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My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good

Wholesale stealing Single Point of Excellence for future use…

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Mark is good people

DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

How yesterday has been brewing for months: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.

what idiot called it DeepSeek and not DeepSix? Certainly it feels like that's what it's going to do to plenty of folks in the valley's ambitions.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Literally every company now

Literally every company now

youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

On Misery Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

My game Stimulation Clicker is out now, enjoy :)

> neal.fun/stimulation-...

Mugs or stickers. Court-appointed postmortem lawyer.

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

Interesting to see how much is now possible on (an admittedly high end) laptop, rather than a data center of servers til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-p...

avi.im/blag/2024/fa...

Underrated ways to change the world How to get a good heart unstuck

Someone on substack shared this as the best thing they read recently. I don't have a ranking system but it's pretty damn good indeed open.substack.com/pub/experime...

Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.

They could call it Ben and Jerry's.

YouTube video by Bell Brothers All I Want for Christmas Is Home Alone

Bell Brothers never miss. Kevin McCallister gets about youtu.be/X7-zid7QD_Y

The definitions of false positives and false negatives here are useful, I’m stealing them for later.

That looks great. Firm handshake.

(I ditched it a couple of years ago, making my account private, but was looking to delete my archive after hearing new nonsense about training AI models.)

What’s a good way of deleting all my old tweets? After manually deleting it’s now not showing any posts for my account, but I know I wasn’t done.

the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness

I'd say eighteen books in this set of twenty occult tomes deal with getting ghosts either into or out of things or people.

Possession really is nine tenths of the lore.

Here’s a few things you can expect temporarily when there’s an outage:

- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do

- gas station attendant
- gardener
- door to door salesman (for a day, never went back)

I haven’t made it out to much, but I do check on calagator.org to see what’s upcoming.

BOSS: you're late

ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks

The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.