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The social contract of accepting scraping for visibility was always tenuous and is now fully dead. But it’s shocking the number of people who are essentially victim blaming here. Y…

I got curious one Saturday and ported our monorepo to use Nix for build and test and release. It was a very pleasant process. I had to put aside to tackle more pressing things but …

If you listen closely you can hear the thousands of CI jobs that just pull latest UV failing all at once.

What good timing to spot this. I've been reading more and more people talk about bringing TTS into their prompting toolkit and wanted to give that a try. The idea of rambling brain…

Not responsible for those systems. The last time this came up I thought “smearing” the second over the course of a day kind of solved the problem a discrete +/- 1 second suddenly a…

In my experience this has an obvious answer (yes). LLM’s yes-and whatever patterns are present in the code base no matter how insane. If you don’t tend to your code garden it will …

James Duane, the lawyer from the famous video about never talking to the police, wrote a book called You Have the Right to Remain Innocent. It’s a great read if you want to feel ve…

I credit randomly deciding to take Latin in high school as a huge change in the trajectory of my life. It didn’t even happen all at once. Just a little different perspective on how…

Talking the problem to death with the AI before implementation is a nice zone for me. I feel productive, get good results out of the AI, and still largely understand the code. That…

It started looking a whole lot like OpenBSD’s random number system. Private entropy pool from good system entropy seeds a ChaCha20 stream with random reseeds for forward secrecy in…

The Wire's eternal wisdom "You start to follow the money, you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you"

I haven't had a chance to do embedded work but people damn near fall to their knees and weep when talking about how nice the experience is using embassy. Which makes me want to giv…

I find it interesting that the same process that played out in the forums to feed transition also took place in video games with dedicated servers to matchmaking. I joined a random…

I’m not even an athlete but I hike fairly often and walk 3-4 miles a day with my dog. If I get a pair of so-so boots they’ll last less than a year. I got recommended boots by a fri…

I keep believing there’s a web of trust type future for social media but I can’t articulate it.

"I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." is my favorite quote for that

I want Netflix to lose. After living with their binge release schedule for however long now I think we're all worse off for it. So I want less of the industry to use it.

I never watched the widescreen version of The Wire they put out years ago but now I'm curious again. That show was a bone deep 4:3 product and the show plays with it constantly. He…

I was coming in with the Walmart example too. The onboarding meeting told us he overheard it at a Korean manufacturer and liked it.

I’m afraid to upgrade from my ~6 year old LG OLED with a damaged corner because I pair it with an Apple TV and only see Apple ads occasionally on the Home Screen. I don’t know if a…

While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.…

I’ve been agonizing over getting the Framework Desktop for weeks as a dev machine/local LLM box/home server. It checks a lot of boxes but the only reason to look at the Framework D…

I wonder if you plotted layoffs cycles you’d see a big gaps for tech companies for the last couple years since RTO orders will have the same effect. Reading about the different RTO…

I saw someone describe python as “stressful” for this reason and I couldn’t agree more. It’s difficult to have confidence in any change I make or review. I need to sit down and man…

We had serious reliability issues with USB versions that were only solved by switching to the D457 model with GSML connectors. Those needed other hardware vendors to build in suppo…