Dan Dean

@dandean@indieweb.social
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Mostly unprofessional venting. Run!

Staff Software Engineer at JOB.

Previously: Platform Tooling at #Splice, Frontend at Simple (the bank), WordFly, and POP, and long-ago art director at #Fantagraphics Books.

Played drums in #SharksKeepMoving, #Nineironspitfire, and #Screwjack, and session drums for #RockyVotolato.

Trained in #photography. Exhibited interactive installations. Hobbyist in #ceramics.

Black Lives Matter. Trans rights are human rights. DEI is good, actually.

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Dan Dean13h ago

1. Ezra Klein makes me gag
2. I really appreciate being able to hear so much of what Sarah McBride has to say

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000713219594

Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 06/17/2025 · 1h 35m

Apple Podcasts
Dan Dean18h ago
Show threadRobert Prehn18h ago
@dandean Yep. "Abolish ICE" is my floor. What I actually want is more like "abolish ICE, pass a constitutional amendment to prevent it from ever being recreated, and try everyone involved from bottom to top for crimes against humanity."
Dan Dean19h ago
"Abolish ICE" is not a radical statement, it's bare minimum defense of Democracy.
Dan Dean1d ago
Glyph1d ago
after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead
Show threadDan Dean1d ago

but also I don't drive nazi cars and a whole lot of people are like "<shrug> I don't get why everything's so bad!"

things are bad because of people's everyday choices. that is why things are bad.

Dan Dean1d ago
it is to the point now that i am legitimately shocked when someone shares a link to X like "hey check this out" cause i don't hang out at nazi bars and it's weird that they do
Show threadDan Dean1d ago
this profession is unserious
Show threadDan Dean1d ago
in order to be more productive I just make sudo the default and remove all the firewalls
Dan Dean1d ago

self-owned as a service https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

We correctly realized "move fast and break things" was a terrible approach, and yet...

The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Dan Dean1d ago
B.R.E.A.M – Billionaires Ruin Everything Around Me