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crow friend, weird dude, recovering techie, rain enthusiast he/him

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 01/04/2026

A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge...

A graph showing Github outages since Microsoft purchased them

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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the witch @wtchappell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I know it is apparently kinda quaint now, but I actually like writing code? It seems bad to pay some patently evil tech company money so you can slowly forget how to do your own job.

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the witch @wtchappell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Caw.

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the witch @wtchappell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Been workin' on my murder.

inquisitive black crow standing on the ground

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