This trend and expectation will not reverse.

The expectations of programmers are only going to increase. Anyone who intends to continue building software and making a living from it must accept increasing difficulty and learn to enjoy it. Otherwise we will need to find something else to do.

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

"why i think #jj-vcs is worth your time"

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It's launch day, I pulled the trigger!!!

There's still *so* much to do, but I think it's in a reasonable enoigh state for yall to try :)

Would love to hear your feedback!!

What if we built UNIX scripts that communicated via Structured Logging rather than unstructured text?

I'm not sure it's a good idea, but honestly this is so silly and fun I'm probably going to be writing a lot of a lot of software like this from now on...

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Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...

🫠 automerge.org

The new Automerge website is live!!

The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo!

Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

linkedin sucks because it condenses and ignores the multitudes of actual business needs I have. I either want to see what my org is up to, discover new crazy shit happening around me (quaise i pray for you) or find people who are doing talented work. Twitter largely covered the latter...

My pal @dexhorthy.bsky.social, getting it done on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534...

New short post:

nothing fancy, just a brief exploration into pocket flow and a concept for parsing llm outputs I saw from a blog .txt posted.

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Making a new weblog: Without Objective. The goal is goal-less musings and rants, likely to be related to technology and project management.

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Attempting to document and share my little side projects - this one is hardly practical but extremely exciting. inside this ceramic blanket is a crucible I cured inside a microwave

We're officially gaming

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.

So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)

More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

This is an interesting detail about how domain names work

The .gov domain name is controlled by the US government, which means that if you see a user with a ".gov" handle, you can be pretty sure they're real

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

Excellent article, and wow - bluesky is doing better than I thought when compared with the Threads app. I’m feeling hopeful