Jökull Solberg

Co-Founder of

[davidad 🎇 @davidad]

No one:

Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

@frostis Kostnaðurinn við evruna er loðnari og langt handan hæfni hagfræðinga að meta. Að binda fjárlög er bara útaf fyrir sig prinsipp atriði fyrir þjóð með jarðhræringar.

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

The intellectual underpinnings of undergraduate Econ, which hundreds of thousands of people study every year stinks to high heaven. If you signed up, get out while you can or become adversarial, curious and dismantle from within. Also, why does econ qualify for STEM-designation?

[David Algonquin @surplustakes]

Beyond parody

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

I don't know what Corepack is

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Iran announces it is ending all negotiations with the US and vows to "completely" block the Strait of Hormuz, per CNBC.

Iran says it is ending negotiations due to repeated ceasefire violations including Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Iran also threatens to block the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

A lot of software development tooling is built to manage the bottleneck of code work. It has gone from 80% implementation work to 80% design/spec. It frees up engineers to participate even more in shaping the product upstream. Great nows all around.

[boris @boristane]

does anyone actually use the coding agent kanban boards ?

I built one in https://t.co/vSIX2IxOgK and all tasks would just pile in the “ready for review” column

totally useless

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

@samuelcolvin Codex high fast and I run out pretty fast on max sub by doing large codebase refactoring and parallel feature+fix.

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

@austriker27 @sentry MCP was made for exactly this

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

@eythorarnalds Sáði hann ekki bara þessum fræjum?

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

Interesting theory. US is run by capital interests, is now an energy exporter, wants less competition, wants to secure EU and Asia as buyers *from them*. Good time to shift from petrodollar to Gulf of Mexico based exports.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Don't expect the US to leave Hormuz or Venezuela any time soon.

Compared to a year ago, the US are exporting an extra 2M barrels of crude and an extra 4M barrels of fuel every single day.

Record profits, shares, and exports. They have Asia and Europe right where they want them.

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

screen recorded a product demo and asked claude to find loading screens and fast forward those parts to make the video more punchy - it worked, used a bunch techniques to storyboard and segment the video, not just ffmpeg

[Prof Michele Geraci, fmr Undersecretary of State @michele_geraci]

Vi consiglio di leggere questo articolo del Financial Times che ha ripreso ad accusare il governo cinese di repressioni, lavori forzati nei campi di cotone nello Xinjiang (come se fosse il Mississippi o Alabama) e addirittura cita Adrián Zenz come fonte e testimone di tali soprusi sulla minoranza etnica

L’articolo è una collezione di luoghi comuni, falsità e propaganda anti Cina del FT (di proprietà giapponese)

La verità nello Xinjiang, che conosco molto bene essendo stato parecchie volte, è semplice

1) Non esiste nessuna discriminazione basata etnica

2) Non esiste nessun genocidio

3) Agli Uiguri è sempre stato consentito avere tre figli

4) È vero che nelle scuole si studia il mandarino, ma è la lingua nazionale e va imparata. Come in Sicilia o Veneto, nessuno dice che Meloni vuole cancellare la cultura della Trinacria per imporre la lingua di Dante

5) Non esiste nessuna discriminazione religiosa. Chi vuole può andare a pregare dove gli pare, in chiesa in moschea o altro

Ma…ma

Se si usa la religione o l’appartenenza ad un gruppo etnico per fare terrorismo, come succedeva spesso in Cina 10 anni, o per creare movimenti separatisti (spesso finanziati do organizzazioni straniere ), allora la spada del governo cinese va giù senza pietà. Del resto, gli stessi USA avevano inserito ETIM nella lista dei organizzazioni terroriste internazionali (poi tolta dalla lista quando serviva invece accusare la Cina di violazioni di diritti umani)

Con questo approccio, la Cina ha risolto il problema del terrorismo

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

Add tahini to your noodles - thank me later

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Every time... Also, how insanely dishonest is it to present the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) as merely a "US non-profit"? It's literally an anti-communist propaganda outlet founded by an act of Congress and based in Washington DC!

VOC are so extreme they count Nazis killed by the Soviets during WW2 as "victims of communism" (https://t.co/Vhem6YHfuR), as they do all deaths from Covid-19 globally (https://t.co/MnRHIMUH0e).

The FT using this as a source for their Xinjiang claims, using their claims uncritically (if you read the article, Zenz is cited a crazy 8 times!) without as much as mentioning how insanely biased they are, can frankly only be characterized as propaganda.

That's not even remotely journalism.

[Shaun Rein @shaunrein]

Do you know why I first went to Xinjiang? An investment bank hired my firm & me to investigate cotton fields & factories because their apparel clients were worried what was happening. They wanted to feel comfortable sourcing from Xinjiang

So I went alone & w Xinhua (wanted to see how Xinhua & propaganda bureau created a narrative)

My client actually ended the project midway because they were scared about getting attacked for sponsoring research on such a hot topic

I got attacked for being a tool of the Party even though I was analyzing how the Party and security apparatus behaved on the topic

My conclusion?

Any media outlet that quotes Adrian Zenz is not a serious media outlet with any credibility

Second, Chinese state media is far more honest about how it covers Xinjiang than any outlet that quotes Zenz

[Alfred de Zayas @Alfreddezayas]

The Collective West, U.S., EU, and NATO, has morphed into a terrorist network https://t.co/Sz2QMRBQJt

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

Amazing how Tucker Carlson, of all people, can succinctly sum up what happened with Jeremy Corbyn in a way that the media and political class here will still ardently deny

[Jökull Solberg @jokull]

Review code? Me? No thanks.

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Today we are launching the inaugural version of Linear Diffs, our take on code reviews. Diffs is meant to enable product teams to accelerate shipping by making code reviews fast, focused, and in context.

Code review has remained a painful bottleneck while the rest of building software sped up. Growing volumes of code from agents are making it worse.

We designed Diffs around what a code review should actually be: instant to open, stripped of noise, and deeply connected to the issue, project, and customer signal behind the change.

It brings reviews inside Linear with smart prioritization, guided chapters for large diffs (following the logic of the work), structural highlighting that removes formatting churn, and rich context.

Agents already handle most of the line-by-line correctness. This gives reviewers the space to focus on the judgment that actually matters: architecture, fit, and real customer problems.

Available on all plans today. More of the workflow to come.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israel Burns More Palestinians Alive Under U.S.-Backed Ceasefire

Palestinians carried burned and wounded children through the streets after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential home in central Gaza City, killing at least 7 people, including two young girls, and wounding more than 20 others, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Videos filmed by journalists Omar Al-Gedi and Mahmoud Shaweesh capture residents pulling casualties from the rubble, children covered in blood being rushed into ambulances, and crowds screaming in panic as flames and smoke filled the area.

Israel continues to carry out daily strikes on homes and residential neighborhoods across Gaza and Lebanon despite ongoing U.S.-backed ceasefire agreements, while mediating parties in the Gaza talks — the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey — remain largely silent about blatant ceasefire violations. Over 920 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel agreed to a ceasefire last October.