I used some LLMs yesterday to help improve my LinkedIn profile and I think (hope) it went well. Gave me some good content to write about at least. Check it out on my snazzy NEW personal blog platform: kyaaron.github.io/aaron-blog/#... #LearnInPublic #LinkedIn

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

I wrote about how MLS killing the Vancouver Whitecaps would be the beginning of MLS' decline. They turned away from the things that made the league great and embraced wealth creation. And this will break the remaining spell that makes MLS games a unique experience open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

This is a cool update for Linux itsfoss.com/news/new-pro...

The really unfortunate news about Vancouver proves that no team in MLS is safe really. It's hard to be excited about the league when I cannot trust that my team will be there for the long term. (1/3) #mls

Got the Geddy Lee cleaned and polished for the first time in honestly too long, and added a new set of strings. It's a whole new bass now! Plays much better.

This looks really bad. kotaku.com/a-surprise-d...

Okay Jackson Hopkins, we see ya #dcu #mls

It's pretty cool to see @duckduckgo.com update the icon for any NFL team you search for. I tried with a few but landed on my Cleveland Browns. This is pretty awesome. #Browns

Happy the Browns addressed their two biggest issues in the first round. I just hope they are the right players. #Browns

This is a long thread but worth the ~5 minutes or so to read for everyone using any social media platform.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Incredible week for @leedsunited.com

Funny thing is I think this is the “response” that will define the team this season.

New year, same stuff. #dcu #fedifc

This is a really encouraging and helpful (short) video from Traversy Media re: AI and the hype around it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3S...

Tried my hand at making my own blog site for future posts. It uses Github as the CMS and React on the front end to display the content. It's not perfect, but I'm going to slowly build more features into it! kyaaron.github.io/aaron-blog/#...

🔥 UNITED TAKE ALL THREE POINTS!!!

Very interested in this episode. It's on my list for this upcoming week!

"Too much information and no information, accomplish the same goal" I enjoyed this post in my morning reading today on writing good documentation and remembering both audiences you serve. idiallo.com/blog/how-do-...

The new Grace Under Pressure remastered release sounds very good. I've been listening to the live tour recordings for over a decade now and the remastered sound is very good. #rush

Ah I see Claude is down...again.

The WORST thing AI can do isn't failing. It's succeeding at giving you exactly the WRONG thing, brilliantly formatted.

"People have bad quality software because they decide to have bad quality software." From my morning reading by Bram Cohen. bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-o...

This goes to show you that Chelsea isn’t really that smart. They just have a lot of money. apnews.com/article/chel...

Been a fan of this team for 20 years @mattdoyle.bsky.social . A massive struggle to be excited for anything post covid/Rooney. This post might finally do me in.

Just remembered, it’s my 20th season following DC United. A lot has changed in those 20 years, some better and others not better. But glad to have a team in my city. #mls #fedifc #DCU

I switched from Windows to Linux this past week and wrote about my experience! medium.com/@amccollum.d... #Linux #gaming #videogames

Artemis II launch!

Rush sounded really good at the Juno awards last night, especially musically. It's hard to tell they are in their late 60s early 70s now with how sharp they played Finding My Way. I'm excited to watch more of their live videos (alas they are not coming to Korea). #rush

Verstappen apparently may retire from F1 after this season. I’d love to see him go to NASCAR for a few seasons. Have a top team like RCR or Hendrick get him ready and I think he could have a lot of success.

Move to Linux is complete. Went with @bazzite.gg. My download speeds are 8-9x faster than they were with Windows when downloading Steam games. My goodness. This might be the greatest decision I ever made with tech haha.

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one chuckling in the Youtube comments at the Grammarly ad in the middle of the episode. @theverge.com

Really enjoying The Verge's recent podcast on the recent social media cases in the US. Starting around 24 1/2 minutes in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92t...

Gonna try to fully move my gaming PC over to Linux. Nothing personally against Microsoft but I don't want Copilot and their AI stuff there. Also my PC is now six years old and it's slowing down with Windows 11. And I'm not upgrading for now because AI torched hardware affordability.

I love that @thehappyfits.bsky.social live stream their concerts for those of us who can't make them in person. They sound really great live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZBO...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

While searching for jobs, I've been volunteering for my local neighborhood association to help manage their Wix site. It's been fun to learn a new platform for web development and doing work to help the community.

Google Translate and I are getting along great today.

Ha the @nationals.com site doesn’t let you even view the site on a VPN. That’s a bit wild to me. Videos I can understand, but the entire site and news articles? Weird.

$20 a month for normal Netflix. Y’all remember when it was just $5-6 per month? Wasn’t really that long ago lol.

Folks want to make predictions for things because there is absolutely ZERO consequences to being wrong but radical upside for saying it. You get to see the content you continue to reward. If you reward 6 month predictions with engagement you are the gasoline for their fire.

It saddens me a lot that Pokemon has never released a more mature anime, like Pokemon Generations but longer. Especially based off the game characters and story - it would be so good.

Wrote a blog post today on how I made the Stardew Valley birthday game for my wife's birthday. It was a very fun project, something I looked forward to opening up each morning leading up to the final version. medium.com/@amccollum.d... #learninpublic

AI always has me apprehensive for the future. This podcast was an encouraging listen on the topic, especially how it relates to software developers like me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2l...

Access characters from the end of a string with .at() ✨ str.at(-1) gets the last character, no more str[str.length - 1] gymnastics. Works on strings, arrays, and typed arrays. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

As a heads up to anyone using @vercel.com they will be taking your code to use as training for their AI if you don't opt out. If you don't want your code being used to train AI models, you need to opt out of this immediately.

Been embracing my inner game dev and making a Stardew Valley themed card/game for my wife's birthday Thursday. I got a few tracks of the soundtrack, make a few avatars/sprites of me and her, and will set her up for a birthday party in the saloon with some of the Stardew characters. (1/2)

Been spending the last two days going through this CRUD app article by @zellwk.bsky.social. Great practice with Express and MongoDB. #100devs