Josh Conner

I have opinions about GenAI agents. Too many for Bluesky, so I wrote a whole blog post instead.

blog.bryanl.dev/posts/agent-...

i know what 6-7 is, but really i think every generation just gets a funny number

To me Wilson's parents paying for childcare bc Wilson is running for mayor is a different story than them paying for childcare all along. I don't think either is bad/wrong, but my takeaway is different.

That being said, The Stranger doesn't appear interested in that specific distinction.

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle' From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

Extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced from one of Seattle’s best, Marcus Harrison Greene:

southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

fred is so cool, thanks for sharing those

ah okay, seems like you said "there's never actually been a surplus" when you meant "the national debt has never gone down" then?

do you have a source for that? as far as i can tell, it seems like it was actual also: www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-...

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

screenshot of an info box about the film "air bud" showing that it was released in 1997

screencap of the scene from "air bud" where the referee is saying "he's right. ain't no rule that says a dog can't play basketball" but with the caption text modified (somewhat sloppily, for comedic effect) to say "he's right. ain't no rule that says a film can't have been released closer in time to the moon landing than the present day"

my therapist basically made me get tiles / airtags for all my keys a few years ago after we were forced to spend a weekend deep cleaning because we'd completely lost all four sets of car keys we had and so couldn't go anywhere🥶

intro post:

hi! i used to be @/abunchofrandom on twitter. i live in Seattle, work as a principal software engineer, and like books, cooking, bikes, hiking, and DIY stuff - though i spend most of my time with my family.