Casey Brant

YouTube video by Angela Collier vibe physics

"That is why no one is taking you seriously: because *you* are not taking you seriously."

youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...

"Write the code that uses the interface before the code that implements it" is the perfect gem of programming advice:

- succinct
- easy to understand
- easy to remember
- nearly always results in better designs
- impossible to get your colleagues to follow for some unknowable reason

If someone is screensharing and you see the BBEdit icon in their dock, you better listen to what they have to say.

So far every AI feature I've seen in the wild is indistinguishable from what you'd produce if you were a secret anti-AI operative trying to sabotage an organization's AI push from within.

Well yeah, the purpose of insurance companies is to take your money, and then, later on, they have your money.

Lifehack: set fire to the earth rather than endure even the briefest encounter with the fundamental human experience of feeling foolish as you traverse the path from not knowing something to knowing it. #lifehacks

summarizing my feelings about the last 10 years of tech as:

i do not want my tools to guess

There are 11 two-party consent states in the US: CA, DE, FL, IL, MA, MD, MI, MO, NH, PA, & WA.

If you’re in one of these states and meet someone wearing these stupid glasses, say: “You do not have my permission to record and are in violation of state law. Please stop & delete all recordings of me.”

We must find a way to protect society from the kind of person who would invent scented garbage bags.

OK OK you have convinced me to take another crack at it after bouncing off previously. Maybe once I finally get my paws on a Switch 2...

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

That's a hot tip, thank you! I've been doing a whole lot of one-off muting and it was getting old.

Use a stock photo, not an image generator. I guarantee there is one that fits your needs*. In fact "lmao look at these ultra-niche stock photos" is a whole genre of internet post, such is the breadth of topics covered by stock photography.

*unless your goal is to steal someone's likeness or art lol

A lot of people come into the games industry and pretty soon develop a cynical attitude that the industry is largely run by business guys who don't know a thing about video games. It's only after a few years and some seniority that you realize that those guys don't know shit about business either.

We’re really turning up the dial on “guys who think they’re saying something amazing about a product but actually are saying something deeply embarrassing about themselves” right now, huh?

I'm glad I built up resistance to software tooling FOMO during the JavaScript Framework Churn Wars of the 2010s. It's making it a lot easier to chill out and let things settle while the AI people tell each other they're hopelessly behind the times every week based on which VSCode fork they're using.

god forbid our minds wander

I want less pop media where the hero goes from failure to success by Finding It Deep Within Herself and more where she does it by grinding out 8 thankless years of soul-crushing practice.

People like to dunk on all the AI companies for having logos that look like buttholes, but I am a credentialed graphic designer and I am here to tell you that it is impossible to make a logo that does not look kind of like a butthole, a swastika, or one or more dicks. It can't be done.

Man I wish I had no taste or moral compass, it'd be pretty cool to have hundreds of millions of dollars.

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I have this mental block with it where I can only think of it as a single game, and that single game is too daunting for me to tackle. I know the creators say just play the ones you like! But it doesn't matter to my brain. If they had released 10 installments of UFO 5 I'd probably 100% every one lol

One thing I'm always saying about software projects I work on is that they just don't have *enough* code.

Damn, I log on to bluesky for funny posts, not a Stats exam!

I've spent my entire career in software watching the majority of programmers be *shockingly* bad at assessing their own productivity on every possible timescale, and in what ways different techniques and tools impact that productivity. It was true in 2010 and it's still true in 2025.

People who avoid Bluesky’s Discover tab are cowards. You don’t want to see 400 furious responses to a kind of guy you’ve never seen a single example of? You don’t want to see the only 8 people on earth who watched a particular anime series arguing with each other? That is what this webpage is *for*!

I'm a white man rapidly approaching middle age, so you guessed it: time to start a podcast.

I've been advocating for more data dense design, but it never even occurred to me to increase density on the Z axis! True innovation.

I don't want to use a fucken "passkey" you assholes