| Jan 03 |
We're adding @opencode as a new default to Omarchy 3.3. It's going to have live themeing, just like neovim, ghostty, obsidian, and all the other key tools. https://t.co/B8oqNyGb7k https://t.co/EmR70IyXb9
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You can't let the slop and cringe deny you the wonder of AI. This is the most exciting thing we've made computers do since we connected them to the internet. If you spent 2025 being pessimistic or skeptical on AI, why not give the start of 2026 a try with optimism and curiosity?
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I had no idea that local model dictation had gotten this good and this fast! I'm blown away by how good hyprwhspr with Omarchy is just using a base model backed by the CPU. Unbelievably accurate. https://t.co/Jtz3eN84Jf
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| Dec 30 |
This is the 2026 Ford Escape rental we just got in comparison. Brutal. Why must American car UI be so bad? National embarrassment. https://t.co/iAjIrt9sTm
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| Dec 29 |
Going to seed the kids' college fund with the proceeds from this tweet. https://t.co/3aSMqjaV9Y
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| Dec 28 |
Git worktrees are perfect for starting sandboxes for agents to propose a solution to a problem while you keep working on master or another branch. Here's the bash I use to start a new worktree/branch with "ga fix" (i.e fizzy--fix) and then "gd" after it's done to nuke it again. https://t.co/8em6qNZzct
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| Dec 27 |
Good example of GLM 4.7 just one-shotting a fix for Rails PR to wrap it up while I was doing something else. All I fed it was the failing test from CI. Nothing groundbreaking, just time saved. https://t.co/E3ueHDW8AL https://t.co/7gje1UloFq
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| Dec 27 |
Just let the Cybertruck drive us from the airport to home again. Highway, city, canyon roads. Bicyclists, construction, turn-right-on-reds. It's shocking how good it's gotten. And wild that this technology exists and yet isn't available in Europe.
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| Dec 26 |
War is peace.
Censorship is safety.
O wise bureaucrats:
Protect us from freedom,
arrest us for speech.
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| Dec 24 |
I'm usually drawn towards more futuristic themes, but Omarchy with Gruvbox and The Backwater (1903) as a background really goes well with a cozy Christmas fire π https://t.co/9i5EXQWGZc
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| Dec 21 |
I've been programming Ruby for damn-near a quarter of a century now, and it's been the honor of a lifetime to help it succeed with Rails. I'm eternally grateful to @yukihiro_matz and the core team for creating and perfecting this divine language.
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| Dec 16 |
"We need more production-grade code to teach juniors and LLMs alike. A view source that extends to the back-end along with the open source invitation to fix bugs, propose features, and run the system yourself for free." https://t.co/EOzfHImIn2
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| Dec 15 |
The O'Saasy License is a great fit for folks who want to build a SaaS business, but run the project as open source, and allow anyone to self-host for free. If that's you, here's a dedicated site to grab a copy: https://t.co/oRXZHw8Tfj
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| Dec 11 |
I literally bought a new iPad Pro M5 just to play Fortnite with the kids at 120 fps! I can't wait for Apple's top brass to fully rotate, so the new crew can have a chance to revisit this self-defeating, legacy-devouring, developer-alienating App Store nonsense once and for all.
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| Dec 11 |
The inflation in YouTube thumbnail expressions is the cranial distortion version of the loudness wars. (And enough to make one seriously contemplate what life on a farm without internet might offer!) https://t.co/LUfCCQzfj0 https://t.co/HZRCqHU6HW
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| Dec 10 |
I've written a version of this rant several times, but I didn't write this version. This prompt did: "Write a 6 paragraph essay in the style of DHH about why microservice architectures are bad for small teams."
I followed up with 2x "Make it more polemic", but I didn't change a comma. The emdashes gave it away for some, but without those, I think even fewer would have been able to tell.
