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Tailscale is also the only thing I have ever seen that supports fully dynamic OIDC for arbitrary authorization servers using webfinger.

Because of course it is.

Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.

In this world nothing can be said to ve certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:

www.promptarmor.com/resources/cl...

And yes I should go out for a walk but my phone is buzzing with texts, the joy of being hyper connected

Sigh, I wish Bluesky and others implemented the Google+ Circles idea correctly.

Just like everyone I like reading the news and calling BS where needed but sometimes I wish there was a button to “mute the world burning down news for a minute, here’s a cute cat”
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

dithering and apple garamond is the new black and purple

Plug for jetpens.com not only they have comparable prices to Amazon, but they often deliver faster (at least on the Bay Area). Big fan of

Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.” Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.

Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

Not little but definitely art.
A relic of when the “personal” in PC meant serviceable and easy to maintain

Chaos in the Luggage Suitcase Market: Why Quality Must Come First The global luggage and suitcase market, valued at $21.4 billion in 2023 (Statista), has long been a cornerstone of international trade.

Found the article, and it makes the case that the market is not the same so suitcases adapted to that reality, sacrificing quality for profit 🤦

www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaos-...

It’s true though, and caused by market forces.

I can’t find the article right now but the TLDR; the duopoly on Luggage frames & hardware agreed on lowering quality to maximize profit.

It’s ridiculous and the only way to resist is to DIY your own gear 🙃 😵‍💫

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

wall street surges as the only jobs left are burrito chauffeur or ice agent

Wow imagine that

The game industry isn't an easy path, many indies struggle with discoverability and low sales. Design games based on your current skills, not grandiose dreams, to avoid frustration
#GameDev #IndieDev #gamedesign #gamedevelopment #IndieGameDev

Read between the lines, or you’ll drink poison thinking it’s medicine. Same thing with ideas: separate nihilism from nihilistic humor. One is fatal; the other is a harmless buzz.

Letting go of autonomy I recently wrote I'm inspecting everything I thought I knew about software and considering their ongoing relevance in this new era of coding agents. Here's one…

In the age of Vibecoding AI your repo should be at least 20% .cursorrules.
Read this and you will understand why they eventually become more important than 80% of your code

justin.searls.co/posts/lettin...

Letting go of autonomy I recently wrote (https://justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/#good-game-programmers) I'm inspecting everything I thought I knew about software and considering their ongoing relevance in this new era of coding agents. Here's one area where I've completely changed my mind. I've long been an advocate for promoting individual autonomy on software teams. At Test Double (https://testdouble.com), we founded the company on the belief that greatness depended on trusting the people closest to the work to decide how best to do the work. We'd seen what happens when the managerial class has the hubris to assume they know better than someone who has all the facts on the ground. This led to me very often showing up at clients and pushing back on practices like: • Top-down mandates governing process, documentation, and metrics • Onerous git hooks (https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks) that prevented people from committing code until they'd jumped through a preordained set of hoops (e.g. blocking commits if code coverage dropped, if the build slowed down, etc.) • Mandatory code review and approval as a substitute for genuine collaboration and collective ownership More broadly, if technical leaders created rules without consideration for reasonable exceptions and without regard for whether it demoralized their best staff… they were going to hear from me about it. I lost track of how many times I've said something like, " if you design your organization to minimize the damage caused by your least competent people, don't be surprised if you minimize the output of your most competent people." ## Well, never mind all that (#well-never-mind-all-that) Lately, I find myself mandating a lot of quality metrics, encoding them into git hooks, and insisting on reviewing and approving every line of code in my system. What changed? AI coding agents are the ones writing the code now, and the long-term viability of a codebase absolutely depends on establishing and enforcing the right guardrails within which those agents should operate. As a result, my latest project is full of: • Authoritarian documentation dictating what I want from each coder with granular precision (in https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/memory) • Patronizing step-by-step instructions telling coders how to accomplish basic tasks, repeated each and every time I ask them to carry out the task (as custom slash commands (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/slash-commands)) • Ruthlessly rigid scripts that can block the coder's progress and commits (whether as git hooks and Claude hooks (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks)) Everything I believe about autonomy still holds for human people, mind you. Undermining people's agency is indeed counterproductive if your goal is to encourage a sense of ownership, leverage self-reliance to foster critical thinking, and grow through failure. But coding agents are (currently) inherently ephemeral, trained generically, and impervious to learning from their mistakes. They need all these guardrails. All I would ask is this: if you, like me, are constructing a bureaucratic hellscape around your workspace so as to wrangle Claude Code or some other agent, don't forget that your human colleagues require autonomy and self-determination to thrive and succeed. Lay down whatever gauntlet you need to for your agent, but give the humans a hall pass.

Letting go of autonomy

I figured out when I like vibe coding:
- It’s not important business code
- or it’s not to be reusable by others
- or it’s just throw away code
Basically, vibing is for low-risk boring tasks 🤷

Maybe, I hope. I had a terrible morning and I should not be in social media in this mind space.

But sometimes survival feels overwhelming. Time to touch some grass and interact with people IRL.
Have a nice day! Apologies for reading too much into your initial post

My roommate Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to clean the kitchen. He’s on hour 3.

I don’t, and again it’s my choice. Let’s not waste more time on this nonsense. TLDR; in my industry high value clients are in Substack.

There is indeed no valid excuse (even for the healthcare/non profit customers we have).

You are right. No matter the amount of nonsense I say. You are right