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Jesse Lawson
@jesselawson.dev
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A lifetime of writing computer instructions 🏳️‍🌈 Rust, C++, Ruby, TypeScript, etc. Blog: https://jesselawson.dev GitHub: github.com/jesselawson Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/jesselawson
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onion person @junlper.beer · 8d
people are using ai to create mass hysteria nostalgia that will in turn be used to turn them into reactionaries. they’re very subtly associating change with bad and that is used to enforce fascism
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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 8d
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d
RIP Kaleb Horton
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I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 20d
Every hundred years or so we deal with something like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
Business Plot - Wikipedia
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 23d
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 25d
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 25d
wholly unable, as a nation, to construct a shared reality based on facts. "Fractured" is one way of looking at it. Another way is to see this as a kind of permanent distortion—a collective cognition disease where the chronically online form their own reality in stark contrast to what is real.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 25d
Agreed. The work of journalism is reporting facts—& whether facts are uncomfortable or happen to benefit a particular agenda is not relevant to the *work* of journalism. But more often than not, factual reporting is replaced with subjective engagement bait to sell online ads. Now look where we are:
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.social · 25d
Everyone capable of explaining this to a mainstream audience — which is to say former Gawker writers — has been blacklisted by traditional media.
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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 25d
There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Aug 27
“If I don’t free what I malloc I’m basically just wasting memory so why even use memory at all”
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Aug 26
I'm noticing a drift away from "I have problem X and I want to solve it" to "I have a situation X and I want to see what AI tells me to do". It feels like a delegation of expressive creativity rather than a novel design paradigm, but the way they pitch it to me is as if they're breaking new ground.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Aug 26
Many twenty-something people are in my store throughout the weekend sharing ideas for games and apps. They know my background in tech so they ask for my feedback. One common attribute of these ideas is a fundamental reliance on a nebulous notion of "AI"; "use AI to X" or "it's X but with AI".
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Aug 14
It's not that I'm uninterested in getting back to full-time work in the technology sector, it's that I'm having a hard time finding the kind of systems & services that motivate me to commit to helping them flourish. The enshittification of all things is real, and it's disorienting.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Jul 14
Been a long time since I posted here! Ended up taking over for a struggling local game store that specialized in Magic: The Gathering, and have been working hard every day to keep this focal point of the neurodivergent community in my small town alive. I'm very slowly getting back to my code editor.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 16
I hope that reads as the compliment that I am intending it as. Many young managers could benefit from paying close attention to how you describe management.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 16
I think it’s that certain people will go out of their way to misinterpret things—even when people like you go out your way to describe and explain. So not that you are using certain words, but rather that your words are hard for some kinds of people to honestly reflect on, so they do it dishonestly.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 15
Some thoughts about Tasty (a WIP API testing tool) and how user ergonomics are front and center in CLI design (or at least they ought to be):
Refining the Developer Experience in the Tasty CLI
Fine computer instructions and notes about them.
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · Mar 14
Gonna mute this thread. Not really looking to engage in discussion around this right now.

This was an abysmal failure by the Democrats and I hope every one of them that voted for this and is running for reelection gets primaried and loses.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
Perhaps another perspective is that absurdity is, after all, a reminder that how we experience life is often philosophically and sociologically inconsistent; we exist together in unpredictable gaps between our expectations of meaning and the chaotic reality we encounter.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
it’s a niche reference to a cultural artifact made to illustrate the potential absurdidty derived from ever focusing on discrete optimality when we are all relatively insignificant creatures inconsequentially floating through a massive space void on a rock together while we wait to die
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
the real optimal solution is the friends we made along the way
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
In a nutshell:
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
I’m not going to add a context disclaimer to this thread because we all should be aware that people experience the work environment we cultivate (a social setting) differently based on their gender (a social construct).
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
When I’ve mentored managers who happen to be men, there’s been a different pattern: they tend to have a different relationship with power and privilege, and so most of the things I help them with tend to be around empathy and the cultivation of psychological safety.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
And so managers I’ve mentored over the years who happen to be women tend to leverage empathy to work together and cultivate environments that gain them experience. I’ve generally only had to help them with process and technical perspectives.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
IME observing heteronormative corporate social roles, I've noticed that when some women get into mgmt, their frustrations stem from the limits of their experience & access to privilege; when some men get into mgmt, their frustrations stem from the limits of their empathy & access to power.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Mar 14
One of the first civilian managers I ever worked with after leaving the Marines one chided someone about a project they were part of, only to later assure me that everything was fine because when they finished being an asshole, they “Dale Carnegie’d” them. A strange way to interpret his book advice!
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