I sincerely hope Filippo's right, but I'm not sure I'd take the bet that we will get great code reading tools. Perhaps this is too cynical, but I think the VC class sees the value of reading/understanding code plummeting to zero for many everyday use cases.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a One Ring is with a good guy with a One Ring.

The Charlottesville ice rink is back! (Perhaps unintentionally.) #CvilleSky

Love how all the Grimm's fairy tales are like "murder is bad and evil, m'kay? *UNLESS* it's a godless heathen witch, then hell yeah, light 'em up in the most excruciating way possible".

Judging from the number of people out driving this morning with uncleared roofs, an unsuspecting pedestrian somewhere is going to get decapitated, Final-Destination-style, when one of these bozos flies around a corner and all that snow slides off in the form of a single 500-pound slab.

Don't forget to squat while shoveling snow, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Your back will thank you later. A+ for effort but C- for form.

I've shoveled more sidewalks on our block in the last 24 hours than I have in the last two years, and gone through two of my five-gallon salt buckets. Definitely going to need to restock after this week!

Finished the second snow-shoveling of the day. Liberal use of sand and carbonyldiamide-glycol ice melt after the first shoveling made the second one way, way easier, and it's doing a good job of keeping the sidewalk clear. If I'm lucky the third shoveling will be minimal. Fingers crossed.

It's the worst weekend to send a supply run to friends and workers in MN, but when's the last time neighbors let a little weather get in the way of fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

✈️ It's looking pretty grim that my travel plans to NYC will work out next week, but if you will be around and want to catch up about nerd things, please let me know and I'd love to grab a snowy coffee/hot chocolate somewhere.

Philosophers on the Trolley Problem: It's a nuanced thought experiment that allows for a careful examination of moral priorities and tradeoffs. Average eight-year-old on the Trolley Problem:

Deeply frustrating that Claude Code won't let you make "deny everything but X" rules. (Deny-rules take precedence over allow-rules, so "deny: *; allow: X" just bans everything which is usually not what you intended.)

Screen time during formative childhood development years will turn out to be the lead paint of the 2010s.

In light of the Machado-Trump Nobel Peace Prize scandal, some observers are questioning whether I received my "#1 Dad" mug under less than transparent circumstances. Let me hasten to reassure the American public that I am, in fact, a #1 Dad.

Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf has the best opening of any Beowulf I've read:

The kiddos and I have been working on a 1,000-piece puzzle this week after school, which we just finished today. Progress pics:

A fun fact about U.S. securities law on futures is that you can make futures contracts on almost anything you want, **except** for two very specific things: (1) movie box office receipts 🎬, and... (2) onions 🧅 This is not a joke. That's really what the law says:

🦀 Using rustup to grab #Rust nightly seems very slow today, unless my memory is too rose-tinted from the last time I did this:

People feel way too comfortable having text conversations on a plane with their phones set to ultra large font size and maximum brightness.

You do have to be better to stand out than before, but you definitely don't need money to stand out. For example, two of the most successful games this year were from comparatively tiny studios, Team Cherry (Silksong) and Sandfall Interactive (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33).

Press the Turbo button to make things run slower.

This is why you'll never in a million years see OpenAI indemnify a professional-services use of ChatGPT. When the stakes are high (and many times when they're not) you want the humans doing the work.

No, Slack, I absolutely do not want to "send my coworkers greeting cards just like this one". Nor, I think, do they want to receive them.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." — President and General Dwight Eisenhower

Saddened to hear about this. I only met Mike once, years and years ago, but he was as funny in person as he was online. He brought me a lot of joy and his material was consistently hilarious.

Oswald Cobblepot is rubbing his fins together in anticipatory glee.

Absolutely trashing your older or larger sibling in Mario Kart, thus demonstrating to both parties that physical might can sometimes be defeated by smarts, is an essential part of child development no matter the tears or distress that may follow. In this essay I will

In this house, Madonna's "Holiday" is a Christmas song. Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating.🎄

Infuriated at this box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes™️ Glazed Donut Holes. A sphere is the mathematically worst possible three-dimensional object for this! It has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Literally anything else would be better. See me after class. F.

me: "Count to 50." Gemini 2.5 Pro: [emits 3.7 kg of CO2]

You may have heard that in three weeks, the affordability provisions that make healthcare accessible for about 20 million Americans will expire. Healthcare in the US is already very expensive. The lapse of these provisions will make it even more so. But what exactly does that mean?

In 2014, Adult Swim released an infomercial for "SmartPipe", a fictitious "wellness device" that attaches to your toilet and scans your waste for marketing purposes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkl... In 2025, Kohler released Dekoda, which does the exact same thing: www.kohlerhealth.com/dekoda/

Cloudflare being down is like a snow day for adults. Unless you support something that runs on Cloudflare, in which case it's more like having to fire up the snowplow.

In this house, we obtain our facts only from America's finest news source.

Tired: Elf on a Shelf Wired: Elf with a Ring

When your job description includes "other duties as assigned".

We have the NTSB for regulating airline safety because airplanes are valuable to society, but also dangerous if not properly operated and maintained. It's made air travel safe and effective over decades. Will there eventually be an AI Safety Board?

Happy Biweekly Cloud Outage Day to all who celebrate. (This biweekly patron saint is Cloudflare.)

📃 After doing this about 100 times in the past year, I can comfortably say operating AI agents in production environments is both: 1️⃣ very different than conventional software, and yet 2️⃣ not so different that it justifies an entirely new parallel ecosystem of software providers specific to agents.

Endlessly funny to me that the Swift shortcode for "payments initiation" is "pain". Very apt if you've ever tried to implement this yourself without reference to the standard!

Devastating economic news.

🤯 You can mousewheel-scroll the tabs in Firefox's tab bar! Had no idea you could do this and just stumbled into it today by pure accident. Now that I am no longer fettered by the primitive chains of my screen resolution, I'm about to be an absolute menace to my 64 GiB.

Happy surprise unit test failure day to all who celebrate in the US!

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law." — Óscar Raimundo Benavides, Peruvian general and later its authoritarian President

First AWS, now Azure. It's going to be a month of hugops. Currently seeing outages on: * Azure Portal * Azure Front Door * Azure CDNs DNS strikes again, maybe. Are you being similarly affected? Would love to hear what's up/down for you because the Azure status page is still mostly green.

In light of the upcoming SNAP suspensions in the US, it's worth pointing out that Walmart captures 25% of all SNAP expenditures: www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...

Love to start Mondays with elevator malfunctions and 100 dB buzzer sounds.

The NYT is running a story about how a certain mayoral candidate's name is hard to pronounce. But English is the same language that has "onomatopoeia", "isthmus", and "Worcestershire". It can definitely make room for pronouncing Zohran Mamdani correctly. I believe in you. Sound it out!

✈️ Good morning from Santa Monica.