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[eric @edorsey]

Should’ve just bought it at @microcenter. Lesson learned.

[eric @edorsey]

I just bought a fancy @ASUS Pro Art display and it’s broken out of the box and @BestBuy doesn’t have them in stock to be able to swap it out.

What an absolutely shitty experience.

[eric @edorsey]

Alright, can’t wait for real sports.

[eric @edorsey]

😂

[Lauren Rinaldi 🧚‍♀️ @LRinaldiArt]

Made Jell-O shots to bring to the 4th of July bbq 🤗

[eric @edorsey]

This is why soccer is a garbage sport.

[eric @edorsey]

https://t.co/v4ntqpH3EH

[eric @edorsey]

The software factory idea fundamentally misunderstands the analogy, assuming software development can be turned into an assembly line.

We already have an assembly line. Just like the factory has the production floor, a software system has the production environment.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[eric @edorsey]

@safwanyp_ @ChShersh On which date did that thing happen?

This requires knowing the timezone of the person who took the action or encoding it in a local date.

[eric @edorsey]

It’s ridiculous that @Sonos is still completely broken.

Please send me a refund for making these expensive speakers worthless.

[eric @edorsey]

@housecor The bottleneck isn’t writing code, the bottleneck is building a shared mental model.

[eric @edorsey]

> It is now a crime (Class E felony in some formulations) to possess, sell, or distribute digital files/blueprints intended for printing illegal firearms or components (with intent or knowledge elements)

This is a violation of free speech.

[Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospace @JasonPremoMFG]

CNC banned? New York law just passed: 3D Printers & CNC machines now require built-in surveillance software to block you from making firearms parts.

A separate background-check bill remains pending in committee.

New York has passed first-in-the-nation regulations targeting 3D printers (and, per multiple analyses of the bill language, CNC machines) sold in the state.

This includes mandatory “blocking technology” (often described as surveillance or censorware-style software) and face-to-face sales requirements that effectively end easy online purchases and shipping.

What Was Just Passed (FY 2027 Budget – Signed ~May 27, 2026)

Governor Kathy Hochul signed the provisions as part of the enacted FY 2027 state budget

(Public Protection and General Government bill, originating in S.9005 /A.10005, Part C)

Key elements include:

• Mandatory blocking/surveillance technology on 3D printers sold in New York

• Every 3D printer must include (or be equipped with) technology/algorithms that scan design files and block attempts to print firearm components

---> examples: software will scan your program to determine if you are making receivers, frames, silencers/suppressors, or machine-gun conversion devices.

• The state will maintain or reference a library of prohibited “digital firearm manufacturing code.”

• A task force (led by the Division of Criminal Justice Services, with experts in manufacturing, AI, and security) will develop minimum safety standards and regulations.

• Broad application to CNC machines (and potentially subtractive manufacturing)

---> Detailed bill analyses (EFF, technical reporting, and maker-community reviews) confirm the language covers **CNC machines** and machines using subtractive manufacturing from digital files.

---> This goes beyond consumer 3D printers to industrial equipment. Official governor announcements emphasize 3D printers, but the enacted provisions are written more broadly.

• Face-to-face sales and delivery only: No online sales, no shipping to New York addresses.

---> All transactions must occur in person between buyer and seller. This directly bans convenient online purchases from major retailers or manufacturers.

• Criminal penalties for files and manufacturing.

• It is now a crime (Class E felony in some formulations) to possess, sell, or distribute digital files/blueprints intended for printing illegal firearms or components (with intent or knowledge elements).

• Implementation timeline: The law is effective upon signing for some criminal provisions, but the technical standards and blocking requirements will take time.

--> The task force has roughly a year for recommendations, followed by rulemaking.

--> Non-compliant sales could face liability once rules are in place. Manufacturers will likely need to create NY-specific compliant models (or stop selling/shipping there).

[eric @edorsey]

Sounds like New York needs some Freedom.

[LM @loyalmoses]

OFFICIALLY SIGNED: New York just banned online sales of CNC machines, lathes, and 3D printers. Required surveillance software on every one.

And there's a bill in committee to require a background check to buy them at all. Look around you at who didn't fight, or who ONLY appeared to fight once they saw my video views pouring in. 🤔 Video soon!

[LM @loyalmoses]

OFFICIALLY SIGNED: New York just banned online sales of CNC machines, lathes, and 3D printers. Required surveillance software on every one.

And there's a bill in committee to require a background check to buy them at all. Look around you at who didn't fight, or who ONLY appeared to fight once they saw my video views pouring in. 🤔 Video soon!

[eric @edorsey]

Yes please.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"Can he run for president?"

— Jessica when she heard they primaried Massie

[eric @edorsey]

Who needs determinism?

[Yegor Bugayenko @yegor256]

RESTful APIs may be dead soon. Instead, web services may expose a single POST entry point for a prompt. Internally, an AI agent may decide how to interpret it and what to do with the data and the database.

[eric @edorsey]

@matteocollina This is timely advice.

We just upgraded from 18 -> 24 on Heroku and had to set this and are still dialing in the value.

Heroku has cgroup files, but it seems Node/libuv doesn’t use them because they are mounted as ext2/ext3, or at least that was ChatGPT’s theory.

[eric @edorsey]

@garrytan @Austen If these data centers didn’t actively try to contribute as little to the local economy as possible and maybe even be a net negative in terms of heat, noise pollution, and increased electricity costs, it would certainly help!

Maybe the tech companies should refine their approach.

[eric @edorsey]

AI won’t make engineering teams more productive until we realize that the bottleneck of an engineering team isn’t how fast it can churn out code, but how fast the shared mental model can be updated.

[eric @edorsey]

@Shpigford https://t.co/EhPTkoAizT