Adam Zimman
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Adam Zimman
@azimman.bsky.social
· May 28
Just got the best gift from my wife and kid…. A new sticker that I have been waiting for my whole adult life.
Loving this thread.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Loving this thread.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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all the gatekeepers be like “agents are poison because you’ll never learn anything”
and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”
and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
github.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
all the gatekeepers be like “agents are poison because you’ll never learn anything”
and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”
and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”
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Oh, and I wrote about some considerations for all those now tasked with MEASURING the impact of AI on their organizations. Because social media debates don't really help those of us actually struggling with this real work right now.
www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...
www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...
February 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Oh, and I wrote about some considerations for all those now tasked with MEASURING the impact of AI on their organizations. Because social media debates don't really help those of us actually struggling with this real work right now.
www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...
www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
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AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x revenue - while software CEOs get a 2026 "grow up" playbook. Meanwhile, enterprise AI reality stays slow and messy, and burnout + Ballard remind us what the work rhythm used to look like. // Friday afternoon links: cote.io/2026/02/13/r...
Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon
AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x …
cote.io
February 13, 2026 at 2:39 PM
AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x revenue - while software CEOs get a 2026 "grow up" playbook. Meanwhile, enterprise AI reality stays slow and messy, and burnout + Ballard remind us what the work rhythm used to look like. // Friday afternoon links: cote.io/2026/02/13/r...
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Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time.
I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.
I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.
February 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time.
I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.
I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.
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Hear me out: Curling, but with ducks
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Hear me out: Curling, but with ducks
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
February 12, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
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when we have discussions of how come we never ran into aliens if advanced intelligent life exists I think of this photo. That yellow dot marked there is not Earth, it is the extent that all human radio signals ever sent have traveled.
Question kinda answers itself, really
Question kinda answers itself, really
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
when we have discussions of how come we never ran into aliens if advanced intelligent life exists I think of this photo. That yellow dot marked there is not Earth, it is the extent that all human radio signals ever sent have traveled.
Question kinda answers itself, really
Question kinda answers itself, really
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🐙 I built OctoStore: leader election and locking as a service.
No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP.
Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version.
No business model. Just a thing that should exist.
octostore.io
github.com/octostore/octostore.io
No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP.
Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version.
No business model. Just a thing that should exist.
octostore.io
github.com/octostore/octostore.io
OctoStore - Leader election as a service. That's it.
octostore.io
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
🐙 I built OctoStore: leader election and locking as a service.
No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP.
Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version.
No business model. Just a thing that should exist.
octostore.io
github.com/octostore/octostore.io
No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP.
Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version.
No business model. Just a thing that should exist.
octostore.io
github.com/octostore/octostore.io
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many beautiful women named zendesk are trying to get my attention
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
many beautiful women named zendesk are trying to get my attention
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I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story.
I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.
I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.
February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story.
I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.
I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.
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This firmware mod for espresso machines is the coolest thing I’ve seen since Magic Lantern gaggiuino.github.io#/?id=home
GAGGIUINO
Gaggiuino is a community-driven project to add profiling, temp control, and other high-end features to Gaggia espresso machines
gaggiuino.github.io
February 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This firmware mod for espresso machines is the coolest thing I’ve seen since Magic Lantern gaggiuino.github.io#/?id=home
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“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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i love her. virginia, you're so lucky!
(context provided in reply: President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. She's been leading the redistricting efforts)
(context provided in reply: President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. She's been leading the redistricting efforts)
I edited a video of my new favorite person to bring you an inspirational message
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
i love her. virginia, you're so lucky!
(context provided in reply: President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. She's been leading the redistricting efforts)
(context provided in reply: President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. She's been leading the redistricting efforts)
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Thanks to @spavel.bsky.social , at productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incred... , I saw an intriguing claim:
"the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become"
I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it
"the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become"
I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it
See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Thanks to @spavel.bsky.social , at productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incred... , I saw an intriguing claim:
"the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become"
I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it
"the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become"
I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it
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everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys
July 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys
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High test coverage ≠ meaningful coverage. Hundreds of assertions passed. Feature failed in production.
Tests checked what code DID, not what it SHOULD DO.
itrev.io/3O3hXiO
Tests checked what code DID, not what it SHOULD DO.
itrev.io/3O3hXiO
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
High test coverage ≠ meaningful coverage. Hundreds of assertions passed. Feature failed in production.
Tests checked what code DID, not what it SHOULD DO.
itrev.io/3O3hXiO
Tests checked what code DID, not what it SHOULD DO.
itrev.io/3O3hXiO
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Another banger from @macroengineered.bsky.social and @esharp.net with @azimman.bsky.social .
Topics:
- informal leadership
- bringing true user experience into the SDLC
- the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline
- juggling saw blades
Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...
Topics:
- informal leadership
- bringing true user experience into the SDLC
- the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline
- juggling saw blades
Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...
TCG067: Progressive Delivery: Shipping Software is Just the Beginning with Adam Zimman | Packet Pushers
We dive into the evolution of software delivery from waterfall to Agile to DevOps, and how progressive delivery represents the next step forward. Guest Adam Zimman breaks down the Four A’s Framework (...
packetpushers.net
February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Another banger from @macroengineered.bsky.social and @esharp.net with @azimman.bsky.social .
Topics:
- informal leadership
- bringing true user experience into the SDLC
- the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline
- juggling saw blades
Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...
Topics:
- informal leadership
- bringing true user experience into the SDLC
- the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline
- juggling saw blades
Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
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This is going be a feature that users will demand for all products
Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off
Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off
An AI killswitch.
buff.ly
February 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is going be a feature that users will demand for all products