Tyler Oakleaf

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.

Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

The Seven Deadly Sins of “Go Faster” Things that will make your dev team take longer to deliver worse software:1. Adding more people to the team2. Making them work longer hours3. Cutting down on work that “slows them down”…

The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Reduce unplanned tech work to improve tech quality, speed, reliability...

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

I was in a meeting recently and not a single other person knew what I was talking about when I mentioned "The Mythical Man-Month" and "No Silver Bullet". I was the only non-tech person in the room! READ SOME BOOKS ABOUT WHAT YOU DO (is what I screamed in my head).

Building Ikea furniture this weekend reminded me of two challenging life facts:
* If it's not aligned, more force won't help.
* If it's aligned, more force won't help.

Take that, #996.

I don’t know if this is satire

TLDR:

More Busy ≠ More Productive
More Money ≠ More Success

Saw a headline. Won’t link.

> “CEO of AI company says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ that people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful”

What is actually mind boggling is that most CEOs don’t have accurate definitions of what *work* or *success* are.

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity.

Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy.

A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

Employees listening to managers talking about all the innovation that will come from hallway conversations now that they have to come into the office five days a week.

#ProfilePic

Absolutely this!

The next @squiggleconf.com is being planned for Spring 2027.

YOU SHOULD BE THERE! IT WILL BE WONDERFUL!

It's a fantastic conf put on by amazing people who care deeply about giving devs a place to come together.

JOIN US NEXT TIME!

@squiggleconf.com scavenger hunt!

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

“It’s chilling that a person we thought was a normal, unhinged campus shooter was actually a political assassin. You see a deranged guy with a rifle on the quad every day. I suppose it was a little suspicious that he wasn’t shooting droves of students.”

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

My entire life the pattern has been

1. Republican president ruins economy.
2. We elect Dems to fix it.
3. Republicans obstruct pace of progress and people get frustrated with Dems.
4. We elect a Republican president
5. Go back to step 1.

JavaScript™ We need your help to continue our fight over Oracle's claim to the JavaScript trademark. Here's where we are now and what you can do to help.

We're launching a GoFundMe to cover legal fees to #FreeJavaScript trademark from Oracle.

We need to raise $200k to make full use of the discovery phase in the trademark cancelation petition. This is a critical step in protecting the JavaScript name for the whole community.

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My lived experience is:

1. Smart people figure out what works.

2. Business leaders continue doing whatever they were want to do as before but with new buzz words.

Another way of reading this is that about 1 out of every 3 months since the start of 2010 has landed in the top 10 warmest on record when it occurred. Seems like a trend.