Nirmal

A metro station of brutal concrete blocks and jagged black obelisks.

“You finished those DC metro stations?”
“Sure thing boss, beautiful, moodily lit and oddly unsettling, just like you asked.”
“What?”

Good post from @simonwillison.net on how vital TDD is for agentic coding. I tend to implement functions that throw a "not implemented" exception, rather than have the tests fail thanks to the missing SUT in the red phase.
simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

every single file on your computer is just a very long number pretending to be something else. your photos. your documents. your hopes and dreams. numbers. all of it. have a nice day

Thinking of becoming one of those eccentric computer hermits who mostly use their own software and libraries, in a Frankensteinian amalgamation of tech no one else understands

Not to spend all my time shadowboxing with people who get angry at headlines, but:
- this is an old metaphor from chess
- he’s right
- we should hope that the centaur phase lasts as long as possible

This is the thing, right? The idea that LLMs would be as ubiquitous or capable in software engineering as they are now would have, around the time of GPT-2 or 3's release, been laughable.

the hype is, roughly, true. it is certainly more true than not. if you went and picked statements from 5 or 10 years ago for those which were true and those which were not, almost all of the true ones are "hype".

replies on bluesky consistently talking about ai not working when the problem is that it works well enough that people end up working through their breaks and, in fact, doing a lot more work

i am probably working too much and i am posting all day long. these things used to be mutually contradictory

The cicada lifestyle is more appealing than ever. Hiding underground for the next 17 years only to emerge screaming, that's living the dream.

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires."

#FreeOurFeeds custodians @eli.bsky.social & Deepti Doshi explain why enriching & protecting the AT protocol is essential for a billionaire-proof web:
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

There's no way I'm missing this! 🔵🐢🤜🪀🎤🎸🥁🪩🎶
#teelopesandfriends #SuperMAGFest2025
@antoncorazza.bsky.social
@yusefkelliebrew.bsky.social
@megaran.com
@jonnyatma.com
@parabellumraps.bsky.social

I just want you to try to imagine them going to these lengths for a black kid shot in the Bronx.

LRP I think @yusefkelliebrew.bsky.social is the main character of the VGM scene but nobody tell him I said that

a young man in a white shirt is making a funny face with his hands . ALT: a young man in a white shirt is making a funny face with his hands .

KENDRICK DROPPED

day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon

tyyyyyyy! 😄💗

Post one of your favorite R&B/ Soul/ Funk songs from the 70s only. Let’s find the real music lovers.
#MusicMonday

🎵 If I had to listen to one era of music forever, it would be the 70s. So eclectic. Hard to get bored. Here's a song from the top of the decade.
open.spotify.com/track/4XCGfH...

We love links because we love the open web

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

This is a good read

Skyline instead of timeline >>>>>>

And yet as Democratic governors jockey to lead the #resistance to Trump, none have tied their party’s waning influence nationally to the decisions by state and local officials to restrict the supply of housing.

The Democrats’ Electoral College Squeeze In the future, even winning the former “Blue Wall” states won’t be enough for the party’s presidential nominees.

New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8.

If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I feel like the alert fatigue of four years of Trump plus the unacknowledged trauma of covid has really done a number on the nation’s psyche. We’re going into this round not recovered from the last two.

Added a few of the fine folks from 730DC to this starter pack. Great little daily newsletter that aggregates some of the goings on in the city. go.bsky.app/4o9WHMN

Can we all agree that Threads sucks

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Yusef- composer, arranger, producer, drummer, guitarer, and basser from Washington DC.

I do all of the VGM arrangements for V-Jams and do non-VGM work under the name Vacillit.

DM me!