Travis Spomer

Extroverts have a right to their strange lifestyle; I just shouldn’t have to see it or hear about it.

I’ve eaten twenty different takes on “authentic Hawaiian kahlua pork” and somehow none of them have had the same flavor, texture, or shape as any other, and the best one was inexplicably from the cafeteria at work.

Mediterranean Crunch salad mix with Mediterranean Style chicken skewers because I was craving ethnic food

How many times a day are knee bones supposed to pop out of place, like 100? 200’s probably normal, right?

international women's day only being 23 hours is objectively funny

Wow, they must have like practiced that beforehand or something!

Foggy this morning.

If you didn’t know that he’s an insane racist, you’d think that Stephen Miller was proudly describing the best thing about America

Your soul is out of balance because you have fallen out of touch with your consumer demographic. Pay more attention to your personalized ads, let them flow through you

@beesandbombs @w__h_ Looks f- ine to me

@w__h_ the hyphenation 🙈

why’s the hinting on these devices so bad lol

@_NatalieWould Sorry, miss, but no, not that—we meant that we’d kill another dog for free as part of the promotion.

When they put down your dog they should offer you a twofer

@Skoog This was the print edition of The Onion. The ads might be my favorite part.

i’m a copywriter. i’m obsessed.

good lord this is perfect

Imagine that some deranged technologists notice one day that lemonade looks a lot like piss. You could almost confuse the two if you overlooked the taste, the smell, the source and the ingredients, and if you had no compunctions about drinking a lot of piss. By this point in Silicon Valley everyone has been guzzling piss for so long that most of them have forgotten they were only pretending to like the taste.

@rsms Writing code is a uniquely joyous method of creative expression, and I have no real interest in carving out tasks to delegate to mediocre programmers who have delivered unacceptably, uselessly poor results for me hundreds of times in a row.

It’s surprising to me that many programmers don’t believe in AI at all, like a full, hardline “no.” A thesis is that generative slop has such “stage presence” + being alarmingly bad that it become people’s mental model of “AI.” That, along with nonchalant “vibe coders” on social media strikes a nerve with some people. There is a whole category of actually useful, actually practical and truly valuable “AI” tools that help you make better software. I’m not talking about asking ChatGPT to write production code for you but tools like Codex and Cursor where an llm can “work” in a sandbox on your codebase. Have it improve your tests suite or ask it to write documentation or maybe summarize the general architecture. Or get a list of all “// TODO”s with context. Thinking of these tools as “a bunch of mediocre programmers who will do anything for you” seems to be a sweet spot. These tools won’t generally write high-quality code or make smart architectural decisions, but these tools can do a lot of “grunt work” for you.

For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out

HBO’s really leaving money on the table by not offering a paid “hide Bill Maher from the home screen forever” add-on

honestly once i get over my burnout, depression, creative block, doomscrolling addiction, tendency to over intellectualize & avoidant behaviors then you’ll see

Happy Halloween!