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decided over the weekend to try out opening up a block of calls over the next few weeks: calendly.com/methodandstr...

if you're in leadership and have been following me long enough to know what I'm about, I invite you to book a 30-minute free consultation call to jam about whatever you working on.
The first one is free - Dorian Taylor
calendly.com
had to stop and restart the stream which of course blew up the youtube link:

stream.place/doriantaylor...
twitch.tv/methodandstr...
youtu.be/QDAu80shsGQ
stream.place
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
i nuked my streams from earlier because my connection kept dropping and i found it really disruptive; anyway feelin' cute may try again:

stream.place/doriantaylor...
twitch.tv/methodandstr...
youtu.be/U6HnIRV31Ko
stream.place
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
southpaw erasure lol
Apple TimeBand prototype (1990). Is that a Pip-Boy?
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by dorian
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
ok love nuggets i am gonna get fkn JACKED ON THE CAFFS and get on Ye Olde Streames for another planning session and trash talk; meanwhile you can all cringe at the open wound on my forehead

fifteen minutes

stream.place/doriantaylor...
twitch.tv/methodandstr...
youtube.com/@methodandst...
stream.place
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
eyyyy posta da caca
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by dorian
Tired: Genesis Mission
Inspired: Neon Genesis Evangelion Mission
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
i want to do some video stuff but have a streak of blisters going up my forehead >:|
there is some substance in my gf's house which is trying to kill me

once again contact dermatitis from some unknown agent has resulted in huge welts on my forehead and back; no idea what is causing it but it only happens at her house
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
buried lede: "crypto food-delivery idea"
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 11:45 AM
i understood the american politics much better when @kissane.myatproto.social made an offhand comment years ago on the order of "most of what you need to know is in the parties' names"
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
i had a stupid random thought the other day that all this data centre capacity is to generate personalized video ads featuring a simulacrum of you hawking shit to yourself
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
love the idea of big-four firms passing off chatbot slop to their clients as vetted work product; makes you wonder what you're paying for
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
how come nobody has yet emerged as the shingy of prompting
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reposted by dorian
One thing I care about that no one else cares about is that the hierarchical, network, and relational database models were *all* explicitly developed to handle manufacturing data.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Did you catch this delicious bit of irony:

bsky.app/profile/thes...

I looked it up and yep.. www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platfor...
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
today's job: i have upgrayedded my content-addressable store with its new metadata layout, which now includes a flag to indicate that an entry is cache

(i still have yet to do any cache eviction code but not fussed about that)

this will form the basis of intertwingler's internal caching mechanism
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
there is some substance in my gf's house which is trying to kill me

once again contact dermatitis from some unknown agent has resulted in huge welts on my forehead and back; no idea what is causing it but it only happens at her house
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
rename british columbia
I want to hear your uncomfortably big ideas for Canada!
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
really vibing with this definition of knowledge that involves the process of actually acquiring said knowledge
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
moreover the precipitating event that got me to quit was a death march of a project, doomed because the principal had committed to delivering something he didn't have the faintest clue how he was going to do it or what it was even going to look like.

i made it my mission to solve that meta-problem.
i basically quit doing software dev on an FTE basis because i could only count one thing i did that actually had a palpable effect on the outside world, and in hindsight that thing was probably bad.

everything else was like made up and/or was killed or abandoned or some other typical s/w casualty
Speaking as someone who worked in tech for two decades, if you work in tech and you do not care about whether thing you are making really works or not (to include what good or harm it actually does in the world), you are *not* a technologist. You are a pay pig.
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
i basically quit doing software dev on an FTE basis because i could only count one thing i did that actually had a palpable effect on the outside world, and in hindsight that thing was probably bad.

everything else was like made up and/or was killed or abandoned or some other typical s/w casualty
Speaking as someone who worked in tech for two decades, if you work in tech and you do not care about whether thing you are making really works or not (to include what good or harm it actually does in the world), you are *not* a technologist. You are a pay pig.
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by dorian
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the thing about advertising is if you have a counterparty whose job it is to send you messages, there is always going to be an incentive to send you somebody else's messages, unless the context makes that somehow verboten
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
lol i am finally fiiiiiiiinally putting the cap on this, after spending the last three days not working on it and writing a thing instead

not sure why this has been such a slog

actually i have an idea: the new layout is veeeery similar to the old one but not in any way that was reusable
lol finally finishing this upgraded layout + cache flag business

tues/weds/thurs i was sore and sluggish; i think i might have caught something but one vaccine or another nailed it

when this is done i will be able to crank intertwingler.net into overdrive
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM