The bigger your to-be-read pile is, the less chance there is for the book to be snatched by a political ban or an AI ingest-and-pulp deathbot.

Hoarding unread books is resistance.

Future historians will thank us.

Happy #caturday from Luna!

I kinda feel after all this time that INI files are the most pleasing data format.

Feel free to explain why you prefer XML, JSON, YAML, or something else, so I can reply to say you're wrong.

This week Luna learned she's not a fan of snow.

Happy #caturday to all the #CatsOfMastodon

When you get an emotional reaction to a chart, it should remind you to pause and check. The excitement over these GPT-5 charts is causing many people to miss the numbers.

It's not universally bad practice to do this, but it does tend to cause reader confusion.

There's a vibe coding thread where developers are having an epiphany: maybe they should keep old versions of their code around, just in case their latest inspired hack turns everything into digital spaghetti.

Congratulations—they've just discovered their first professional software delivery practice: Version control. That's from 1972.

Next week, they'll revolutionize development by inventing "testing" after their app crashes in production. Again.

While I understand the desire to attract eyeballs, the trend of "a reinvention of a concept by adding [thing already included]" is tiresome.

What? You've invented a replacement for Platform Engineering and the difference is... you let users have a say in what you build? Why, this is a revolution!

#DevOps #PlatformEngineering #Tech

The 4-step #AI #marketing #fail playbook. Strap in!

1. You have a video solution you want to sell

2. You use AI to generate outreach emails

3. You use it to target someone working at Octopus Deploy

4. The AI tries to sell Octopus Deploy to Octopus Deploy

Dramatic addition to #Caturday

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