So exhausting..

I finished "The City We Became" by N. K. Jemisin. It was different than the usual books I read. The story is about a handful of New Yorkers who find out they have become something much bigger than themselves, and that a great enemy is after the city they call home. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Going fast usually means sacrificing quality, and it's really obvious quality is being chucked into a volcano.

The low battery chirp in one of my smoke detectors is going off, and I am now my dog's emotional support human.

Some see role models in wealthy business magnates. In a way, so do I. I see what happens when greed corrupts in such a way that lets them see others are undeserving of basic needs. It's impossible, without sacrificing one's humanity, to be disportionately rich while there is so much insecurity.

I finished Solito. A memoir by Javier Zamora that describes his journey to America as a 9 year old. I could not put this book down at times. The book shows how resilient people can be. It also opened my eyes to how treacherous the journey to America can be and how unfair fate can be. #book #read

Bouncer: "I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Me: “Why?” Bouncer: “I don’t know who you are and this is my trampoline.”

Almost done with Asimov's Foundation's Edge, and I am left wondering if it would have been a NY Times best seller if it was written by someone less notable.

As I wake up at 5am to take my kid to a swim meet where she will swim for about 4 to 8 minutes total over a 4 hour period, I wonder where I went wrong in life.

TIL: While using panes in tmux, you can make a pane full size by doing ctrl-b z. Then when you're done focusing on it you can press it again to restore the panes to what they were. #tmux #linux

conservatives are gathered today on Good Friday to celebrate that special day, 2000 years ago, when the state legally executed a leftist

This is a beginner typing mistake in Python: Setting the type of function arguments to `list` when all you need is to be able to iterate over that value. That's bad because it prevents you from using tuples, or generators, or other iterables. Instead, use `Iterable`.

I’ve never regretted writing documentation but I’ve regretted not writing it.

These headlines feel like obvious signs the economy is going to crash.

People with empathy are deeply impacted by harm being done to real people. We feel it in our gut-- our very souls. To feel this strongly puts a heavier requirement on us to create justice. It's called moral responsibility. Trump has called activists expressing moral responsibility terrorists.

Real tech geniuses, DOGE

It's clear that a significant portion of Americans were tricked into thinking that they knew better than the experts or that the experts couldn't be trusted. So instead of figuring things out through logic or sound reasoning, we are resorting to learning things the hard way, by trial and error.

Salesforce's CEO: www.itpro.com/software/dev... Annnnd now slack (owned by salesforce) is down for a significant amount of time.

So many questions. What does "to build 0-1" mean, and why am I a match if my resume is so bad, which i did not submit, btw 😬

He is a disgrace www.politico.eu/article/dona...

We can do better. We need to get in front of the average American and show them how Democrats are going to help THEM now. This is just lip service.

My daughter placed 12th in backstroke in the bronze meet out of at least 100 kids. I'm so proud, she worked her butt off.

“A dark day… today we all lose….” Shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is impacting the soybean industry — Tennessee’s #1 cash crop, contributing billions to our economy. More: arec.tennessee.edu/wp-content/u...

The Project 2025 architect was just confirmed to lead the WH budget office. Complaining does nothing. If you hate what is going on, then do more. Calling your reps is a start, but go to your town, county, or state democratic meetings. Step up to run for office. Everything else is just lip service.

I am on baby duty today, and here are the instructions I was given 😂 12:00pm Playtime She loves crawling around with Sunny. (Don't leave unattended they both want the stupid chicken ) The stupid chicken:

I am going to selfhost my website because I have a spare PC lying around and why not.

Hey @kagi.com, are your search results powered by Bing?

With everything that is going on, it is not enough to yell through your keyboard. People have to step up and do something. It doesn't have to be perfect. For example, the DNC has some shady parts to it, and that must change if it is meant to represent the working class.

COWARD! Either put up or shut up. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Finished up Service Model, by @aptshadow.bsky.social. It's about a robot valet that finds itself cast out into the world, but something has gone very wrong. As a result, it struggles to find a new a new normal while running into bizarre situations that force it to do unexpected things.

Yay! I broke @github.com. i have noticed it has been a little unstable since yesterday.

In my quest to figure things out, a few simple things are obvious: - keep reading. - avoid low effort content that seeks to fire off dopamine. - keep exercising. - keep a journal to reflect. - make improvements to myself no matter how small.

@bsky.app please add some sort of group functionality where subscribers can see private posts. My only option for some of the organization I'm a part of is facebook, and I'd love to be able to get them to move to bluesky.

Picard management tip: If you never fail, you aren't going boldly enough.

Today I learned that I can run a specific parametrization in #pytest by using the `-k` flag and passing a value that's specific to the case I want to run. #python

I think I might end up paying for Kagi. It has a really nice feature, a domain can be blocked or downgraded. That means goodbye to trashy click-bait websites that take up 20 paragraphs spread over dozens of ads to convey a few sentences of information.

Spending the day honoring Dr. King and his profound wisdom. #MLKDay

The time to step up and act has past us by. We either step up or get stepped on.

Devin AI is $500 a MONTH. It better be able to perform miracles for that price.

I thought TikTok was banned in the US. What happened?

Sneak peek of something I am working on for an upcoming cub scout pack meeting.

I have published three new videos where I work through Chapter 2 of Think Python: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Gas and celery, I am ready for snow.

My manager exposed me to Google's Notebook LLM. It can be used to create AI generated podcasts. There was so much fluff, so many "yah"s, "mhmm"s, and "right"s. It was surprising to see so little content spread out over so many minutes.

I can't get enough of @marthawells.com murderbot diaries. I finished "Exit Strategy" after getting it about 28 hours ago, and it was another fun dive into the thoughts (cycles?) of an independent construct. I could not put it down.

Just got home from our annual pinewood derby.

Day 14, pullups and squats. I am enjoying squats more than I thought I would. Not feeling any bad pain from weakness is so nice.

This morning I wanted to test an API endpoint I was working on and it appears that something is broken with postman. All my collections are missing and I cannot use it. I am learning my collections are on their servers which is dumb. This reinforces my belief that offline apps are the way to go.