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Murphy Randle

Murphy Randle

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Sometimes I close my eyes for longer than 30 seconds during the day and I notice how weird and tiring it is that we keep our eyes open _all day long_

I’m so relieved the midterms brought more politicians willing to stand up and dismantle the current leadership’s destructive actions and policies. I’m also sad that many anti-trans measures drew public support. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/11/the-blue-wave-delivered-mixed-results-for-anti-trans-ballot-initiatives/ As a nation we still need to listen more, be less afraid of new perspectives, and stand up for those who’ve had to...

If you’re a US citizen, please go vote today! And please do enough reading/prep beforehand that there’s a reasonable chance your vote lands in favor of humane treatment of all people, protecting our environment, indigenous land rights, rights for minorities, and a gov’t that pursues peace.

Our political and economic systems are cracking and failing under the strain of colossal supersonic growth. But we can wake up. Growth is a tool. We need to use it to serve people and planet, not sacrifice ourselves and surroundings to its appetites. https://youtu.be/z-_S8ftF450?is=NEDRQdJxQcY8sF3o

Degenerative Pixels is showing up again with more thought-provoking songs. Cynical, sarcastic, catchy, playful. The fact of their music existing as AI creations, contrasting with the human-oriented lyrics invites the listener to grapple with a tension between wonder and despair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc_Qs62vaw&list=RDfRc_Qs62vaw&start_radio=1

Another big security exploit was discovered, this time in PHP itself. But if you're running on WordPress.com, we've got you covered. https://automattic.com/2026/10/21/your-sites-are-protected-against-the-php2shell-vulnerabilities/

After all these years, I finally ended up installing Arch Linux on a laptop. Well, sorta… https://omarchy.org/ What was great this time around was handing my AI model SSH access to debug and fix the broken installation). I do not miss spending hours searching blogs and forums for arcane commands to fix broken package links...

My hat is off to Noah Eckstein for this short & potent senior address. My favorite line: "Peace through understanding can survive conflict, while peace through agreement lasts only as long as everyone keeps agreeing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_iIA3kaLI

Trust, and Reviewing Changes

This morning on the drive back from school drop-off my Eleven Reader’s AI voice confidently proclaimed over my car stereo: Our team members still review every change request for the system, but they now examine the intent of the change as opposed to reading every line of code. I felt validated. This was near the...

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What are some of your favorite, high quality developer-oriented blogs?

I couldn't find an RSS feed for Figma's dev blog either, can you? https://www.figma.com/blog/engineering/

I'm so surprised and bummed that Anthropic's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. It's a great standard that supports the open web and free flow of information, but folks are forgetting about it. 🙁