Woooooo Ghoul-lego

The whole "Should millionaires be subsidized to ride the bus/have free child care?" debate is so wildly ridiculous.

If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.

At Etsy, we had an upgrade go out for MySQL with Chef. Meant to go to one server, instead upgraded all of production. During that time, it had to update very tall tables, which mean locking them from any reads or writes. Turned into a multi-hour downtime where we just had to wait for it to finish.

Ohh, I thought she made some kind of bargain she'd later regret for that car.

Man, I forgot about MF Doom, shame on me. So good.

Well, at least one of us is solving the problems they create, so good on you for that!

"It's a tremendous amount of work to solve problems you're creating".

Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.

I guess now is a great time to get bad opinions out there.

I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.

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The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed.

Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

"Will, write the scariest monster for your D&D game"

*Points at Hazel*

I'm actually kind of a pacifist...
*reads*
Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.

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Hey, we're going to play some D&D!!

The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.

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and I am trying to think of how to explain to this man that I literally DO NOT KNOW HOW to not smile when an exercise hurts

and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”

and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me

The search for work continues!

- Podcast Editing
- Sound Design
- TTRPG Design
- TTRPG Editing
- Project Coordination

Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most.

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Illustration of a small black cat with very large, round eyes, standing in a textured, colorful field with a rainbow-like gradient in the background. White text above the cat reads, “May you stumble upon something wonderful today.

🐈‍⬛🤍

a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies " Alt: Bender from Futurama saying "Enough of your lies!"

When Github is having its weekly failure but the Github status page says "All Systems Operational"

AI in software development feels like we wished on a monkeys paw. "Man, there's so much new stuff every day. I wish we could focus on just *one* for a while..."

once again saying that your AI can sense your commitment to old view monocausal failure analysis and responds accordingly

Going from nothing to ANYTHING seems so impressive when you discount that the goal is to create something GOOD and EXPRESSIVE and SPECIFIC. Even putting aside the plagiarism aspects and the environmental impact of the technology, it's just a complete misunderstanding of what writing is to value having some bullshit done NOW as opposed to something thoughtful done WELL.

I loooooved chatting with my good friend @ellaceron.bsky.social about writing for her newsletter! Here’s a brief excerpt of me being a real AI hater. Read the whole interview: open.substack.com/pub/ellacero...

YouTube has gone so very unhinged with ads. I'm getting two ads (the first 15 seconds and unskippable, and then a 30 second skippable after 5 seconds) every 5 minutes while watching some videos.

Completely untenable.

New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year

It’s not you; it’s not a personal flaw!!

New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...

It costs less to fucking SHARE of EVERYONE DOES IT

"Everyone's so drunk and angry!"

"...That's true but those people aren't NYers, they're from Long Island."

Having been born and raised on LI, this is true.

"I went there once...and there was a trash on the ground..."

"A whole trash!?"

YouTube video by Dropout Don't Trash Talk New York | Hardly Working

When I hear people trash talking DC over absolutely nothing, it makes me think of this absolutely brilliant sketch from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social & crew

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpo...