Ranting into my drafts folder again.

My work this morning involved cache invalidation, an off by one error, and naming things, so I've completed computers now.

I think there is value in the friction of doing detailed work. standard.dev/posts/doing-...

Five years ago I got a fumbling rendition of a Ted Greene arrangement under my fingers for Christmas. I’ve since had children, and this has not improved my musicianship. Man, I gotta get back to it. Have a merry little holiday, whatever you celebrate.

I contain multitudes, ok.

My coffee this morning has a whole end of year mood going on.

AWS: so you want to back up a S3 bucket huh? ME: yeah, should be pretty straightfor... AWS: CREATE A BACKUP POLICY MANAGER BACKUP MANAGER POLICY.

A few months ago I found this band too punishing to be listenable, and now I keep spinning this EP. I'm still not sure I _like_ it per se, but there is something drawing me back. I am surely having an unsettling experience of art. frontierer.bandcamp.com/album/the-sk...

Live footage of me reviewing my own code. youtu.be/j7J9NS3ggxw

This started as a series of bluesky posts here and quickly grew enough it deserved its own markdown. It's a rambling about a book I'm excited for, and caring to read. standard.dev/posts/a-cros... #booksky I guess?

New Slow Crush album is great. slowcrush.bandcamp.com/album/thirst

New Rolo Tomassi EP, new Conjurer album, new Astronoid track. It’s a good day to like loud guitars.

I'm having a lot of three coffee days lately.

There are two flavours of backend victory: number go down, and number go up. Just scored a big win for number go down at work. Please clap.

Nick is a lovely human with whom I am privileged to work. Unfortunately for him, I am an irreverent and incorrigible prankster who has been feverish for several days, and as such have pent up devilry. Ergo…

A wild thing about having children is you can be doing some ephemeral software bullshit like debugging database timeouts in the morning, then take the kids to the local pool in the afternoon and oops surprise you just formed core memories that you’ll cherish for the rest of your life.

Name one lyric that goes harder than > Untimely ripped into this world > I was born again as a girl This may be the heaviest line ever written. Low Teens is a contender for my favourite album of the past decade. youtu.be/I1kRMGs7UuQ?...

Nobody tell Henry from online that he’s Already A Writer because I’m stoked for these endeavours.

I run a linear, there and back again, route for #couch25k and my free dopamine tip is to offer high fives to people coming in the other direction. Like hell yeah we got this.

TIL I am “sustain moderate shoulder injury by sleeping” years old.

Mildly incensed by all the CEOs lionising long hours at the office, I peeled back a small corner of my filter and wrote a short, slightly unhinged, and likely incoherent post. The kind of raw cringe post I can only conjure in a state of child-induced sleep deprivation.

Yes. > I’ve felt unmoored by all of this … by a “get that bag” culture that seems to have accepted these tools without much consideration as to the repercussions; by the discourse. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I will not be done until my sites go this hard.

I have a home with a garden that has a few trees, and the house is full of plants, and books, and children and their paraphernalia, and I am appreciating it. This is water, as it goes.

Really not clear what mood you’re trying to put me in here Spotify.

I can deliver no insult more cutting, no quip more witty, no affront more brazen than making the “insightful” reaction to your linkedin post.

Extremely proud of myself to be listening to Long Live on a run and go “oh hey that’s Listener!” which is not a secret, but I guess I didn’t know Listener last time I was into The Chariot. Anyway the video is fun too. youtu.be/mwwW7cVCJ0A?...

I’ve done like three posts about AI which is plenty so here’s a documentary about hardcore band The Chariot. Watching it, I long to: 1. Be in bands again. 2. Create _anything_ that people love this much. youtu.be/i1OvObODenw?...

They’re gonna cure canccer.

I do not enjoy a pile on, but it is appropriate to mock this. 🤷🏻‍♂️ To wit, this is the stupidest "look we're doing AI too" thing I've seen in a long while, and today I accidentally went on LinkedIn so the bar was pretty fucking stupid.

Opened LinkedIn*. *(Huge mistake, vomited immediately, mea culpa. A non-recruiter had messaged me, which explains but does not excuse it).

Outside of you there are two wolves… …roll initiative. #ttrpg

New #TheArmed album: something for everyone, and everything for someone. HEATHEN. thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-fu...

FTFY. Mother-eating spiders ‘will be relatable content for parents’ in new David Attenborough series. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I think quality matters, and I think the only way to create really good things is to care a whole awful lot and work really hard on them.

I quality-pilled a thing? I am it. The number of broken things I interact with daily is absurd. Floating nav bars halfway down the page, layout shift causing me to click the wrong link, sites that handle money timing out on a good connection, … It doesn’t have to be this way.

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I drive along a shrouded quayside. I pass boats. Cranes. Fisheries. Strangers, looking for the heart of Saturday night. I stir to glimpse the vitality spilling from lantern lit bars, nestled among the anchorages, hidden and out of reach. My newborn stirs in the back, and I am once more white noise.

My aching bones are cracking at least two spines today. #mörkborg

It is wild how willing CEOs are to declare, “we’re going to make our service worse”.

Personal site glow up 💄 💇🏻‍♂️ 💅🏻

Mr Brightside, fight me.

It has come to my attention that I have been severely sleeping on The Armed. This could not be more my sort of thing, musically of mischiefly.

It was.

I have a newborn and thus exist in a liminal state, a self only in discontinuous fragments. Which may be the perfect existential condition to see Foxing tonight 🤘

what if bad at make question?

a big problem with AI *in practice* as opposed to theory is that, while it does have actual applications, it has been so ludicrously over-hyped and over-sold that policymakers now think it can solve any problem without having to spell out how it will do that

Extremely this. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Start singing Tom Waits’ “Come On Up To The House” as a lullaby for my toddler. Lying next to his bed. We’re three songs in, he’s nodding off. A small, concerned face appears over the lip of the bed. “Daddy? Did you just say the _sky_ has _cracked_!?”

I do not like vibe coding. Tried it this morning on a little throwaway latency analysis and I hate it. Using my brain instead is good actually. Programming is theory building.