when i was a young, healthy man, progressive believer in all things scientific and rational, i unequivocally supported the medical system im still a young, healthy man, but i know something now. the medical system will kill you if you let it

TIL that Claude Code increases the "thinking" budget to maximum if you tell it to "ultrathink", which is a step up from "megathink", which is a step up from "think" simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/cl… - via x.com/HamelHusain/st…

Bro how was the show Silicon Valley so consistently 10 years ahead of its time 🤣

The problem with tipping isn't money. We pay either way. The problem is that it makes me a manager. I'm supposed to evaluate their employee's performance and decide what their compensation should be. I don't go to restaurants to manage people.

(I’m gonna say this gently but firmly. I mock the hell out of the ZeroCovid lunatics & they have a lot of horseshoe connections with Anti-vaxxers… But Anti-Vaxxers have got to be some of the most scientifically ignorant people on the planet. I mean willfully stupid people)

yes to queuing, and how about a kanban board for your whole fleet of agents?

2000s tycoon games were deep strategy games that really forced you manage tradeoffs and balance budgets/spend/revenue 2020s tycoon games are almost all pay-to-win waiting/idle games

If the only thing these AI coding tools bring me is never having to spend three days Googling error messages to figure out what is the right 74th incantation this month to set up a working dev environment, they will be cheap at the price.

Go see Mike Coutermarsh at RailsConf tomorrow! You can get a database hat & some awesome stickers!

Hello, world! #RailsConf

The new meta for building anything in July 2025: - Planning: Grok-4 to make TDD file - Coding: Sonnet-4 and Gemini 2.5 - IDE: Claude Code or Cursor - Frontend: React in Lovable - Backend: n8n if you can’t code, Python & FastAPI if you can - AI Orchestration: LangChain -

Non-deterministic development, everybody.

I'm thrilled to announce the (re)launch of my product - Simple File Upload! 🎉 🎊 It's the easiest way to add file uploading to your application - is now a web component (so fast) - completely redesigned for a modern look - direct uploads - returns a cloud based url for the

I have a theory that Linear is SO popular compared to JIRA for devs becase Linear is fast (and optimizes for this) while JIRA is slow (optimizes for many other things like functionality, complex use cases: performance is not one) Devs hate sluggish software and vote w their feet

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Why is every product management tool just "spreadsheets + docs". I wish there was a more "visual" tool.

if anyone happens to be pivoting a b2c financial app into a b2b financial forecasting product needs lessons learned or insights, i spent 2019-2022 working on that problem and could probably save you a lot of time ... ... if

This is kind of how I feel every morning

I think a lot of people are vexed by not being able to find a purpose. Something they can dedicate themselves to. They think - if only I knew what I wanted to do with my life, then I’d be happy. But maybe you never know what you want to be when you grow up. It’s a mirage.

I interviewed a clothing factory once who said he's excited to implement robotics AI. He said this will make US manufacturing more competitive against China. I asked, "And what happens when Chinese factories also implement robotics AI?" He said, "Oh, I hadn't thought of that."