Trek Glowacki
Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️🌈. 📍Chicago.
- Forget BIFL (Buy It For Life) at this point I'd settle for ALINAG (At Least It's Not A Grift)
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiWestboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiAmerica was an unprecedented global hegemon because it used to be good at the boring shit needed to stay powerful.
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiI cover quite a lot of ground in this talk, but the bit I hope people take away from it is that AI-driven development poses dangers that we're not talking about nearly enough. This clip was recorded before we knew how prominently Elon features in the Epstein files: 🎞️ youtube.com/clip/UgkxImh...
- Thanks to @rich-harris.dev for his Jan talk "Frameworks for humans in the age of machines"! Video/Slides available: 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=SmHgtyym6OA 🖼️ frameworks-for-humans.vercel.app Next Thursday, Feb 12th at Cloudflare we have 2 talks! RSVP: meetup.com/web-performance-ny/events/312533928/
- Reposted by Trek Glowackiohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiThis is one of my big pet peeves of American jurisprudence. Take the 9th Amendment seriously! We do not, for example, have a 1st Amendment right to privacy, we have a 9th Amendment right to privacy.
- I'm starting to wonder if people who see the most benefit from LLMs don't already have a word generating gremlin with a limited context window saying shit in their head at all times. It's kind of a like an a11y device for the sane.
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiGood framing from local news here
- A last-minute ruling has prevented one-fourth of Springfield from losing the right to live and work legally in the U.S. nbc4i.co/4qSuVhV
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiQuick reality check: My car's got a ~75 kWh battery. If that battery put out 1 kW of power, it could run for three days. Get a thousand of those and you have a megawatt of power for three days. Get a million of those and you have a gigawatt of power for three days. Hyundai has sold 250,000
- Hear me out: “Melania: The Musical”
- I’m super spoiled in the sense that if I’m having a bad day I can say “oh I’ll just go look at Nighthawks and and see if that cheers me up”
- Um, actually, Helen was from Sparta and her mother was from Aetolia. But more importantly she was also the daughter of Zeus and hatched from a fucking egg, so I say go ham on the casting.
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Reposted by Trek Glowacki'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
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- Reposted by Trek Glowackisome good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
- I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiBecause I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles. And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiSo believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning. A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiThe Bean with a Beanie. Frozen February is here. This morning in Millennium Park with the Bean in reflection.
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiMusk has been spamming crap about SpaceX and Grok all day but now every single reply to any of his posts is someone calling him a pedophile. the stage has been set for something historic
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiWild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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- Desperately wish I had the cash to sit out the LLM cycle. At this point I don't even care whether it ends up being amazing or collapsing but living through it is so deeply annoying.
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- May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
- I've come like full 360 on server rendering technology. The needs of a client/server application and the needs of hypertext document are so distinct. Trying to shoehorn both into a single technology just seems like a pipe dream at this point.
- Being doing LLM driven stuff (company mandated) and honestly, I'd rather just not write software anymore if this is what it's going to be like in the future. It retains all the drudgery and removes the all the dopamine-releasing aspects of the job.
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- Jira is deeply unserious software. There's gotta be a very "2004 startup architecture" behind something like this.
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiLooking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
- Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiWouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiComics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
- Reposted by Trek Glowackihey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
- This is part of why heat pumps can be a good solution for the Chicago area. I'm both saving money AND my heat isn't just "burning methane with some extra steps"
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiMirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
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- Reposted by Trek GlowackiProtesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
- Reposted by Trek Glowackiman the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiI attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
- Reposted by Trek Glowackiyears and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
- You know who ELSE won't be part of this? The United States of America, which requires "the Advice and Consent of the Senate... provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur" to enter into international agreements like this.
- Reposted by Trek Glowackito turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off
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- Reposted by Trek Glowackithis photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiAnother question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
- Reposted by Trek GlowackiOkay sorry one more shot:
