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| bsky | https://bsky.app/profile/snen.dev |
| github | https://github.com/snendev/ |
Ok I know everything's been wild the last ::checks notes:: 96 hours but the farm news is absolutely buggin right now.
Farmers are one of Trump's core constituencies. He wrecked their industry during his first term, and they mostly sat silent out of loyalty. This time is VERY different.
Preamble: Yes this is all part of the "let's move fast & shock them into submission" program.
Take a deep breath. This is just info on where we're at!
Lot of absolutely wild stuff lately. But now for something completely different: some #gamedev
I've been working for a couple months on this video about rock-paper-scissors. I really enjoy analyzing "fundamental" games like this. Hopefully interesting to someone!
With that done, I just want to shout out the @bevy's new Titanium tier sponsor, ScoreWarrior (https://scorewarrior.com/). That's $6000 / month ($72k a year!!) that we can use to pay for and support the ongoing development of #bevy.
Super exciting to have a headlining game studio; what a vote of confidence :D We absolutely adore our CAD and simulation users, but it means a lot to be judged "worth seriously exploring and funding" for commercial #gamedev. Really curious to hear their feedback!
The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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What a fantastic quote:
> We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI.
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> We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference.
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> Every time we let AI solve a problem we could’ve solved ourselves, we’re trading long-term understanding for short-term productivity. We’re optimizing for today’s commit at the cost of tomorrow’s ability.
source: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers?utm_source=changelog-news
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.
Recent tweets by Elon Musk, Libs of Tiktok, Mario Nawfal, and others have claimed that Wikipedia is spending “$50 million for DEI”, misrepresenting Wikipedia’s actual budget and financial statements to claim Wikipedia is now “Wokepedia”.
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The Bevy Foundation is now a 501(c)(3) Public Charity!
This is huge news for us. Read our announcement post to understand why!
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