"This is the ultimate example of the industry solving a problem for the people in the industry, and assuming everyone else will understand it and feel the same way about it. Because why wouldn't you? How can you not get it? How can you not think the same way?"

www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […]

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Saving this one for Tuesday youtu.be/516iMYBspS0

This is an important, but difficult read on so many levels, but particularly because no one likes to think of themselves as cognitively disabled.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/foggy-feeds/

Even without git history, I can imagine how this github.com/antiwork/gum... began as a US-specific bank account model, but evolved into a single-table-inheritance base class without losing its US-centrism.

I've seen worse cases of STI but this one has the advantage of being available to point at.

Yes Gumroad sucks for multiple reasons, but…

This (don't call it "open"!) source release is worth examining if you work in #Rails: github.com/antiwork/gum...

I made a #findagrave #userscript update to use the "original name" from the page in searches, if it exists.

It's common to find an "original name" listed on pages for people who used pen names or stage names. This should have no effect on pages without it […]

My mom took me to see her when I was 3, and decades later I took my own kids to see her #ellajenkins #rip

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2024/11/10/ella-jenkins-obituary-childrens-music-culture-entertainment-chicago

With a weak (relative to a few years ago) tech job market, plus upcoming economic shocks, tech workers are going to be tempted to work on, I don't know, systems to correlate menstrual cycles with GPS locations. Things of that nature.

They can't build these things without help […]

There was only 1 possible pangram in today's #blossom. Has that ever happened? I didn't use it because at 24 points it would have actually lowered my score (366)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game/