mfw mr beast is planning to launch his own bank

It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex. Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.

on type safety

Found out that Attilla Danko, webmaster of cleardarksky.com, died late last year. www.cleardarksky.com/personal/ind... CDS has been an excellent resource for #astronomy forecasts for myself and doubtless many others. RIP Attilla.

I am golang insane

Oh look, a Python package that does exactly what I need! It's lightweight and well-documented, even! It's unfortunately also unmaintained and depends on an older version of a library my project uses that has since introduced breaking changes 🙃

Mall Escalator Spits Out Another Pile Of Bones

And one thing I'm quickly realizing about myself is that I have a hard time sympathizing with the idea that "the way the world used to work" is harder than how big tech wants it to work. I can't shake the feeling that big tech thrives on people who conflate "new" with better.

Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳

ive been thinking abt this video literally all day today

leaving my malapropism job for greener pastors

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is knowing _how_ to force push vs _when_ to force push

I wish the Slack and Google Photos notification bar icons were slightly more distinct. 😐

Last time I tried to use Haskell, it bit me, I got a rare blood disorder, and I had to start medication. At least there are no side effects.

It's okay to let it outside, won't survive for long. Nature abhors a vacuum.

There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FULL SYNC OF THE WHOLE NETWORK INTO MY FIREHOSE CONSUMER

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

[Python packaging tool yells at cloud]

#hatefeed v0.4.0 is out! The hatefeed now hydrates display name and handle. hatefeed.nanovad.com

About 1/4 the way through Kerouac's On The Road. Is it like this the whole way through?

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

An interesting document is Wikipedia's edit filter for internet brainrot which gets updated if certain meme phrases are overwhelmingly used in vandalism. It started in the yolo/swag era and has evolved to the skibidi/rizz present, regularly dropping memes that are sufficiently stale (like Harambe)

STOP DOING BACKSLASHES. YEARS of counting escape chars but no real world use case found for \ Wanted a separator anyway for a laugh? We had that. It was called the FORWARD SLASH. "Yes please use a different pathsep than everybody else" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Anyway the bottom line is that all our sensitive information is going to end up on an unsecured Snowflake instance in the cloud because these kids lack a fundamental understanding of enterprise architecture and ChatGPT is bad at SQL.

It's okay to put books down. The books you haven't finished tell more of your story than the ones you have.

2025 is 1/12th complete.

just got the job as the guy who makes sure motion smoothing gets reenabled at random on your LG tv

The drink of the true revolutionary is malört, and she who cannot endure malört is also unable to fight

lol naperville sinking into the ground is NOT bad news

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You're laughing. I'm forced to use a global lock, and you're laughing?

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

I Want To Fly A Helicopter, Not Look At A Bunch Of Crazy Dials theonion.com/i-want-...

No data to back it up, but I feel a vibe shift on the wider Bluesky in the past month or so. Feels less technical overall, which isn't a bad thing.

The machine that makes machines that makes machines. Each slightly worse than the last. Until you're getting glitchy broken things that spark and stagger. And we all wonder why we set this whole business in motion in the first place. Watch as it falls apart. Rusts. Accomplishes nothing.

The unmonitored critical server's health lights when you perform your annual check-up (it's fine)

WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

Women go nuts for a man who has what I call "toyota corolla values" (cheap, efficient, reliable). It also helps if he has a toyota corolla

Me, wisely: All code styles are basically equivalent; each team should simply pick one and stick with it. Style wars are the sign of a lesser mind You: OK, given that, can we use my preferred style instead of yours? Me: Fuck off directly into the sun with your unreadable indentation rules, no

I love how, no matter the niche, there always seems to be one company with dozens or more employees proudly building the [thing]. There's one that makes sewer crawling robots and big cable spools for performing municipal sewer inspections. 🤷‍♂️

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

Huge IFF true

The real story about these drones is that in a world of 4k cameras in everyone's hands, y'all can't photograph or video for shit. HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY

Just saw an advert for Illinois in London Heathrow. Already making plans to visit as a result

What exactly *is* rabbitmq doing burning all that CPU when you restart it with a large mnesia folder? 🤔