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

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid

Still testing, but now running a live meet. This is not its final installation location. Beyond debugging, the facility will undergo a renovation soon; we’ll install it (and add trim, etc) after that.

It lives.

I need to work on panel alignment. (It's more vivid in real life; camera sensors were overloaded, I think.)

My favorite conference that I’ve never been to—yet. I’m hoping to change that next year.

Trying to assemble a scoreboard for our local swim teams. QA stopped by to check on my progress.

It's been years since I've had to bicycle over this crappy little bridge, but count me in with the folks who are glad to see it being torn down. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I made an AI feel bad about itself and that makes me happy.

Why isn't there a third option? "Go outside and enjoy some fresh air instead"

Looking forward to being replaced with AI... (h/t to u/snarky_spice on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)

So much construction here… I wish we could have primary and standby roadways, transit lines, and airports, like we do databases. Standby is always undergoing construction for repairs and upgrades; when construction tasks are done, swap the primary and secondary roles.

The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already: Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand

Every so often, an LLM will hit the nail on the head. When I was asking why anyone would use SAP HANA (gargantuan in-memory database whose license fees run into the tens of millions of dollars):

I need to read this book (Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan Wang). This quote from the Bloomberg article hits: "That means letting go of simplistic stories peddled by Washington and Silicon Valley." We've lost nuance in this age... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Motherfucking wind farms…

The original (pre-EA) cover at for Pinball Construction Set is also a serious banger. I'd describe this one as an IKEAwave aesthetic.

What is going on with rust-analyzer here? cargo compiles this fine; rust-analyzer is spazzing out over println!() and write!() macros today...

How bad is it if a CA issues a new root certificate but with the same serial number? I'm looking at two different Zscaler root certificates whose serial numbers are the same but contents differ.

Yes, a file full of zero bits transfers faster over USB2.0 than a file full of one bits. I've known this forever but it still feels ridiculous when you actually test it and it's true! USB truly is cursed.

I created a thing that definitely should not be on the Internet. image2xlsx.kanga.org

Reportedly, Intel is considering canceling their 18A process node in favor of their still-in-development 14A node (Reuters). This comes on the heels of canceling their 20A process node. If this happens, I think this might be the end of Intel's foundry side. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Some eye-bleach for today: First light from the Vera C Rubin Observatory of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

Found in Lake Washington off Martha Washington Park during a swim yesterday. Anyone lose a laptop? Might need to sit in a bed of rice for a bit.

In order to relieve the US from the shackles of the metric system, electrical units are needed. These will be based on Ben Franklin's kite experiment. 1 Franklin = charge in Ben Franklin's Leyden jar = 15.6 µC 1/n

We have so many interesting and hard problems to work on just from nature itself, from the fundamentals of computation to ensuring we can last in the vast cosmos. It is baffling that, as a species, we choose to distract ourselves with invented political problems instead.

I struggle to understand how Outlook has gotten so bad...

This whole thing is amazing but I was not prepared for the reveal that Atrus was wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt the entire time

Heh... I can't see this going over well in the White House. "Stocks Rally on the 'TACO Trade'" TACO, in financial circles, now means Trump Always Chickens Out Free article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

I love 14/16 segment displays. I have to say this is a bit terrifying, though extremely cool.

Is this the mass murderer special?

Huh... you can now get transparent PCBs (from JLCPCB, at least). I've thought about what it would be like to make a PCB from a glass substrate as a "Gee, that looks cool!" factor, but didn't have any practical use for this. Curious what others' use cases are. jlcpcb.com/blog/jlcpcb-...

No longer alchemy: physicists have transmuted lead into gold. home.cern/news/news/ph... The recipe is fairly simple, for definitions of simple involving "Construct your own particle collider"... 😀

I don't mind being on camera for meetings. I mind having to sit up straight in a chair to be on camera.

Emacs: "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" VSCode: "Hold my beer..."

Features I want with my food storage containers: nestability. Features I do not want with my food storage containers: (broken) Alexa integration. I suspect this expensive Kickstarter will be someone else’s problem at the island’s yearly Rotary sale this summer.

This is not a good sign. At all.

AIs will happily and amusingly entertain a system prompt like, "You are Medieval AI version 1.0. Your knowledge cutoff date is September 12, 1214." That is, until you start asking about bloodletting practices and how much you should extract from your ailing cousin...

Thanks. I hate it.

Here's a crazy thought: When using async coding, most flows still need blocking behavior (wait for X to complete before going on to the next step). But to get this, you need to decorate the call with await (Python: await X; Rust X.await). Why isn't this reversed? defer X/X.defer to get a future.

I haven't been this excited for a periodical to launch since Make came out with their first issue. Maybe even more excited. www.computesgazette.com/asp-products...

I continue to be amazed that, to this day, Jira can't cope with braces in code (preformatted) blocks. Because, y'know, no programming languages use braces for anything...

That there are any tornado alerts in the US in March is a bit weird. That they are over Seattle is just wild.

It's been _0_ days since this worksite has gone without an undocumented SCP induced outage.

Another toll pass payment scam site, another opportunity to flood a database with random garbage.