#techculture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techculture, aggregated by home.social.
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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
https://breck.lol/plMakers.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316888
#HackerNews #quirkyhomepages #programminglanguages #techculture #webdevelopment #personalbranding
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Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960155
#HackerNews #bikesheds #farewell #techculture #softwaredevelopment #community
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Uncertainty is the new normal. This piece explores how technology leaders stay calm, decisive, and trusted when disruption never stops. #TechLeadership #LeadershipInUncertainty #LeadingThroughDisruption #DigitalTransformation #StrategicLeadership #ResilientSystems #TechnologyStrategy #InnovationLeadership #LeadershipIntegrity #ResponsibleTech #DigitalGovernance #PublicSectorTechnology #CloudLeadership #TechCulture #ChangeLeadership #FutureOfWork #CIOLeadership #CTOLeadership #EnterpriseTechnology
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Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016)
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/silicon-valley-has-an-empathy-vacuum
#HackerNews #SiliconValley #Empathy #Vacuum #TechCulture #SocialCommentary #2016Insights
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Apparently I'm not a woman because I use Linux
https://danielle.bearblog.dev/apparently-im-not-a-woman-because-i-use-linux/
#HackerNews #Linux #Women #TechCulture #GenderEquality #Feminism
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Reject AI! (Also them: ‘Hey Siri, remind me to reject AI’)
#ai #irony #technology #satire #humor #modernlife #digital #protest #society #innovation #paradox #thoughtful #design #visualart #techculture #reflection #awareness #smarttech #automation #critique
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Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/09/#documentation-wins-2
#HackerNews #programming #documentation #collaboration #softwaredevelopment #techculture
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We spent 30 years building a human-readable internet. Now we're rebuilding it for bots. Coders can't work without #AI but bosses want AI to replace them. AI agents cheat our tests and we give them more autonomy. The Vatican is advising Anthropic while Illinois mandates audits.
The contradictions aren't bugs. They're the system.
This week's Byte Of Truth:
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In a groundbreaking revelation sure to shake absolutely no one to their core, Leo's debut manifesto heroically takes on the delusional tech prophets. 🤖✨ Meanwhile, readers are left battling the real messianic enemy: their browser settings. 🍪🔧
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism #techculture #delusionalprophets #browserissues #LeoManifesto #groundbreakingrevelation #HackerNews #ngated -
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-just-say-no-engineer-was-a-zirp-phenomenon/
#HackerNews #justsayno #engineer #ZIRP #phenomenon #techculture #innovation #finance
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The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means
https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness
#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration
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Ah, the age-old tale of the side project: the modern tech worker's equivalent of the New Year's resolution gym membership. 💪💻 "It's OK to abandon your side project," says the author, valiantly justifying the digital graveyard of half-baked ideas and abandoned GitHub repos. Bravo, Robb, for reminding us all that #quitting is, indeed, an option! 😂📉
https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/ #sideprojects #techculture #digitalgraveyard #abandonedideas #HackerNews #ngated -
The technical stack sentiment this week is clear:
Ascendant: #Python + #PyTorch + #MLOps + #LLM #GenAI #AgenticAI experience + Cloud.
These are the "Builders".
Debt: Generic software engineering. Pure data annotation. Non-AI cloud migration.
These are the "Reshaped" roles.
If your skill set is in the "Debt" category, the market is telling you to migrate *up* the stack. The window for that migration is closing. -
The "Overtom Chess Computer Museum" 🏛️: a riveting collection of silicon brainiacs that couldn't checkmate a novice if their circuits depended on it. 🤖🕵️♂️ It's like a shrine for those who think that naming a computer after a Greek myth makes it smarter. 🙄♟️
https://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/Engindex.html #OvertomChessMuseum #SiliconBrainiacs #ComputerHistory #ChessHumor #TechCulture #HackerNews #ngated -
We’re looking for guests for IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith.
Got a real IT incident story? Outage, failed deploy, security issue — the kind that still sticks with you?
We anonymize everything, and stories must be 18+ months old. It’s about learning, not blaming.
Details in the one-sheet.
Let’s turn your story into something useful.
#ITHorrorStories #CallForGuests #DevOps #SRE #TechCulture #Tech
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From co-working spaces to gaming setups, custom keyboards are becoming the new standard. ⌨️✨
It’s not just about typing anymore — it’s about personalization, performance, and expressing your style with every keystroke. Whether you're chasing that perfect tactile feel or building a setup that truly reflects you, the keyboard is no longer just a tool… it’s part of the experience. 🎮💡
#CustomKeyboard #DeskSetup #Productivity #Gaming #TechCulture
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“Boeing 747s still use floppy disks” — true, but not the whole story.
We dive into why some legacy aircraft systems still rely on them, and what that says about IT today: stability > hype.
You are one of us.
Listen: https://www.ithorrorstories.eu/#rants
#ITHorrorStories #Aviation #LegacyTech #FloppyDisk #TechCulture #Tech
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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Endlich Freitag! Today's #DailyBlogroll has gems from @davew, @wilhelm_arcturus, @timbray, @rogeredwards, Mailvaltar, @Aywren, @scopique and more!
#IndieGames #MMORPG #RetroGaming #GamingCommunity #TechCulture
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In an era where AI agents are supposedly tidying up our code 🧹, this article desperately clings to the notion that humans matter at all in #programming 👾. It's like a seminar on how not to become obsolete, brought to you by someone who still alphabetizes their vinyl collection 📀.
https://www.yanist.com/clean-code-in-the-age-of-coding-agents/ #AIagents #humanimportance #techculture #vinylcollection #HackerNews #ngated -
BIG TECH COMEDIES: FROM GIGGLES TO GRIMACES
Why are comedy shows about Big Tech companies becoming more serious? Learn how public fear of surveillance and data privacy is changing TV humor in 2026.
#bigtech, #tvnews, #techculture, #mediaanalysis, #digitalprivacy
https://newsletter.tf/big-tech-comedy-shows-becoming-serious-2026/