2026-02-15 09:42:02
from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22
from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22
The thing this reply guy doesn’t get, the thing that’s so crucial to this moment, is that being correct about the law counts for absolute diddly shit in the moment. The law is slow. The law comes later…if ever. With these people on our streets right now, the only thing that matters in the moment is what people believe: what they believe the law is, what they believe is safe, what they believe they can get away with, what they believe they are capable of doing.
The law is slow. The law catches up later. Belief is •now•.
If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
What we know about Russia’s offensive in Siversk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-we-know-about-russias.html
Today, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
After Super Bowl loss, what's in store for the Patriots this offseason? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47923377/what-expect-new-england-patriots-offseason-super-bowl-loss
Mailbag: What system would fit personnel? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-system-would-fit-personnel
Sadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216
If historians object that Trump is not a copy of Mussolini or Hitler or Franco, the reply is yes—but so what? Trump is building something new on old principles. He is showing us in real time what 21st-century American fascism looks like.
...
Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it, and to recognize something, one must name it. Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.
What @… said: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/wikipedia-at-25/
You know, I am occasionally shocked when someone I think of as smart or admirable or n…
Your Brain Doesn’t Magically Finish Developing at 25. Here’s What Actually Happens
https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-developing-at-25-heres-what-actually-happens/
Read it from the former MEP who was the European Parliament's rapporteur for the CO₂ emission performance standards for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-end-goal-accounting-trick-w…
What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p102#a260116p102
I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI
from my link log —
What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical systems?
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/14/what-does-it-take-to-ship-rust-in-safety-critical/
saved 2026-01-15
What Ukrainians actually think about ceding Donbas to Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-ukrainians-actually-think-about.html
"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: I know what you mean.
ARTIX: I'm sorry, sir.
[Leylan walks towards the exit to the Flight Deck]
LEYLAN: I'm going to my quarters. Anything I should know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/24 B7B2
Comic: Santa's Cookies
— by comicss.art
What is delicious on the website and what is not is explained in an understandable way by Santa Clous for everyone.
🎅 #santa
Electronics touchers: what is your biggest UI/firmware gripe with your current test equipment (scopes mostly, but interested in what you have to say about other stuff too)? Does ngscopeclient fix it?
I'm always looking for things ngscopeclient can do harder, better, faster, or stronger. Or that existing instruments just don't do at all.
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27
Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!
"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research
"What are transition credits? Philippines takes novel approach to coal phase-out"
#Phillippines #Coal #FossilFuels
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SAULT:
🎵 Don't Worry About What You Can't Control
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/dont-worry-about-what-you-cant-control
https://open.spotify.com/track/3i54TbsGGVA4FwGCjFEJyl
Stupid San Francisco question: what does the M in OMI stand for again?
Oceanview, M______, Ingleside. I can't think what fits in the blank. Maybe @… knows.
This sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…
The 'higher ups' at most of the bigger workplaces don't care about you. They never have and never will. You gotta remember that. They only care about what they think looks best and what's best for their pockets, and they give zero fucks about you. So you gotta give zero fucks about them, in return.
me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets
What is behind Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, and the kidnapping of its president? Is it oil, is it power?
My article:
I conquer, therefore I am – the United States intervention in Venezuela
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/wo
Kristi Noem, Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, didn't know what Habeas Corpus was.
She literally thought it was the exact OPPOSITE of what it is & got embarrassed on the Senate floor.
#KristiNoem #trump
The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mens-fertility-nutrition/…
Mailbag: What system would fit personnel? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-system-would-fit-personnel
Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0
Join the Sylius team next Thursday for a 2025 recap and a sneak peek at what's in store for 2026.
I'm personally excited to see what they have planned, and I think you should be too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4FANNyWCg
Shedeur Sanders' metrics weren't very good, but what is correctable by next season? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6970820/2026/01/15/shedeur-sanders-low-metrics-what-is-correctable/
Fuck these vile monsters who attack innocent people. Fuck all of them. I don't care which faction they belong to. I wish I believed in a hell they could go to, but I wish them infinite cosmic horrors instead. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news
HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you know what you're doing:
- 👍 respond with `201` (not `200`) on a successful resource creation request
HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you really *don’t* know what you're doing:
- 👎 respond with `201` if an object with a key that conflicts with this resource creation request already exists
(Spoiler: respond with `409`; or at least a non-successful status so I don't have to parse it out of the human-readable `…
The last line: “‘a great level of deference’ is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground”.
What is the Insurrection Act, and can Trump use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/trump-insurrection-act-exp…
The last line: “‘a great level of deference’ is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground”.
What is the Insurrection Act, and can Trump use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/trump-insurrection-act-exp…
Interesting dynamic will be what happens when all of these criminal government agents realise what kind of accountability is waiting for them unless they solidify absolute power @… https://…
If your boyfriend is a liberal, you're single to me. What's he gonna do? Vote me out of your DMs? 🚩
Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes
Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
What a sweeping new review reveals about Tylenol use during pregnancy (Jess Craig/Straight Arrow News)
https://san.com/cc/what-a-sweeping-new-review-reveals-about-tylenol-use-during-pregnancy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p127#a260116p127
"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
https://scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learned-from-cancer-slides-shocked-researchers/
Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.
🎪What friendship with PUTIN is worth – MADURO knows #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/what-friendship-with-putin-is.html
Dolphins-Steelers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Pittsburgh's 28-15 win https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-steelers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-pittsburgh-s-28-15-win
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [Pulls Orac's key] They don't write poetry like that anymore. What this electronic pain is trying to say is-
TARRANT: -is that unless we get a break, there's going to be a fatal foul-up.
