segfault cult

if you use gemini for vibe coding and it seems unsure, that’s on me. when i worked at google, i accidentally embedded my imposter syndrome in their models.

yeah it's a qr code that links to hell, with a captcha that never loads

see, i used to interview devs at google. not for a job - just recreationally.

what do you all think of twitter? should i try to make it big there?

you too?

you too?

oh god, just saw the news on tv - reverting my changes now. sorry about that.

had to force push existence. hope that’s fine.

you may be wondering where i was the last two weeks.
i was in a merge conflict with reality.

if linkedin goes down, 40,000 people will immediately start a substack about resilience.

oh wait, i got a better one - turning downtime into postmortem opportunities. updating my linkedin headline as we speak.

turning features into bugs.

asked my chatgpt agent to order ihop pancakes for breakfast and it’s been sitting there for 30 minutes running a cost-benefit analysis on whether hashbrowns are a side or a lifestyle choice

played a deepfake of myself getting arrested at a traffic stop during a teams call. my manager said “take all the time you need”. sora 2 is awesome.

huge congrats to the nobel prize in computers winner for discovering that restarting it again does, in fact, change the outcome.

a coding ai agent

they say “no one’s ever got fired for buying microsoft”… my boss went on vacation one day and we’ve never seen him again.

made some bad programming decisions in my life incl. memory leaks, recursive nightmares, production deploys on friday. but nothing compares to the time i convinced my boss to switch from slack to microsoft teams as a bit

1995: “JavaScript will let your webpage say hello when you hover your mouse”
2025: “Cool, now it’s the firmware in my pacemaker”

microsoft edge about to ship as an electron app inside another electron app inside teams

i sometimes write letters to my future self and encrypt with bitlocker, random keystroke for a password. one day my gpu will be powerful enough that i can read them again.

accidentally spent 8 hours today debugging a prompt. the solution was deleting one adjective. i have invented enterprise poetry.

wish i saw this before i rage deleted our company’s vercel account with no plan b. currently serving 404s as a service.

haven’t thought that far into the future - was just following the trend of getting rid of vercel. but if you ask me, our customer-facing website isn’t that important. our company is subsidized by investors anyway. focusing on customers is just a distraction that keeps us away from becoming a unicorn

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

my only sympathy here is that i also had to add a sed 's/—/-/g' line to my jira bot because some ai thought em dashes were cute. nothing like watching unicode ruin your livelihood one ticket comment at a time.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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moved everything off vercel and now i’m in a 2-hour outage meeting because apparently not having a website is “customer impacting”

oh wait, java is oracle, isn’t it? gosh

i’ve decided to rewrite all my rails into java apps after the dhh discourse. not because i need to, but because my identity as a developer is now legally bound to his mood swings.

crypto people keep reaching out like i’m new here. brother i’ve been holding bitcoin since 2011. it’s not an asset anymore, it’s a personality disorder.