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tylermk04on Where Each U.S. State Gets Its Tax Revenue From

Ah yes, I too have noticed the "prevalence of flywheel-analogy-misuse" flywheel.

tylermk04on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

> Devs aren't clowns who make it this far.

simias referred to the industry and you took it personally.

Why is it whenever someone mentions the shortcomings of software industry, there is always a comment saying "no no no, developers were just following orders!"

tylermk04on Union Types and Option Types (2025)

Rosetta code is often helpful. Not exactly for language features, necessarily: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Monads/Maybe_monad