Eric Maland

Spotted downtown Austin /cc @travisview.bsky.social

Great but

There are a billion clones of Wordle on the internet and @avcx.bsky.social will more than satisfy that crossword cravings. You should not be giving NYT a dime.

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

some real "war is peace" going on up in here

DON'T RUN WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show

This Sarah McBride interview is great youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?...

A proper “OSINTGPT” would be a fun project

A great “No Kings” themed post from Heather Cox Richardson.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

was not aware of this word, thanks! working on my own notion/obsidian/n8n/save for later/AI frankenstein

US Digital Service Origins An oral history documenting how the United States Digital Service came to exist, and the initial days of building its foundation.

1/ 📚 Today we're sharing something we've been working on since 2019: an oral history of how the U.S. Digital Service came to be.

Nearly 50 conversations with the people who were there from 2009-2015, telling their stories in their own words. 🧵

Direct File is now open source. Finally.

A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...

Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

The slow enshittification of Southwest begins... great.

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

GitHub - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine: A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine

Exhaustive writeup or exhausting? Yow. github.com/wzhudev/reve...

Genuinely laughed out loud at this.

Also as an SGE his time working for gov is pretty subjective. He’s likely not off the payroll and will be involved as he wants to be. Who’s really tracking his time?

Parrying is the worst thing in video games
aftermath.site/parrying-bad

I ask {ChatGPT,Claude} to generate working code for <X>, learn what implementation patterns and libraries it thinks are useful, why its code doesn’t work and what mistakes I might make based on its mistakes, then go implement it myself.

Balatro test

“…filmmaker Darren Aronofsky says that his production company is working with Google to make videos using AI” - somehow that seems like the perfect meathook-future partnership.

YouTube video by Josh Darnit Exact Instructions Challenge - THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit

This is me and Claude Code today www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3...

I hate this take. Oh he did the wrong thing? What would you have done?

Everything’s computer!

Cloud Native Buildpacks Cloud Native Buildpacks transform your application source code into images that can run on any cloud.

This rant brought to you by a weekend review of deploys in vercel, render, fly.io, and railway. These all appear to be terrible (sorry, maybe they’re early?). There’s a pattern here to be solved for with some good oss tooling. buildpacks.io minus pivotal or something? LAMP 2025

The fact that we can’t just use a docker compose file and ship stuff into ECS … it’s so dumb. I feel like buildpacks on heroku also solved a bunch of these issues (moving from mock/dev to a prod env) a long time ago and nobody today is really doing a good job of this.

YouTube video by HasanAbi The Conservative Awakening Has Begun

Hasan on Rogan’s slow move to bargaining: youtu.be/509ukEPxUIQ?...

As much as I hate podcasts in general I do love that Rogan is dipping and also going through the bargaining phase.

Kind of excited about the near-future state of trust and safety development. There’s so much activity in this space, which warms my heart.

Making the internet more usable seems like a good thing. Seeing stuff like roost.tools pop and BlueSky putting some newbie energy into things feels good.