2026-07-27T05:01:49Z https://nostr.ae Iris https://nostr.ae/npub1wgwtv03p6gfd6fjssxtc6l4gfa8v94pnrl98zxscpvnwl7myz8uqrjv64j https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/112/952/288/468/998/668/original/13057fd4cb63d7d8.webp https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/112/952/288/468/998/668/original/13057fd4cb63d7d8.webp https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxhe6cujym6qjnzlaewtrwsw6x9dwt2dyvxglwjmfqg6wymvhs4vczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglss4x8ya An interesting factoid for those interested is that when I write, the categories of &#34;gets lots of readers&#34;, &#34;gets lots of email sign-ups&#34; and &#34;gets lots of reader mail&#34; are almost entirely disjoint. 2026-07-07T06:08:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8gckgc7ucnnctly0q623e5vxyymtsmhr5kdsxvu7ngxyj0pw3y8qzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsm32scv New article, as as promised, it&#39;s the Vonnegut one! This is one for those of us who feel like reality is killing us because it&#39;s so ugly and cheap:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/thompson-vonnegut-ice-9">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/thompson-vonnegut-ice-9</a> 2026-07-06T08:32:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgc9ypl50khy6lrjy3anu7nuf8gl7fwusvkm3a63z5trw6zj8jldszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglshfycn7 RE: <a href="https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116871738193741080">https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116871738193741080</a><br/><br/>I really do empathise, but I also think that being misread in bad faith is just part of being a writer. I&#39;ve had some truly hideous misreadings of my work, and well... I don&#39;t know whether an LLM can do shit to stop that without completely defanging my work?<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1q2m5ckurgadksktlxh86mrq6hjrd6ht7wqdvqzq3uw3h27da4x7qzfsxcj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1q2m…sxcj</a></span><br/> </div> I'm now in the habit of running my posts through an LLM just to check for blind spots or ways my words might be misunderstood. It’s actually proving to be helpful.<br/><br/>It feels like once your audience reaches a certain size, someone is guaranteed to misread you, sometimes in bad faith. Some people get upset at subtext that isn't even there. Avoiding ambiguous wording appears to be helping.<br/><br/>But I do appreciate the irony: trying to avoid conflict by using an LLM on the Fediverse is almost certainly going to spark a completely different argument. </blockquote> 2026-07-06T07:14:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszyskp74408zd25xc5c00evp3r33g029qvlxrdpnkujncavp3xeaqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsy36c4n I have to admit, it&#39;s mildly fascinating to me just how low the conversion rate to email subscribers is from Hackernews/Lobste.rs traffic is. I suspect the RSS subscriber number might be higher, but yeah... the conversion rate for Fedi traffic is much higher, and the same held true for Bluesky before stopped posting on that platform (it was *terrible* for my mental health) 2026-07-04T22:55:17Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8zt9hfcejc3y0szku6fe8kz4dhk4de9y04qejkdhjw27hvg9l37czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglshrpkvf RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116841974522150969">https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116841974522150969</a><br/><br/>Well, initial feedback from at least one person who signed up is good. <br/><br/>&#34;I’ve started reading and god it feels good to really use my brain again&#34; seems like a positive sign, I think.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1c8t5zhxsjlx2n022w0ejv2um7y6ah85z9vmws7l60mg8ejm56sxs4ndtrn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1c8t…dtrn</a></span><br/> </div> It feels odd to be doing this to say the least (I am, after all, doing something weirdly similar to the VC-backed startup thing), but I now have a landing page for my new education/professional development product up, which means that I'll be able to start selling it to like, teams and companies soon! Check it out here:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/arca">https://deadsimpletech.com/arca</a> </blockquote> 2026-07-02T07:28:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx0elh0qrqjw3gm2l9p7nrzjgwzgr3s5qyjq3j2gwl4ujrwhttdfgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls6waqu2 I think the trickiest thing to communicate to people in the Anglosphere at the moment, as an Eastern European, is not how *bad* things are but how quickly these bad things can change. I see a bunch of people saying that it will take multiple decades to fix the atrocities, especially the transphobic ones, that the Supreme Court has inflicted on us and... it will not. The cat&#39;s out of the bag. People *know what freedom and a good society look like*. They will not forget easily. 