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throw-10-13on The Great SaaS Gaslight

Postman is one if the worst examples I can think of.

Bloated product backed by VC’s scrambling for any return on their investment.

throw-10-13on Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

This goes hand in hand with the resurgence of fascism.

throw-10-13on Why I code as a CTO

This reads like an engineer that got promoted to his level of incompetence.

throw-10-13on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

swimming in a reactor pool isnt that bad, water is a great radiation shield.

throw-10-13on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

imagine spending millions on devops and sre to still have your mission critical service go down because amazon still has baked in regional dependencies

throw-10-13on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

aws is s globally centralized point of failure, it should not be allowed to exist

throw-10-13on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

most people dont even know aws exists

throw-10-13on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

reddit is always going down, thats the least surprising thing about this

throw-10-13on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

dns outage at aws exposing how overly centralized our infra is

throw-10-13on Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

usd is down 10% since he got elected

throw-10-13on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

this is why you avoid us-east-1

throw-10-13on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

Americans should just stop paying taxes.

It's all going to your new Gestapo and concentration camps anyways.

throw-10-13on How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

Figma is to ui/ux what React is to FE.

throw-10-13on Claude Skills

If by "works well already" you mean "inconsistent prompt hacks that you have to constantly reinforce" then sure.

CLAUDE.md holds about as much weight has the "Classroom Rules" craft posters hanging in most kindergarten classrooms.

throw-10-13on Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

Authoritarian tech ceo’s and the literal fascists running things in Washington have a lot in common.

throw-10-13on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js

Author should read the rails docs again, seems like they missed a lot.

throw-10-13on Hacker News – The Good Parts

HN is just a VC funded echo chamber for out of touch CTO’s to still feel like they are in the game.

throw-10-13on Claude Skills

Architectural churn brought to you by VC funded marketing.

Im not interested in any system that require me to write a document begging an LLM to follow instructions, only to have it randomly ignore those instructions whenever its convenient.

throw-10-13on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

Spare me the koolaid.

throw-10-13on iPad Pro with M5 chip

Put a grown up OS on it and I’ll consider it.

throw-10-13on Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test

comparing hand bending a phone and having it catch fire to chucking a phone into a boiling vat of acid is certainly reasonable...

throw-10-13on America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints

History has a word for people that supported Hitler's economic policies but disapproved of his social policies.

Nazi.

throw-10-13on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

The human context window is the limiting factor.

That and testing/reviewing the insane amounts of ai slop this method generates.

throw-10-13on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

I read this as "10x better at generating code that looks correct but hides nasty bugs behind a facade of sane looking slop".

throw-10-13on Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during durability testing

Seems like an easy way to get an incendiary device on an airliner.

throw-10-13on Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during durability testing

his recent iphone tests endured this (more) and still worked.

throw-10-13on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

Americans are conditioned to fear everything and everyone around them except Big Macs.

throw-10-13on Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test

The point is a destructive test to failure.

Watch the new iphone tests and you will see the point.

The phone still works at the end.

throw-10-13on Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test

Watch his test of the new apple phones, he tortures the device far beyond this test and it still works.

A google pixel going up in smoke because you bent it by hand is completely unacceptable.