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never any doubt

big day. I have moved desks into a quiet corner of the open office :)

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

ATTENTION BELOVED RESEARCHERS! The 20th annual SIGBOVIK conference will be held this Friday, April 10th, 5PM ET, in Rashid Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University!!!! We will also stream the conference live here: youtube.com/live/JazxeftHDwY

Had a good time at the local BSides conference today. I sat at a table with a bunch of IT dads who took me under their wings with a bunch of tips for when the baby comes

I don't know (or care, really) how mega-corps tackle this, but I am really curious of what a successful coding-agent-use framework could look like for small teams. Some way to identify "sufficient rigor" while having guardrails to prevent sloppy contributions from even getting to the review stage.

Started reading Microserfs tonight, and wow has it sucked me in.

slipped on ice this morning and hurt my shoulder while falling. I miss being an invulnerable youth.

I want to build a script that blocks me from launching a coding agent unless I can provide sufficient evidence that I've actually thought things through on paper beforehand.

Sometimes I wish I could have it all, but you know how it is

I'm grateful to not work for a tech company. It kind of looks like a bummer given some people's posting the past few months

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Olympic medal-winning teammates today. Rivals soon. Sarah Wilkes, Emma Miskew, Tracy Fleury, and Rachel Homan will be on four seperate teams for the first-ever Rock League season in Toronto from April 6-12. rockleague.com/tickets

Enjoyed watching them together in Cortina? What about Team Mouat... apart? All four members of an epic rink are taking part in Rock League's first-ever season this April in Toronto.... on four separate teams! rockleague.com/tickets

classic Friday afternoon. Deploying with my arse clenched

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

Serenity A zen gliding and exploration game with procedurally generated music. Endless relaxation. youtu.be/6kuETNxSWVM

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

3 people (including me) in person at the office today. -45 will do that.

Two years to go!

Hubris! I'm full of it! I forgot that I am nothing more than a highly evolved ape with a keyboard.

I was humbled today. I dared to use a toy javascript framework a month ago thinking it'd make my life easier, but it only cause me pain. The solution was to rip it out and just use vanilla JS.

I can't say enough good things about the django-simple-deploy package. It's so good I decided to make my first post in months

There goes a Canadian QB! Will they make it 2?

Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l... (take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )

I spent the weekend playing around with C for the first time since university, and holy moly what a way to see how far I've come. I used to think the syntax was cumbersome and confusing. bizarre take

i still can't comprehend that car seat headrest released anything after 2014. it breaks my heart, in a purely personal sense of the loss of my younger self.

I've spent the past 2 days doing front-end at work (just html, css, and pure js) and it's amazing how much this stuff has gotten better over the past decade.

just spent an hour swagging out a table with css

shopify is so annoying. I built the discount function I needed to, but man what a pain in the butt that was. skill issue for sure

making a game

spending the morning cleaning a ton of inconsistent address data :(

the most important aspect of kernel development is to make sure your driver freaks the fuck out whenever the system resumes from sleep

I merged in a big maintenence branch in yesterday and nothing has backfired unexpectedly. life is great

damn, uv blows vent out of the water

you know the taylor swift/elon private jet flight trackers? it'd be cool if someone did something like that with shaq and his league pass account to see how often he watched games

spent the morning getting Sentry up and configured on our web server and holy moley is it a big upgrade over just sending stacktrace emails

i decided to stop being a total bellend and actually learn web design fundamentals

I don't feel bad for Jape anymore, the AD mavs are really good actually

Designing an idiot-proof API: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Consuming an idiot-proofed API: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!?

good lord, feel bad for jape

I found a backdoor in Linux

going to bed at halftime. Minnesota sports, baby

it's kind of amazing how much you can forget after not coding for a week and a half.