Notes from April 2026

After a busy March, April was a little quieter. But don’t worry, I still have a bunch of little links for you to click on.

Things I published

• GitHub’s uptime hasn’t been great recently. Even though I dislike the Microsoft subsidiary, I wrote“In defense of GitHub’s poor uptime”, which argues that it’s not as bad as folks seems to be saying. See this Lobsters thread for some discussion.

• Published version 0.2.0 of setbigtimeout,my JavaScript library for waiting a very long time.

• Like every month, I publisheda few articles over at Zelda Dungeon. We had a slew of shitposts for April Fool’s this year. I think my favorite (not written by me) was “Daily Debate: Do You Think Old Man Was Once Young Man?”.

Links I clicked

• Ghost, my employer, wasrecognized as a digital public good.

• “You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.” From“The people do not yearn for automation”.

• I subscribed tothe RSS feed for internet RFCs. Most of this is over my head but it’s neat!

•This post argues that “any gains we do realize [from LLM coding] are likely going to be incremental and evolutionary, rather than the world-changing revolution many people seem to be expecting.” Matches my experience.

• Lovedthis piece about LLM-assisted development, talking about the real pros and cons for a production project.

• Bookmarkedthis list of books critical of AI, from 1976 to today. (I’ve only read 1.5 of the books on this list.)

•This pair of podcast episodes about driverless cars ends with a poignant thought: the haters need to “imagine visions of the future more vivid than the word ’no’.” Same applies to other technologies.

• “For the last 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J.R.R. Tolkien’s corrupting all-seeing orb. But a year into Trump’s second term, as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home, employees are finally raising these concerns internally, as the US’s war on immigrants, war in Iran, and even company-released manifestos has forced them to rethink the role they play in it all.” From“Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys”.

• Spotted theFuck Capitalism game jam. This is the kind of nerdy punk rock stuff I like to see!!

Hope you had a good April.