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.

I was trying to explain the Green Monster to my toddler, and the google image search has big “there are two kinds of people in the world” energy

live look in at me doing devops

Getting old is the worst. Guess I have to add “bar pizza and wings” to food I can’t eat on weeknights.

oh yeah, we're so back

ultimately I think all these articles about "oh LLMs don't actually speed up programming" are really a product of the median developer being utterly allergic to actually reading code.

alright, maybe I was wrong about sub-agents

I need to create a phone routine where any time I click on a social media app, it flips a coin. If heads, it opens Libby/Apple Books instead.

Big time dad moves this morning: pink pancakes

There is no type of human I can relate to less than the person who “just doesn’t do coffee”

wow this one really brought out the pedants

I just learned that in R if I call model$fit$convergence that 0 means successful. You know, 0, the boolean code for False.

oh no, i am a dinosaur

When you think about it, “bean juice” could really refer to coffee or refried beans. Dangerous world out there.

I could honestly watch videos of chefs cooking omurice all day (case in point, I’m currently doing so at 1:48 am)

in my 5 years at my current job, I've worn a collar and khakis/dress pants every time I've been in office. We've got a "hackathon" tonight that I'm headed to after putting the kids to bed. Very strongly considering rolling in to it with crocs and a tee.

last one for the year

I just remembered pebkac as an acronym that exists, I gotta get that one into the rotation again.

apparently a cava has opened up 10 minutes from my house. This will financially ruin me

One thing I learned about parenting the first time around was that it gets exponentially harder every time they get more mobile. So anyway our 3 month old has somehow already figured out how to roll both ways and does it every time we turn our heads.

👴🏻

Could be worse. Probably will be.

Your English teacher and your gym teacher are buying their fourth private jet 🧨

It’s so beautiful, I could cry.

“We want childlike wonder without children I think because, I’ll be perfectly frank, some of these folks still want to be society’s baby themselves. The impulse to make children’s spaces more adult-friendly is borne of this entitlement.“

The thing about Boston is that once you pick to live on the North Shore, the South Shore might as well not exist. Not a chance I’m going there, you can’t make me.