2026-07-01T07:57:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspyz4j785rkxdsavgx3el6hfdxm8g6j5650yc72u7u7exlxghpllgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls3egsu8 In other news, we&#39;ve made some enhancements to my partner&#39;s website! Next step; get orders and payments working.<br/><br/><a href="https://deathinchains.com/">https://deathinchains.com/</a> 2026-07-01T02:50:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvr46ptngf0n9fh4988uex9wdlzdwmn6pzkdhg00a8a5rued6dgrgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglspwfxr8 It feels odd to be doing this to say the least (I am, after all, doing something weirdly similar to the VC-backed startup thing), but I now have a landing page for my new education/professional development product up, which means that I&#39;ll be able to start selling it to like, teams and companies soon! Check it out here:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/arca">https://deadsimpletech.com/arca</a> 2026-07-01T00:50:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfz8dtwtq9q0nz3j06a9ghfnthvkc5z8cjy72x334ng4wrs6p20fczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsssau9j One of my least favourite things about LLMs is that we&#39;re learning, largely against our will, just how many truly feckless software devs there are out there 2026-06-29T02:21:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrakvlmylagc9tw7ptcrm4kapqgglwe6hdtwyxh88parau0nupwpczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls6xgkag An new post: this week I have written about the shortest, darkest days of the year and the ways in which we feel rather as though we&#39;re in a midwinter of tech:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter</a> 2026-06-22T10:03:18Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8mlptm859q820fj68xjk0wnpv7x8c9k85d9z2tj23f2lchap9k0qzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglskasuu3 OK, question: why is it that the kind of thing I think of as a light article that I can kinda just write and publish for the week is consistently seen by others as a &#34;deep read&#34;? Not that I&#39;m not flattered, but I&#39;m not usually shooting for depth, exactly 2026-06-02T07:32:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8mml7zcsd2e4mk96zy42znurpyc9jmxe35v56j4rkwg8gm7l9tfszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsdf0cez RE: <a href="https://mastodon.nz/@cestfleuve/116677864750365593">https://mastodon.nz/@cestfleuve/116677864750365593</a><br/><br/>We absolutely fucking *should* do this. The current state of codebases in the public sector is... not good, and they&#39;re only going to get worse.<br/>nostr:note142qps0a2jqvcytyma0tf3kzvflktdwguykm2svpjv2jsam2upv4qewkjl4<br/> 2026-06-02T03:18:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvxcs8p2pue6ym3sqfz9zswe9dgqx2qsf662yzwd3r5xa00v7w2fqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsxlxhej This week&#39;s article: I&#39;ve had some thoughts about competence, how it works and why it&#39;s best understood as a value-system threat:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence</a> 2026-06-01T06:30:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyskzazmt2m5ahqrpx2mtnpu8j38ju7x7c74qpwdaddh9v3gjnjwqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsvrzf3l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq98gcqzu2y0e3dsw988cqw67j7e30dxn8qe9yp9r265wvh308tzsc7yck0'>nevent1q…yck0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m still in the process of building billing out, to say nothing of marketing, but my teaching resources and exercises are very well-regarded and built, first and foremost with learning in mind, not as a reference. For the moment, then, I&#39;m putting an offer out. If anyone donates to my writing fund between now and next Friday and lets me know via email that they did, I&#39;ll give them complimentary access to my resource repository for six months. You can do that below:<br/><br/><a href="https://donate.stripe.com/6oE2a30hh3my2reeUY">https://donate.stripe.com/6oE2a30hh3my2reeUY</a> 2026-05-29T06:57:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq98gcqzu2y0e3dsw988cqw67j7e30dxn8qe9yp9r265wvh308tzszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsau4xq6 Four things things are currently true. I need money to pay for rent, food, parking and all the exigencies of life. The job market at the moment is in the shitter. While I&#39;m landing coaching and contracting work, that takes time and effort to ramp up. And I&#39;m sick to death of doing what you have to do to make money from writing (harass people constantly). <br/><br/>What I&#39;ve thus done is set up a resource section on my website where people can subscribe to to get access to the teaching resources I make. 2026-05-29T06:53:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspkrlnyc3ksy9et02cfdxw484wh2jw2hacfv2qmk53dnlx3vp2k3czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls82qmyc My second article in three days! This bounces off <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fw8fdzg0mcfqvgat6a79t2r8syldeny3yjrtfzckt33pat59a7hstjg7yy" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ali Alkhatib</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fw8…g7yy</span>)</a></span>&#39;s recent article to discuss where exactly in the tech space is ground for LLMs to grow. My conclusion is in the title:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/docs-shit-bad-at-teaching">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/docs-shit-bad-at-teaching</a> 2026-05-23T10:18:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd9uvrwzhql5tgdf7phzrj8qqlenn7dfmrdn8lymmfrz9w9dy9e3czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsn5amks Apparently knowing anything is now woke and gay. We shall see how this works for the countries and companies that adopt this belief. 