DevOps seems so cool and then you get to do it and it slowly dawns on you that every time you save 3 minutes of CI time with painstaking optimizations, it immediately gets eaten by code sprawl and higher load, so you’re working harder and harder just to keep the pipeline the same speed

Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.

Explain to me why airplane wifi is slower despite being closer to the cloud

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you can’t cut back on understanding! you will regret this!

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add an espresso shot to your Sleepytime tea for a beverage that will immediately make you neutral

I used to think I was unique. As I got older, I realized I was only unique up to isomorphism. Now I'm only unique up to coarse equivalence.

“baguette” is a French word meaning “bagu that is a girl”

my zettelkasten is ready to meet whatever challenge the future may bring can i find stuff in it? no, but is it the rich tapestry of thinking underpinning a vibrant body of academic work? also no, but is it useful to my day job? also no,

But they were all of them deceived, for another leche was made...

thank you Gemini, very helpful and on topic

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

standing athwart the tide of Bill Laswell's bass-forward mutant supergroup chaos funk, yelling "this is Praxis!"

i only will share this secret once: docs.google.com/presentation... my guide on how to improve at art. this will possibly help you.

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if you push the gas and the brake at the same time, the car takes a screenshot :)

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

taking progesterone to become more prog rock

Bloggified version of this post, with some additional notes and links from social media discussions: v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/an-ice-c…

You're absolutely right — for a number of years now, work HAS been proceeding to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in phase detractors but also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters

announcing the release of gemma-loupe, the first full sparse autoencoder for Gemma 4 E2B (and i _believe_ the second OSS autoencoder of the Gemma 4 model family) huggingface.co/rhizomatous/...

Ploopy has launched the bean. Repeat. Ploopy has launched the bean. ploopy.co/bean/

go is the python of programming languages

The concept of platonic solids implies the concept of romantic plastics

ugh, son of grug: This rock is called flint, and it can start fires. A good circle of stones contains it, and in this way we can cook food and harden spears. caveman nick land: In this germinal accelerationist matrix, there is no distinction to be made between the destruction of fire and its intens

i can tell you with clear eyes and full heart, there is no situation on God's green earth where I want to schedule a follow-up agent in 2 weeks

chalcopyrite or "fools fools gold"

So we know when something *becomes* history, right? But what about when it *stops* being history? There's got to be moment where it happens, logically. I don't know if we've reached it yet. Have I? Have any of us? The fear grips my heart like a vice. [Judge]: I meant questions about the trial

We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go

roseate spoonbill STUNS at wet gala

Tip: NEVER use a random number. A non deterministic "solution" is unworthy of the divine touch of a turing machine

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected to the internet. This was a warning and we did not heed it.

abbreviating names in UI is fun because sometimes the Son of Man visits the email thread with your loan officer :)

hey, bonkers question: do any of my mutuals who've been my pal for 2 years or more happen to be Canadian citizens, with valid passports, willing to sign as a guarantor on my Canadian passport app?

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

TIL there was a moment in time when ZZ Top sampled Autechre. (Yes, that's the correct way around.) www.whosampled.com/sample/54172...

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New blog post about Erik Hollnagel's Safety-II model: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/26/t...

does anyone write "n11n" for "normalization" should we start

sprained my dominant hand pointer finger, now i get to look forward to two weeks trapped in ☝️🤓 pose

my series THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND is about the history of charging the mound. here's the first episode, now free to watch on youtube

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

demeter when her daughter goes missing

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"