And here's the kicker: It's actually pretty good? Take this point: "Instead of reasoning about code, teams reason about failure modes, retries, timeouts, message queues, and versioned payloads. The cognitive load compounds with every new service." Spot on, nicely framed!
What does that mean? Is AI still slop when it makes good points? Or when it produces an essay that resonates with thousands of people in just a few hours?
I've locked the tweet, because I do feel ambivalent about humans unwittingly interacting with AI writing, but why do we? It's not at all clear this isn't just a transitionary phase, like when it felt scary for most to enter this credit card on the early internet.
Here's the the full interaction with the versions produced before prompting for "more polemic": https://t.co/z7lBti14di
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| Dec 09 |
Really fun to see the full evolution of Fizzy's design from first concept to shipping product.
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| Dec 09 |
"These should all be sobering numbers to any European. Whether it's the 10K/yr arrests in the UK for social media posts or the risk of an economy that's half the size of the American in a decade. But Europe isn't doomed to fulfill this tragic destiny." https://t.co/0OWrvRc3Rq
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| Dec 08 |
Rails tip: A good trade-off for avatar caching is to allow those of others to be stale for up to 30 minutes, but for your own to always be fresh, so there's no "why didn't it update" mystery when uploading a new avatar for yourself. https://t.co/cre0OYGqRL
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| Dec 07 |
The mental gymnastics needed for Europeans to claim the high ground on free speech are worthy of an Olympian gold medal π₯
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| Dec 06 |
Europe can't fine or regulate its way back to technological relevance. Monopoly interventions must be based on simple economics. Having Brussels design the color of the checkmark is retarded. The DSA, DMA, and even GPDR has got to go. Full reboot required.
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| Dec 05 |
As much as I wish it was otherwise, the EU's engagement with American tech giants is no longer rooted in a legitimate antitrust interest, but is now equal parts a union-wide censorship operation and a proxy trade war.
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| Dec 04 |
Those were German numbers. Programmer pay is even worse in Spain! Americans would think there was a comma missing. https://t.co/JzFnyvLQfi
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| Dec 04 |
This is what diagnosis culture gets us: Pathologizing all the hyper activity and racing thoughts in the world means smothering this kind of unbridled, entrepreneurial energy. Not every fidgety kid is going to become a Karp, but we desperately need a solid pipeline of potentials.
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| Dec 04 |
The Fizzy test suite runs in UNDER FOUR SECONDS! Nearly 2,500 assertions. The magic is to lean hard on vanilla Rails fixtures and parallel test runners. Not only is this blazingly fast, but it's also achingly beautiful. https://t.co/2wBGd2IQoZ https://t.co/XBtNtvRRzc
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| Dec 04 |
Fizzy is entirely #nobuild. That goes for both JavaScript and CSS. Zero transpiling, zero bundling. This is a superb deep dive on how those vanilla stylesheets are made.
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| Dec 03 |
Anthropic buying Bun is a beautiful act of corporate patronage. There's no compelling technical or strategic argument, but I fully support saving a great runtime from the indignities of trying to monetize open source infrastructure on a VC timeline π https://t.co/c6OCzGnuSl
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| Dec 02 |
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things at 37signals! https://t.co/b0PrQBfJGC
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| Dec 02 |
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
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| Dec 01 |
Never thought a VPN could get me excited, but I love how easy Tailscale makes switching between nicknamed tailnets, and giving me access to all these magic DNS endpoints. Such a great product. https://t.co/Pxxxxr7YyV
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| Nov 30 |
What an incredible story starting with "rails new snowdevil" and now doing $6+ billion in a day. From Hello World to Ruling E-commerce!
