John Turner
breaking.computer
John Turner
@breaking.computer
Music, code, and cooking enthusiast. Staff engineer making developer tools at a reasonably well known tech company/podcast sponsor. Occasionally writes at breaking.computer
But how am I supposed to feel morally superior to tourists fumbling with their clumsy swipes while I enter in one smooth, practiced motion now?
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I pitched my wife a version of the same earlier: a big city woman returns to her hometown and shows her high school sweetheart that his life is actually quite boring and makes him regret staying.
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Amen
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
“We optimized pod lookup by putting everything in one namespace“
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Humanities-majors-who-turned-to-tech-as-the-more-viable-path-to-a-living-wage of the world, unite.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Funny, that’s a lot of folks‘ definition of “censorship” too.
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Question from someone interested in but ignorant about Rust: is that inside of an unsafe block? Or can you do SIMD instructions in normal Rust?
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yes! One of my favorite programming posts is still www.rossbencina.com/code/real-ti..., not because it’s applicable to my current work, but because it starts with a real, data backed, latency number.
Ross Bencina » Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing
www.rossbencina.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And any reassurance that it gives that it’s seen this 100 times before, and really, your partner is having a tough time but she and the baby will be fine, will ring hollow if you know the first thing about LLMs. The worst form of “you’re absolutely right!”
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And I can say, from experience—again, mine wasn’t the important one here—that an AI doula won’t hold your hand as you cry your eyes out because you just heard your kid’s first sounds.
September 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM