
Tom Bresson
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Tom Bresson
@TomBresson
Computer Engineer in Cleveland, OH. Nerd by day, nerd by night. Banner photo credit: @GabeWasylko



Tesla FSD hits differently when you stop looking at it like a gadget and start looking at it like accessibility. For people living with disabilities, chronic pain, or mobility limitations, reducing the physical demand of driving can completely change what daily life feels like. More energy. More independence. More freedom to move around normally. That’s way bigger than “car tech.” It’s life-changing. @Tesla


It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request. You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it. It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names. You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy. They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important. The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment. That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain. You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.



Bambu Lab 3D printers: never again. They're breaking the open source social contract (for the nth time...), and I'm past hoping they'll amend their ways. youtube.com/watch?v=eb48Md…





















