Unit Accord

How loud amateurs argue on technical subjects: Amateur 1: "Use UUID v7 for primary keys!" Amateur 2: "Don't use UUID v7 for primary keys!" No context, no use case, no project requirements, no discussion of pros/cons of alternatives. Beware of the influence of loud amateurs.

I'm telling you, Mexico will pay for the wall.

"The Universe may be a black hole." Yes, all the things we don't understand caused one another, so we can conveniently tie all loose ends in our false narrative.

Liquid Glass is so bad it won't even survive the betas.

“Why should I hire you?” “I have the power of unnatural luck.” “Prove it.” “Watch as I keep plugging this USB cable in all ports the right way on first try.” “That’s USB-C.” “I manifested that standard into existence.”

People who say "I always thank AI because it may spare me when it takes over", even jokingly, depress me. Because they focus on fear and self-preservation, instead of respect to every other system, which we should have, whether biological, mechanical, electric or otherwise.

Apple's "Liquid Glass" is what happens when the intrusive thoughts win.

LOL... Apple, you're drunk.

So, Apple introduced a bunch of visual battery-wasting clutter you’d want to turn off the moment you update. They’re lost. All of them. This is so sad.

Anto Krieger - hands down best Andor character. Like an ox. Slow, stupid, but strong.

The ANQIR show is pretty good.

The media will keep the OpenAI / Jony Ive collab clickbait coming, but all they can offer is another variation on "smartphone / smartwatch, but worse". The whole point of a smartphone is you can run any app on it. Including AI. It's done. Weird form factors have no value to add.

REST was so bad at "automatic discoverability" that we literally invented *artificial intelligence* (which understands every API by default) before REST "automatic discoverability" could be solved. That's what an utter defeat looks like.

AI writes 98% of my code. The problem is by the time I'm done I delete and rewrite 97% of it.

We're reaching a saturation point of "clean code" BS when being religious about SOLID, DRY, TDD etc. will be a red flag during tech interviews, not an asset. People have slowly realized Uncle Bob is selling empty dogma that fails you if you follow it the way he tells you to.

Antagonizing the US against China was a Kremlin psy-op which started during Trump's first term ("Gina!"), inexplicably continued during Biden's term, and we see the fruit now: Xi standing behind Putin's and his illegal invasions on his military parade. Dark times.

Trump's secretary of education has methods and style that remind me of someone.

The lesson here is you should never accept the lies of Trump, never fold, and when you don't, he will. Too late, thought, no one trusts him to sign "deals" with him anymore.

We've had many women astronauts before. And real ones, on real missions. But it's a first for silicon breasts, face lifts, cheek & lip fillers. Congratulations.

Trump's role in this world seems to be to make literally any other country leader seem amazing by comparison.