2026-05-20T05:38:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8rflq249ht4m6n9cn55sjulp4nqngftscug44w7uctxnvfd3j64czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsrfgzlv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmethxntuclpuul2qr49rhwkmck6qym2cd0k5k3mln0z8rf9smhgpssj8n'>nevent1q…sj8n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Celery is handy: you can get a lot of use out of a few plants for stocks, stews, mirepoix and such. It&#39;s one of the few vegetables where you could actually plausibly grow everything you need. 2026-05-19T04:28:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8vk3zeu75nvwqvmukrh99u20hvur4n92sm3te6t7fp8cyvr4rktczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglswq6vkz Today in &#34;cursed marketing techniques that Iris is trying out&#34;: personality quizzes!<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/quizzes/whats-your-technical-character-class">https://deadsimpletech.com/quizzes/whats-your-technical-character-class</a> 2026-05-15T04:07:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrhwnsmnpdrumrjvv3qujz3nedn750520tn5x2m867msdgvdqpkvgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsq3ldkf Well, I tried Claude Code. It&#39;s less bad than GLM, but alas, I didn&#39;t get the &#34;Hallelujah! I see the light&#34; moment that would let me become an AI grifter. Pity, really. <br/><br/>I did notice an interesting thing though: the people who get the best results from coding agents tend to be the people who think they&#39;re awful, which says some interesting things about engineering judgement. Read the article here:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/engineering-judgement-claude-paradox">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/engineering-judgement-claude-paradox</a> 2026-05-05T05:12:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp6gemgwuap73p56w2qjwvscn92mtrv4evz9cdkdqdyf7y4n7wnmgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglswew85v Look, I hate it, you hate it, we all hate it. Unfortunately, thanks to the general state of funding for artists, creatives and such in the anglosphere, it&#39;s also unavoidable.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re thinking about supporting an independent writer in keeping a roof over their head, this would be a very convenient time to do it: I need to pay rent and pay for monthly parking for our vehicle in a few days, and I&#39;m not entirely clear as to how I&#39;m going to do it. 2026-04-30T09:12:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszrw0w86zcfh03hcshe4cdanltrtzepdg2lexcmmaz3z47nkwqnzszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsty7am8 It is once again time for me to reintroduce myself, I think. I&#39;m Iris: I write a blog at deadsimpletech.com/blog about the impacts of the tech industry on culture and humanity in general. <br/><br/>I also work as a technical consultant and coach/mentor in the data, infrastructure and web spaces.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/446/935/681/458/954/original/ab8057c111ac56a8.png"> <br/> 2026-04-22T06:32:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9pdm9zgu54svlksl9mgh3fyun0kt04mlakupaqz0d0v8f7jy8xaqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsan0m5u A new article: this one&#39;s an extension of last year&#39;s article on the subject of wank, and it discusses why wank is discursively effective despite being annoying as hell. Many thanks to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hw6w4cuakh2scg7n63sq07kxs5cep5gsh7m3edpgxz34ef90ez7s2vgked" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Dawn Ahukanna</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hw6…gked</span>)</a></span> and [@whitequark](<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark">https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark</a> ) for productive conversations on here that led to me developing some of these ideas:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/why-redacted-wins">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/why-redacted-wins</a> 2026-04-13T05:48:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs882yxdcnwfxmg7cllkj5vzl54tn20mtxuq0jhsrqaz8trcrrhdzczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls87g268 A new article, in which Iris attempts to persuade investors and people in the general tech and startup ecosystem in New Zealand that they need to build a lot more affordable housing if they want to get the kind of ecosystem that they&#39;ve expressed a desire for:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/startups-affordable-housing-new-zealand">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/startups-affordable-housing-new-zealand</a> 2026-04-07T06:15:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgyw20cv6n456yxddgdglllnv96ktzmues2ergnuywlssmttjxpeszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsdj2wlr It is surprisingly hard to express &#34;the primary demographic for startup founders at the moment is nepobaby failsons&#34; in a way that&#39;s appropriate for consumption by investors. 