Brooke Kuhlmann

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The Triptych Project has an official site now: https://triptychproject.org. I mentioned this a while back when writing about Big Sky Dev Con in 2024: https://alchemists.io/articles/big_sky_dev_con_2024

Happy this keeps moving forward (albeit slowly but any progress is good progress).

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Triptych Project

Been enjoying John Mauriello's work for a while but this video on
Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams really hit the mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvAQf1cnr8

Pay special attention to his call to action at the end. Very much echoes what I wrote in my previous post where the technology that we build should be used to enrich people's lives, not suppress or subjugate.

Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams

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A letter to John Ternus: https://marco.org/2026/04/01/letter-to-john-ternus

Well written and a powerful reminder that high quality software and hardware can be an amazing way in which to delight, bring joy, and enrich people's lives.

A letter to John Ternus – Marco.org

This is a stark visual reminder of corporate enshitification: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Historical GitHub Uptime Charts

View GitHub's monthly uptime between 2016 and 2026.

The #NoKings numbers for the third iteration this last weekend are impressive (even across multiple countries). Stephen Colbert does a great job capturing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7PYptcgOo&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv-fM9UEdiFLdVANgY2HHtJ8&index=2
Millions March Against Trump’s War & Deportations | Trump's Improv War | Global Helium Crisis

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Class variables are such a bane in Ruby. Doesn't help that Rails keeps promoting this practice: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21942

The unnecessary mutation is why I call this out as an antipattern and always leads to unwanted surprises: https://alchemists.io/articles/ruby_antipatterns#_class_variables

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Feature #21942: Allow reading class variables from non-main Ractors - Ruby - Ruby Issue Tracking System

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Holy hell, Republicans want to cut health care to continue to fund a senseless war:

"House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill that could provide as much as $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement."

Source: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2026/03/30/day-1896/

Day 1896: “Fraud and waste and abuse.”

Trump said his “preference” would be to “take the oil in Iran” and floated seizing Kharg Island; hackers linked to Iran accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account; House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill that could provide as much as $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement; the Department of Homeland Security remained shut down after 44 days, setting a record for the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history; the Trump administration’s Supreme Court case against birthright citizenship relies in part on legal arguments advanced by white supremacist and anti-Chinese activists in the late 1800s; Trump’s White House ballroom project includes a “massive” military complex under the site of the demolished East Wing; and 33% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, the lowest rating of his second term in office.

Matt Kiser

Such joy: https://lara-aigmueller.at/thoughts/leaving-the-ai-party. To quote directly, we should:

"[V]alue craftsmanship, individuality and honest, high-quality work."

Granted, I see value in LLMs as augmentation for the mundane and menial tasks but swapping out human creativity/ingenuity for pure unthinking regurgitation isn't the answer.

I've started adding folks, like this, to my second brain (i.e. Obsidian) for future collaboration/hiring. ⭐

I want to help build a community that cares (and sweats the details). 🚀

Why I am leaving the AI party after one drink - Thoughts - Lara Aigmüller’s personal website

Personal website of Lara Aigmüller. Thoughts about web frontend development, music, and more…

Flighty (https://flighty.com/airports): Provides real-time information on airport delays with search and even a TV mode. Worth adding to your #toolbox.
Flighty Airports Meltdown Map

Search any airport for real-time delays, weather, arrivals, departures, and performance insights powered by Flighty.

Flighty

Good turnout in Boulder. Glad we got to march through downtown. Lots of amazing signs. The papier-mâché puppets were a nice touch.

#NoKings