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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · Jul 29

Definitely not the first blog post inspired by a @monkchips.com comment, and won't be the last.

Monkchips is the sand in my oyster that makes beautiful pearls. 🦪😆💕

(Still mean to circle back to the question of what it means to have good technical taste...)

www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 23h

It’s really not. It’s about the same cost for that size tank including live plants and fish. Lego might be easier to clean but not no-maintenance either

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 1d

The best thing about AI as a pairing partner: it's like a slow dev I can guide but I can disappear for hours in meetings or go for a swim and it's just patiently waiting there, with all the context, ready to continue when I am.

Solves the "what was I doing?" problem

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 1d

Read that as youtu.be/ub747pprmJ8?...

Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now [Official 4K Video]

YouTube video by Fatboy Slim

youtu.be

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 3d

She just keeps getting better and better!

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 3d

Occasionally I do a deep dive of thinking about whether AI will really fundamentally eliminate the need for software engineers and my conclusion remains the same: it won't. Might change the employment curve in some ways but barring the big singularity or w/e I don't see it removing the job

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 3d

Well, hello there!

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Virginia Murdoch @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com · 4d

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

Monomarks: open social bookmarking

Open social bookmarks

Monomarks.at

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 5d

Yeah, I was invoking DHH’s term more for effect.

Honestly, I think of it more like an ecosystem: the detritus that spin off publicly from larger companies go on to feed the smaller fry. We’re definitely the bottom feeders enjoying the excess food from bigger fish

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 5d

I’m also eyeing up the 33.3km Ultraswims (swum over 4 days) but not quite crazy enough today to click the button

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 5d

I debate with myself whether Podia would still exist if Shopify didn’t. Maybe the open source “gifts” aren’t as apparent as Basecamp’s but I think it has contributed more to keeping the Rails ecosystem alive. Considerably more than similarly successful companies (Stripe, Intercom, Hubspot)

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 5d

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...

byroot.github.io

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 5d

This year I did 3.5km, 3.9km, 3.9km (the Gaelforce Trilogy) and 5km races which at the time I entered felt like a real stretch but as the year went on felt well within my comfort zone.

Next year I'm contemplating 12km, 3.9km, 8km (the trilogy again), and 5km. Do I really want to do this? 😰

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 7d

Bubble?

Harvard economist Jason Furman says investments in data centres and software was 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025.

Without it, US GDP growth was just 0.1%

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 7d

Which reminds me of my favourite hope for the future: no nursing homes playing soft classical music.

No, no, no. For us it’ll be Iron Maiden (Hallowed by thy name?), Skid Row (18 and life?), Bon Jovi (Living on a Prayer?), and Metallica (Enter Sandman).

Ain’t going quietly! 🤘

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 7d

It attracted a certain demographic in the 40-60yo range because this music is imprinted on our souls.

Nothing will prepare you for a crowd of late-career-lawyers-and-dentists shouting “Fuck you I won’t do as you tell me” to Rage against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the name’ played by an orchestra

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 7d

We saw The Rock Orchestra at the weekend: a fun reimagining of rock/metal hits played with instruments not usually associated with such music

the-rock-orchestra.com

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JP Camara @jpcamara.com · 7d

We never needed while loops. The power was always within us.

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 8d

Why? What would Nicolas Cage do about it?

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 11d

Just reading about the new Claude Code integration and I need to try that out next: zed.dev/blog/claude-...

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: You asked, and here it is. Use Claude Code in public beta directly in Zed, built on the new Agent Client Protocol.

zed.dev

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 11d

which they have but yeah, that would be my assumption

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 11d

Yeah, I love Zed as a former Sublime user than never quite gelled with VS Code. Though I need to find/make a solution for “run the test related to this file” and a few other bits I use often like “copy permalink and selection as markdown”

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 11d

tbf I think there’s zero market for a paid editor that would satisfy a VC payoff so the rug pull will likely come elsewhere (what can you sell through an editor)

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 14d

We've watched a few episodes and I thought it wasn't bad. Noticed the occasional leprechaun-costuming though. If anything, it's just a bit overly dramatic but as foreign-productions-set-in-Ireland go, this is far from the worst

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