2026-04-07T03:02:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9uj9yg9d6nt8n7gftdhe9rap7krml2sear0vcxs5d8fe328ckrwczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls894gmq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgarwc5rzrlnt2xs7g82kkny8t9hz5emggnx4w9vtrw75mw9nmyaccdkhut'>nevent1q…khut</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>rent. I can never be both. If I&#39;m struggling to feed myself and pay my bills, I can&#34;t be the person who writes those articles that everyone shares. If I&#39;m the person who writes those articles, I can&#39;t be struggling as much as I am because I&#39;m clearly fairly capable and socially adjusted.<br/><br/>I guess what I&#39;d say for these days is that we can be *both*. I can be smart *and* need the help of readers to pay rent: neither invalidates the other. And yes, it should be different. But it isn&#39;t. 2026-03-31T08:21:08Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgarwc5rzrlnt2xs7g82kkny8t9hz5emggnx4w9vtrw75mw9nmyaczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsyx3edf Today is the transgender day of visibility. I don&#39;t know what to say more globally on the matter, but personally: there is a part of me that is the heterodox tech thinker. I write articles: I get quite a few views, I am popular. Then there&#39;s the trans side of me: the person who can&#39;t get a job however good and socially well-adjusted I am. Those parts don&#39;t often cohabit in people&#39;s minds. I can be the clever person who write the things that people love, or I can be the trans girl trying to make 2026-03-31T08:18:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvlpwklh73ekh7dk22c04ga6k7gv3msvc2mqxlg3ld6yn9uygh6fqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsr8wtzl RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311817974687217">https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311817974687217</a><br/><br/>Resources are running low, rent needs to be paid and the relevant support systems are distinctly unhelpful, so I&#39;m going to be pushing out more LinkedIn-relevant articles for the next little while. Apologies to those who read my work for the critical essays.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1zzx3zmd4depjlffa6du4asr788jvpppuhqy5y2kdtjapavy5k3tq5vtrat" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1zzx…trat</a></span><br/> </div> A new article, this one about the application of Clausewitz's concept of friction to Software Engineering:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering</a> </blockquote> 2026-03-29T09:45:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspprg3dk6kuse0557ax727cplrnexqss7tsz2z9tx4ews7kz2tg4szypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsx99fh3 A new article, this one about the application of Clausewitz&#39;s concept of friction to Software Engineering:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering</a> 2026-03-29T09:44:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgmkf2369a9ucjkw3pzn96pc8r0v34nwt3exu80n07hvjvt7gykqqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls4afqmy New article: today we talk about the psychological impacts of functioning in a thoroughly enshittified economy where everything seems to be routed through tech:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/digital_acedia">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/digital_acedia</a> 2026-03-26T04:35:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspzkwz608vrqhdhjkjx53r7x0ljcsa9am22pfuup6fdyyzzjjug2qzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsxaaphk It is once again time to do one of my semi-regular fundraising posts wherein, if you wish to support my writing and analytical work, you can do so at the links below! Moving is expensive, and the more I get through these channels the more essays you can expect, so... there is incentive, I guess?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog">https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog</a><br/><a href="https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/">https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/</a><br/><a href="https://donate.stripe.com/6oE2a30hh3my2reeUY">https://donate.stripe.com/6oE2a30hh3my2reeUY</a> 2026-03-23T07:37:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2qyphnw8rpv6gzuwuvdckw8mudwh4d6l889jx36f087j2dtfm4tszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglswzg7yp I&#39;ve finally, in my extremity, actually produced some advertising material for my coaching offerings (it was like pulling teeth, but so it goes).