Reposted by ZakIt's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already 461418202
Zak @zaksharp.me · 23hGonna try to coin "waydeshislop" when I tell my lead about it. Wish me luck 010
Zak @zaksharp.me · 23hDoing some npm bumps for work and have discovered a new CVE pathology. Multiple repos got a CVE, roughly "this action can cause RangeError with malicious input. Instead, you should throw a RangeError or SyntaxError". Maintainers apparently have not identified they're all from one account - waydeshi 100
Reposted by ZakPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comThe Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly TooThe paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today. 421684446
Reposted by ZakТsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What I like about not using LLM-based tools is writing code is so tedious you are looking for solutions to write less code or no code at all and you usually find them. Which improves your project dramatically in a longer run. 722217
Reposted by Zakabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026a key pitch of the desk job compared to manual labour is it doesn't break your brain anywhere near as much as manual labour breaks your body, normally. if you're very lucky it's intellectually rewarding. I would quite like to retire still being able to think 0195
Reposted by ZakExtra Haunted Doll, Dana Lexa @authorx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Another thing to remember on this bisexual day is that The Grungler is canonically bi. I do enjoy how it's become a term for "token cis guy who hangs out with a bunch of trans weirdos" but the original post was also about straight women being weird about bi men. 1849391781
Reposted by Zakhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant 631952
Reposted by Zakjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3570041626
Zak @zaksharp.me · 18/09/2026Clown, pulling a seemingly never-ending series of handkerchiefs out of my open wound: Hey man, this is above my pay grade 020
Zak @zaksharp.me · 07/07/2026I spent a long time off of it and have been back on recently to get updates from local bands. Now, every 3rd scroll feels like Mark Zuckerburg is trying to personally inject some new insecurity into my head. 000
Reposted by ZakStella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social · 22/04/2026My hot take is that the median social system breaks under too much optimization pressure, and we should stop trying to optimize things 23923145
Reposted by Zakold uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS 3684212224
Reposted by ZakNatalie Makhijani @nat.makhijani.us · 18/04/2026If you give an inch they’ll take a mile. Never give up your yellow trains 27116
Reposted by ZakThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Yeah I don’t know about any of you but it is actually a little hard to focus at the moment 291492213
Reposted by ZakSargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 02/04/2026Remember: hope is a sustained practice and requires just as much effort as despair 042
Reposted by ZakJana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 15/01/2025they already invented AGI. it's called "birds" 0406
Reposted by ZakLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/03/2026The official press office of a democratic presidential hopeful is calling his political opponents gay as an insult. Totally unfit behavior. You're gonna get washed. 291393210
Reposted by ZakKip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of. 5168441334
Reposted by Zakceej @ceej.online · 22/03/2026You may not like it, but there’s actually no universal consensus vis-à-vis blowing up little kids, and in fact suggesting that blowing up little kids is evil is, itself, a form of terrible violence, and furthermore naïve to say, if not outright childish. And you know what we do to children 13906140
Reposted by ZakDenver is too damn high 🚲 @yodelinghippie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026 Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco. 12471531233
Reposted by Zaktef @tef.bsky.social · 08/03/2026apropos of nothing "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS TO PEOPLE" feels like one of those ominously threatening lines from a jenny holzer installation 1334
Reposted by ZakJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026how it feels taking public transit rn 402041371
Zak @zaksharp.me · 06/03/2026I would love to be sickos_yes about the news but I’ve been on this ride enough to know it’ll just be that my taxes are going to go towards subsidizing oil crazy style 000
Reposted by ZakNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 06/03/2026You can't bring a gun to a knife fight and then complain when it turns out the other side has more guns 061
Reposted by ZakLyna @blooym.dev · 05/03/2026Another thing is that these tools are not free. By pivoting the software field to focus on AI-first workflows we are, intentionally or not, leaving those who do not have the means to pay for the hardware or cloud AI models behind. "AI Assisted" is one thing, pivoting entirely is neglectful. 7618
Reposted by ZakJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 02/03/2026Bluesky needs to set up a policy that LLM bots need to be voluntarily labeled, and people can choose to see them or not. And any unlabeled bots that get discovered get banned, along with whoever's running them, if traceable. 2245
Zak @zaksharp.me · 26/02/2026MLA citing my friend’s tattoo as an authoritative source on the number of lightning strikes in Missouri in 1996. 000
Zak @zaksharp.me · 18/02/2026Took me until right this second to realize this account is @nanoraptor.danamania.com for trains and not simply posting cool train pictures 020
Reposted by Zakmilleniumbug @mlembug.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Butlerian Jihad as a cautionary tale. Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation 651480
Zak @zaksharp.me · 18/02/2026checking my live-updating Taylor Swift tracker to ask her in person to donate to my hospital gofundme 000
Reposted by Zakhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 16/02/2026this is why you use SVG, mermaid graph syntax, etc - what are they doing over there, don't use nanobanana for this kinda thing 1919615
Zak @zaksharp.me · 16/02/2026The arrow of time moves ever forward. The arrow of timn, on the other hand… 010
Zak @zaksharp.me · 10/02/2026Plus, there‘s a dog, you can talk to it, and that’s also story and mechanic all in one 000
Zak @zaksharp.me · 10/02/2026I really love Signs of the Sojourner for its ludonarrative. Mechanics like exhaustion and storytelling beats like the way moving away from home changes you combine to provide an excellent experience 100
Zak @zaksharp.me · 09/02/2026Alternatively make something cool that breaks a little and it’s still on par with GitHub’s reliability 000
