Brandon Thompson

I'm tired of the notion that to agree with anything someone says, you also have to agree with everything else they have ever said.

@TimothyAlberino “pseudepigrapha” cough cough 😉

As many of you have noticed, I have a stubbornly persistent habit of mispronouncing the word "antecedent". It is quite embarrassing. My brain refuses to conform to the proper pronunciation. Let's see if I can get this right going forward 😬

@SethDillon youtube.com/watch?v=fJr2RO…

No, Christianity does not promote or require socialism. And it is not at odds with capitalism. The idea that socialism is a biblical model requires you to ignore the difference between willing generosity and forced redistribution. When the early church in Acts shared resources, it was voluntary; it wasn't mandated by the state. Peter acknowledged private property rights and so did the ten commandments. Stealing is only wrong if private property ownership is a given. Same with coveting. All virtues require freedom, including charity. Socialism removes the freedom and kills the virtue. If the state takes your wealth and gives it to someone else, you've been taxed. You haven't been "generous" because it had nothing to do with your heart. Capitalism creates wealth — so there's something to share — and respects our individual freedom to share it. The charity that results from the wealth that's created is real charity; it's actually an act of loving one's neighbor. And it isn't just theoretical or idealistic. Free markets paired with Christian values have produced the wealthiest, freest, and most generous societies in history.

@nypost “Yeah, been there.” - America 2020-2024

Iran's supreme leader unconscious and 'unable to be involved in any decision making' trib.al/8rNebGX

If LLMs were invented around 2000, would they still be generating websites in Perl or would we have reached TypeScript and React much faster? I wonder if LLMs just lock us into whatever stack they are trained on.

@housecor The advice I always give the devs on my team is: If you don’t know how to do something, use AI to learn it. If you do know how to do something, use AI to do it faster.

I’ve never been great at regex. But now, AI generates it for me. It writes tests for each regex it generates, and quickly explains existing regexes too. So, regex mastery doesn’t feel that useful anymore.

@elonmusk Yeah, no thanks.

Using voice for Imagine is a great feature for young kids who can talk and have amazing imagination, but are too young to write complex prompts

@housecor Omg. Click ops. 💀

Does your company provision environments using infrastructure as code (IaC)? Or do you configure manually by clicking around (aka click ops)?

@VincentLoi1204 It’s the way that companies finally admit that quality is no longer their primary weapon against churn.

🪂 Another huge drop for Apple in-app purchases coming up in iOS 26.5 Soon we'll be able to create Monthly subscription plans with 12 months commitment. developer.apple.com/documentation/… Wonder if this will help drive retention...

@folaoftech Only one of the PM’s questions was even relevant.

This conversation plays out in every sprint planning. 😂

@d4m1n Joke’s on them. Most engineers don’t read PRs. LGTM!

@sourpatchlyds @wil_da_beast630 If there is money flowing and Democrats are involved, my first assumption is always fraud.

@wil_da_beast630 This chart is from Politico? The very first thing I'd do would be to find the data from another source, then if it's true, figure out what's going on

This objectively seems to be a genuinely bad thing Trump is doing. What are the raw numbers here?

@sama @eastdakota Steals all the things from everyone to train his models…but at least he said thank you.

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@MarioNawfal New definition: banksy (noun) - a mystery that becomes infinitely less interesting the moment it is solved.

🚨🇬🇧 The biggest mystery in modern art may have just been solved. After decades of anonymity, a new investigation claims Banksy’s identity is “beyond dispute,” naming him as Robin Gunningham. Banksy isn’t just a graffiti artist, he’s the mind behind some of the most iconic, political street art in the world, from “Girl with Balloon” to works in global conflict zones. The legend was built on secrecy… which makes this reveal hit that much harder. Do we even want to know who Banksy really is? Source: Entertainment Weekly

X platform feature request: Filter by clarity level. Or at the very least, an option to filter out vague-posts.

there's such an irony in tech hiring in that the best engineers to hire are the ones who don't actually need to interview and yet most companies design intricate interview processes to "hire the best talent" when in reality most processes: 1. can be gamed 2. evaluate a proxy for abilty as opposed to true ability i'd argue that the best people to hire, from a technical perspective, are the people who you can cold extend an offer to immediately after a technical conversation. any engineer worth their value will be able to explain complicated topics simply and recount meaningful contributions in a way that plainly displays their expertise if you can't decide whether or not to hire someone after the conversion i believe one of the two following points must be true: 1. the person is not technical enough and should not be hired 2. you are not technical enough to be hiring your engineers

@MbarkCherguia Yes

Can you solve it? 🤔

@nicksortor “Trump KNOWS Cornyn would backstab him…” yet Trump is considering endorsing him. Make it make sense.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says he is WITHHOLDING his endorsement in the Texas Senate Race until the SAVE America Act passes Trump KNOWS Cornyn would backstab him and sink the SAVE America Act if he endorses him. It’s GOT to be Paxton, Mr. President!

@romanhelmetguy You say that as if success of the system was the goal. (Hint: It was not.)

Do communists know there were like 5000 attempts in recorded human history to share all property collectively before Marx was born? The Pythagoreans, Essenes, some early Christians, Mazdakites, Taborites, Anabaptists, Diggers etc. They all failed.

@weswinder Traditions are just lessons learned without memory of the pain that necessitated them.

traditional devs hating on vibe coding is the most predictable reaction in tech history the people who memorized the old rules always resent the people who skip them

@agraybee That converts are not the point. It is the conditioning inflicted upon the young missionaries themselves that make it more difficult for them to break free from the religion later in life.