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Bill Nottingham
@notting.bsky.social
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Doing product @ Sonar. Formerly Tidelift, Ansible, Red Hat. Not usually posting about that sort of thing, though. Blog (mostly NC Courage at this point): https://splat.cc/

Also @[email protected]. He/him
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notting.bsky.social
we gave a class of people trained to value themselves on the amount of code they produce a tool that produces infinite code.

you'll never guess what happened next.
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 11h
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 15, 2026 at 5:39 PM
notting.bsky.social
"This isn't about gatekeeping" and yet it cut-and-pastes the worst tropes of corporate source dumps. It reeks of "we can't trust you plebs with the tools of creation", and I figured we had moved past that as a society.
[Project] uses an issue-driven contribution model. We don't accept pull requests from external contributors — fork PRs are automatically closed. This isn't about gatekeeping; it's about supply chain security in the age of AI-generated code. When AI agents can produce large, plausible-looking changes, the only way to maintain quality and security is to tightly control the inputs to the development process.
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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waltydunlop.bsky.social
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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sethmlarson.dev
Deploying generative AI agents in this way is deeply irresponsible and results in real harms to open source maintainers.

sethmlarson.dev/automated-pu...

#genai #ai #aislop #slop #opensource #oss
Automated public shaming of open source maintainers
This is a follow-up to “New era of slop security reports for open source”. Matplotlib, the unfortunate target of this new type of harassment, publishes a clear generative AI use policy. That bou...
sethmlarson.dev
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
notting.bsky.social
Confirming what we mostly knew, Meredith Speck, the longest-tenured Courage player, moves on. Her time dated all the way to the WNY Flash.

Speck herself shared more on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DUqgu6eDfqL/
February 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
notting.bsky.social
On the @xowngoals.com Patreon, there's a 7+ minute NWSL Media Day video with Riley Jackson, going into:

- Her role by the end of the year
- Risk vs. reward in the passes she plays
- Different passes to different players
- "I want to be more lethal in the attack"

www.patreon.com/posts/riley-...
Riley Jackson — Radar Talk (UNCUT) | Expected Own Goals
Get more from Expected Own Goals on Patreon
www.patreon.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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esquiring.bsky.social
Donnie, from Donnie Darko, with a speech bubble.
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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maryfrfr.bsky.social
My favorite part about the Courage town hall was learning they were trying to announce the Ashley Sanchez signing for 4 weeks but she was afraid her hair would freeze for the photo shoot so they kept pushing it back. ❄️😂
February 12, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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polotek.bsky.social
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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emmabaccellieri.bsky.social
You know, actually, I have already spent enough of my life watching Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teräväinen get embarrassed outshooting the opponent while still ending up with a brutal loss
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
notting.bsky.social
"This [US-Canada] rivalry has evolved … that doesn't mean it's any less heated." 👀
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
notting.bsky.social
Despite the reduced playing time due to Shaw/Sanchez/Manaka congestion, and missing time with an injury, Sanchez was still very productive.

She actually posted a higher xG+xA per game in 2025 than in 2024.

Good to see both her and the team commit for another year.
nccourage.com North Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 5d
RENEWED OUR NO. 2 📺

We have signed midfielder Ashley Sanchez to a contract extension through 2027. Here’s to continuing the story, Ash!

📰 Read more: www.nccourage.com/news/nc-cour...
Ashley poses on a directors chair holding a 2027 jersey with text "Sanchez Show Extended through 2027" with old time tvs behind her featuring static images of her
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
notting.bsky.social
Please tell me that you can build a full node WASM and qemu-wasm stack on this and just do your VMs directly on the BIOS.

codeberg.org/smnx/promethee
promethee
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)
codeberg.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
notting.bsky.social
A look at the North Carolina Courage's preseason roster, framed by one question for each position group.

splat.cc/posts/2026-p...
Four questions from the Courage's 2026 preseason roster
29 players for 26 spots
splat.cc
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
notting.bsky.social
I feel like if you're going to ice dance to The Offspring, you should at least respect the source material enough and not down-tempo it.
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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fortydeucetwits.bsky.social
Haven’t been this hype about two Corey’s since the 80s.
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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dreyesceron.bsky.social
I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.
February 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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roey.bsky.social
So many athletes have spoken out.

But arguably the most vocal team in 21st century American sport, the US women's national team, has gone silent.

What gives? Well... @838carlisle.bsky.social has the most interesting piece I've read this morning.

Take a look:

btvc.beehiiv.com/p/where-are-...
where are you
the legacy of america's greatest soccer team is being ignored by its newest generation
btvc.beehiiv.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM
notting.bsky.social
Google AI television commercial suggests you should ask Gemini how ski jumpers fly so far and I really do hope they've kept its training up to date on current reporting.
February 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
notting.bsky.social
To be fair, I've tried to wipe Go package management from my mind as well.

www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
... but I suspect the majority of vibe coders do not keep OSS developers in their minds,” he said. “I am guilty of this myself. Initially I limited my vibe coding to languages I can read if not write, like TypeScript. But for my personal projects I also vibe code in Go, and I don't even know what its package manager is called, let alone be familiar with its libraries.”
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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mnaurorafc.bsky.social
We're thrilled to announce a partnership with @pentzhomes.bsky.social to raise funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

For every 2026 season ticket sold, Aurora will donate $1 to ILCM, and Pentz Homes will provide an additional $4 for a total donation of $5.

Season tickets on sale soon!
Graphic with a dark teal gradient background promoting Minnesota Aurora season tickets. Large text reads “Season Tickets That Give Back.” Smaller text says, “Every 2026 season ticket sold raises $5 for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.” The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota logo appears in the center with the tagline “Supporting families and strengthening communities since 1996.” Logos for Pentz Homes and Minnesota Aurora appear at the top. Bottom text explains that Aurora will donate $1 and partner Pentz Homes will add $4 per ticket, raising $5 total in honor of Aurora’s fifth season.
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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danny.page
Welcome to Bluesky. Here are your Anti-ICE whistles and a PPV of AEW for some reason

bsky.app/profile/nhat...
February 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
notting.bsky.social
Yes, yes, nostalgia trap, whatever, I don't care, WATCH THE NEW MUPPET SHOW.
February 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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kimischilling.bsky.social
God, for the millionth fucking time. We had it right before.

School/rec: Play with who you want
NCAA: Need doctor's note
Pro/Olympic: Blood testing for T levels

It worked. It was fair.
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
...horrifying message without context, thank you
Error: entity released
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM