A couple of months back I turned off all AI autocomplete features in my IDE, and TBH I feel like my brain has completely healed. I still leverage AI heavily, but always as a conscious choice. Goodbye “LLM pause” when my brain was waiting to see what the AI thought before thinking on its own.

-7C on the way up feels the same as 10C on the way down.

I feel like git push —force should work even during a GitHub outage.

I live in the suburbs of the web development galaxy.

My current AI take (constantly evolving) 1) if you fundamentally understand the problem to be solved and the green path, AI is pure accelerant 2) if you need to stray from the green path then it’s actually not that helpful at all 3) if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s doing more harm than good.

I love when I try to write a tricky TS type and I’m having trouble so I ask AI and it tries the same 8 things then says “maybe it’s impossible? IDK 🤷🏻‍♂️”

Hooray for winter sports 😂

Put their names on a plaque.

I’ve already shoveled this twice today. Snow day confirmed for tomorrow.

Is it my birthday? github.com/vitest-dev/v...

I find the Taipei 101 climb event to be like 90% uninteresting. Generally free soloing does not excite me that much, but even in that world I’d much rather see people climbing actual cliffs. Like surely soloing El Cap (way taller than this building) was both harder and more interesting.

Anyone on here have a good recipe for red dal? Prefer rich and creamy to soupy.

Lmao it converted my db from PG to MySQL when I wasn’t looking?

K, this Ralph thing is actually really good. Still not a silver bullet, but with a good focused plan it’s really surprisingly effective.

It fits.

Go to bed, or try out this Ralph thing then go to bed?

Holy shit I actually finished it. I’ve been working on this for at least three years. It better fit.

OAuth in a phone call was not something I ever thought I would have to figure out, but here we are. Been a hell of a year so far.

The thing that’s never made sense to me is that the “we must own guns to protect ourselves from tyranny” people and the “it’s ok when law enforcement murders people” people are the same people.

Turns out the only thing I had to do to fix my printer that’s been broken more than a year is actually try for more than ten minutes.

Finally finished this sweater (for my 3yo daughter). Body and one sleeve took me 3 weeks, sleeve two took my 3 months. Finishing things is always harder than starting 💀

Bread only exists for four hours, then it turns into raw toast.

I love how during the election so many Americans told people with opinions to “mind their own business” Unfortunately America, as much as we wish it weren’t the case, your business is our business.

I know this will probably be controversial, but the Minecraft movie was actually kind of good.

So someone asked me to make a change on a PR. It’s a good shout, and I’m going to do it. HOWEVER I copied the code in question from him. Should I also fix his usage in the same PR, or is that too passive aggressive? 💀

Y’all are in a state of national emergency over less than 1 pound of fentanyl.

Kind of feels like AI tools are speeding up the burnout cycle for me. I’ve always used straightforward easy to crank out tasks as a sort of break from the hard and slow problems, let my brain get the dopamine hit of rapid shipping.

I thought it would be funny to try to score a smiley face into this loaf. In fact, it was a horrible and terrifying.

Using AI to help me think of a library name for an idea I’m playing with, and look who pops up in one of its ideas. @omgsean.com 25.8% CoffeeScript 🙈

“When you reach the end of your life, you will die. And you won’t be able to wear your glasses. And it will be in 99 hours” - my 3yo Wednesday’s going to be a big day for me.

TFW you spend half the day trying to get the design system to let you do something you could have done in ten minutes with two divs 🫠

Tricked my colleagues into going for momos in Parkdale for a team dinner 😅 one review was “this is actually the best thing I’ve ever had in Toronto”

For two libraries based on native fetch, it was surprisingly tricky to get GraphQL yoga to play nice with hono. Works now though, and that’ll improve my life tremendously.

A previous guest at this AirBnB didn’t sign out of their Apple TV. Do I watch the latest severance as them, risking causing a marital dispute over allegations of tv streaming cheating?

I love cooking in this country. Breakfast tacos - cochinita pibil the family down the street is selling from their front door - really good eggs - fresh tortillas - fresh avocados - a simple salsa

Spent a good chunk of my flight yesterday trying to implement DataLoader having never looked at the code and no internet access. Pretty fun challenge, might keep going.

Family vacation starts tomorrow morning and Travel Dad is emerging

Happy half of the year where my car’s clock is correct to all those who celebrate

I’ve started blocking the “block of text, copied from someone else, whole thing could have fit in the main skeet body, no alt text” people, and it’s felt good each time so far. Strong recommend.

It’s my dog’s birthday. She’s a bit of a nut, but we love her all the same.

I was thinking of making another table, and the universe provided with these old hardwood legs at the side of the road

Hah, was able to name the exact town this week’s Severance was shot in within 5 minutes

I’ve been so hung up on the “make the developer experience perfect” phase of this (solo) project for so long, finally switched to “just build, fix things that annoy as they come up” and the productivity boost is astounding 😅

The hardest thing about evolving GraphQL APIs always seems to be types that should have been interfaces from the beginning.

Tiny crusher of rocks, refuses to wear the shoes half the time though.

I’m going to try watching the second hobbit movie tonight. I was so upset by the first one that I abandoned them. 3 minutes in and I don’t understand why it looks so weird.

🇨🇦 not for sale.

Yesterday my 6yo gave a 3 minute talk in front of 150 strangers on fossil hunting in the Alberta Badlands as part of the lil trampoline hall lecture series, and I’m so very proud of him. I’d have exploded from nerves if it was me.

At this point I don’t even want to mend relations with America. We need to look for other partners and let America alone for a while. They need to clean up their shit.

We’ve got numbers! Lessgo! (I love watching elections, so exciting 😅)