obsessed with how satisfied the cats in Neko Atsume 2 look when they destroy the tissue box. 🙂 look what I did 🙂

thinking of all the men in all my software jobs who told me I was being a closed-minded bitch about DHH over the years :)

I am shocked and surprised by this unexpected finding that in no way aligns with everything we know about the tech industry, the medical profession, or how power works.

thank you to @tedleo.bsky.social for coming to Toronto multiple times this year. blessed tbh.

My very good buddy and overall sweet little guy Fisher took a bad tumble this morning and is racking up medical bills. I know times are tough, but if you can spare a few bucks for his recovery we would be so grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/fisher-rec...

wanna read a silly little story about my tiny pink keyboard that ends up also not being about my keyboard at all? retro #2: ruheedewji.com/2025/09/14/r...

this is amazing news, Chloë is the greatest!!!

Retro #2, for the first half of September (in which I have dumb feelings about a keyboard) ruheedewji.com/2025/09/14/r...

I just finished listening to this in audiobook format and I absolutely loved it. If you like nonfiction with a narrative arc, and learning about a whole industry and scientific track you might know nothing about... check this out immediately www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/675649...

how do the blue jays keep doing this last-minute shit lol

finally have so much more brain space to knit... this Musselburgh is great for mindless couch knitting (yarn is Lily & Pine, which I'll miss forever)

got this yarn the same week some Absolute Trash happened at my old job, so, never started the sweater. finally started it this week! maybe I will finish it during sweater season???

maybe what you need today is the crazy arrangement of "Norwegian Wood" from Big Swing Face (one of the best live albums that ever was, and honestly one of the best covers) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE55...

“Living a life well lived must surely include coming to an acceptance of your own finitude.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/to-live

👑 Kevin 🐐 Gausman 👑

So anyways some advice that I’m glad I finally learned to listen to: 1. You do not need to post. You are not a public figure. People are not waiting for you to weigh in. 2. You can log off (see above).

my cartoon gasp when they showed Craig Kimbrel warming... the vibes when the Jays then walked off against Craig Kimbrel... wonderful

went for a walk with one of my new colleagues today and they commented, in a conversation about starting new hobbies a lot, "it's good to always be curious about life". yeah! there's so much to try!!!!

personal update: getting back into hand lettering

the Dodgers make me feel less bad about the Blue Jays bullpen tbh

I think the full throated embrace of GenAI-at-any-cost has sort of cracked open people's perceptions that anything they are doing is meaningful.

👑 Kevin 🐐 Gausman 👑

working in Python after 4+ years of working in Ruby and it currently feels like "Ruby with a really thick accent"

some people are so mad about knitting patterns that say "reverse shaping" on the second side, wow. hope Nena found a hand-holdier pattern I guess

really appreciated the Goodhart's Law mention on Effectively Wild yesterday, as someone who has spent a lot of time shouting about it recently (in a totally different context)

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actually, my job ... it's just installing npm dependencies

re-upping for the weekday crew

cool photo of us (Survival Club) in Ottawa by Jason Watson. do not @ me about my piano technique

workers of the world, spice up your life

Taking great inspiration from @jennschiffer.com, I'm trying out the weekly retro format (except I have not picked an interval). Here's the August edition ruheedewji.com/2025/08/31/a...

cool photo of us (Survival Club) in Ottawa by Jason Watson. do not @ me about my piano technique

at this point probably Phoebe Bridgers at the Velvet (350 cap)

using my one wild and precious life to email the Blue Jays about why the hell they don't sell Max Scherzer t-shirts (shirseys) (scherzeys?)

it's back to school season and I'm doing a sale on my book "building git", a deep dive into a ton of programming topics through the lens of rebuilding a tool you use every day visit shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ and use voucher code BGSEPT2025 to get 50% off

it's my last day before I start my new job and Max Scherzer is pitching at home... see u at the dome 🫡

fig. 1: zombie runner carnage

yesterday I met a four-month-old baby who repeatedly grinned at me with her entire toothless face, so I'm feeling great, thank you

it's my last week off before I start my new job, and boy am I pleased that the temperature is no longer "surface of the sun" (also, it's How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra)

good thing the Jays got Myles Straw instead of Roki Sasaki (?????)

This is not unexpected but still, with no due respect, get absolutely fucked www.thestar.com/business/haj...

been meeting up with various former coworkers recently, and often the conversation will turn to some colleague we both loved working with. and like, products, skills, whatever—if I'm honest, my professional goals are really to be talked about the way everyone talks about those people

Clap Your Hands Seiya

the newest Zohran video is so good that it even makes the tidal wave of white people trying to casually say “habibi” in conversation that it’s inevitably going to cause worth it

thread of life's underrated joys:

"Davis Schneider leads off against Clayton Kershaw" we are having such a normal season

funemployment update: handled a rather small chore I've been putting off for well over a year. practically radiant with virtue over here

big win in a playoff push against the Royals sealed by a guy who was traded for Tulo in 2015. a little on the nose

turns out the secret to crushing a bunch of PRs at the gym is: quitting your job