Trek Glowacki
@trek.bsky.social
Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️🌈. 📍Chicago.
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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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
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LLMs do not meaningfully "refactor" at anything other than a junior engineering level. They can basically do some window dressing and move code around between files. True refactoring means creating new abstractions, which LLMs can't do because they can't form world-models.
January 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
LLMs do not meaningfully "refactor" at anything other than a junior engineering level. They can basically do some window dressing and move code around between files. True refactoring means creating new abstractions, which LLMs can't do because they can't form world-models.
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Making a complicated design based on vibes and bringing it to a stakeholder to ask "hey what do you think?" is the behavior of a junior UX designer, and wastes everyone's time until they are trained out of it.
With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer
With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Making a complicated design based on vibes and bringing it to a stakeholder to ask "hey what do you think?" is the behavior of a junior UX designer, and wastes everyone's time until they are trained out of it.
With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer
With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer
Desperately wish I had the cash to sit out the LLM cycle. At this point I don't even care whether it ends up being amazing or collapsing but living through it is so deeply annoying.
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Desperately wish I had the cash to sit out the LLM cycle. At this point I don't even care whether it ends up being amazing or collapsing but living through it is so deeply annoying.
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I've come like full 360 on server rendering technology. The needs of a client/server application and the needs of hypertext document are so distinct. Trying to shoehorn both into a single technology just seems like a pipe dream at this point.
January 28, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I've come like full 360 on server rendering technology. The needs of a client/server application and the needs of hypertext document are so distinct. Trying to shoehorn both into a single technology just seems like a pipe dream at this point.
Being doing LLM driven stuff (company mandated) and honestly, I'd rather just not write software anymore if this is what it's going to be like in the future.
It retains all the drudgery and removes the all the dopamine-releasing aspects of the job.
It retains all the drudgery and removes the all the dopamine-releasing aspects of the job.
January 27, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Being doing LLM driven stuff (company mandated) and honestly, I'd rather just not write software anymore if this is what it's going to be like in the future.
It retains all the drudgery and removes the all the dopamine-releasing aspects of the job.
It retains all the drudgery and removes the all the dopamine-releasing aspects of the job.
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get in kids, we're making folk heroes
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 8:30 PM
get in kids, we're making folk heroes
Jira is deeply unserious software. There's gotta be a very "2004 startup architecture" behind something like this.
January 27, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Jira is deeply unserious software. There's gotta be a very "2004 startup architecture" behind something like this.
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Martha Stewart admitting she got schooled by her granddaughter is rather refreshing and admirable.
January 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Martha Stewart admitting she got schooled by her granddaughter is rather refreshing and admirable.
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Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
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I'm not a gun guy, is holding a shotgun with your dick while you fumble with a smoke grenade considered good trigger discipline?
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I'm not a gun guy, is holding a shotgun with your dick while you fumble with a smoke grenade considered good trigger discipline?
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Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
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Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
January 25, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
This is part of why heat pumps can be a good solution for the Chicago area. I'm both saving money AND my heat isn't just "burning methane with some extra steps"
January 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is part of why heat pumps can be a good solution for the Chicago area. I'm both saving money AND my heat isn't just "burning methane with some extra steps"
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Illinois when Amtrak can't do anything under 750 miles and all of the neighboring states are MAGA
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Illinois when Amtrak can't do anything under 750 miles and all of the neighboring states are MAGA
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Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
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There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start
On tonight’s White House agenda:
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 AM
There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start
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Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
January 25, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
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man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 AM
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
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I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder