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The software industry’s notion of simple is to make it easy to make things more complex.

Lots of posts by chefs talking about their sophisticated automated Rube Goldberg kitchens, not so many about what they’ve been cooking.

Seems like we've moved from bicycle of the mind to training wheels of the mind.

Hard to think of a more poignant expression of the state of affairs in the industry than the Joy of Coding conference taking a break this year.

excerpt of something I said on blusky that feels mastodony:

"I'm an easily bored programmer.
so spending three hours automating it is more fun than spending half an hour doing it manually"

We know we have posted this comic a couple of days ago. We're just curious what you prefer: *4 panels in one image* or *panel by panel" posts?

Shoutouts to the person in the audience of this MBR gig recording with not one, but TWO 3DS consoles.

Happy pride, babes

Which is why we should be very careful that we don't poison wells, and why "move fast and poison wells" is bad advice.

When someone poisons the well, whether through malice, greed or ignorance, it's poisoned for everyone, and can't easily be unpoisoned. That's sort of the thing with wells and poisoning.

Found this meme and decided to replace the german with a yinglet as it makes it way funnier

TAPPING THE SIGN REALLY HARD

Nancy - 2026-06-16 https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/06/16

trip report: contact lenses

route of administration: direct application to eyeball
onset of action: immediate? (<1s)
duration: unclear

immediately I notice unusual problems of eye co-ordination. also, the entire visual field is much sharper, yet without the usual dilated pupils

more snoot

Who needs a keyboard