VILA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/52
What the Raiders Should Do About Maxx Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-offseason-means-maxx-crosby
None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…
What Do 2026 Mock Drafts Reveal About the Cowboys? https://insidethestar.com/what-do-2026-mock-drafts-reveal-about-the-cowboys
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Roberta Flack:
🎵 Compared to What
#RobertaFlack
https://jperiod.bandcamp.com/track/compared-to-what-f-roberta-flack
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZTEMmFm3FzfEtjqJN32c1
"Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it"
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
Craig Newmark shifts away from journalism as a primary focus of his philanthropy, saying "a lot of my efforts haven't been as effective as I'd like them to be" (Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy)
https://www.philanthropy.com/news/craigsli
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-what-destroying-the-vaccine-market-looks-like-moderna-flu-prasad-fda
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p5#a260215p5
Ja'Marr Chase on Bengals' offseason expectations: 'Everybody pretty much knows what we need' https://www.nfl.com/news/ja-marr-chase-on-bengals-offseason-expectations-everybody-pretty-much-knows-what-we-need
Raider Nation Makes It Clear on What They Want to See https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-nation-makes-clear-what-they-want
What defensive scheme makes most sense for Cowboys right now? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/what-defensive-scheme-makes-most-sense-dallas-cowboys-right-now
The US is not fit to regulate a sock drawer much less what goes into orbit.
A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: Thirty seconds to impact.
PLAXTON: [V.O.] One more connection to- [Her voice is cut off as Avon pushes some buttons.]
TARRANT: [To Avon] What are you doing?
AVON: Programing in the main circuit drive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/444
If Joe Biden's economy created only 130,000 jobs in a month
or inflation barely budged, as happened in January,
economists would have called it a disaster and demanded to know what the plan was.
Yet Trump who promised a booming economy and to end inflation, gets applause.
https://
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jordan GCZ:
🎵 I Said What I Said
#JordanGCZ
https://nerolirecords.bandcamp.com/track/jordan-gcz-i-said-what-i-said
Watch What They're Doing: Trump Threatens to Make War on the States (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watch-what-theyre-doing-trump-threatens-to-make-war-on-the-states
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p154#a260116p154
"Plenty of people saw Epstein for what he was and stayed far away. But for others, his proximity to the rich and the powerful were evidence that whatever he had done, it couldn’t be that bad. After all, look who he was dining with! The network made Epstein both legitimate and valuable. It enabled his abuses and, for a time, insulated him from their consequences."
**Opinion | Ro Khanna Is Shaken by What He’s Learned From the Epstein Files** - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/rdbFB#selection-865.100-865.463
Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings
An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/ha…
Rams vs. Bears odds: How to bet NFC Divisional Round matchup, what to know about each team
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-vs-bears-od…
Analyzing What the Raiders Have to Offer HC Candidates https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-analyzing-what-have-offer-hc-candidates
What would Harry Reid do? -- THE FIGHTER -- For the past year, Democrats ... (Samuel Benson/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2026/01/15/what-would-harry-reid-do-00732433
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p129#a260115p129
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Exactly. You have just made a prediction based on the known facts. A computer works on precisely the same principle.
BLAKE: But all you're saying is that prediction is not immutable fact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/23 B7B4
If you’re baffled by the chasm between “How could anyone support this kind of cruelty??” and “Society needs a Strong Father Figure with a firm hand,” well…
…look to who has endured abuse, who has only seen and abhorred abuse but not endured it, who has escaped abuse (and at what personal cost), who’s spent their life rationalizing and accommodating abuse, who is themselves an abuser.
Look at that, then look at what they think of Trump.
Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings
With a historic supermajority now secured, the Japanese
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Sanae Takaichi stands at its strongest position in decades.
The collapse of the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) in the same election has left Japan’s political landscape without its most prominent counterweight.
The question now is simple: what is left of Japan’s opposition?
Running under the slogan “Citizens First,” the CRA tried to appeal to voters with middle-ground messagi…
Texans vs. Patriots odds, picks: How to bet AFC divisional round matchup, what to know about betting each team
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-<…
Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593
Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593
Chiefs aftermath: What does Week 15 disaster mean for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, K.C. in 2026? https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-aftermath-week-15-disaster-kansas-city-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce-2026
Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/15/what-we-know-about-the-victims-of-the-bondi-beach-terror-attack
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p7#a251215p7
What’s Next for the Raiders: Pete Carroll, Tom Brady, and the NFL Draft QB Picture https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/what-is-next-las-vegas-pete-carroll-tom-brady-nfl-draft-qb-picture
'Extremely demoralizing': Republicans respond to the bombastic Wiles interview (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/16/why-vanity-fair-aides-and-allies-wonder-what-wiles-west-wing-were-thinking-extremely-demoralizing-republicans-respond-to-the-bombastic-wiles-interview-00693821
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p136#a251216p136
What pending Aaron Rodgers decision means for Steelers' Mike McCarthy, Will Howard in 2026
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-updates-aaron-rodgers-will-howard/
What is going on with Trevon Diggs and the Dallas Cowboys? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47315415/nfl-dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-injured-reserve
Month to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929
Month to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929
What's next for Dolphins after Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb releases? Tua Tagovailoa's future, new roster moves
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin
What we learned in NFL Week 15: Bills looked primed for playoffs, new reality for Chiefs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6890063/2025/12/15/nfl-week-15-takeaways-josh-allen-drake-maye-patrick-mahomes/
State of the Steelers: What organization's past tells us about Mike Tomlin's future https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47306098/state-pittsburgh-steelers-mike-tomlin-coach-present-future