I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

this describes a lot of my work life 😅

A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result. n.pr/4o3hKJO

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

Today's a fantastic day to make no configuration changes to your production environments. If something goes wonky, you'll go mad trying to figure out if it's the AWS issue (possibly reflected through a vendor of yours who uses them) vs. your own shitty, shitty code.

It's tempting at times like this to monitor dashboards, build up defenses, and dive deep into your technical stack. You'll make better progress if you focus on the impact to your customers, dive deep into your organization's culture, and question how your org chart reinforces your style of response.

Outages like today's AWS incident don’t have a single cause. They are the result of countless contributing factors and conditions that cascade through complex systems. While the global internet is remarkably resilient, it is not immune to these dynamics of unforeseeable interactions. 🧵-time!

bumper crop of simulcast anime this season. May I Ask for One Final Thing is a delight in particular that had us laughing our butts off

so I made it about 18 hours with comfyui before I'm waist deep in setting up a marimo notebook environment. doing some fun stuff with it but I am already weary of clickops

pattern matching pays off so much. this scrolled by and I was like waaaaaiiiitagoshdarnminute that dun look right and it turned out there was some hacky sleep synchronization going on

with the rocm/pytorch stuff working, the AMD 8060S with 96GB VRAM is pretty awesome, current job is on a big model and using 69GB, cruising along. the cpu cores are bored :)

rocm the pytorch

I've been messing with models locally and it's jawdroppingly amazing how much python there is in there and how package management and compatibility is still a huge, ahem, significant source of toil (that's SRE for clusterfuck)

shut down the internet we're done for the day

I'm playing around with wezterm more and I like it a lot so far :) I had claude port my tmux & alcritty configs to wezterm.lua and it did ok. I think it'll take over from current happiness with windows terminal + tmux for claude + vim/bash workflow. probs look at nvim again soon, get into more lua

I have so many ideas for software that eluded me because of the sheer amount of toil ahead of the actual idea. these barriers are melting away. I got the bevy port of my 2022 "Endgame of SRE" game from empty repo up to animated sprites, movement, and dialogue in a day. this was impossible before

I'm old enough to have resisted a few paradigm shifts in computing. sometimes I was rightish (e.g. sticking with linux & perl as windows and java rose, avoiding cr*pto) and sometimes I was wrongish (e.g. trying to go without a mouse, giving up on rss in the early 10s)

My favorite devops definition is still Lusis’s which was “devops means never saying ‘that’s not my job’”

support group for people in love with deleted holograms

Protein powders aren’t poisoning you, but we need supplement regulation. I wrote an article on the lead in protein powder headlines, actual science (spoiler: it ain’t prop 65 & consumer reports) and what we should be discussing about supplements: Read it here: news.immunologic.org/p/consumer-r...

silently hoping the kid gives us grandchildren so we can tell them stories about the giant frogs, dinosaurs, and wheelie shark heroes that saved America

condensing what you want into a minimal number of language tokens is a skill. I enjoy communicating that way. Twitter happened and now we have Posting. some folks have just now arrived at prompt engineering. doesn't change the skill much, but does make it slightly more lucrative

here's an early version of my "this project could have been a shell script" sync & game running tool: github.com/tobert/halfr... it's a rust project by me, code extruded with Claude and Gemini, as an experiment in using these things in the OSS space I'm curious what folks think!

about a week ago I started writing a sync tool for my silly game projects so I can build on my fast Linux machine and run on Windows. I thought I'd extrude it in a day but I keep finding things to tweak 🤣 coulda been a shell script but oh no I had to build a whole tool in rust

Wendy Carlos is *the* legend when it comes to electronic music. The only one who even gets within sight is Jean Michel Jarre. I might see the movie just to have context for the music.

it's fun to take shots on tron but that soundtrack slapped and Wendy Carlos is a legend

we’re out of IOPS

sure the code gen was "one shot". the secret is to spend all day Tuesday hammering REFACTOR_PLAN.md between meetings and then have the agent dump out the code Wednesday morning while watching and sipping tea, then all day Thursday filling in the todos and reworking tests to merge on Friday

very similar to my workflow but I'm still rocking goblin mode stock claude code and a growing hoard of markdown docs, especially as I push the subagents and cross-model work harder. I like "pressure test" more and more. I have gemini-cli join that fun. it oozes google culture but helps sharpen docs

I've been trying it more and so far having both gemini-cli and claude code in tmux is a nice combo. I don't let gemini code much but it's good for code review and big search problems, building markdown files for claude to execute on

omg this judge's writing is so good it's fun to read. just this quote has layers

this would heal me on a spiritual level, i think

one bite onegaishimasu

OH: ok, so, you give the supercomputer viagra?

I think I settled back in on tmux with the core screen bindings I like. it's nice being back in the terminal, I'm sprucing the place up a lot. I'm still not happy with mouse scrolling behavior so I may look at nvim and maybe zellij again but this is fine

early thoughts on the Framework Desktop / AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 128G: this machine is awesome. I got gemma3 running right away and it's snappy. now I'm learning all about the special hell of rocm x pytorch builds but it's coming along. it's a great build machine. pcie 4x slot is nice too

the other reason I stick to professional ~slack etiquette when working with agents is practice. I noticed I was getting more curt with my colleagues after a couple frustrating weeks. now that I write to bots more than humans, it's crucial I maintain my social skills and imo it's more fun anyway

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

for years people were like "Amy how can you not have a home lab!?" and I have to explain, once I have one server, it needs a friend, and then then I'm buying sfp+ connectors and have a rack and now that this is happening with the AMD box I'm gonna go ahead and say I told ya so

the easy win here is to build a medical suite full of special comfy temperature controlled zero g one person beds, hook up catheter, saline IV, mild pain relief as needed, etc.. once they're nice and comfy hit em with a whallop of special k and some trauma aftercare. world peace in 1 year

Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17

still too much news in my feed. will be unfollowing some doom retooters today

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

every day i am tormented by the question: do my cats know that i love them? when i kiss them on their soft little heads, do they understand that as a gesture of affection? do they understand??

I feel like I post about the same but the social network is totally different especially at the edges. it's a bit more doom-y vibe. I sometimes go through and unfollow heavy news posters and it's still hard to get away from 24x7 planetary news updates

Children should be seen and heard.