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| Nov 28 |
"In 1975 the white British population of London was about 85%. Today, fifty years later, it is just 37%, and falling.. Whatβs happened to London is almost unprecedented in peacetime." Remember when noticing this was beyond the pale two seconds ago?https://t.co/u2RiayWvaS
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| Nov 27 |
Europe has already slipped into the totalitarian shadow on speech. 12,000 yearly arrests in the UK for SoMe posts. Germany doing their best to catch up. France detained Pavel. Danmark convicting people for jokes. @JDVance was right in Munich. https://t.co/xnf0argwJg
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| Nov 25 |
"Thus, I find it spurious to hear developers evaluate their next computer on the prospect of how well it's capable of running local models. Because they all suck! Whether one sucks a little less than the other doesn't really matter." https://t.co/uxvfqN5J5t
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| Nov 24 |
"I haven't done a full-system backup since back in the olden days before Dropbox and Git. Every machine I now own is treated as a stateless, disposable unit that can be stolen, lost, or corrupted without consequences." https://t.co/L3BfRtuaXj
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| Nov 21 |
Omarchy 3.2 is out! @mitchellh's Ghostty is the new default terminal, @tobi's Try is included, new stable mirror/pkg repo, TUI for bluetooth, two new themes, visual theme picker, and SO MUCH MORE! https://t.co/9irAh5Gh63 https://t.co/4MHuOnykfO
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| Nov 21 |
Happy to keep supporting Ladybird! Love the audacious mission. We need more of this for the web.
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| Nov 20 |
Love seeing a vintage URL like this. Behind it there's almost surely a perl script written in 1997 still chucking along. https://t.co/ttfLhNADC7
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| Nov 12 |
Whether you use Rails, Laravel, JavaScript, Elixir, or whatever, your developer-focused OS should just have everything needed to be up an running with a single command π€
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| Nov 11 |
Bash is beautiful when you embrace its constraints. Here's a lovely little pattern for parsing cli flags. https://t.co/ryuWhYk9Bt
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| Nov 09 |
Omakub 1.5 has been released and is now compatible with Ubuntu 25.10. This is essentially a finished remix, but we still snuck in a new Osaka Jade theme borrowed from Omarchy. https://t.co/IVwaonBBDi https://t.co/EOG8a3rJaP
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| Nov 07 |
There's a great misunderstanding that The Year of Linux on The Desktop depends on approval the kind of existing Linux losers who think their nerd status is contingent on shitting on newcomers and their excitement.
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| Nov 04 |
Omarchy has been on an incredible growth spurt over the last few months. We've distributed over a petabyte worth of ISOs in the last thirty days alone, which is enough for 150,000+ new installs. In total, we're well into the hundreds of thousands of ISO downloads.
But what I care more about than the numbers are the anecdotes. I'm constantly hearing from people who switched from Windows or Mac to Omarchy and love this beautiful, modern, and opinionated Linux way.
This is something the Linux diehards tend to forget. What seems like old hat to them ("Hyprland?! Psh, I ran i3 in 2006!!!") is completely revolutionary to most people who've never used a tiling window manager. If you've only ever used Windows or Mac, Omarchy is like traveling to a different computer dimension β full of strange, wonderful new colors and designs.
There's still work to do before Linux is likely to take over the desktop for "normies". But that was never the mission for Omarchy. We've been targeting people who genuinely love computers, don't mind learning how they work, and are willing to invest time in memorizing hotkeys to be able to become much more proficient and efficient machine operators.
That's surely a subset of all computer users, but tons of such people exist! And it's not just developers, although they make up the lion's share. I've also seen Omarchy get embraced by designers and writers. Not just because this is such a fresh, new take on what a computer can look and feel like, but also because, as a community, we've dumped the silly gatekeeping that for so long has hampered the adoption of Linux.
It was part of the reason I didn't think Linux on the desktop was something for me personally for so long. So happy to have been proven wrong! And now I'm excited to help others come to the same conclusion.
Omarchy is for anyone who loves computers βοΈ
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| Nov 03 |
Please keep posting and keep tagging! It's such a delight to see all these machines running Omarchy π. I've poured hundreds and hundreds of hours into this project, so seeing folks appreciate the work is very special. Never apologize for being excited about computers!
