Every single time you love someone should be the first and the last time. You should believe in it with your whole soul even if it breaks you in two (and it will), because the love is what we’re here for. The grief is just the toll we pay.
The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
oh, I also wanted to say I'm in love with the final paragraph of your article
Now grappling with vibe coding 👀
Would be good to talk more about it though (maybe on the TW podcast?)
there was also discussion about whether disposable code needs governance, and how we set expectations around the lifecycle of what's disposable vs. what's durable. Consensus ultimately was that this it's too complex a topic for a single item on the Radar though!
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there was a bit of semantic debate around precisely what the term refers to that might be worth clarifying:
— sw a person creates for their own one-off use
— sw a person creates for their own ongoing use
— sw a person creates for other people to use
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This was an interesting peace on exactly this last year www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
You need a body to do science! how else can you observe stuff?
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
Phone Time is allowed and important when you’re in a hotel thousands of miles from home
Apropos of @katewagner.wehwalt.net’s demonstrable enthusiasm for it, maybe I should try and read Phenomenology of Spirit before I reach 36
I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)
Just learned that “yookay” was coined by Raymond Williams
It’s Purim, my favorite holiday. Dress in drag, save your people, and remember that joy is necessary to resistance- is, in fact, resistance. Drown out the name of the oppressor with your booing and then hit the dance floor.
If we used universalised all these behaviours work would be extremely unpleasant
Some of this is probably good advice but most of it is also really about handling organizational dysfunction. You can also work with other people to make work better (aka workplace organizing)! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I see people just not bothering to consider the details of outputs or the evidence they provide. Even the meaning of words themselves don't seem to matter. Ironic that it's the same world that was obsessed with being "data-driven" that's immediately gone all-in on "vibes only".
What a deeply evil and pathetic time
White cheeked barbet perched on a window sill
This beautiful white-cheeked barbet keeps disrupting things
Just had a very long discussion around @charity.wtf’s disposable software article from last year www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...
Three people sat in front of a technology Radar print on the wall, surrounded by post it notes
I’m in Bangalore for the @thoughtworks.com Technology Radar. (If you look closely you can see the @utaw.tech sticker on my laptop.)
We need a Dunning-Kruger type term appropriate to this context
There’s a special kind of knot in your throat that comes with being a migrant in Britain today, the kind that always stays in the back of your mind. I’m forever indebted to the Greens for making it go away in a sigh of relief at least for one night. Onwards to the next! 💚
I think @inthesedeserts.bsky.social made this point on @trashfuture.bsky.social recently, but it’s wild how no one but shitpost leftists were bringing up the Mandelson/Epstein stuff a few years ago & now the entire media & political class will be jockeying for position inside their new narrative
The identification of a 'smiling' object found on Holy Island in Northumberland has been confirmed by BGS senior paleontologist Jan Hennissen.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is really very good, and the book it’s reviewing looks very interesting too thebaffler.com/salvos/bog-t...
