A note on why I shared an accessible playbook for measuring rapid agentic coding experiments, so they have legibility in your org.
Software metrics were designed for past assumptions, and I am advising against most right now. We need human-centered measures.
www.linkedin.com/posts/drcath...
whatever the big apocalyptic fears from AI + weapons, the most realistic fear is that it's used the same way a sloppy commander is happy to launch raids based on suspect tips from informants. The AI is a permission structure for targeting, an oopsie-doodle generator that leaves dead civilans behind
01.03.2026 07:08 — 👍 257 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 1
Has anybody explained exactly what that the laser system is _supposed_ to be doing?
Somebody made the decision that there should be a laser in El Paso that is operationally firing on... what, precisely?
really one of the most difficult things about making software
is not assuming players have magical knowledge. look at this error message.
example: dcss console. 79, 24. 79, 24 is not a resolution you can select in any control panel. we don't know what your default font size is. how could we know?
Okay SOTU counter-programming in the form of Sneakers plot holes:
Bishop could stay underground for 25 years but couldn’t check if the NSA had San Francisco offices?
If this tickles your curiosity, we wrote a book on #ProgressiveDelivery, based on similar principles!
And coming very soon, a podcast with @kentbeck.com as a guest!
progressivedelivery.com
And they experienced no identity-based conflict in any of England, Holland, or Massachusetts!
24.02.2026 04:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0John "torture memo" Yoo's opinion on this and other legal matters should be ignored.
24.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 46 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lessons from the MN civil contempt case, by me:
Petitioner’s atty: “I understand that the caseload has affected all parties astronomically, and we are all human. But my client is, too. . . . All the people behind these petitions are humans.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/less...
Ah, my mistake. This one is only a few months old.
23.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why does every question I ask these days end up in a GitHub issue more than a year old?
Today's is "why is zooming not working in the Bluesky app?". github.com/bluesky-soci...
5 authors I've read at least 5 books by (proceeding backwards through the fiction shelves):
Sarah Zettel
Roger Zelazny
Patricia Wrede
Walter John Williams
Jen Williams
(I don't think I've read enough Yolen, Yep, or Yang to count.)
I did not expect nor want Minnesota to be featured here but... well, we've got Tom Emmer. (Who among his other faults has spoken gross lies about our Somali community and should be unwelcome in polite company for that alone.)
21.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI guys: any day now AI is gonna self-boost into superintelligence and worldwide abundance
The rest of the world: did you use AI to improve the supply chain for AI training?
AI guys: ... no
We try to manage code quality by having humans do code review! (note, I am not Against It)
And lord, does Code Review place psychological burdens on people* as well as cognitive burdens on their attentional and executive capacities
Nevertheless...! They do it!
A small feel-good story for you: More than 10 years after researchers concluded there were no lynx living in Voyageurs National Park, a trail camera caught sight of two adorable kittens there. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/02/rese...
11.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
Reminder that the stock market should always be (and basically *is* always) at an all-time high. If it's not, that basically means that almost 200 million of us went to work every day and collectively produced less than nothing.
That's not the work of the White House. That's the work of us.
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
10.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 4374 🔁 1912 💬 65 📌 38
Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents
In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒
www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time
Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...
Black and yellow lines start parallel, become twisted and overlapping as they progress from left to right. The lines re-enter the artwork from the lower left after exiting the upper right, and become parallel and orderly again. "These Roots Run Deep", 2010, oil, size 13 seed beads, and thread on canvas
A tall pillar standards on a short, wide circular pedestal. At the top of a pillar is a copper bucket covered with blue beadwork. A copper ladle hangs from it, also decorated in a beadwork "cozy". Both the ladle and the bucket have streamers of buckskin hanging from them. The streamers from the bucket are arranged on the pedestal in a chaotic pattern that suggests knotwork or a lattice. "Carry IV", 2024, buckskin, synthetic sinew, acrylic, glass beads, brass sequins, copper vessel, copper ladle
A masked man stands it front of a tall pillar that is decorated with a patchwork of different beaded art figures. It uses a riot of different colors and patterns. "Visiting", 2024, acrylic, glass bugle beads, thread, and synthetic sinew on aluminum panel, engineered quartz base
A masked woman looks up at an large floor-to-ceiling sculpture shaped like a pair of cones. Triangles of different colors cover the cones, arranged in a pattern of diamonds inside squares. "Infinite We", 2025, enamel on copper and brass
Photos from the Walker Art Center's Dyani White Hawk exhibit, "Love Language". Pictured here: "Visiting", "Carry IV", "Infinite We", and "These Roots Run Deep". #WalkerArtCenter #ContemporaryArt #DyaniWhiteHawk
08.02.2026 05:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All the freeway exits from highways 62 and 55 to the Whipple building were blocked off as we drove by just before 3pm. I assume that's associated with the crackdown on protestors today.
07.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0They are totally shutting down Whipple, where people have been continually protesting peacefully for a month. There is no more 1st Amendment. Forcing them to close aid station. #whipple #minneapolis #minnesota #iceout
07.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2I still think the number they gave us cannot have been correct. Out of 20 attendees in our precinct, we had six volunteers.
04.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also surprising: preference ballots for governor and U.S. rep but not U.S. senator. Maybe disorganization? Craig spoke as did a Flanagan proxy.
I cannot tell who is running to replace Jim Carlson our state senator.
I was surprised by: our precinct could have sent more delegates than attendees. (In retrospect this is why the candidates emphasized volunteering to be a delegate, but this was not spelled out or at least I didn't get the hint.)
04.02.2026 07:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I caucused for the first time tonight.
I learned that the caucus chair needs to be a board game player. You have a list of rules to follow, a bunch of stuff to read aloud, and a bunch of pieces to organize.
I think the DFL web page could have highlighted this better to permit some preparation.
A post from Children’s Minnesota about pausing medical interventions for minors in their gender care program: As one of the leading pediatric providers of gender-affirming care in the region, we have recently experienced an increase in federal actions directed at health systems Like ours that provide this care. These actions jeopardize the stability of Minnesota's only comprehensive pediatric health care system, and they threaten our clinicians' ability to practice medicine now and in the future. If conditions remain the same, we plan to temporarily pause prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones (estrogen and testosterone) for patients under age 18 in our Gender Health program, effective Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.
Children’s has fought against this longer than most. This is very upsetting news for a lot of kids, it will absolutely hurt the mental health of them and their families, and I expect every MN politician to either fight fed transphobia or find a new job.
www.childrensmn.org/services/car...
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