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| Nov 02 |
Gotta love the @cloudflare CDN distribution of the Omarchy ISO. I can download all 6.3GB in ~20 seconds on my 2.5gbit fiber connection. Pulling nearly 300MB/sec!! https://t.co/krnsiXLSA2
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| Oct 31 |
It's wild how good the $500 Beelinks are at gaming too. It's an excellent 1080p gaming box. On top of running my HEY test suite as fast as an M4 Max! https://t.co/fIZsAOpD83
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| Oct 30 |
"Bread, water, aesthetics.. that's the pyramid. You need beautiful things to sustain yourself. But when it comes to software, suddenly people feel the need to be Mr and Mrs Rational." https://t.co/bPI8AbGYSe
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| Oct 29 |
You're never getting me back into an office full time, but I'd also hate to work remotely without these fantastic semiannual meetups. Spending a week together in person is invaluable for charging trust batteries and connecting as humans. Highly recommend it for any remote team.
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| Oct 29 |
Europe would do well to follow Gates on this pivot. The EU is responsible for just 6% of global emissions, but still thinks it's saving the planet by sorting and washing trash by hand, forgoing AC, or deleting emails (lol). Climate doomerism is degrowth nonsense in a nutshell.
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| Oct 29 |
The AMD 395+ is such a beast! @Beelinkofficial was kind enough to send me their new GTR9 Pro with that chip and 128GB Unified RAM, and it's just as amazing here as in the Framework Desktop. Unit is dead quiet too, even under massive load.
It's my favorite chip to run Linux on at the moment, but it's also pretty overkill for most people. It does 1m23s on my HEY test suite benchmark, which is fantastic, but an HX370 machine (SER9) β at less than half the cost! β will do it in 2m5s. And a 8745H (SER8) will do it in 2m28s at a quarter the cost.
Everyone talks about the local LLM performance, and it is cool that 128GB of unified memory can run huge models, but how much are you actually going to do that? The frontier models you can rent from OpenAI or Claude are still far ahead and much faster. So you really need a specific use-case for this to justify the expense.
Then again. The Beelink GTR9 Pro is $2,399 for 128GB/2TB. You'd have to spend nearly twice that for a Mac Studio with M4 Max 128GB/2TB (which runs the HEY Test suite benchmark in 2m22s). So the Beelink is still a bargain.
It is, however, $100 more than a similarly specced Framework Desktop. Although I don't think that matters much at this price range. You'll likely pick one or the other on aesthetics and availability.
Only nit I have is that the 10gbit ethernet in the GTR9 doesn't run with 2.5gbit switches. You either get 1gbit or you need 10gbit all the way through. That's a bit annoying, but you can solve it with a 10gbit switch in front.
So if you want the best small-form factor Linux machine at the moment, I'd strongly recommend the AMD 395+. If you like the aesthetics of the Beelink, or it's the only option available near you, and the price doesn't bother you, it's a no-brainer buy.
Great job @Beelinkofficial π
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| Oct 28 |
Europe has managed to breed out all entrepreneurial ambition. Anyone with an inkling of initiative has been forced abroad for 100+ years. It'll take generations to rekindle the spirit that originally built everything from Maersk to Mercedes. The genes are simply gone.
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| Oct 26 |
It's incredible what the Asahi Linux team has been able to do, but also a wasted opportunity from Apple's side not to help out. Let's hope whoever succeeds Cook will see things differently. Remember Bootcamp?
