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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Losing Focus | Tim Kadlec”

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2026/05/losing-focus/

Linking to this exclusively because of the following quote from a YouTube interview with Notion's head of product

> I don’t think the quality of software has increased all that much in in the past 12 months. I think maybe the amount of software has, but it’s very, very hard to find software that’s reliable.

Even the tech mainstream is beginning to notice the major decline in software quality

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

(iOS autocorrect keeps getting worse. Now it’s constantly “correcting” text that was actually correctly entered into something incorrect.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, because of an extremely dumb comment by one of the nuttiest pro-“AI”nutters of tech that I’m not going link to because I myself deeply regret having accidentally seen it, I have to ask:

How do Americans think the Vietnam War ended?

(Damn you autocorrect)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay the unique feature of his language so far as i can tell is you can construct a string literal and get the compiler to insert it as code. like eval, but for compile time.

as somebody who once inherited thousands of lines of messy code that created a new script and evaled it at the end, can i just say that no?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

developed by Jonathan Blow

oh, wow, i can't remember the last time i lost interest this fast.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

rust is eating the industry. most teams should stay away

how about you look at what you're doing and then decide what the best language to be doing it in is?

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acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

COFFEE MAKER 509 INOP

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#acars #vdlm2

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i feel like the code is pretty clear about its intention

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/what-are-self-defense-laws-in-japan/#summary

In east Asia, many countries have very heavy restrictions on self defence, and in many cases you can expect to also be arrested and maybe charged if you cause injury to your assailant.

It’s much better to run away.

It’s changing a bit in some countries like Korea and China though.

Sharing because work tells me it’s #AsianMonth

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/what-are-self-defense-laws-in-japan/#summary

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

"skill" and "skillset" in the context of LLMs is absolute doublespeak, this is DESKILLING

now I'm seeing (once) respected web folk, many considered educators, promote Google's "modern web" shite

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vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means.

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260521-0440

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116608737040776147

Each time we offer a billionaire to the ocean another forest heals

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Boiled clergy. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

jwz wrote:

WordPress "AI" Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh.

WP 7.0 was just released and apparently this is the "AI" release. Is there a patch to excise this cancer from core, or is there a bugfix-tracking fork that I should switch to instead, or should I just never upgrade again, or what?

https://jwz.org/b/yk7j

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("ratatouille as a service") wrote:

@aparrish as a data scientist who "retired" in 2023 it has been wild to see the entire industry go bananas for this stuff. it's like if every doctor simultaneously just started doing homeopathy because it was faster

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: "On Google declaring war on the Web"
https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/

and what Google think you'll be willing suffer: "Ad Infini­tum"
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

never too late to degoog!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Anyway give DBXS a try and if you like it (or any of my other open source work or writing) consider giving me $1 on https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now that *you* know these things, how do you get the other engineers on your team to keep *remembering* these things and migrate your application to move its queries to the appropriate scope? Do you write some kind of complex linter that scans your code's ASTs to try to find new runtime-defined queries and forbid them? With DBXS, you don't have to; you *have* to pre-declare your queries within decorators, at import time, so they all end up neatly arranged at the right execution time.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also, did you know that manually constructing SQLAlchemy queries in the body of functions consumes *substantially* more CPU and memory resources in your application than pre-computing them at import time? And that SQLAlchemy has a bindparam() object specifically to facilitate this much more efficient mode of operation?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

For example, did you know that since Python has no cross-database way of specifying a prepared SQL statement, that it will take the comparatively much slower path of just re-uploading the same SQL string over and over again, if that string varies at all? And that it's *very* easy to trigger this failure mode with SQLAlchemy because there's nothing to suggest to you that you should not be dropping Python constant objects into the middle of your expressions?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are a few things in this documentation that are technically documented just fine elsewhere, and that a high-level expert in #Python #SQL integration would be able to tell you about, but many, many product engineers would not realize that they need to look for in the first place.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Wait… SQLAlchemy Core Support?", I hear you ask. Yes, #DBXS supports #SQLAlchemy Core, and has done so for quite some time. This was previously undocumented so I can certainly forgive you for not knowing.

So the *real* story of this release is not so much any big code changes, but rather updated dependency testing as well as *comprehensive documentation* for the SQLAlchemy feature. This may teach you a few things you didn't know about #Python database support. https://dbxs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto.html#sqlalchemy-core-support

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

New release of DBXS today: https://pypi.org/project/dbxs/2026.5.20/

This is a very minor release with a small tweak to its SQLAlchemy Core support so that `.returning()` statements don't cause a spurious type error.

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amber@front-end.social ("Amber Weinberg") wrote:

I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/

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lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

"Every time Sundar Pichai reconfigures Google products to further force generative AI on users he assumes are hopelessly locked in, he increases the risk they finally throw up their hands and go somewhere else.

And that’s exactly what Google users should do."

https://disconnect.blog/google-is-its-own-worst-enemy/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

People worry AI will replace programmers.

Lol. Have you seen the code it trains on? Half the internet is one regex away from a national emergency.

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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@inthehands As I said just a while ago: Every big tech press event these last few years have felt like "Announcing our exciting plans for oligarchs to strip-mine the entire world and immiserate all of humanity! Get on board, and also death to the unbelievers!"

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Anyway, it’s been super helpful while I’ve been working on tuning colors on my Pokémon collection page that I’ve been toying with (a work in progress, tons of bugs, sorry). You can see it in action here: https://equinox.netigen.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.neatnik.net%2Fpokemon%2F