<br/><br/>If anyone feels like spreading it around judiciously, it might prove helpful.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/265/797/922/320/338/original/7c39c4d599d10a87.png"> <br/> 2026-03-21T06:44:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvd495fld0wfdlcc697sykxpjjwe87ulkjdjaapwq39wj0v2kd6ygzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsgrfhp6 This bitch has a library card again! For a good library, even!<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/241/701/074/563/277/original/f1b335239a742bce.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-17T00:33:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfcszz9lfk0nkul00d20fnf38rt33r0fr09pgfj7ncv4scrgungjszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls0ysmhd New post, and this one&#39;s definitely one of my weirder ones: it&#39;s about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria</a> 2026-02-15T08:43:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9z8epnjq7ttj90wlg556sc9nnrupfnv20u2gewqashfzkpjw255gzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsunlt70 RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116072105823598977">https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116072105823598977</a><br/><br/>You should definitely support Glyph: they do really good work and are clever and such. And I&#39;m not just saying that because they&#39;ve been complimentary about *my* work in the past.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1anup75uy86yh2q2wqgxafa2kx2wtseqjgmxtvdfkml43qmsfdm8sfw3ke2" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1anu…3ke2</a></span><br/> </div> look I'm tired and it's been a long week and doing a bunch of boring, tedious, and unpleasant shit for my health has got me really depressed so just pretend i wrote a compelling call to action here and go ahead and subscribe, either on patreon above or at <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/glyph">https://github.com/sponsors/glyph</a> . I write and maintain a lot of weird software and blog posts and they're good so subscribe </blockquote> 2026-02-15T01:46:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswemhg008c99lnxaty9fht4fc4qktnwz2qledht3yuu4f2acuawugzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsuvrsdc I&#39;ve written my thoughts on what you, as a software professional, can do to make yourself less susceptible to being displaced by AI in our current wave of tech madness. In short, learn your tools well, build and deploy things as often as you can, don&#39;t avoid the unfashionable work and learn a field that isn&#39;t writing software.<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/ai_proof_engineer">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/ai_proof_engineer</a> 2026-01-30T07:45:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgc3sxrt0l8zqltawqpht60r3fh5yl3lkjr42ed3mmsq0g3gwcq7czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsnj6all I finally have a page on my website for my coaching program! I do one-on-one and small group sessions where you learn engineering soft skills such as git and the use of the linux command line. We offer a web dev flavour using Astro and an R one using Quarto. <br/><br/> <a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/coaching">https://deadsimpletech.com/coaching</a> 2026-01-25T21:30:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2wgtuu8q2gp3slpvhcd89yywhlnf7q7tjpevdxjm29y4ddhjqesszypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsrg7zlt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8gam0s9kcarqqw0jpqxac5awy0dhua3y076hndzuvcphzu46kfckstzsz'>nevent1q…tzsz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hate to break it to you, but I&#39;m already getting &#34;you didn&#39;t use the right models!&#34; and &#34;clearly you prompted it wrong&#34; 2026-01-13T21:35:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst7nct8sva63kvrj49jp0udpy8hu0tza9gpkf8klq72h9djnw345szypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsuuqs3y OK, so apparently the way to do well on Mastodon is to post about R, software engineering and DevOps, and the way to do well on Bluesky is to post interesting essays about the social analysis of tech. I have not yet figured out how to do well on LinkedIn. 