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| Oct 25 |
"It was Kathy Sierra who changed my perspective. From being annoyed by straw men and non sequiturs to accepting them and the haters as a natural consequence of success. That if you want people to love your creation, you have to accept the opposing force." https://t.co/tUZvNGwFya
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| Oct 23 |
What's next, Adobe? Asking for a lien on my house to "protect against losing access to my Adobe plan"? https://t.co/ciqEYa3qqP
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| Oct 22 |
I discussed the problems with centralizing the internet (on us-east-1 in particular!) with @lexfridman just this summer: How we've strayed from DARPA's original design, forgotten how enjoyable and profitable owning servers can be, yet still can be thankful for the cloud gifts. https://t.co/U4f49v8IHR
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| Oct 21 |
Since 2017, we ended up spending almost $22m on cloud. Peaking at $3.7m in 2021. Now that we're all out, we'll spend a little over a million on everything we own ourselves. Same team size. Better performance. Saving $2m+ per year! π https://t.co/Nq7iDSwY3m
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| Oct 21 |
The great relief of wealth is the freedom from having to dream of monetizing every successful idea or creation.
Omarchy, Rails, Kamal, Hotwire, and all the rest of it doesn't have to return anything on the investment beyond the joy of building something awesome and sharing it.
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| Oct 21 |
Today is a great day to give Linux a go!
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| Oct 19 |
I have a lot of plans for how we make Omarchy even better for corporate use. Like private migrations integrated directly with the system update for fleet wide updates and bootstrapping.
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| Oct 16 |
This specimen of a human has managed to supercharge the sales of our wonderful OMERCHY line-up. Hundreds of t-shirts and hoodies. You can look this good too by ordering from OMERCHY DOT ORG (everything is sold at cost price, zero profits). https://t.co/r1avFBl114
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| Oct 16 |
Omarchy running Windows running Ubuntu (WSL2) π https://t.co/zu68zPfkHJ
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| Oct 16 |
"All it took was someone to actually put all the pieces together, ignore the Linux neckbeards who insist you aren't worthy to run Arch or Hyprland without spending a hundred hours setting it up from scratch, and invite everyone to the party!" https://t.co/BolFb0eym8
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| Oct 16 |
Omarchy 3.1 is also shipping with unified copy/paste hotkeys. Super + C / V. No more remembering that it's Ctrl + C / V in a browser and Ctrl + Shift + C / V in a Terminal. Oh, and in service of @sudobunni, full screen is now Super + F (instead of F11) π
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| Oct 15 |
In the last month, @Cloudflare has served a PETABYTE worth of Omarchy! That's a bonkers ~150,000 ISO installs. Also, would not have guessed Germany as #2 and Brazil as #4!? Even Denmark is up there as #16! https://t.co/r37eMbwFZ5
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| Oct 15 |
Omarchy wasn't built to win over existing Linux users. It was built to grow the pie. To attract people on Windows and Mac who love computers to the joy of Hyprland + Arch. But it's still a treat to see hardcore Linux folks appreciate what we've built πhttps://t.co/R4Wl6Iilaq
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| Oct 12 |
We finished Petit Le Mans on the podium!! Incredible race. Superb driving by @tobi and @ollyjarvis, and flawless execution by @EraMotorsport. Great way to end the season! https://t.co/14ygG68PtN
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| Oct 12 |
Let's push Ayla over the top. Framework has signed up to make it happen, if she gets to 10k ππ€
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| Oct 10 |
The prophecy is finally coming true! Microsoft and Apple have been fumbling their offerings for developers, so now is the perfect time to simply decide to try Linux. It literally takes as little as two minutes to install!! https://t.co/rKHskaAkPk
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| Oct 09 |
The best thing about the authoritarian far-left tactic of calling everyone they're mad at a nazi is how it naturally encloses the fringe. There's no possibility of broad support from such a dogmatic and ideological corner. https://t.co/9oy8Q2dPey
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| Oct 09 |
"It's one sphere, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten thousand dollars?" π
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| Oct 09 |
Real diversity: Whoever shows up is welcome.
Real equity: We all help carry the meaningful burden.
Real inclusion: Your political opinions are your own.
Open source gets better when it's focused on making great software for all, and doesn't obsess over tiresome divisive dogma.
