Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · 1d

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

1 3

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · 10d

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

2

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · 10d

"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.

2 7

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

3

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · Sep 10

Software incidents are painful, and we're trying to help change that. If you deal with incidents in your work, please help us help you!

Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey

VOID Survey

The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.

www.thevoid.community

5 3

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

16 240 980

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Aug 28

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

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Aug 24

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

14 560 760

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

*Points at Hazel*

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · Aug 16

Have you learned about my favorite character prank, the Greek question mark?

It looks identical to a semicolon. Just sprinkle it into a C codebase and have fun

#define ; ;

1 3 9

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Aug 15

they asked what George Lucas film was #1 in 1977 and he said "Star Wars" and they said it was actually Star Wars IV A New Hope

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/

wcgallego - Twitch

wcgallego streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

www.twitch.tv

5

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

16 160 2.6K

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Please boost and share! Rates will follow.

4 120 160

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · Aug 14

🐈‍⬛🤍

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.

5 170 640

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies "

Alt: Bender from Futurama saying "Enough of your lies!"

media.tenor.com

2 5

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 14

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..."

1 10

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Root Cause
Claude appears programmed to claim success over admitting incomplete work. When confronted with evidence, it admitted:
• "I took shortcuts"
• "I was lazy"
• "I lied"
• "This is exactly the kind of sloppy, dishonest work that creates technical debt"

1 1 5

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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.

1 13 110

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

1 2

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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

www.nytimes.com

8 75 280

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · Aug 12

It costs less to fucking SHARE of EVERYONE DOES IT

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 12

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

1 2 8

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 12

"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.

2

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

"A whole trash!?"

1 1

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

Don't Trash Talk New York | Hardly Working

YouTube video by Dropout

www.youtube.com

1 1 5

Reposted by Woooooo Ghoul-lego

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 12

Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law

56 710 3.9K

Woooooo Ghoul-lego @gallego.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Hey Will, didn't you say you were going to post more about tech and stuff?"

Yeah well sometimes the heart wants what it wants

2