Taylor Hodge

Rewriting the Californian Ideology - American Affairs Journal In this sense, tech today is less Jeffersonian than the first Californian Ideology suggested, celebrating the hacker, the dropout, and the lone builder, with the profound skepticism of centralized pow...

Another ++ to the follow up list: americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/rewr...

> spotify PM laughs and says "it's a good podcast transcript sir"

Am only able to entrust my secrets and sins to Spokane's Garbage Goat, designed and created by Paula Mary Turnbull, The Welding Nun

Mayan Warrior
Pier 35, San Francisco
2021-11-13

Pleasing synchronicity @jdmccafferty.bsky.social @scotfot.bsky.social

Proposing irrevocable fork in the road to unsuspecting bystanders at the little free library

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'Strive to add function by deleting code.' -- Jon Bentley

May all beings write Negative Code

This is what websites should look like

Portrait of Dorian Gr-AI

Ah, then that's a misunderstanding on my part ┄ thanks for clarifying!

That's true.

My confusion lies not in the ambiguous interpretation, but in the mangled "blocked" state.

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It is of the utmost imperative that we keep That Thing (A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing by Bonnie A. Nardi, 1993) on us

Because they've really earned the "POS" title.

Bonnie understood this

Arguable that we are _currently finding out_...

Will give it a test drive ┄ any resources you've found especially helpful outside of the core docs?

Wait....do i need to learn and use jj now? 👀

But Stipe's not far behind

Dar's the one I love the most

Still getting my feet wet with both, so nascent and fluid understanding is:

- Biome acts as format/lint engine, and does already replace eslint/prettier out of the box
- Ultracite is thin, preset configuration of rules on top of Biome, optimized for web and built to interface with AI editors/MCP

So Biome+Ultracite is going to repalce eslint/prettier in the js ecosystem tailchain, isn't it?

Smells like Sayre's Law

kinopio source on drives sprinkled around office exterior on a regular basis for 2 weeks

All interesting stuff happens in thin boundary layers