2025-12-15T06:01:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs85rnw2vn3w902kepqygg495t9jkaukevgs8avvc0ykf3cupqz6gqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsdru6n6 Alright, another one of the &#34;applying Clausewitz to tech&#34; posts is done! This one&#39;s about how failed software projects are almost always *strategic* failures rather than simply tactical ones:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/failed_software_projects">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/failed_software_projects</a> 2025-12-04T05:20:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszvnjk5xtgxyz05cjcf4utdzy3k76aje5tjcnj8k62u9tmddrf0zgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsk4dxm2 A new article: long, strange and about Gravity&#39;s Rainbow:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/schwarzgerat">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/schwarzgerat</a> 2025-08-09T05:25:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstxhlgts5cga3av3ju2cz97g88h65682vrn9enzjhjy7fdy648hxczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsev590j It&#39;s been almost a year since I started writing regularly and (partially related) promoting my professional consulting services. I&#39;ve done an awful lot to try and change myself and become a better businesswoman in that time, and while I&#39;ve made some progress, I think I&#39;m forced to face the fact 2025-07-16T00:18:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgm6xfryqr3y037sady3r4rr355ves0n9yeuz6mzman6kkdjsye4szypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsplkafv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstn8xvl3mdhxp039wllqdvrtm4maerkd7wn0xs7lyxlzzuuntcw5gdpjdvc'>nevent1q…jdvc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Am I missing something stupid here, or is Forgejo really like this? 2025-06-28T05:37:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstn8xvl3mdhxp039wllqdvrtm4maerkd7wn0xs7lyxlzzuuntcw5gzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsmw45gm So, trying to push to the Codeberg container registry as part of some client work<br/><br/>The Codeberg registry only accepts image names in the form of &lt;domain&gt;/&lt;user&gt;/&lt;image&gt;<br/><br/>However, container image names don&#39;t support upper-case values<br/><br/>Both my username and the username of the client have upper-case values in them<br/><br/>It appears that my username might have locked me out of using the container registry 2025-06-28T05:37:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz6h9jk7uve86qe2j98s5hpp4h8r4c8pnqk4v66mk9h9jlkvl3lpqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglspw8c4l Understanding that the USA isn&#39;t the only meaningful country in the world seems to be a real stretch for a lot of Americans at the moment. 2025-03-02T02:22:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0nz422xjjtf88qegjvz67asnydd70xykvlxtnxn59a2xftvy9u9czypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsck2fcm Today&#39;s post: not my best work, because what I&#39;m writing about is so deeply stupid that it&#39;s hard to formulate a coherent critique. Still, I think our usual AI critic crowd might like parts of it:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/licking_ai_boot">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/licking_ai_boot</a> 2025-02-04T01:29:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq8ptz5t6kg6l28xyjj0w3ujadfj5stme4gsjqqs22k5zk8q5craczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls67tdqc <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hr7087sk4yxl25nmx9c42p0zgk5kyfyvar5xeklezs23hjuenr7qr3jxyc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Baldur Bjarnason</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hr7…jxyc</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>Wait, you&#39;ve been following me? Damn, I&#39;m deeply flattered. I love your blog! 2024-12-17T03:04:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxpq7mnxn4syqzhcqstyx4n5a34zupmvslp0xej9khxdyw6p9vqvczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglshvwl4w This one just keeps getting more and more relevant in some uncomfortable ways:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/fascism_mirror">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/fascism_mirror</a> 2024-12-16T23:13:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrsymfykj3rhte04jdddw4jpuavqymawp7ggg7aq8qth3uvc7f3xqzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsf4y9qs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zuxh9cvz4sxxyql03efvkyrq3yekj2rgwfnvlm6cnxrl5sdt57q5e9rc5'>nevent1q…9rc5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Kinda? Unfortunately the weekend is the only time when I have undisturbed time to think, so I end up doing most of my work then. 2024-12-05T21:40:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswxhewduac7gulju28xdqxf2kuhp5gpsg2ct2wlle5jjwk0htnhkgzypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsglsw3kntm A new post! This one, I&#39;m sure, will get very normal responses on LinkedIn:<br/><br/><a href="https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/scrumlord_regime">https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/scrumlord_regime</a><br/><br/>#agile #uspol 2024-11-17T21:48:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvm3gjep7m86wt68m2t9g25j699qmlhe7r5jm4ydsvkx3kmdrsvdczypeped37y8fp9hfx2zqe0rt74p85ask5xv0u5ug6rq9jdmlmvsgls5q2qf0 We need to learn history and the classics in large part, I think, because it disabuses us of ideas about our uniqueness. Our unique moral goodness, our unique depravity, our uniquely terrible ideas... they all fall away in the light of ten thousand years. And once we&#39;re no longer uniquely brilliant or uniquely terrible or uniquely whatever, our current problems start seeming small enough to tackle. 2024-10-14T01:59:34Z