Alex Wise

it would be funny to start a hardcore band called POGGING and instead of a vocalist you just have a guy who pogs at everything

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AND I GET TO CREATE A CHAOS-Y THING TO TEST FOR THIS GOING FORWARD!

“The factory of the future will be staffed by a man and a dog…”

implementing the trivially hackable biometric authentication algorithm from the famous movie Don't Implement The Trivially Hackable Biometric Authentication Algorithm

Shit, if we get AI coding good enough to write, maintain, and admin apps like this we can all run the internet out of our homelabs and that's basically the Good Ending.

The fact that we're having this conversation on bsky makes me a little hopeful.
Both @mattm.bsky.social and @jaz.bsky.social 's talks at SREcon this year made me hopeful that building internet-scale software doesn't require an endlessly hungry money machine.

a man in a plaid shirt says i got to say it was a good day ALT: a man in a plaid shirt says i got to say it was a good day

I got to create a “near-miss” incident report… AND I think we’re going to get to do a full retro and review. First time at the company!

It’s going to be on the Recorded Futures and Have I Been Pwneds of the world to even bring these breaches to light. With that many insecure apps the attacker math will change a lot.

Is Donny a better or worse bowler than The Dude?

Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

I just learned that this app existed a day ago, so of course today it has been breached by bros who are excited about the cache of womens' ID documents that Tea failed to protect. www.404media.co/women-dating...

All of the estimates of how quickly AI will achieve near-term "embodiment" are still wrong, even if analysts try to strong arm the world's industrial base into building robots that don't work.

Five years from now, daily life will bear little resemblance to today. When I was young, I wanted to see the future, but I wasn't really prepared to live a life of sentimental mourning, watching all of the things around me disappear.

Expertise decreases the space of possible solutions.

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

Izzy Roland standing next to a cartoon butt in a bow-tie, holding a cane and wearing a top hat

Cartoon butt standing next to the gamechanger logo

Smiling cartoon butt with a top-hat and a bow-tie

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1. first #ttrpg you ever played: Pathfinder
2. first you ever ran: Call of Cthulu
3. played the most: 5e
4. run the most: pf2e
5. favourite: Blades in the Dark
6. most recently played: pf2e
7. most recently run: pf2e

With kindness, because Gergely says a lot of smart things, I disagree. This is classic hindsight bias.

Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.

Oh now i want this but taken to Elden Ring levels. “This is the parachute that Toadacicus Mycelium, Toad’s great-grandfather, used to sail over the great Sea Muck and onto Bowser’s Airship”

Being a lot more careful about backwards compatibility when changing APIs that LLMs might have trained on. My 99% lows with LLMs are all when they need to interact with query languages and DSLs with a volatile feature set.

I feel this. Stardew literally has a clock on screen the whole time and gives you six hours to get everything done for a season. Give me a world to aimlessly wander around in and inhabit instead.

Be Unoptimizable.

What is a "COE" at Amazon? It stands for "Correction of Errors" (similar to a postmortem - though it's named like this for good reason!)

Because of the scale of Amazon, reading these COEs was super educational (and interesting!). Steve Huynh was at Amazon for 17 years, and learned a ton from these:

Oh hey American Masters has already done episodes on Hannah Arendt and Art Spiegelman this season. What a great reason to get a PBS membership.

Mentorship would be the other important coefficient, if you can find it.

One thing about work-life balance is that highest leverage way to improve it is to get better at your job.
And the formula for goodness at your job basically = (hours spent actually doing the work * shits given) with a lot of other factors that barely matter.

Alright, we're hitting that time again when I have two or three weeks runway before we have to start cracking investments, so it's time for "Iris being annoying on socials". I am looking for contracts or consulting opportunities in the DevOps and cloud infra spaces: I am very good at this

xkcd comic A Delicious Cycle. Frame is split by a diagonal.] [First half: Cueball in front of open fridge.] Cueball: I have leftover cheese. I should get chips and make nachos. [Second half: Cueball with bag of chips.] Cueball: I have leftover chips. I should get cheese and make nachos. [Caption below the two drawings:] A delicious cycle https://xkcd.com/140/

python getting pushed out of a lot of the AI tool chain is something two years ago i would have said was laughably implausible. I don’t know what I think now. There’s a lot of things happening in that space

There’s truth to this argument, but also just watch how fast they jump when the owner of the local car dealership needs something. The incentives are really not good.