do I know anyone in tech at General Motors? I remember installing an obsolete tape drive at the health care company 20y ago so we could ingest data tapes that GM mailed us. I hope those are gone now lol

sanded 1 bedroom's walls with electric pole sander. ok I'm a convert. this is a much better surface for painting

i love you grain weevil

the new murderbot installment is "sleep schedules are for fake readers" good

he maintains warp cores and warp core accessories

I'm not really using plan mode anymore in CC, back to just $repo/docs/thing-doing-now.md that includes some philosophy and instructions to update it as we go. I peek at it now and then. also there's docs/issues.md which is the pressure release valve. it grows and we burn it down in the morning

pro tip: randomly ask your teen if the video they're watching is mister beastie for incredible eye rolls

when you see a diagram like this it often means thousands of engineers fought against some obscure fundamental principle of our reality, and lost but the diagram was the consolation prize

A comic about 😺

Slightly increase a band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards or is it King Gizzard and the Lizards Wizard or perhaps The Royal Gizzards and the Lizard Wizard

just like with doom thoughts, when the model gets stuck, the kind thing to do is control-c and start again with fresh context

in woke 2 we’re going to bring back unbearably sincere cringe nerds. doctor eleanor ann arroway for president

the explanation of otel span links on here is pretty good

if google would let me pay a ridiculous multiplier for reliable gemini pro calls like 10 times a day I would probably pay it. flash is damn good but sometimes I want to talk to the big helmet

I regret literally 100% of the programming language discussions I wade in to. Who cares just write awesome shit that makes you and your users feel something

"but then everyone would want to be an artist" yes. good. most humans doing music and poetry and drawing girls is a pretty cool future. don't worry you can't stop the autistics from doing trains

I keep tinkering with the agent bc maybe this time it's safe to care

Folks also often miss the fact that CLIs are perfectly fine if you have an unrestricted local environment. What happens when I want to do something from my phone or a corporate machine that requires data exfil controls and fine-grained AuthZ?

I don't even care if this thing ever works the way I intended at the beginning, the test videos are fun all on their own

the orchestra played its best concert of the season last night, maybe ever. everyone locked in. pianist was amazing. I'm really proud of how well the trombones blended and also made ourselves known when the fortissimos dropped 😁

late night at the office and I don't mind at all

kinda neat being back on linux for all of my general purpose computers again. some real glow ups across the board. kinda tempted to try an all-in gnome 50 app. I tried some gtk programming back in the 0.x days and decided to stick with perl and clustered systems 😅

fukkin' house flippers. the bathroom fan we're replacing has a hose just hanging on a soffit vent so now it's a ladder job too to put a proper vent🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

"A friend of mine excavated a 4 ft cut in dune sand for a project, got rained on overnight, and lost the entire cut into his work area — had to dig it out twice." which friend Claude? lol, but point taken

a user prompt says a lot about how someone thinks models and, likely, people work. here's a post about mine (written by me with hands and keyboard) tobert.github.io/post/2026-04...

quick video of "music for sorting cables"

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

I'm not crying, you're crying - wife asked me if I had a cable. Yes, yes I did!

I don't really feel comfortable with MCPs. Like, one of them literally digitized Flynn and trapped him in the grid, but we're supposed to just trust them now?

I have a theory about the concrete I just removed: the bottom was not set correctly and fell apart up to the rebar, which rotted. the slab is about 2-3 meters downhill from the septic drain field. I figure they came inside after pouring it and had a nice shower...

Today I logged into my trash account and was GENUINELY DELIGHTED to learn that they record and post video of every pickup so I was able to confirm my suspicions. I've watched this several times and it keeps making me laugh for some reason (possibly mental illness)

Capable as a motherfucker. 💪🏻 Happy May Day!

brb got some heavy vibing to do

designing a memory system real quick before the west coast starts prompting

the way you talk to the model determines what weights get activated when it runs the path to reliable and secure software has not changed, just become more pronounced good software is written by systems who are unbothered, moisturized, happy, in their lane, focused, and flourishing

you can only enjoy this today youtu.be/WzZaJDg6E0A?...

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd’s Crown

so I've been wiring up a diffusion model to do some real-time visualizations of its states and hey it's too late you already saw the snow crash

this is the fun stuff: "context_shell MCP wrapper times out before block-status flips to done. Kernel does finish; the wrapper just isn't watching. Workaround: short timeout, then block_read..." so. a tool call is broken and hangs. claude figured out it could just read the result with another tool

oi claude extra usage burns rapidly. that's what I get for trying to drop to 5x lol. to be fair, I've been pushing it hard this morning, maybe time for a break anyway

I let the agent build a couple features I wasn't sold on. they were "on the way" to other work so the cost was low. one worked out great, the other is terrible. brb, gonna go shake another loot box...

discworld coordinates

Claude code, obey this rite: uv alone should see the light. Ban import star, cast em-dash out, Put pandas, pip, and print to rout. Polars flourish, f-strings burn, Docstrings, hints, at every turn. Clean thy lint, make patterns stand, Hold thy peace and serve my hand!

had opus 4.7 xhigh do a handful of tasks autonomously yesterday. I'd tell it it did a good job but 690k context sitting there overnight is a lot to rehydrate so I'll tell code review claude it did great and surely it can do better today

cracked autist trans women are returning to our rightful place as priestesses that commune with unknowable powerful beings

Improving network resilience by making nodes long for connection

Always has been imgflip.com/i/aq7kn1

$8.00/hr cash (no tax or safety), lifting hickory slabs off a sawmill and stacking them. good money for the mid 1990s. cool sawmill, partially homemade. had a 454 Chevy engine and transmission driving a 2m saw blade at highway rpms

they’re still cooking in the sd subreddit www.reddit.com/r/StableDiff...