually leverage passkeys to control users are valid, and the people downplaying that possibility are fundamentally unserious. unless your tool is designed to protect the user from control schemes, it’s a de facto enabler for said schemes. but all this […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

i recognize that phishing is a problem, and i like physical security keys, but i’m not going to pretend that normal people will onboard onto passkey-based authentication unless they’re forced to. and if you have to force your technology on your users, then it’s a dogshit technology

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@jonny ngl i kinda miss being flamed, maybe i should criticize some protocol nobody (normal) cares about

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

footjob had me sniveling like a vizier who got caught scheming against the queen

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

guy who lies all the time: “would i lie to you?”

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

day 9 sans youtube: while ranting to a colleague about the atrocity that is gordon ramsay’s attempt at grilled cheese, i reach for my phone. mid-reach, i remember that the app is no more. “just trust me,” i say, “shit’s fucked”

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

non-meme version of this update: my boss decided that reviewing my slop language porting PRs would be a “great learning opportunity” for our new hire. she’s now rubber-stamping everything in exchange, i’ve set up a weekly time slot where she can ask questions and run ideas by me. this is really […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

how it feels to land 5 slop pull requests a day

a cheery japanese businessman riding in the mitsubishi suitcase car, a concept car which starts as a suitcase and unfolds into a little go-kart

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

day 6 sans youtube. still wish i had something nicer to listen to during meals. i usually eat with folks, so eating alone without a simulated person feels sad. music doesn’t quite have the same effect, and i’m running out of podcast episodes worth listening to

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

during breakfast, the urge to watch something is present, but i don’t instinctually thumb over to the folder where youtube used to live. this is the first time today that i miss it. apparently, i’m not the only person who feels this way

a screaming man, captioned “i hereby sentence you to one meal without youtube”

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

airb&b hosts, like all “small business” owners, are both customers of and greater tyrants than the corporations they claim to challenge

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

the subtle eroticism of a massive spool of wire

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

lest people get the impression that my life is an uninterrupted stream of aesthetic bliss, i’ve also taken to reading alibaba product pages about factory equipment. dry, but it tickles a part of my brain that’s hard to reach

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

the gentle vibration of the rails, the reflection of headlights on wet asphalt, a jazz standard about heartbreak music.youtube.com/watch?v=qUoyIV65j…

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

long train ride. put on music for a while, then just set my earbuds to noise canceling and enjoyed the silence. shut my eyes, imagined fragments of a short film about a fugitive in arizona: heavy-set, perpetually dabbing his sweaty forehead with a rag. hadn’t felt a raw image so vividly in a […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

grok explaining the plot of spongebob ahh

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

on the “quiet car” rn and some geezer is playing ai slop tiktoks on his phone at max volume

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

day 3 sans youtube: read the news over breakfast. only missed video content at the gym. i used to put on a tech channel while i ran or cycled so i could keep up with industry news. wound up listening to the pill pod instead. big ups to plasticpills, one of the few good popular philosophy hosts

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

during my commute, i spot a headline about the strait of hormuz, and click through a handful of articles rather than just one. i expected the nyt to overstate how much trouble iran was suddenly in, but there’s broad alignment on the subject. i’m still skeptical, but less so

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

morning, day 2: after a couple failed attempts to open youtube, i wind up listening to music in the shower. it’s the first time i’ve done so in more than a year, and a much more relaxing way to come to my senses. i don’t feel like i’m missing out on anything when my attention drifts away from my […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

i don’t have much exposure to theories of will, beyond the naïve account of free will and vulgar determinism. i’d appreciate any recommendations folks have

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

in the ironic, melodramatic soup of online discourse, it’s easy to write off the possibility of doing anything. it’s also easy to, à la tyler the creator, pronounce that anyone can just “log off.” though i’m closer to the latter, i don’t think either perspective captures everything it needs to […]

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

among other things, this invalidates the “addiction” myth we’ve been fed about social media, even highly optimized, engagement-first social media. nothing resembling withdrawal is happening, nor am i likely to relapse. the slight friction of re-downloading an app is enough to keep me off

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