joshmock
@joshmock.com
OSS nerd. JavaScript Stockholm syndrome survivor. Music collector. Leftist.
Big fan of what BlueSky is doing, but microblogging is decidedly not great for my brain, so do not expect much from me here.
Big fan of what BlueSky is doing, but microblogging is decidedly not great for my brain, so do not expect much from me here.
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Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
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Not the first time I hear this. Brace yourself for a wave of "agentic burnouts", in particular among ADHD people where the continuous dopamine fix resulting from agents producing stuff leads people to endlessly keep feeding them.
AI users are working longer because, for the first time, our tools can finally keep pace with our imagination.
When output is cheap, your greatest leverage isn't how much you build, but the taste to know what is worth building - and the rest required to see the difference.
When output is cheap, your greatest leverage isn't how much you build, but the taste to know what is worth building - and the rest required to see the difference.
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Not the first time I hear this. Brace yourself for a wave of "agentic burnouts", in particular among ADHD people where the continuous dopamine fix resulting from agents producing stuff leads people to endlessly keep feeding them.
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Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
(Published 2023)
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I've put a dumb amount of effort into building an immutable desktop setup with a declarative config that didn't require me to learn Nix, but I fear I'm running out of energy to resist.
February 7, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I've put a dumb amount of effort into building an immutable desktop setup with a declarative config that didn't require me to learn Nix, but I fear I'm running out of energy to resist.
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The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”
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me, in my inbox, bandcamp friday morning
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
me, in my inbox, bandcamp friday morning
In retrospect, I should have guessed that accelerationism would dramatically change the way software is built.
February 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
In retrospect, I should have guessed that accelerationism would dramatically change the way software is built.
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2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
January 30, 2026 at 2:38 AM
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
I want to see studies that compare multiple implementations of the same software spec: entirely by a coding agent, "hybrid" vibe coded by an experienced dev, and entirely coded by hand.
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I want to see studies that compare multiple implementations of the same software spec: entirely by a coding agent, "hybrid" vibe coded by an experienced dev, and entirely coded by hand.
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Six More Weeks of Wet Season Predicted as Geoduck Squirts All Over His Shadow: tinyurl.com/mu6br7ye
February 2, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Six More Weeks of Wet Season Predicted as Geoduck Squirts All Over His Shadow: tinyurl.com/mu6br7ye
Dusted off the old blog to write a quick thought about putting an `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md` file in your repo. joshmock.com/post/2026-ag...
AGENTS.md as a dark signal
Is an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file in a repo a sign of possibly poor code quality?
joshmock.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Dusted off the old blog to write a quick thought about putting an `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md` file in your repo. joshmock.com/post/2026-ag...
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
Instagram's iOS app has decided to play the closing music from Hereditary every time I open it today, so I guess I don't use Instagram any more.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Instagram's iOS app has decided to play the closing music from Hereditary every time I open it today, so I guess I don't use Instagram any more.
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I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...
I see a future in jj
Blog post: I see a future in jj by Steve Klabnik
steveklabnik.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...
@mikerugnetta.com on Never Post a few weeks ago you mentioned offhand the name of a mobile puzzle app that you recommend... I can't remember the episode, or the name of the app!
October 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@mikerugnetta.com on Never Post a few weeks ago you mentioned offhand the name of a mobile puzzle app that you recommend... I can't remember the episode, or the name of the app!
I don't know which secretly ailing celebrity sits at the third point on the Diane Keeton/D'Angelo triangle, but someone please keep an eye on Springsteen and Tom Waits.
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I don't know which secretly ailing celebrity sits at the third point on the Diane Keeton/D'Angelo triangle, but someone please keep an eye on Springsteen and Tom Waits.
[toots his own horn]
I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that.
blog.google/technology/d...
I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that.
blog.google/technology/d...
Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions
Make Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most.
blog.google
October 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
[toots his own horn]
I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that.
blog.google/technology/d...
I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that.
blog.google/technology/d...
The daily discovery algorithm gave me "Jesus Christ" by Brand New, Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek," and "Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene, all in a row. Because apparently it doesn't understand I was a legal adult listening to these songs when they first came out?
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The daily discovery algorithm gave me "Jesus Christ" by Brand New, Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek," and "Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene, all in a row. Because apparently it doesn't understand I was a legal adult listening to these songs when they first came out?
Gun deaths are bad. But the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Sometimes you have to embrace contradicting ideas. If we can think about sexuality, gender and identity on a non-binary spectrum, certainly we can apply that thinking to how we address violence and fascism.
Sometimes you have to embrace contradicting ideas. If we can think about sexuality, gender and identity on a non-binary spectrum, certainly we can apply that thinking to how we address violence and fascism.
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Gun deaths are bad. But the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Sometimes you have to embrace contradicting ideas. If we can think about sexuality, gender and identity on a non-binary spectrum, certainly we can apply that thinking to how we address violence and fascism.
Sometimes you have to embrace contradicting ideas. If we can think about sexuality, gender and identity on a non-binary spectrum, certainly we can apply that thinking to how we address violence and fascism.
Why aren't the youths playing some gen alpha version of Slug Bug when they see a Cybertruck? I'm disappointed.
September 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Why aren't the youths playing some gen alpha version of Slug Bug when they see a Cybertruck? I'm disappointed.
Sabrina Carpenter's "Goodbye" into "American Standard" by Uniform, because I contain multitudes.
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sabrina Carpenter's "Goodbye" into "American Standard" by Uniform, because I contain multitudes.
Google just informed me that I'm an engineering manager at Tailscale. What up @tailscale.com.
September 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Google just informed me that I'm an engineering manager at Tailscale. What up @tailscale.com.
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AWS announcing their MCP server marketplace at AWS Summit in NYC. Behind the Elastic logo is what I've been working on over the last few weeks, with @joshmock.com's invaluable help to adapt to AWS constraints and process.
July 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
AWS announcing their MCP server marketplace at AWS Summit in NYC. Behind the Elastic logo is what I've been working on over the last few weeks, with @joshmock.com's invaluable help to adapt to AWS constraints and process.
I guess now is a good time to make my second post to Bluesky, if only to reiterate the message of my first.
Fuck Nazis.
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I guess now is a good time to make my second post to Bluesky, if only to reiterate the message of my first.