Robb Knight
Maker of web things, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Cat dad and human dad.
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"People who use AI at work feel that they're more productive" is an argument I've been seeing in various forms lately, which, as a recommendation, is not far removed from "people on cocaine at parties feel that they're more interesting."
2025-07-02
your character is better than your encoding and that’s what really matters in 2025
2025-01-12
I’ve witnessed people that have birthed their own arch nemesis. You might birth the bane of your existence
2024-09-27
Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.
2024-07-05
"So, serverless runs on demand, only using resources when executing, and shuts down afterward. Clever caching is used to keep execution startup time to minimal."
"Yep!"
"So, it's PHP. You invented PHP."
2024-05-09
Alex Cox on Twitter:
I checked it out on Vision Pro launch day because that’s where most of the mainstream VR community still is, and it was like stepping into a dorm room filled with 45-year-old libertarians who are either arguing with one another or jacking off to a picture of Elon Musk or attempting both at the same time
you have to step gingerly around the cum filled floor just to find the people you actually follow only to see that older posts are just buried in ads for Draft Kings and mobile apps that make AI anime porn
2024-02-02
Meta vs Mastodon:
Mastodon is its own worst enemy. Users will kill it before Meta ever has a chance
2023-12-15
cryptocurrency is basically a bunch of people getting really excited to buy lotto tickets because the guy who owns the machine that prints lotto tickets told them he makes a lot of money on lotto tickets
2022-04-06
Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't know how anything works.
2021-09-03
imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like “i’d like to own this” and someone nearby went “give me 65 million dollars and i’ll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase” so you paid them and they went “here’s your receipt, thank you for your purchase” and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said “mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos” so if anyone wants to know who owns it they’d have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went “can i take the mona lisa home now?” and they went “oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn’t actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can’t take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though.” and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that’s sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.
unfortunately, if this doesn’t really make sense or seem like any logical person would be happy about this exchange, then you’ve understood it perfectly
2021-04-26
love reading about men in history like "unfortunately, he never found a wife :( his elaborate scarf collection sold for $1.2M in 2011. he and his closest male friend, Chauncey, with whom he shared a bed, died within weeks of one another. they were known for their dinner parties."
2019-12-30
Twitter is fun because you get to be like, “Ducks are good” and someone in your mentions will go, “Um, I’m sorry but my brother is married to a duck scientist and this is a harmful view” and then someone else pops up going, “Your silence about horses is extremely telling”
2019-06-07
"me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you
miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"
2019-03-19
You say: we’re trying for a child
I hear: my husbands been doing big huge cums in my pussy
2019-01-13
What scares me about people who watch Friends is that they say "Do you watch Friends" instead of "Have you watched Friends" implying they never stop watching Friends. They just keep continuously watching it over and over
2018-12-19
This Hacker News comment about Dropbox when it launched:
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
2007-04-05