I'm Bryan from the USA, this is my art

Capitol Imperialis - a massive command and control warmachine, the Capitol Imperialis is peak 40K aesthetic.

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions. It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer. Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use

Sears headquarters .

I have a SWE friend who worked at a company like this. He was reviewing a dashboard a finance person made. They thought it had real data and trends but it was actually just stub data. This data was presented to execs as real numbers. They didnt know.

This is obviously a surprise birthday party

Got a chuckle out of reading Brian’s Coinbase layoff memo where he says every manager will have 15 direct reports and also be an IC This is what I mean when I say that every tech executive has AI psychosis

This is almost breaking my brain.

The Matsumoto Castle Gun Corps will be in action over the weekend! Join us if you can. It’s free! Don’t worry if you can’t make it. We will upload the highlights on here and on YouTube as well.

The more I replace plans with prototypes, the better the outputs Who'd have thought that low fidelity prototypes were better than walls of spec Oh yeah, the entire industry for 20 years Stop going against decades of knowledge because someone in SF shipped it as a 'mode'

Tbh it’s blowing my mind a bit but very cool

"Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it." --Philosopher Roger Scruton

Their status page is also down 😭

We built a database system on S3 Express, and I wrote a book about latency, so let me comment on some of the technical details. When we talk about write latency in a database system, the limiting factor is typically the time to commit to durable storage. If you are using object

Let's Encrypt has stopped issuing certs. No reason given yet. Cloud flare and Discord down at the same time. Probably SSL cert compromise. Happy Friday.

A real old fashion bake shop in Norway [📹 flyingthenest]

I recognise beauty when I see it.

This is crazy. The hacker installed a dead-man's switch that will wipe your computer if you revoke the GitHub token they stole from you. Revoking the token is what triggers the wipe.