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David Tejera Expósito @squallido.bsky.social · 9h

¡Mi traducción de «¿Por qué no matamos al niño del agujero de Omelas y ya está?» de @isabel.kim disponible en el nuevo número de la @windumanoth.com!

Ganó el BSFA, el Nebula, el Locus y fue finalista del premio Hugo de este año. Merece la pena echarle un ojo :)

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Foto de la autora superpuesta sobre una ilustración inspirada en el relato. Un cartel que reza «Bienvenido a Omelas» frente a una ciudad idílica y una familia perfecta de padre, madre e hijo sonrientes. Tras ellos, una televisión en la que aparece un niño desnutrido arrodillado en una estancia oscura.

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Oskar Wickström @wickstrom.tech · 7h

New blog post is up!

"Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer"

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Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 12h

god bless obsessive nerds

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 12h

shoutout to all the weirdos who get fed up with this and decide to construct their own foam mattresses

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 13h

bad news: bedding, much like clothing and audio, is also the kinda thing that can get way more expensive if you get obsessive about it

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

DO NOT

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

thought i‘d read it before but i guess that was your merkle scheme Haskell library & VCS project, i’ll toss it onto the reading list

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

i’ve somehow become the sort of person who’s read through all the async design & impl docs but has only ever “written” Rust to patch dependencies (excluding a few stray commits like a decade ago).

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

some day this could be me…

in all seriousness i should probably start writing Rust for real and not just reading it for shitposts.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

personally i love arbitrarily reordering my module structure to get around staging restrictions because macro systems don’t exist

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 22h

i was maybe being a little too dry, but my original post was meant to be very sarcastic.

the Zig team holds some /very/ mistaken beliefs about LLVM and is in the process of replacing it with their own backend (which is slower).

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

has the rustc team considered making the compiler go faster instead of slower?

i‘ve heard the Zig folks talk about how this “LLVM” thing does nothing but slow them down, so if it’s not too much work maybe they could replace it with something less bad?

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

yeah and these are my emotional support toSomeType/fromSomeType conversion functions because we somehow don’t have stdlib From/Into

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

cope. as a Haskell dev i love Rust because it means i can just copy most of the architecture from popular libraries with like 50% of the boilerplate.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

is this why Rust stole Haskell’s typeclass system? who can say!

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 1d

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

fun prior art github.com/scottbez1/sm...

GitHub - scottbez1/smartknob: Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents

Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents - scottbez1/smartknob

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

the sponsorship is one of those things that i could excuse as like “oops we didn’t know, sorry” but then Nirav stepped in it and the thread got real fuckin’ bad.

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Framework supporting far-right racists?

Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality. If I understand cor...

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

many people are saying this!

skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

i feel like this always comes back to the question of how much of the process is ancillary to the product vs required of it.

a Sora-but-for-Hollywood is going go look more like Houdini than it will ChatGPT, and a lot of the process won’t look terribly different imo.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 1d

the most charitable reading of techbos attitude toward AI and creative pursuits (ie, "why not use AI to help with a draft") is that its people who see outcome ("the software works") as different from process ("i have to write software") not understanding that for creative stuff 99% of the time—

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

/well/ i guess i’m never buying another @frame.work or recommending one to anyone ever again.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 1d

this learned helplessness is silly, happy to chat with anyone on finding sponsors for independent tech meetups

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 2d

REPORTER: hi, quick question it sounds like that would introduce a lot of latency, care to commen-

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 2d

they are good tools for the things they are good at and bad tools for the things they are bad at.

this wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that software engineering leadership is telling everyone to use it everywhere.

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