If Claude finishes my tasks faster, I can play the Battlefield 6 beta

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...

The entire tech industry right now

PyPy (pie pie) != PyPI (pie pea eye)

Nobody forced us to do this. We did this to ourselves.

I'm mad at how accurate this is 😂😭😂😅

IBM Plex Mono and Serif are a perfect coding and text pairing!

It reminded me of my long list of unfinished projects!
mitchellh.com/writing/buil...

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

Why do most of these AI projects try to replace developers instead of helping them?
I can’t find something that could help me understand a large legacy codebase better

One thing about Ghostty that deserves all the hype it's getting is its native OS integration. People don't always know what I mean when I say this, so I wrote a little bit about it. gpanders.com/blog/ghostty...

Ghostty will be public any day now, so you'll be able to see for yourself soon.

I see so much FUD about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.”

A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs over 10+ years

If you use Kubernetes you're going to want to bookmark this link. It's a GREAT way to see the structure of the various manifests and how they change from version to version in a diff style. kubespec.dev

...and if you're using argparse, you'll want 3.14 because `suggest_on_error` is now an optional parser feature ✨

docs.python.org/3.14/library...

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

It’s ironic that, as developers, we complain every day about debugging bad code, yet we find joy in solving challenges like www.debugdecember.com