Ever since I was a little boy, I always dreamed of growing up to fix unit tests until all our CI passes.

For some reason I do not understand, one of my dog’s favorite flavors is aquaphor.

Anyway, see everyone at dunks tomorrow morning

Ever since I was a little boy, I always dreamed of growing up to debug CUDA memory leaks.

It’s kind of funny that the way Americans will most frequently use the word “gas” in their lifetime is referring to a liquid

Live look in at my code somehow not throwing any errors in prod

Wow the social media department really got comprehensive with this one

Idk I’m finding this whole “an AI agent completely unprompted wrote a takedown blog post of an open source contributor” story a little hard to believe if I’m being honest

2017: Millennials are splurging on avocado toast 2026: Millennials are splurging on rotisserie chicken 2031: Millennials are splurging on a third meal each day 2036: Millennials are splurging on tap water

these rocks go in an awfully straight line for a sport ostensibly called curling.

Million dollar idea I’m giving away for free: hoodies for parents. The only difference is there’s no strings for your teething baby to eat while you’re trying to get them to nap.

It’s like 5 degrees outside, I could have told you that. You don’t need a meteorological groundhog.

The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.

Ok actually got some screenshots and a blog post put together this morning tylerjamesburch.com/blog/misc/li...

Eyes on the prize, New England

Do you hate leaving your terminal as much as I do? Do you use Linear for project management? Do you have strong opinions? If so, check out this TUI I wrote for Linear and give me feedback: github.com/tjburch/line...

Just saw someone using a state-of-the-art GPU to “process graphics” and it’s like ???? don’t you know those are for machine learning models or bitcoin mining? cmon dude

I just want to live in my snuggly comfortable zsh terminal and never leave, that’s all I ask.

smh wake me up when something exciting happens. I'm not getting out of bed for an aurora BOREalis

Luckily I don’t have a picky toddler like all those other kids. I’ve even convinced mine to try chicken hearts.

Snow

The kid has RSV so I’m shift sleeping tonight. Movie recs?

TIL the shoe bomber canonically exists in the Daniel Tiger universe.

has anyone considered making a version of SQL that isn't so disgustingly verbose? jw

I say this gently - I think we all could stand to be a little less weird about protein

Opened the door to a 3 year old in a ballerina outfit and a penguin winter hat running at me yelling “DADDYS HOME! DADDYS HOME!” and life was absolutely perfect for that moment in time.

The first rule about Bruno is: you don’t talk about Bruno. The second rule about Bruno is: you don’t talk about Bruno.

Kind of incredible how bad Apple’s voice-to-text is considering, you know, it’s Apple.

2026 Resolution: more whimsy

“huh, it’s weird I’m tired at like 6:30,” he says, completely forgetting it’s his 22nd consecutive day of being woken up at 5 am by a teething baby.

Challah at ya boy

After just a short 2 year hiatus, I revived my blog with a look back on 2025. Took advantage of the opportunity to reflect on a year of full-time R, sneak in notes about OSS contributions, thoughts on agentic AI, and more. Happy New Year! tylerjamesburch.com/blog/persona...

It’s 5 a.m. Eastern - happy end of daylight saving time to all the parents out there. Make the coffee extra strong this morning.

Officially one step closer to Bismuth Analyst

8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for baseball

Strong rec for data people: if you use a library often, go to its GitHub issues, and find something, anything, to fix and submit a PR - nothing teaches you the internals better than doing development - you get software development reps and real code review experience - giving back is good.

wow it’s crazy that all the best music came out exactly at the time I specifically turned 10 and it all started falling off after I turned 25 or so. what a fortuitous coincidence

In S1E05 of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ they make a “Goofy Pizza” topped with “tomato sauce, onions, pickles, cheese, and hotdog links, if you please.” I’m here to report that, unfortunately, it’s just alright at best.

product idea: mouse that sends a light electrical shock through your hand every time you click on obvious political ragebait

Being sick normally is a big bummer but man, being sick with young children is utterly brutal

not to bring the bad site over here but, heck yes.

Come work with me! -> Applied Baseball Scientist -> Computer Vision Analyst -> Performance Analyst -> Principal Developer -> Senior Baseball Sciences Developer

last year i bought a sherpa lined cardigan that I mostly just wear around the house, and let me tell you, Mr. Rogers was kinda cookin with this one

Fine-tuning a ggplot's aesthetic sensibilities is a time-honoured way to procrastinate from doing something you'd hate even more

Dry beans have got to be the only food where it’s like “idk might contain a rock, good luck” and we’re all good with that.

the phrase "slop bowl" fundamentally broke my brain and now I can't think of that genre of food any other way

just one more prompt bro. I promise bro just one more prompt and it'll fix everything bro. bro, just one more prompt. please just one more, one more prompt and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro cmon just give me one more prompt i promise bro, bro bro please !

I like to use "affine transformation" rather than linear regression because it makes me sound real smart like

“Touch grass” yeah ok sure, why not

Good day for it.