David Abram 🐊 (@devabram) | nitter

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David Abram 🐊

@devabram

Sep 19

T-Rexes Matter More Than People in the Aggregate

I recently had a back and forth with some idiot on X about how nobody cares about insects, whether my position that T-Rexes are extremely cool, humans basically suck, and any sufficiently motivated

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Jun 28

I Don't Trust Tasteful People.

"Taste is more important than ever" might be the most distasteful thing to say right now. It sounds like an "Agile Coaching Fundamentals" conference tagline. It wants to be deep, but mostly virtue

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Apr 14

Your Git History is a Disgusting Overcooked Diff Soup

Who remembers SourceForge? I do. That was a time when every open source project worked more or less like Linux still does. You’d find a project on SourceForge, download a tarball, make changes, and

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Apr 10

The Case for Engaging with Bullshit and Nonsense

I make my kids bored on purpose. They start fighting the boredom; invent games, build strange worlds, create structure out of nothing. Boredom fuels them. And they will do that until they get access

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Apr 2

I'm Not Sold on Autonomous Coding Agents, and It's Not Clanker's Fault

These are my notes from messing with autonomous coding agents. Slightly dramatized. I left out the worst solutions I tried. You are welcome. It's also not an April's fools post. I haven't gone insane

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David Abram 🐊

@devabram

Mar 23

The machine didn't take your craft. You gave it up.

The woodworker had a way of running his fingers along the grain before making the first cut. A ritual -- the wood had something to say, and he was listening, and he loved it. Not the completed chair,

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@devabram

Jan 21

Metaboarphosis

I went to sleep after eating a piece of fried chicken. I remembered the crunch, the way it caught in my throat for a moment longer than it should have. There was a brief pain, sharp but easy to

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