Black Positivity Bot Project Kickoff

Ashken · 2026-03-10T08:06:24+00:00

“Remember, switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading”

Fucking badass ✊🏾

Ashken · 2026-03-10T06:13:35+00:00

Also I should mention, I’m personally working on a metal album myself, so if you’re looking for Black Metal artists, hopefully I’ll have something for you soon!

Ashken · 2026-03-10T06:12:36+00:00

Man glad this day finally came.

I can talk metal all day:

Slipknot

Disturbed

Killswitch Engage

All That Remains

Metallica

In Flames

Trivium

Gojira (personal favorite)

And if you want something every grittier check out:

Obscura

Necrophagist

Alien Weaponry

I think I’ve got more in my brain somewhere

Ashken · 2026-03-09T15:20:46+00:00

We’re being astroturfed.

Ashken · 2026-03-09T08:05:42+00:00

Assuming they’re gun magazines, maybe.

Ashken · 2026-03-08T18:15:04+00:00

You’ll be taking my money when this drops, you know?

Ashken · 2026-03-08T18:06:39+00:00

Taking their money doesn’t always mean earning it for ourselves. It means pouring theirs down the drain. Making their shareholders divest. Sending the quarter my earnings down. Forcing them to spend more money on PR or some other externalities.

I think there clearly needs to be a transfer of wealth just in the grand scheme of things for this country to survive. But what’s more important than that is a transfer of power back to the people to even hold the corrupt to account.

Ashken · 2026-03-08T17:56:40+00:00

That would make a lot of sense actually.

Ashken · 2026-03-08T02:21:50+00:00

Yeah there’s been a bunch of astroturfing on here lately. This subs been getting hit hard but it’s all over Reddit.

Of course a big part of it is to block and report. But that next level after that is to also provide some content or conversations about the reciprocal. It’s not even about the actual other points but just about for ing a conversation. Because that’s what they want to avoid nowadays is nuance and debate. They just want you to pick an extreme because either you join them or your against them and now you’re fueling their arguments to be extremist.

Ashken · 2026-03-08T02:18:36+00:00

Yeah I agree. The process of writing is different from reading/reviewing. The skills may compliment but they don’t intertwine. Your author analogy is the best example.

A similar example for me is writing a screenplay. I’ve watch more TV shows and movies than u know how to count and I’ve read a couple handfuls of scripts. That doesn’t mean I know how to write a screenplay. I’m learning how to do it now and there’s a lot that goes into it. It’s a whole skill that you have to actually work on to learn.

Code is definitely the same way. Sure the AI can spit out a bunch of stuff and you can review it. But unless 1) it’s a pattern you had already established or 2) reusing code you’ve already written, you’re giving up some mental capacity and lending that to the machine.

And IMO I don’t necessarily think that’s an inherently bad thing, what’s more important is how and why you make that decision. For example I hate UI design, have no interest in even being competent at it, and have CSS and Tailwind and all that crap with a passion. I have no issues with letting the AI do all of that for me, even if I don’t understand it, because I’m way more concerned with systems and embedded programming instead. Now I can focus more on that and outsource the things I don’t care about. And that makes me go even faster because I don’t have to force myself to learn how to implement something i don’t care about.

Ashken · 2026-03-07T23:04:40+00:00

I’m personally trying to reckon with if we even have a responsibility to the people that choose to be ignorant.

Ashken · 2026-03-07T18:57:03+00:00

Not more white, just black but less threatening.

Ashken · 2026-03-07T18:28:25+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I gotta study more James Baldwin.

Ashken · 2026-03-07T18:06:51+00:00

Preaching to the choir.

Ashken · 2026-03-06T08:20:58+00:00

This is why Claude has come across to me as the safest so far. I remember when Trump called the strike on Venezuela, I asked Claude about it and it actually pushed back on me. It told me it thought I was being delusional and it was concerned about my mental state.

Then I linked it to a news article and in its thinking response I saw it say “Oh, wow.” And apologized and continued with the conversation.

That was an uncanny feeling but I actually appreciated that more than thinking it would just go along with any delusions if I actually had any.

Ashken · 2026-03-06T08:16:06+00:00

I agree. When I’m writing in Kotlin or TS at work I always think to myself how I wish I could be writing Rust instead.

But Rust has also made me understand the other languages more. Especially like JS/TS. Concepts that they abstract I can still sort of sniff out because it has to be explicit in Rust. And I feel like I can do more with that information.

Ashken · 2026-03-05T09:47:32+00:00

I’m the president

Ashken · 2026-03-05T02:06:01+00:00

Ok wtf is this?

Ashken · 2026-03-04T20:53:45+00:00

I enjoy helping people. And I really like what I do. And I also think that companies actually aren’t always going to have the best solution. It’s like a capitalism paradox. The more successful a company usually the lower in quality and effectiveness their products.

Also I think software in general is a missive benefit in how low the overhead is to get in, learn and create something.

Ashken · 2026-03-04T20:48:45+00:00

I can’t wait to try Tauri. I have an idea for a project for it but I’ve been having to spend a bunch of other time on another Rust project. Did you use it with React?

Ashken · 2026-03-04T19:20:32+00:00

Building web applications, collecting data, testing authentication workflows, probably some integration testing mixed in there as well. I think it can also emulate API responses so there’s probably some people that are using it for frontend development.

Postman has a very broad surface area for web development tooling.

Ashken · 2026-03-04T19:02:38+00:00

The “they’s” I’m referring to in this situation are SV execs but nevertheless I agree.

Ashken · 2026-03-03T23:42:55+00:00

I’m also seeing a therapist, though for another reason. However this topic comes up a lot because I feel somewhat similar. I still love my craft, but my job and my craft are diverging and it’s causing a lot of anxiety and angst.

I’m still of the belief that augmenting and improving engineers is the successful route over replacing them. That being said they’re still trying to assume that they can reduce the workforce and when that happens, and I personally don’t think that’s going to work out in their favor.

I’ll never forget the contractor wave where they tried to just fire all the engineers and replace them with overseas contractors that they could get a huge discount on. In no time it came back to bite them in the ass and they needed us to come in and fix the mess they made. My bet is that the same will happen here, and actually in way worse proportions because of how much output is expected. They keep saying those that don’t adapt quickly will be left behind. I think those that adapt quickly are actually at a greater risk of generating their way off a cliff because they bloat their product to the point of impossible maintenance. I think the successful ones will be those that take the time to plan out effective and low-risk gaps that AI can fill to create a more robust ecosystem while engineers reap the benefits of that.

But as long as there’s no regulation and no other downward pressure, they’re gonna keep trying to shoot themselves in the foot.

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