ooooooh good morning

what's up with hotels where they put towels on the floor of the bathtub. not the right place for a towel

major pet peef in fight scenes: when a character executes some surprise attack or deceitful maneuver, but right as their move is about to complete, they make some quip that gives it away or otherwise just explains what they did to the opponent

i think if i met kamrusepa of tuon in real life i could convince her to change her mind on something. maybe not on anything big like her beliefs on immortality, but on some minor opinion

man i need to play a video game right now

having more options is objectively a good thing, why does it always make me feel worse?

gay

cold take: 1+1=2

why are so many video interfaces trending towards putting UI elements over top of the video? stop!!!

i sometimes think of the saying "we do this not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be easy" i've definitely done a load of shit that i thought would be easy (or at least, didn't internalize as hard) and then finished to completion bc it would be too embarrassing to back out

currently trying to decide if i need to work over the weekend ....

there should be a program logic for reasoning about shitty code

how do you all visalize a piece of software? for me it's a giant machine made out of gears

did 2 things today.

github ..........

ohhh i need a weekend

wow it's like a million degrees

unexpected thing came up, spent the day dealing with it. a net zero day

i think a company should hire me and give me a huge token budget and let me keep all the budget i don't spend

my foot always itchin'

did another Thing I Really Needed To Do today. but this was one that i actually enjoyed doing, so it doesn't count as an accomplishment. but at least it's 1 thing done.

i did some Really Need To Get Done things

my day-of-the-week sense is out of whack. my brain really doesn't want to believe that it's thursday for some reason

oohuuuhhhghghghhhh

been procrastinating too much

it's incredible how fast time passes. there are already kids being born this year who don't remember covid

another "fun" thing about youtube shorts is that whenever its embedded in another site, there's these giant UI elements that cover like 50% of the video screen that take forever to go away

one of my pet peefs in rust is the Default trait in my codebase there was a match expression, operating on an Option, which in the None case would return a big tuple of empty vecs perfect code in my opinion! someone submitted a PR replacing it with .or_default()

people are so busy making the do-things machine that they keep forgetting to do things

one thing i think might be interesting with ai is factoring a commit into multiple smaller commits

"I will wander around and plant the seeds of ideas in young AO3 writers so that the fanfic scene will prosper," Tom said isomorphically.

i will invent blankets that are always slightly cool

i need to construct a better model of my hair. every few weeks or so i'll notice that my hair looks bangin' but I don't know how to get it into that state intentionally

with ai we can verify millions of lines of code. what are we verifying? who knows. but now anybody will be able to verify software even if they don't know how to code

recently i thought i saw someone is subtweeting (or whatever you call it on bsky?) some of my research, but they're also factually wrong about it. kinda wanted to jump in, but it would have been pretty embarrassing if i was wrong and they weren't talking about my thing at all ....

we are now in the era of formal verificationslop

i feel like i used to be able to live in the present. what happened to that ....

i'm

the text of the prompt is "challenge me, don't worry about offending me", but i feel the subtext is the exact opposite. what kind of personality would describe their ideal conversation norms with this language? that's what's really being selected for.

i have way too many meetings late in the day. all meetings should be in the morning

github outage 😭

check out my web serial. book 2 finished recently, only 1 book to go! archiveofourown.org/works/595853...

ai sucks!!!!

the funny thing about youtube shorts is it's literally just "let's have an alternate universe UI that some of our videos can use for no reason, and it will be worse than the main UI in every dimension"

a note on communication good: "we changed the setup script to use the library built with config option X instead of the system library. does that sound like a sensible change?" bad: "an llm rewrote this setup script. does this new script seem good?"

vibe coders trade their understanding of their code for short term gains ... never forget: buy a man eat fish, he day, teach fish man to a lifetime

there is exactly 1 bus driver in my city who always makes people scan in instead of just visually inspecting the tickets, and i wonder what goes through his head. does he know that no other driver does this? does he imagine everybody is constantly trying to dodge scanning for nefarious reasons?

what a bad idea

i think a company should hire me and give me a huge token budget and let me keep all the budget i don't spend