

🗿Patrick McCanna🗿
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Security! “The only sure safeguard against the vagueness of theory is constant practise” -George Jack’s Wood-carving design and workmanship





Flock Safety camera pointed at a playground, not even near a roadway. It was never about "license plate tracking." 📍Manassas, VA

The US bans all new foreign-made network routers engt.co/4bDF2AQ

new model for engineering team structure in 2026: 2 people only one pirate and one architect the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding. the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the pirate into a reliable, structured machine—also by vibe coding, but at a slower, more well-reasoned pace. every product needs a pirate but most product's only need an architect once they some form of PMF, and in that case they usually don't need one full-time. architects can work across many codebases and solve interesting technical challenges. pirates go hard on a product that they own end-to-end.




The reality is there's mass amounts of cheating in our elections. Just because there's an engineered lack of data, does not mean there isn't data to the contrary. The new CBS/YouGov poll shows that 80% of Americans support Voter ID including 80% of black Americans & 77% of Hispanic Americans. Yet why is it that Congress seems so intractable to wanting to pass a such a popular policy?


Everyone complying with these draconian age-verification laws in free and open source software is weak-willed and spineless. They should be ostracized.

