neighbor who has been awaiting trial for cooking meth and who has in the meantime been cutting down random neighborhood trees to cook more meth kept in fact cooking meth while we waited months for the city or police to do anything about the guy cooking meth (they did not) anyway no one is hurt

we're out here minning. we're out here middling. we're out here napping. we're out here wondering and not being sure. we're out here being distracted & forgiving outselves for it. we're out here hugging. we're out here holding hands. we're out here going to bed a little early tonight.

every single high school boy that plays a sport has a haircut that looks like they stick their finger in a socket and then apply a lot of product

<squints> okay so what if everything is just getting too complicated

also unsettling: stumbled across a Facebook fight about QLab today (someone was really angry that they think QLab is really badly designed, other people didn't think they were being fair, etc) it’s okay to be nice to each other online, y'know? we're all doing our best

had an executive function dream last night where i realized i needed to pass the programmer licensing exam and when i went in to do it i couldn't get past the first question... just increasingly tied up in knots & confusion while everyone else around me calmly proceeded

Lumping all of AI into one politically untouchable bucket is an unrealistic and sort of achingly bad move. There is no conceivable future technological infrastructure that does not involve high volume statistics. But e.g.: are we building a future soiled by cars or are we building mass transit?

now that claude code exists no one is allowed to make any new Electron apps ever again even if the code is sh-*t it'll still be better than an Electron app

if any local news outlet is looking for a story ( @thebaltimorebanner.com ?) the therapist pipeline for the entire state of Maryland is currently backlogged for MONTHS behind a single woman who processes licenses and has what I can only describe as a very loose relationship to "doing her job"

i took a break from work yesterday to get my head out of computers and AI. I'm co-directing a production of Eurydice early next year, and I wanted to explore photos for that show. My co-director Tessara stepped in as a temporary model, but now I want to actually use some of these...

Just started to understand this today and it’s crazy!!

I think this captures something fundamental about what is happening in the world of "organizing electrons to make them useful"

people are just walking around in the world, not understanding that they can make software now. like, the general public just doesn't get it yet.

Almost a full month ago I started trying to get @voxel.org set up with an Apple Developer account so we can sign and distribute software. I have been through at last half a dozen support reps and still can not complete signing up, if you're wondering how the Apple Developer experience is.

I was clearing out old files yesterday and found the rental agreement for the apartment I was living in when I wrote the first QLab code. They've fixed it up since we lived there (and now it costs a lot more! Listed for $2000 a month now — we paid $695). www.apartments.com/115-pine-st-...

trying to explain to my younger self who is using an Apple II that his older self will be writing software for an Apple computer by talking to a robot that is running in a Linux computer that is running in the Apple computer

Anecdotally (via myself, some friends, and some posts I've seen online) a lot of developers right now suddenly have: A) an incredible new level of output B) intense headaches

the new threshold for "should i write a custom program to solve this problem?" is making me seasick in the Before Times it was "almost certainly not, but perhaps once in a great while, after pondering it and preparing for the commitment" now, for any given program, it's "lol probably???? try it!"

Noting with amusement: In Star Trek, being part of The Borg means that "you" think like "it". (In seriousness, though, this doesn't seem novel; humans have been thinking like the stuff we expose ourselves to forever.) arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754

I used to tell people that you could make an impact by becoming an expert at two things. It didn't matter *which* two things, as long as one of them was programming. LLMs at least soften the barrier to expertise. All changes are both good and bad; let's find & support the ways this one is good.

I am not personally a fan of the "don't even look at the code" camp of LLM generation but I think it's intellectually honest to note that if you provide, substantially, every input you care about to a program, and it produces correct output for all of them, then it is, by definition, working.

I can see why this guy — the CEO of Anthropic — was either kicked-out-of or voluntarily escaped OpenAI. As my teammate phrased it: having both vision and ethics can be a huge buzzkill. www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

HE KNEW.

Belatedly catching up to this absolutely stellar post by @sockpuppet.org from November 2025 — he cracks open several key insights about how all this stuff works. (bonus: i also real-life LOLed more than once) fly.io/blog/everyon...

I feel like in the Before Times our job was to: • understand the problem • understand how to write code Both were really hard, but "understanding the problem" was mostly hidden away in human brains in a way that was super efficient when it worked, but was also deceptive since it was hidden.

hi yes so in the course of a single Sunday worth of Clauding, I converted the design spec from @voxel.org's brand package into a specialized macOS app that allows us to easily generate large format posters to send to our local print shop... I'll give a video tour of this app soon, but 🤯

this judge is *pissed* storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

just realized that my version of the voice for our dog is *heavily* influenced by Homestar Runner

Very interesting thread about deciphering how our technology has shaped this political moment:

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

love this snow, but f*%k this ice

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

New Theatrical Department: "Code" — add a new role for people who can build custom tools per-show, who sit in rehearsal and makes tools as they are needed. “Hold for Code, please”

listen, i have been among the last to reluctantly engage with LLMs for programming, but if you are a developer and you're not exploring Claude Code right now you need to go and do that. even if you don't plan to use it, you need to understand where you stand now.

I spent two years being gently skeptical and often irritated by the AI hype, but this week I tried it again (Claude Code, in this case), and reader, programming will never be the same. (And I have MIXED FEELINGS about it.)

word on the street clued me in to the fact that the current iteration of Claude Code was worth revisiting since the last time I poked at AI tools, and pals, I am properly SHOOK

In 2025, my second year of running, I turned 46 and logged 740 miles (about 2 miles a day). I also ran my first half marathon. I was proud of this because it was despite some injuries (e.g. a broken toe in January), and while still running a company, a theater, & being a dad.

I am in Philadelphia for one night. I leave by train early tomorrow morning. I just discovered the Philly marathon is tomorrow morning. The station is inside the race route. I visit the marathon website to learn when the race begins. The "information" page redirects me to an AI agent.

It’s a misconception that ADHDers have trouble being productive. We are often incredibly productive. But there is no power on heaven or earth that can predict what, exactly, will be produced by the end.

"She'd LOVE that ship." "I know. She loves ANY ship that's gay." "It's not just GAY. It's DOOMED." ~ my kiddos processing their current Minecraft-based YouTube soap opera obsession

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i didn't run in the Baltimore Running Festival today because I didn't train for it and I wasn't sure I could do it safely. but i HAVE been running a lot this year, so I did my own run. I figured that way I could stop at any time. anyway, i ran my first half marathon today, and that feels real nice

my wife and i have recently come to the conclusion that the secret to understanding New Yorker cartoons is to become middle aged, around which time they mysteriously become hilarious instead of puzzling. no i can not really explain this further.

lying in bed for 4 hours with your stomach a churning knot of anxiety snakes is probably *almost* as good as sleeping, right?

i think i may be turning into a full-fledged homebody? which is extremely unfortunate since my chosen field is theater

my amygdala really wants me to think that reaching my gate before boarding is what determines if i live to see tomorrow

i took an electrical safety class a few weeks ago in which the teacher encouraged us to frame a good electrician as someone who know hows to manage heat and in that light i am now thinking of a good government as one that knows how to manage & abate conflict (including its own)

if i could pick one thing for people without ADHD to understand about ADHD it would be how the importance of something does not translate to us being able to prioritize it

please everyone in Baltimore sign up for this so they come here, this is my dream dance event: early-birds.club

the world is a hot mess right now but the elementary school near my house had a marching band who were playing and dancing their f*%kin hearts out to welcome the kids this morning and anyway long story short i'm not sure i've ever both dance and cried on a run before