david celis

”posting on a throwaway account because the person i’m writing about goes on Reddit”

and you seriously think they won’t figure it out given the extreme amount of detail you’ve gone into???

An array of five pastries on plates on a skinny wooden bar: a cinnamon roll, a chocolate chunk cookie, a cheesy pesto roll, a savory scone, and another cinnamon roll

they have pastries now!

📍Woodblock Chocolate / Portland / OR

so many of the tech “innovations” of the last decade are really just “what if _____ but without any worker or consumer protections? oh and an app”

yeah i’m definitely gonna play around with it! i use github actions to run tests and deploy my personal site (via dokku). the premade actions for ruby and dokku deploys did make it really easy to set up on GitHub but hopefully it’s not too bad to get working via the Nixpkgs stuff too

wow, tangled is really catching up to other repo hosting platforms! Microsoft is out here squandering all of GitHub’s past goodwill on Copilot and React while the folks at @tangled.sh are building a platform that actually feels exciting. and an integrated pastebin to boot!

The Browser Company’s AI browser now has a $20 subscription A Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s AI chat feature.

A huge part of my remaining joy for the web is discovery. Stumbling upon cool websites while searching for stuff. Finding art projects that people poured their hearts into. Why would I outsource my web browsing to an AI chatbot? I want to love the web, not hate it even more

a huge part of the joy of the web is discovery; i love finding random websites and fun experiments people have built while i’m searching for things. web browsing is yet another thing that i’m like… why would i want to outsource this to a chat bot? feels like a sure fire way to hate the web even more

it’s just not interesting to me; in its current state, it’s pretty much Chrome with a chat tab. arc had features i found interesting and useful and it felt like a natural evolution. and $20/mo for this is a LOT

The Dia browser now offers a $20/month subscription plan The Browser Company has announced a subscription plan for Dia, its new AI-powered browser. Here are the details.

lmao. i might have paid a modest monthly subscription for Arc but i’d never pay for Dia

i can’t believe Bluesky is still pushing this janky feed and its 📌 reply spam instead of just adding a bookmark feature

oh, that's rich

i don’t understand this at all but it seems like a good joke so have a like

Breaking: Open AI announces $1.5 Million Bonus for Every Employee Source

totally cool and normal and definitely not a bubble

but if i did that then it might deprive myself of an actually good mobile browser in the future… so…

you’re building a WEB BROWSER now???

Disney is Nixing the Standalone Hulu App Disney is eliminating the standalone Hulu app, reports Variety. Rather than separate Hulu and Disney+ apps, Disney plans to offer a unified streaming...

and the slow march toward recreating Cable TV But More Expensive continues

Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing (Gift Article) It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

let this article serve as a reminder that you (yes, even you in tech) deserve a union: ethanmarcotte.com/book…

Why Was Trump on the Roof? Some Theories. He’s either up to something or up to nothing or trying to distract us. Whatever the reason, it was weird.

people actually get paid to report on shit like this

A paper tray topped with 9-10 slices of smoked steak and a drizzle of chimichurri, a small container of slaw, some pickled red onions, and two slices of white bread

finally trying the smoked tri-tip 👀

📍HarBQ / Portland / OR

make no mistake: this is a disastrous bubble

oh hell yeah, i’ve been waiting for this

i had one of the danishes and it was 😗🤌

A corner counter covered in plates and trays, each filled with danishes, scones, biscuits, croissants, muffins, and other pastries

pastry case is poppin’ off today

📍Woodlawn Coffee and Pastry / Portland / OR

Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out Major Australian tech company Atlassian has terminated 150 staff with a pre-recorded video, as the company pushes its AI-embedded customer contact solutions.

🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves

hell yeah. also hi

Portland mayor orders changes to city equity policies to comply with Trump DEI mandate Portland Mayor Keith Wilson has ordered city bureaus to change the wording for city programs that benefit minority groups to comply with President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI directives.

completely fucking shameful. meanwhile, Seattle is filing lawsuits instead of caving. i sent an angry message to the mayor’s office about this and you should too: www.portland.gov/help/…

Please understand and agree with our values before applying: • In-person working (New York City). 7-day work week. No remote/hybrid. • A-players only. Only A-players can hire A-players. We'd rather hire 1 A-player and pay an above-market amount (that someone is very happy with) than hire 3 B-players and pay market. • Drive. You're hungry to do what it takes for us to win. You likely have a massive chip on the shoulder and/or a neurodivergent brain. Work is a key part of your identity / fulfillment in life. • Grind. We work/text on weekends and at night. It's ok to send messages at 3am. • Urgency. Do in a day what usually takes weeks. Run through walls to get things done. Respond in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours. • Shameless. Be extremely annoying if it means winning. Check-in on things 10x daily. Double (or quadruple) text if someone hasn't responded. Call them too. • Fast firing. If someone isn't an A player, we part ways quickly. Please be okay with this. We do paid trials to help derisk this. • Mission-driven. "Make things go viral" as a mission sounds fun to you. • Wear many hats. No job is not your job. • EV-based decision making. No buying IBM because it's safe. • Customer-first, not team-first. It's our job to make things move fast. We dropped the ball if a customer feels like we did. • Flat company org. Titles reflect scope. No political promotion games.

someone shared an AI startup’s careers page and it’s almost certainly the best (i.e. worst) piece of art i’ve ever seen. also their team page is a bunch of AI-generated muscle bros, two dogs, and the sister from Arrested Development: icon.com/team

ugly sobbing because we just spent 15 minutes running around the neighborhood looking for our missing dog because we thought we heard her bark from outside but she was just shut in a room with an open window and wanted out

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Feeding slop is an act of war

this post really thoughtfully outlines how i feel every time someone sends me their AI slop. i don't agree that there's "nothing wrong with using AI" but i STRONGLY agree with the sentiment that shoving your AI-generated text/images/etc. at people is just plain rude.

the continuing irony of her newsletter being on substack 😭