Notices by Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)

Nothing more punk rock than voting... and I voted as hard as I could for Michael Tubbs as Lt. Gov of California. A truly great person and a strong, empathetic leader.

people still on substack are like "(fetches fainting couch) but mah clicks! my metrics!" You know what, fuck your clicks, fuck your metrics, and FUCK YOU. Grow a backbone, you absolute cowards. I do not, and will not, give any quarter to fundamental assaults on human dignity and civil rights.

"I love a good man outside the law just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law" -- Woody Guthrie

@nikitonsky Be sure to kneel before Claude, the cult of sentience... https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116475647859566242

@heidilifeldman cc @jwz look man, I'm ready for two countries. Fuck SCOTUS. That's no longer the United States I believe in. I dissent... permanently. California should secede... anything else is utter cowardice at this point.

If you write blogs (or pick synonym of choice) online, do you use LLMs? And if so, how? https://forms.gle/RAK8sTPF8Ey24Ehs6

Why does Steam let me gift Windows-only games to Mac users? I don't get it.

LinkedIn is one of my favorite remaining social networks. Thanks Reid, U D MAN

"A recent 2026 empirical study titled "Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering" (published on arXiv/ResearchGate) explicitly tested LLMs on codebase comprehension. The researchers concluded that high performance often "results from verbatim reproduction of Stack Overflow answers rather than genuine reasoning." " https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403262523_Beyond_Code_Snippets_Benchmarking_LLMs_on_Repository-Level_Question_Answering

You can count on Misanthropic. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Raising the minimum wage, unless you ask sketchy bought-and-paid-for economists, turns out to be a good thing, actually: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html

@carnage4life anyone who trusts Misanthropic about anything will live to regret it. On the continuum of evil, this company is damn close to Larry Ellison, aka Palpatine.

I’ve been saying for a long time that decentralization is the way to go. We can and should have sane centralized services, of course, but it’s imperative that we also build decentralized services which empower users and give them control, rather than treating them like digital sharecroppers. That’s what our Discourse project is all about. I propose collective ownership of the content and the communities we build online. Yeah, it’s more work, it’s not “free” (sorry not sorry), but I have some uncomfortable news for you: those so-called “free” services aren’t really free.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-fight-for-the-users/

I don't make a big deal about it, but one of the reasons I donated to Mastodon is to improve the UI, and the stellar work of @imanijoy is a direct result 🤩 https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116302074492502983

Sometimes, yet again, there is cat

@ayo @elk I would like popular UI innovations in Elk to be folded into Mastodon proper (the web client should be default awesome) and would be happy to help fund this

I'm getting real tired of this "we must change the establishment by being the establishment" bullshit.

"The founders of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States, cite Mondragon as a key inspiration." that's amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

@Gargron yeah it's the "perfect album" metric I am going for, specifically

name a musical album you listen to, more or less, once every day. Strict ruleset. You REALLY listen to it every day, unless life intervenes, as it is wont to do