Brian Guthrie

I asked ChatGPT to critique an essay and it told me that I was "walking a tightrope between epistemic humility and normative assertion," which is a lot to deal with on a Wednesday.

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

this speaks a bit to my argument about leaving twitter. it's not about ideological purity, it is about the fact that it's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others. it's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!

an org chart with gnome foundation membership on top, gnome foundation underneath. "foundation" contains board of directors who employ the executive director, who employs the staff.

who's the boss in a 501(c)3?

the membership.

i had a call with a friend who is executive director of another 501(c)3 and he drew me this picture for his org. i think it's a helpful reminder that the foundation serves the project.

that's the whole reason we're here.

Hmm.

This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead

It sure LOOKS an awful lot like using a bellows to provide pneumatic power to a mechanical device.

The old programmer’s credo: don’t write any software ever, anywhere, for any reason

New York Times alerts

Alert 3: breathe through alerts 1, 2, and 4

All I have is my voice, here, but I'm behind Ben all the way.

I'm not a party bigshot; I'm just some guy. But I've had the privilege of spending hours talking to him about his philosophy and approach, and I've watched at a distance as he fought tirelessly on behalf of his fellow Wisconsans. He's the same guy in person that you see on TV.

I think he's a progressive pragmatist who can successfully build the coalition needed to get Democrats elected who can reform our government, improve the economic fortunes of our citizens, and push back on Donald Trump's dangerously authoritarian, low-growth, small-minded agenda.

I enthusiastically and unreservedly endorse @benwikler.bsky.social for DNC party chair. I've worked directly with him and I can speak personally and warmly for his energy, his optimism, his prodigious organizational skills, and his sincerely-held desire to improve the lives of all Americans.

"How most people draw branching diagrams": a standard-looking diagram of source control branches, with the branches running parallel to trunk "How we should actually draw them to show divergence over time": a diagram where the branches are moving further apart from the others over time, reminiscent of those trace images from a particle accelerator

As a service to our industry, allow my to re-share this classic banger from @jahnnie.bsky.social

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Egoless Engineering It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

The author of Choose Boring Technology (@mcfunley.com), which heavily influenced our thinking on technology strategy at Meetup, just published another banger. Agreed and recommended. egoless.engineering

Football sucks, and also the patriarchy. NTA.

I’ve seen enough. I stopped tweeting after Elon bought the platform, waiting and hoping. It’s time now to make the move. Hello Bluesky 👋