Mike Becker

I’ve been building something for people who still use real music players. iPods. MiniDisc. Old Walkmans. Weird MP3 players. No cloud sync. No “smart” libraries. No guessing. The system shows exactly what’s on the device. That’s it. I call it a “truthful system.” If you still use devices like this, you already understand why. Working on it now. More soon. You can follow along at bakbeatlabs.com

@raven_brah What are you twelve? Gen X and fast food was ALWAYS a special treat, you did not eat it all the time.

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

@landofthe80s Love this movie, absolute classic

The Last Starfighter, is it still worth a watch in 2026? 🪐🚀

@samwrig56693366 @CynicalPublius I spent half my life eating this stuff

@CynicalPublius Maybe we need to give Gen Z some of that delicious Hamburger Helper that we used to eat.

In the 80s my furniture was from Goodwill, I fixed my 1972 Chrysler with parts from the junkyard, ramen was my primary food source and I recall having Wonder Bread toast with mustard for dinner because that's all I could afford. Gen Z has created an America that never existed.

@CynicalPublius I used to make ground beef with ketchup as a glorious extravagance

@TulsiGabbard @AceofSpadesHQ @ODNIgov You’ve done a great job, and my best wishes and prayers for your husbands recovery

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

@brockpierson Osr A. Rocked it for years

Be honest, did you use this when it was first released?

@Sanders_Net @BostonFren_88 So what you’re saying is it’s not only cringe, it also shows that we’re horrible at their job of MARKETING as they did no base market research first? That doesn’t really change what the end result should be here. They still are not useful

@BostonFren_88 You guys are so fucking gullible. Those "day in the life" videos were mainly 22 year old MARKETING interns MARKETING to Computer Science grads. Attractive young women trying to attract 23 year old men to a company.

I remember when women would post those Tiktok videos of their "day at the office" in tech. - arrive at 9 - get snacks/coffee - sun on the roof at 10 - Zoom call 11 - free lunch at the Cafe - afternoon Zoom call And now they're all getting replaced by indians.

@sakunoji We had to special order them through cd shops or magazines usually, so they we rare finds do us that you really had to hunt for

@_mainframe79 アメリカへ日本版が輸出されていたとは知りませんでした。 我々にとってアメリカからの輸入盤はごく普通のことで、いつも選ぶことができました。

To everyone in America: Japanese CDs and records come with a "obi" (paper strip around the obi). Isn't that cool?

@vaio_typeR I've always loved Walkmans, I grew up with the Sony Cassette ones. Sony was always the "super premium" good stuff over here. I'm actually just getting into the Walkman MP3 players while working on my new Media app and they're fantastic too

@_mainframe79 Do you have a favorite Sony product from the US?

#自己紹介 SONY製品好きの高校生です！ ジャンク品いじりなどもしてます。これからいろんなソニー製品に触れていきたいと思っていますのでよろしくお願いします🙇 リプに所持してる・してたソニー製品載せてます！

@TheGoldenDays I remember when I worked at Bungie, one of the devs still had one of these under her desk, and it had one of the original builds of Marathon on still on it

this was the peak of tech design

@AuthorGFAllen Looking at you Chuck Wendig

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Yeah… I’m NEVER reading anything by this person again.”

@DirtyRadioDJ @LoveRetroBTW Yes! These games blew me away. Totally nuts.

@LoveRetroBTW This was my favorite

Did anyone actually enjoy FMV games like I did?

@azusagakuyuki You got this :)

検査結果は食道がんステージ2 リンパ節や他への浸潤は見つかりませんでしたε-('ᵕ' ;)ﾎｯ 放射線でも手術と遜色ない根治が目指せる状態なので手術はしません これからが本番 気合いと根性入れてくかんね みんなありがとう♡ 🦭(ﾉ`•ω•)وｵｰｯ!!☃️(o>ﾛ<)oｵｰｯ!!

@droidbuilds I prefer Cursor. I've just gotten used to it even when I DON'T need AI stuff. it just feels familiar now

developers, which IDE genuinely has the potential to replace VS Code?

@gfodor architecture in code is more important than ever.

It keeps hitting me how dumb and meaningless so much of "programming" was, now that AI has pushed the tide out and you can see the essential problems laid bare. Naming variables is not one of them.

@tenryugumi_21 Congrats grandpa!

私事で恐縮です。 本日待望の初孫が誕生しジイジになりました🙌

@LLMJunky I freaking love cursor, I happily give them money

People hate on Cursor, or even go as far to laugh at it. "$60B for an IDE LOL" "It's just a VSCode fork" Yeah, and Tesla is just a car. Youtube is just a video player. and the iPhone is just a phone It's honestly hysterical how wrong they are. GPT 5.5 High Fast and Cursor 2.5 Fast feel unbelievably good in this harness. I have been building non-stop for the last week. Between Cursor and my Codex sub, I want for nothing.

I'm always amused that the AI starts to understand how you talk to it. "My recommendation for the next giant ass file to decomposition is..." "now rg is useful instead of the result of rg being "good luck asshole""