I just got junk mail (as in physical paper in my mailbox, not email) advertising senior care with the tagline "It's about time"... addressed to my father. Reader, my father died two decades ago. Someone really out there paying money to print and mail without checking if people are dead 😂

A hill I will die on: Captain’s Wafers are better than saltines. Full stop.

Can someone explain to me what happened here? I finally felt like I had just taken the upper hand in the battle and … “draw”? We both had 5m+ on our move times? I feel like I just got ripped off. #pokemonchampions

I spend what is likely an inordinate amount of time trying to ensure my next meal will include cheese in some way

Any VR devs out there have any guesses as to why Unity would render nothing but a skybox to the headset? The camera preview correctly shows geometry, but somehow that never makes it to the HMD? (Video below shows me rocking the camera rotation, you can see the skybox move in the VR view.) #gamedev

6 times in the past year and a half, Uber has emailed me to tell me my account will be "deleted in 30 days" if I don't log in to keep it active. I've never logged in during any of that time. Why won't you just delete my ac-- oh. You're advertising and pretending it's not spam. Fuck you, Uber.

Had a tab with Cam's (@playtowinmtg.bsky.social) Urza list open, and now I get to explain to my coworker why I was on a page titled "A NUDE EGG THAT I WON..." 😂 the universe seems to really be trying to make me watch itysl, with as often as i'm seeing (or living ig) the memes

Do electrodes dream with electric sheep?

my hobby: typing wholehearted, lengthy replies to posts; reading what i wrote; and then pressing cancel thinking "nah, this isn't adding anything"

I love (read: sarcasm) how more and more often I'm seeing companies use "account updates" as an excuse to send you spammy promotional emails with no way to unsubscribe. Seealso: push notifications. I'm so sick of corporations having such unfettered access to us at this point.

i hate my editors

being a grown up is constantly unsubscribing from email lists you never signed up for

i always thought the flowbee was gonna have a bigger impact on the world

what kind of munster would do this to someone?! anyone who would treat you this way is a total curd

When I was but a sprout, I wondered why all the graybeards were so disgruntled with the state of everything. Every passing moment as the natural color fades from my roots, I empathize more and more.

Slide in a talk I'm watching this morning: "Take a step back to see if you can divide the elephant" Someone should ask the elephant how it feels. If we're going to address it, that is.

"Have a nice day" - kind sentiment, standard fare "Have a good week" - as above, if mildly less normal "Have a great year" - appropriate in specific contexts, otherwise odd with no frame of reference "Have a good life" - paradoxically rude to downright threatening

the olympics just aired a fuckin video package about a figure skater’s love of magic the gathering

🖕🧊

if you use an iPhone, turn on iCloud Private Relay. now. it is not a VPN; but it comes with your iCloud subscription and will protect against this form of surveillance. without impacting your user experience.

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

We had a good run

saw a job posting this morning that listed the first requirement as "maintains a positive outlook" welp, guess that rules me out!

Debugging in prod again, huh @culvers.com?

I think I’m starting to see why people have boxes full of shinies they are giving away. I’ve just been bench rerolling to try and get a shiny ♀snorunt, with not much luck. But I didn’t realize just how many I was rolling total?! #plza

Someone found a typo in a small lib of mine on GitHub. Instead of just fixing it, rolling their eyes and moving on, or any other option, they decided to open an issue with a screenshot of that single line and the text “wtf bro”. I can’t fathom why that seemed like a good use of time to them 🙃

"feature flags" are just spooky booleans at a distance

How absolutely desperate is @microsoft.com @microsoft365.microsoft.com to sell their AI mess? Well; today they emailed (spammed) a mailbox we use exclusively for our support ticket software. So I *know* that email didn’t sign up for any lists, and yet we get spammed anyways. Absolutely pathetic.

The new iOS thing that screens calls for me is neat. Today it screened a caller that was some AI voice scam. The future really is just a bunch of AI talking to itself.

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

life's short. go ahead, debug in production. you can have a little excitement, as a treat

ugh fuck offffff i'm so sick of this shit being crammed into EVERY FUCKING THING i don't want copilot. i don't want gemini. i don't want geepeetee. i don't want your chatbot. i want you to fuck all the way off.

there's no place like home

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Okay so they didn't come out perfect, but I made my buddy some little tokens to track his Loot the Pathfinder exhaust usages. The foil is nice but I need some thinner cardstock for sure #mtg #magicthegathering #cedh

I don't know, 2023 me, I don't know.

Transformer blew outside the office today. A wire popped off and was laying on the ground sparking a fire. I guess the universe is telling me to take a day off!

When a card says “0: Do some stupid shit”, I gotta try, right? #mtg #cedh #MTGxFinalFantasy

dear c/c++ programmers who are smarter than me: is there any guidance as to when and why gcc will pick a function marked "weak" over one that isn't, and why that choice seems to have changed between versions? godbolt.org/z/doPsq8hhz

Good morning beautiful; it's so nice to see you here again. Thanks for being here with me. I love you. #MakeKindnessNormal

I'm trans and I've written for the Guardian and I'm telling you treating them like a friend is a mistake.

Don’t forget: at the end of the day, you can always make the LED go blinky blinky to make yourself feel better

welp, I figured it out. Turns out it was a "weak" definition of the "is writable" callback that always returned false. for whatever reason, *that* was the one that the linker picked, instead of the actual implementation. looks like gcc 10.4 changed how it picked impls 🙃🙃🙃 godbolt.org/z/31hcM9b9W

Any of y'all have experience doing USB MSC? I've got it to work a few times (enough to write some test files), but no matter what I tweak my "disk" keeps showing up as read only! I've spent days on this and am losing my mind. #embedded #dev #hardware

babe wake up, the daily horrors have arrived

every now and then, something happens that makes me realize that i'm irreparably broken in ways i often fail to perceive

i need to get out of this fucking state