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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The world seems to currently reward creation of management systems for all the things we've set in motion. This irritates me because there is wisdom in first choosing to set fewer things in motion.

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we need significantly more Luigis

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have so many baby Cardinals this year, it makes me so happy

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still see a lot of confusion about what decompilation, recompilation and ports are and what level of effort is involved in each type of project. It's important that people understand the difference, as recompilation took a drastically different meaning that when it was originally introduced.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the aesthetic is rare because fall and spring each last approximately 2 weeks here

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that's gonna slip and end up in a thousand pieces right quick, or she has a grip that can crush iron and we should all fear her

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that sounds so wonderful

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's one of the bigger magic mods for Minecraft Neoforge, we have custom spellcasting, cute critters, and lots of magical automation potential. Still keeps me interested after all these years!

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and here's the run loop!

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

very close! It is a Sculk Starbuncle (which are based on squirrels) from the Minecraft mod Ars Nouveau- it is the Xacris Starbuncle. Naming a Starbuncle "Xacris" will make it look like that, which they did as a thank you for all the help I've given Ars Nouveau over the years

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

programming is an art, and there are many people like me who are holding the line on that. Learning to think like a programmer will serve you well, and gaining these skills will always be valuable. Even corporate still needs real programmers to make their delusional slop not break

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good time to sell baseball bats and hammers

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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you use any amount of genAI for your game, I'm not playing it. Yes, that includes translations and localizations, that is also art and a respected job not to be replaced by soulless machines

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it remains a useful hand-grenade to throw into a group text

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 24/09/2026

i think one big factor (among many) as to why AI has had such a foothold in coding spaces is because the majority of people dont consider programming to be art

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tie his limbs to horses and make a loud sound

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Zwei 🍄 @zwei2x.northsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey everyone, I made a small tutorial video for my friends on how to install the AI Disclosure Warning and SteamDB extensions directly in the Steam APP on Windows. That way, you get those QoLs directly in Steam! Enjoy and pass it along! 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qQ...

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How to add the AI Disclosure Warning and SteamDB extensions to Steam directly

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

and a whole week of it too! What a treat for all of us SADs

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I still vividly remember that morning, that's for sure

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

are we here just to suffer?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026

Here's the monologue where I call for Dario Amodei to shut the fuck up www.youtube.com/watch?v=r82A...

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Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario! | Better Offline

YouTube video by Better Offline

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yup, those are all the Zeldas that one would desire at the moment on Switch

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"AI psychosis could happen to you". No it couldn't. That isn't true. The reason is I choose to never touch AI because it's dangerous and worthless, and that choice is a real thing about me.

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

if you cracked my skull open, Spiderwebs by No Doubt would echo forth. It's been trapped in my head for days now lol

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

people don't change their minds to your point of view unless they trust you first

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🪐 Solar Saturn (eepy era) 🪐 @sfwsaturniibae.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

May the world be kinder to those who are soft, warm, and vulnerable

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This song has once again taken over my brain music.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVE...

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Spiderwebs

YouTube video by No Doubt - Topic

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Xacris @xacris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I know no one follows here, but I'm gonna put it out into the ether anyways- the Minecraft mod I help with, Ars Nouveau, has a plush campaign for the Starbuncle! It runs for the next 3 weeks, they are $30, and ship in December www.makeship.com/products/sta...