I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
Keep hearing about Finntech and how much money people are making, but never hear anything about tech startups in the other Nordic countries. Does Norway not have as many programmers?
Interesting analysis of the distinctiveness of the Japanese Web. The biggest cause in my mind has always been bottleneck effect. Japan's Web developed and remains more isolated than any other "free" nation.
If every non-Japanese website disappeared tomorrow, many Japanese would go literal months without noticing. THAT's why its web is different. sabrinas.space
I don't wish them ill, but the stock price of DuoLingo (and that entire class of language learning apps) hasn't made a lick of sense since ChatGPT released. It's just going to take a single LLM-based product to obviate the entire business model yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/17/194212/duolingos-stock-down-38-plummets-after-openais-gpt-5-language-app-building-demo
The first affirmative case I've read for Ruby being a superior choice to Python, TypeScript, Golang, Rust etc. when building autonomous agents. worksonmymachine.ai/p/the-system-inside-the-system
Claude Code's Explanatory and Learning modes are extremely welcome additions to the CLI. Explanatory goes out of its way to give you a tour of the codebase. Learning adds TODO(human) homework for you to do, reinforcing understanding. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/output-styles
A group of Italian-American feminists should buy an island off the Amalfi coast to establish a women-only community and call it Old Country for No Men.
Been using Parachute for iCloud Drive & Photos backups to my Synology NAS over the last few weeks, and generally really impressed by it. Since networked Time Machine targets basically never work, this seems like a great utility app parachuteapps.com/parachute
Everyone complaining about GPT-5 doesn't understand that there are two modes you can choose from: slow and stupid.
You know that meme where the best developers actually wind up deleting more lines of code than they add?
The more time I spend wrangling agentic codegen tools, the more the task feels like chiseling than sculpting. I suspect the deleters are better poised for this moment.
Hilariously, Japan just discovered Myers-Briggs and it's super popular with the youths as a trending personality quiz. My friend asked me if I had seen "MBT" and (once I figured out WTF they were talking about) was floored when I told them about its origins note.com/yanotomoaki/n/nbb31a0e5604f
Personally, I was inclined to doubt the GPT-5 haters, but I've gotta say: this thing reminds me more of 3.5-turbo. Asking about Xcode 26 just gets me a full page of explanation that this hypothetical IDE that's been out for 2 months doesn't exist. (That's WITH search enabled!)
I'm glad I pointed Scott to Orta's Claude post, because his analogy (God, why is this man so good at analogies?) comparing agentic coding to "ZIRP for technical debt" is A-fucking-plus thoughtleading. Jealous. worksonmymachine.ai/p/entering-technical-debts-zirp-era
who the hell called it golden shower sex and not "whiz bang"?!
Best part about being CEO of a company named after yourself is receiving cold e-mail openers like:
Shout-out to Orta for pulling on the "full-breadth developer" thread with such a concrete, detailed accounting of his agentic coding experiences blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/
My OGs from high school and college still have the note "Courtesy of thefacebook." in their vcards, because early-days Facebook let you export all your friends' contact information lol
AppleCare One is a great deal if you like Apple's more expensive products. An iPad Pro ($10.99/mo), Vision Pro ($24.99/mo), and Pro Display XDR ($17.99/mo) somehow adds up to $19.99.
That's $33.98/mo cheaper than ala carte pricing. apple.com/applecare/
Did Satya write this for current and former employees or did Satya write this for Satya? blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/24/recommitting-to-our-why-what-and-how/
Finally, vindication. I've been calling bullshit on resting meat since I first heard of it. Get the meat to the right temp and shove it in your face while it's still hot. You can rest when you're dead. seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
Almost made it 2 hours working in Xcode before hitting my first Spinning Beachball of Death. I triggered it by scrolling a file listing.
Nostalgic!