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| Oct 08 |
So much corporate red tape can be traced to a single anecdote where someone fucked up and their manager didn't have the balls to tell them directly. So they made a policy instead. Don't be that coward. Just tell Ben. https://t.co/kDp8pTWeiw
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| Oct 07 |
We're fed an endless stream of consternation over AI slop these days. The content apocalypse is nigh! It'll rot your brain! Okay, sure, maybe, but have you seen the kind of content sludge that perfectly ordinary humans are capable of producing? It's thrice as tragic.
The web is full of it. Garbage writing and brain-dead shorts. Content mills pumping out nonsense pages and gagging videos to appease whatever the high priests of SEO now think they've divined will please Lord Google or Master TikTok.
It's been infecting websites everywhere with "calls to action", "white paper available upon sign up", and "10 ways to supercharge your productivity". Links stuffed into every crevice to juice rankings, capture "most searched for" keywords, and convert, convert, convert.
It's an affront to humanity to make sentient beings do this work. Turning human potential, creativity, and ingenuity into content sludge is a process no more dignified than turning pink slime into chicken nuggets.
I'll take AI slop over human sludge any day. Let the little robots barf up tokens to unlock the next basis point of incremental conversion. Better them than us, I say. This is exactly the soul-crushing, creative drudgery that machines were made to munch through without complaint.
But couldn't we do without sludge or slop, you say? Sure, right after we reach a shared state of nirvana. As soon as the average 4.5 hours of screen-on time is turned into real reading, real making, real pursuits. So that'll happen exactly never.
Case in point: the most important attribute of a phone for most people is still the battery life. These little content slop and sludge faucets can already spew out nearly an entire day's worth of nonstop eyeball junk, and yet you crave more. More! MORE!
So stop whining about the AI slop. You're already steeped in human sludge. And the door to exit both was always there. But you're not going to open it, are you?
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Be the David Goggings of candidates when you apply for a job. Dare to put in some effort! Most people mistakenly think it's all just one big lottery. That they don't even have to try. Every time we hire, I see how sorely mistaken they are. https://t.co/ggjJIHB6KH
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| Oct 04 |
Maybe I should just have @ThePrimeagen turn all my new writing into one of these bangers and forget about publishing normal words?? Gotta love AI π https://t.co/12smwW9AAS
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| Oct 04 |
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something to you.
I feel this acutely as someone responsible to employees, customers, followers, and readers. I could do nothing all day but check up on projects, people, and posts, but my brain would quickly check out if it was just doing that.
So quite frequently, I just don't. Don't check in, don't check up, and instead dive into the work that checks my own intellectual boxes. Programming for the love of it. Experimenting for the hell of it. Researching for the fun of it.
In another age, I might have been tempted to apologize for such privilege, but screw that. Privilege is wonderful. You should do your best to earn more of it. Even if you have to carve it out of the bare rocks around you.
Ironically, the best way to do that is also to choose to always pay yourself first, however little at first. By solving your own problems, tickling your own interests, chasing your own curiosity. That's where you'll find the motivation to elevate your talent. To turn interest into competency.
And once you've developed some competency, you'll be rewarded with more privilege to build it further. This is the virtuous circle of merit.There'll always be an endless list of work that could be done.
You'll never get through it all and onto your own priorities, if you continue to put them at the bottom.
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The infamous "fuck you" slide from 2005 is often shared without a shred of context. So here's a minute and a half of me delivering that context with juuuuust the right level of profanity π
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This has no right being so catchy! @ThePrimeagen turned my "The great falls of Boeing, Intel, and Apple" take into an AI tune, and now I'm nodding and rocking along! https://t.co/uLcJS1uoyP
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Never apologize for being a normal person without a stick up your ass.
