austin
@aparker.io
the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
dir. open source @honeycomb.io
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dir. open source @honeycomb.io
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don't think about the golden gate bridge
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
don't think about the golden gate bridge
i now understand why people pay so much to make oauth someone elses problem
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
i now understand why people pay so much to make oauth someone elses problem
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FWIW there are multiple funders/incubators/etc who have told me to do exactly this rather than actually build the automated thing I had come up with because the point of the MVP was to show that there were customers who wanted the product, not to illustrate that the tech worked or whatever
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
FWIW there are multiple funders/incubators/etc who have told me to do exactly this rather than actually build the automated thing I had come up with because the point of the MVP was to show that there were customers who wanted the product, not to illustrate that the tech worked or whatever
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📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
hacklore.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
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Login parts!
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Login parts!
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The last two pieces about Econ/markets I’ve seen from Substack lead me to believe that whole platform has exceeded TikTok in its levels of disinformation, fabulism, and outright lying.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The last two pieces about Econ/markets I’ve seen from Substack lead me to believe that whole platform has exceeded TikTok in its levels of disinformation, fabulism, and outright lying.
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boyfriend asked if I knew E. T. A. Hoffmann and I said "no I don't know when he's getting here?", now to take the rest of the day off
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
boyfriend asked if I knew E. T. A. Hoffmann and I said "no I don't know when he's getting here?", now to take the rest of the day off
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Me, young, naive, reading Gibson: Holy shit a future where technology drives international geopolitics sounds amazing
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Me, young, naive, reading Gibson: Holy shit a future where technology drives international geopolitics sounds amazing
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
im pretty sure i called these diskettes but 'hardies' was right there and none of us ran with it
there is a woman on TikTok who has been arguing for months now with randos that keep insisting that nobody called 3.5" disks "floppy disks" or "floppies" at the time. it's weird. no matter what kind of proof she provides or how many agree with her, people are coming out of the woodwork to disagree
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
im pretty sure i called these diskettes but 'hardies' was right there and none of us ran with it
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caves of qud
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.
( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
caves of qud
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A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:
if I was gonna get a 3d printer, what should I get? use cases include printing little plastic bits to fix broken plastic bits, making little statues/sculptures/etc. never had one before!
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if I was gonna get a 3d printer, what should I get? use cases include printing little plastic bits to fix broken plastic bits, making little statues/sculptures/etc. never had one before!
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Second, this piece was almost certainly LLM-generated. The misuse of key terminology, the random statistics peppered through it, the author’s background…anti-AI people on here were definitely amplifying an AI-generated analysis because it appealed to their priors. He officially Got Your Ass.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Second, this piece was almost certainly LLM-generated. The misuse of key terminology, the random statistics peppered through it, the author’s background…anti-AI people on here were definitely amplifying an AI-generated analysis because it appealed to their priors. He officially Got Your Ass.
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A few final points. If you are not a financial markets practitioner and you come across something with this much jargon, this many appeals to authority, and this much breadth, you need to ask someone with expertise before breathlessly amplifying it. cc @mattseybold.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A few final points. If you are not a financial markets practitioner and you come across something with this much jargon, this many appeals to authority, and this much breadth, you need to ask someone with expertise before breathlessly amplifying it. cc @mattseybold.bsky.social
sometimes I think about posting something mean and then I don’t
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
sometimes I think about posting something mean and then I don’t
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buying 10,000 middle schoolers tickets to the 76ers 67th game of the season to create the most annoying event in existence
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
buying 10,000 middle schoolers tickets to the 76ers 67th game of the season to create the most annoying event in existence
this was a good read and tends to echo some stuff I’ve noticed. even though gpt-5 is very good, it sucks at tool usage compared to claude.
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/a...
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/a...
Agent Design Is Still Hard
My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.
lucumr.pocoo.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this was a good read and tends to echo some stuff I’ve noticed. even though gpt-5 is very good, it sucks at tool usage compared to claude.
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/a...
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/a...
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And now we are famous: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w... - congratulations to all colleagues who made the NYT (both through quotes, by playing a role, or by being on this picture)
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
And now we are famous: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w... - congratulations to all colleagues who made the NYT (both through quotes, by playing a role, or by being on this picture)
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The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
information should be free
but I think this nuzzi shit is an exception that proves the rule
but I think this nuzzi shit is an exception that proves the rule
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
information should be free
but I think this nuzzi shit is an exception that proves the rule
but I think this nuzzi shit is an exception that proves the rule
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bought something really stupid to wear at re:Invent
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
bought something really stupid to wear at re:Invent
i think it would be funny if we taught the AIs to lie more, actually
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
i think it would be funny if we taught the AIs to lie more, actually