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One Dallas Cowboys Player Who Just Dodged a Major Draft-Day Bullet https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-dallas-cowboys-player-who-just-dodged-major-draft-day-bullet

I plugged the new set of power slugs into my inlines this morning, first time I’d had to in over a year of hard riding. Those things have morphed everything everywhere that needed power. But inline skates were my choice for getting around on my day job, delivering shit all over. Nobody knows where they came from either. Just showed up. Aliens is my bet. Sneaky bastards, they are.
#FlashFiction

A feature I'm in: Dependent's Day, a rom-com where she takes him as a dependent on her taxes and hilarity ensues.
If you're looking for a comedy: #film

Another long day at the polls yesterday. Arrived 5:50 am, left at 9:10 pm (polls open 7 to 7). 704 ballots cast at my precinct. Steady all day. I don’t think anyone waited more than 5 minutes to check in.
Unfortunately, GA is one of the very few states that requires runoffs in races where nobody got 50.0001% or more of votes in a given race, so we’ll do this all again in 4 weeks.
Still an important job and I’m happy to do my part.

A bombshell claim, stating that FBI Director Kash Patel will be fired within five weeks, surfaced on Saturday.
This comes a day after The Atlantic reported that the 46-year-old was ‘paranoid’ about losing his job
and had a ‘freak out’ episode this month.
The publication further cited sources and current and ex officials to add that Patel is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication.

'Kash Patel has five weeks': Bombshell firing claim follows FBI's chief's ‘freak off’ response
A bombshell claim, stating that FBI Director Kash Patel will be fired within five weeks, surfaced on Saturday

Posted my #job listing a week ago.
- Within 24 hours, got 50 applications, more than >50% from just one country, along with more than 80 LinkedIn friend requests, unsolicited messages.
- The next few day, got a bunch of AI-written cover letters, including several with the same exact line.
The last three days - zero applications from that country, zero AI applications.

So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.

I know many folks who do embedded or systems programming where efficiency is very important.
I'm at the other end of the extreme, data analytics, where I implore my peers to put their energy into ensuring correctness in data & methodology, and add controls to detect problems. Once generally efficient techniques are learned, mostly ignore runtimes.
Oh, you shaved 30 minutes off a 60 min monthly job that runs at 3 am on the 10th day, with no downstream dependencies. Uh cong…

The real talk is I use claude code all day at work because I didn't want to loose my job and every developer at my company that started using it was accomplishing more things faster.
It feels bad to say but it often codes better and faster then I ever have and can look at dependencies to understand how they work faster then I ever could.
I'm lucky I know code well enough to see where it has made mistakes. I'm lucky to have a job.

@… yours is almost certainly functioning far better than mine :-)
I woke up maybe an hour ago. I'll begin my day job around seven hours from now.
#tinnitus

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

I'm spending the day refactoring a big data analytics job that runs monthly that was written by an associate a couple years ago.
The report is highly used, which is great, but the code is... not great.
1/x
#ScottProgramming #ScottComputerProgramming

A little discouraged this afternoon as I spent part of the day adding extension wire into the 2nd pump as I had the first.
Two tries on both ends splicing in the cord and both times the pump fails to start with a low voltage on the pump-side error. 😢
Hate losing a day… but also unsure where the problem is. If it’s the pump, my splices, or the quality of the extension cord spliced into it (it is the other half of the same cord used to extend the first pump.) Really hope it is not the first! But the other two options suck too because it is an annoying job to do the splices.
Bummer.
Also after the foaming in, it looks like I still missed a significant gap somewhere. Only redirected about half the water. There is a lot more coming down to the end of the waterfall which is good. Still lots coming out the bottom under the flat rocks.
I think I am going to try splicing in a newer extension cord another day since that will kind of answer both the splicing and cord questions at once.
For now though, no extra bottom poolpond circulation/sprayers, just the main pump. And I still have 1.25 cans of foam to use, so I will plan for another day of foaming when I can take a super close second look at where the water is going that it shouldn’t.
Can’t all be successes. Like computer stuff 😝
Onward!
My outdoor office was fun tho. 😊
#poolpond #backyardProject
#diy #pondlife #success #failure #life

Tyler Guyton reacts to Cowboys opening up left tackle competition https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-guyton-reacts-to-cowboys-opening-up-left-tackle-competition

Listening to an AI Podcast with a somewhat famous mathematician and they still talk about Twitter by which they mean current day X.
Feels like complete denial of the truth. These dudes are using the illusion that they are still posting on Twitter to protect their brains from the reality of what they are actually doing.
Amazing how 50K followers make people whose job it is to seek the truth (no matter how hard it is) ignore that other uncomfortable but obvious truth. No Cognitive dissonance?

In summary then, it is indeed quite like being at school. Half hour lessons on things that probably won't ever actually be useful to know in your particular job of varying levels of interest. Mostly pretty low interest honestly. Bumping into colleagues between lessons.
Learned the names of a couple of tools I might try. One google search would have gotten me those but I guess it's a question of thinking to look for them.
If you can judge the mood of an industry from a random selection of talks from a single conference then the industry is very optimistic that they can make AI write a lot of software.
It seems to think this is likely to mean fewer programmers rather than there being more software meaning more workers.
It wasn't as AI heavy as I thought when I first glanced at the program. Managed to mostly be not-ai I think.
Nobody talking about the ethical implications or suggesting joining a union and only one talk about the environment issue at all, it not really noting how much power the industry is about to take.
Liked having a few meals in amserdam with colleagues I never usually see (mostly remote workers, including me). The boss is pretty good at picking people really.
Get a day or so of holiday now too.
#devWorld