somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through
🚨 Luisao (Benfica legend): "I spent a large part of my life at Benfica. I grew as a player, as a man, and as a captain. I won titles, experienced unforgettable nights, and defended that jersey with everything I had. Benfica is part of my history. And it is precisely for that reason, and not despite it, that I feel obligated to speak."
In recent days, I have positioned myself against any form of racism in the episode involving Vini Jr. Not because of nationality, nor because of controversy, but as a matter of principle. Racism has no club, no jersey, no side. And it cannot be relativized.
It all started with a celebration, a gesture of joy after a goal. And it's necessary to state the obvious: dancing is not disrespectful, it's an expression. Football has always been about emotion. The joy of some is the sorrow of others. It has always been that way.
Great players have celebrated by dancing: Cristiano, Ronaldo Fenômeno, Ronaldinho... Dancing has never been the problem. What cannot be acceptable is turning a celebration into a justification for racist insults. Nothing justifies that. Not provocation, not rivalry, not the heat of the game. A stadium is not a territory without values. Respect continues to be paramount within it.
I too have been the target of insults, including racist ones, after speaking out. I was called a m*nkey, a Judas, they said I'll never set foot in the Luz stadium again. This hurts, but it won't make me back down. I may have ignored sporting provocations throughout my career, but I will never remain silent in the face of discrimination from a minority that does not represent the club I love.
Benfica has a huge history, respected throughout the world. A history bigger than any isolated episode. That's what needs to prevail.
My love for the club remains intact, as does my respect and gratitude for its fans. My support is non-negotiable, at the Estádio da Luz or any other stadium.
Football is passion and intensity. But, above all, it's humanity. And humanity does not tolerate racism.
May we emerge from this episode better. As a club, as fans, as a society. Because games come and go. Titles come and go. But character and values remain."
sonnet 4.6 just refactored my entire codebase in one call
64 tool invocations. 1M+ new lines. 17 brand new files
it modularized everything. broke up monoliths. cleaned up spaghetti
none of it worked
but boy was it beautiful
You know when you design something and there's that nagging feeling at the back of your mind, just telling you there's something incomplete about it?
Best feeling in the world is when you finally work through it and it completely clear that feeling.
And you know you cracked it!
I don't work in tech, have no background as an engineer or designer.
A few weeks ago, I heard about vibe coding and set out to investigate.
Now?
I am generating $10M ARR.
Just me. No employees or VCs.
What was my secret? Simple.
I am lying.
🇸🇳 Sadio Mané adds ANOTHER trophy to his collection:
🏆 AFCON 2025
🏆 AFCON 2021
🏆 Premier League 2020
🏆 FA Cup 2022
🏆 League Cup 2022
🏆 Champions League 2019
🏆 Super Cup 2019
🏆 Club World Cup 2019
🏆 Bundesliga 2023
🏆 DFL Supercup 2022
🏆 Arab Club Champions Cup 2023
🏆 Austrian Bundesliga 2014
🏆 Austrian Cup 2014
A PROPER LEGEND OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL.
It’ll be okay. People are built to move forward by forgetting.
Do you remember exactly what you were doing on this day a few years ago? Most people don’t.
But life kept going the whole time...and the hype, the surprise, all of it gets carried on to the next person. That’s just how it works.
Hard to believe it's been 20 years... incredible! And so much has changed since then. JavaScript has moved from a fun lang dabbling in apps (Ajax) to something that has changed all of software engineering (Node, TypeScript). An amazing adventure 🚀
I run every day for 20 minutes & if I miss a day, I add 20 minutes to the next day. This has truly been a game changer. Tomorrow, I'm supposed to run for 4 months.
AI amplifies senior expertise but may starve the junior pipeline that creates it. That is, if we only optimize for today's productivity vs. the long-term.
The muscle memory of fields like software engineering develops through repetition and guided practice.
Knowing when to trust your instincts. Recognizing antipatterns. Understanding second-order consequences of technical decisions.
AI agents can generate code, but can't transfer the tacit knowledge that separates someone who can review AI output from someone who can architect systems.
What worries me is if we skip the "10,000 hours of practice" phase and jump straight to "overseer of AI output," are we actually training architects? Or are we training people who don't know what they don't know?
The industry keeps saying "juniors will do different work now." but there isn't yet alignment about what that work actually is, how it builds toward senior capabilities, or whether it creates the judgment AI assistance assumes you already have.
Maybe the resolution isn't either/or. Maybe it's hybrid pair-programming where juniors work alongside AI but with better senior oversight and deliberate skill-building, not just task completion.
You could call it trio-programming. Seniors who see mentorship as force multiplication but not a tax on their productivity.
If companies optimize purely for cost-per-line-of-code today, we'll pay for it in a leadership vacuum in the coming years. I hope we're more mindful of the future than that.