December 9, 2009: Comcast announces they're buying NBC. Shares jump 10%. June 29, 2026: Comcast announces they're getting rid of NBC. Shares jump 28%. Maybe they should just alternatively buy and sell NBC every other week?

Just found out that something I helped architect a *long* time ago for JPL is now an open source project being used across a few other NASA missions: hysds.github.io/docs/ Tickled pink to have played a small role here!

For those looking for tech jobs, @leonadato.com curates a collection of job listings that he refreshes every Friday: adatosystems.com/2026/06/12/j... Thanks for doing this, Leon!

Ok, even getting a bare-bones AssumeRole call working was more work than I had ever expected.

Cursed enums: enum Direction { Clockwise = 0, Counterclockwise = 1, Anticlockwise = 2, }

When there's a gold rush, sell shovels. isaiprofitable.com When the AI bubble pops, NVIDIA will be fine per this chart. They can just pivot back to gaming or cryptocurrencies (ugh) or whatever. Stock will take a hit, but they've still pocketed the money. Everyone else? Holding the bag.

The job market is definitely brutal. We (a tiny startup in the govtech space) had well over 3000 submissions for 1 mid-level position. A year ago it would've been ~400. Three years ago it was a dozen. 1/2

Me, on some code I recently worked on: "This is simultaneously broken and magical."

Google changed the icon for Google Calendar (now just a blue blob), and it's going to completely disrupt my week as I constantly look for that browser tab in a sea of other blue blobs...

@jamesmunns.com I'm fairly certain the answer is "NO!", but thought I'd ask: Is it safe to deserialize a postcard datagram from an untrusted source (into a struct that has a payload that will be AEAD decrypted with tags and the like)?

I was wondering if you could GOTO between FOR loops in C64 BASIC. The answer is... sorta? The results aren't what I'd expect though.

Slightly diminish a book Gourd of the Rings

We are altering the deal. Pray we do not alter it any further.

An amazing engineer used AI to write health insurance appeals. This is one of the best uses of AI and I love that it is being given for free to help others. SO RAD! this is the stuff that give me hope. tag line: " MAKE YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY CRY TOO" fighthealthinsurance.com

@mara.bsky.social is quite committed to contribution artwork. (Pun wasn't originally intended, but, eh, what the hell...)

"What AI coding assistant do you use? ChatGPT? Claude? Cursor?" "Rufus." "Rufus? I've not heard of that one..."

Video conferences over Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc, would be much cooler if each participant had a health bar over their feed.

@lyndie.bsky.social Just saw this in my Apple News feed today!

this is how I access bluesky

Maybe Anthropic will hire me as head of marketing?

TIL there is a protocol, kitty, for displaying full color images in the Terminal. Next I need someone to implement a graphical web browser in the terminal so I can run a terminal emulator in a browser in a terminal. sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphi...

Hrm... the one AI model approved for use in the agency I work for is now banned. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ve been touring SoCal colleges all week with my eldest kid (BArch programs specifically). This was a refreshing take from my usual job in govtech, where everything is gloom and doom. There’s a genuine brightness to their outlook on life. 1/2

For the last few weeks, I've been staring off and on at feature request on a personal open source project. I've been toying with both Claude Code and Antigravity, which are great when refactoring. Also great when I need a utility function in a library I've used but can't remember. But...

Startup idea for tech companies: Physical locations (similar to Pearson testing centers) where companies can interview candidates virtually, but ensuring the candidate isn't trying to use AI or be a foreign operation. Proctors ensure candidates are not bringing electronics in.

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My wife's family is Belgian. I can't wait to ask them about their whistles next time they visit.

Satya Nadella wants you to stop using the term “AI slop.” I’m onboard with this. I’ll start calling it Microslop from now on. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

I was working on a jigsaw puzzle earlier today, and having everything laid out on a large board made it easier to find related pieces and visualize the entire puzzle. I wish we had this for coding and systems documentation. Like the old school drafting boards. Large monitors don’t come close.

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

When you drive north on I-5 from Seattle to Vancouver, you get to see one of the most beautiful valleys as you pass through Skagit County. The entire area is now under evacuation orders. 😢 I hope everyone manages to find safe shelter. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

No Christmas tree is complete until you top it with an angle.

Killing a few minutes at RePC in Seattle today. They have a Sega Dreamcast developer kit on display.

Chef’s kiss

Second result for "PCB Acid Trap" on DDG: www.raypcb.com/pcb-acid-trap/ "A PCB acid trap, also sometimes referred to as an acid scrubber, is a device used to neutralize acidic contaminants from gas streams in industrial processes and environments." You do you, AI lords...

Today is Cyber Monday, aka the day when apps annoy you to the point you revoke their notification permissions.

Oh, holy cow. I'm just now realizing that S3 double-chunks data streams. There's the outer Transfer-Encoding: chunked stream, which is the normal HTTP chunked encoding. But within it S3 re-chunks the data into possibly different chunk sizes and puts chunk headers within the chunk headers. 1/2

Although this is coming from Outlook, I see a lot of these types of issues across various applications since updating to Tahoe. Lots of force quitting applications to get around stuck windows, etc. It's... not a good release.

@kvlly.com has a great article up, "You might be carrying an invisible gun." (Subtitle: "The more senior you get, the more your words start to sound like orders") I have *so* felt this as loftier adjectives started getting added to my title. modernleader.vercel.app/posts/invisi...

Have we reached AGI yet?

Missed an important meeting this morning because: * Someone mistyped my email address * Someone else saw this and forwarded it to me * Somewhere in this the time zone was set to Pacific instead of Eastern (while keeping the numeric time intact) Computers and time zones were a mistake.

I'm not sure if this is shutdown related or something else going on at DCA. But I did like the icon used in the QR code.

Softbank was considering buying Marvell, to combine them with Arm. This would've been an interesting combo; there's a lot of weird memory tricks done with networking (RDMA, etc) in HPC systems to reduce latency. Having this on a single die/chiplets, etc. ... hmm. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

post your space art #art 🎨🌌🛰️

So, uh, this is one of the three health plans recommended for me, and the only one of those that covers providers locally. Are we winning yet? I hope so; I can't afford much more winning. (No, I won't be selecting the recommended plan.)

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Ouch. I feel ya, fellow Gen Xer tank 1…

So, I just had to put my cybersecurity hat on and lock a device. To be specific, my son’s iPhone. Because he left it behind in class and it was being hacked. By his sibling. 🙄

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Just to clarify, there are some situations in which I will *very* much kink shame you: * Kinking my CAT-6 cables * Kinking my HDMI or other display cables * Kinking any of my coaxial or optical cables