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Joining @ThePrimeagen and gang on The Standup today at 10am pacific to talk OMARCHY. There's no stopping Linux on the desktop going mainstream in dev land now! π
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I finally got the Lofree Flow84 v2. It's nice, but very different. Feels like a new model line, not a v2 of the GOAT. Keys are much softer, different shape, etc. It's sweet to have 2.4ghz, but I'm not sure I'll keep it over the v1. Hard to beat your own perfection! https://t.co/5pHOpQJmrx
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Oh no!! The fascism and nazism and all the other *isms have also gotten to nix! How could this possibly be happen!? After we've put in such valiant work to shame and berate everyone else for their use of master, we missed Rust AND nix?? That's it, circular firing squad at 8am! https://t.co/phylOt6r3e
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Fascinating anecdote from Apple's AI mess: In 2023, their team asked to double their puny GPU count (then <5% of Google), got an OK from Cook, but had the request denied by the finance department. Same year, finance spent $77B on stock buybacks!! https://t.co/GB0FXSLria
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It's amazing how many paper tigers fall apart when you just say "no, we are not doing that". Fear is contagious, but so is courage.
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Great to see that folks in nix land have finally had enough too, and are now willing to say no to these people.
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I really hope the nix community can recover from this infiltration of nut jobs and their nonsense, like we have in the Ruby world. There are so many good ideas over there that deserve so much better.
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At one point, I thought we were all doomed to suffer the woke theocracy for decades in tech, but then suddenly it was over. There are niche pockets here and there (hello nix!), but the hegemony has ended. What a relief! Now "no, we are not doing that" is again a viable way.
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Watching from the outside, nix seems to have been particularly hard hit by all this nonsense. Such a shame too, the core ideas are incredible. I hope they can be unearthed again from under the dreck.
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Negative visualization is one of the most powerful techniques for building mental resilience. The Stoics figured that out two millennia ago. And funny we should talk about it on the podcast, just before I needed to summon some of my practice π https://t.co/vo0LHweL0D
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The memes will continue until the ridicule is complete.
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"This is what it looks like when preference falsification finally falls. When normal people are no longer afraid to say no to these people. Then it's revealed just how small and isolated these aggrieved individuals actually are." https://t.co/iq09Z89zTR
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The contributor covenant, and other CoCs like it, turned out to be a trojan horse. Every open source project would do right to reject or revert it. Here's the beautiful replacement that Matz put in place for Ruby when they came for him with this bullshit (we borrowed it). https://t.co/X7Gk9AfZiZ
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Fireship does Omarchy! π https://t.co/cartIxDfdT
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Omarchy here, there, and everywhere! What I love about all this excitement is how broadly accessible it is. Even 15-year old laptops can run Omarchy. Super cheap mini PCs. Fantastic Frameworks. Everyone has access to the party π₯³
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Cookie banners have been a blight on the internet. Worse than the old scourge of pop-up advertisements! They need to die entirely. The idea has failed. Nobody reads any of it. If you want to ban targeted ads, do that. Let's see if the EU can correct, https://t.co/4BDzIqRdVt
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Having @Cloudflare sponsoring Omarchy with free CDN, R2, and DDoS shield has been such a relief. Love when companies just decide to do things like this without needing a specific return. 52TB in traffic in just the last 72 hours! https://t.co/uwiB4GqFzp https://t.co/bs170NMkpY
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Couldn't be happier to see @cmonkey get the recognition he deserves for his work on improving Omarchy with actual patches. This is such a bullish signal for a company. Makes me even prouder to run Framework computers π https://t.co/Qx2eH2duKM
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This bit helped flip for me when I heard David Foster Wallace's critique of postmodernism and its use of moral relativism, cynicism, and ultimately nihilism. It's a dead end. We need to get back to earnest, sincere values, and grand narratives. https://t.co/i7CrYYTYxw
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That was the goal! Not just easier, but way, way faster too. Linux has a learning curve, but it should be dedicated to becoming a pro with Neovim, tiling window management, and all the glorious tools. Not getting it installed or doing a baseline config.
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I've been truly shocked by how good mini PCs have gotten, and how much faster than even the most expensive Apple gear they can be. Linux is incredibly quick and efficient at so many things devs do all the time.
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