Tell your boss I said hi.

There’s a website that will locate you with 16 digits of precision for the decimal latitude and longitude. That resolution is roughly 1/10th of an atom. Seems unlikely!

I forgot about it after dragging myself through the second episode lol https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/pluribus-most-watched-show-ever-on-apple-tv/

Mr. No Callsign just flew over Sunnyvale at nearly 600 knots, 800 feet. It’s… noticeable

I’ve been using Google Gemini through their web page and it’s constantly arguing and correcting my implicit assumptions and I love it 😆 it has Big Nerd vibes. “Well, actually…”

“Please list the best breweries in California”

You have a hundred open browser tabs. I have a hundred untitled texts in BBEdit. We are not the same.

Progress?

Here’s the thing, Calibri isn’t even particularly accessible. It’s just the bar is so low.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nuthatch/115666968240020493 Overseeing a growing collection of little Python scripts that work together unix-style in response to this “Install a Docker container of obsolete enterprise development tooling to unpack your Mastodon archive” nonsense

A couple more quick scripts. I’ve already extracted all my “Likes” from a Mastodon archive, then fetched the original posts and then their authors (this took awhile, sadly, I’ve found ~300 dead instances this way). So I can generate a list of my top 50 “likes authors” and then iterate over them […]

Some of you are following bridged accounts from bsky.app! I see you!

I’d started my “Mastodon Buddies” script with Claude Code but was turned away at the end of my five hour window. So I continued with Gemini which worked fine.

I’ve run a script over my recent Mastodon and here’s my top ten buddies? Andrea (@amcvittie) CM Harrington (@octothorpe) Dad (@GeekAndDad) Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life Dave Nanian (@dnanian) Dave Rahardja 🎄 (@drahardja) Halle Winkler (@Halle) Matt Massicotte (@mattiem) Sean Wolter (@seanwolter) […]

Mistral AI is a French AI startup founded in 2023 by former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta. The founders include Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe just showed up in my (sandboxed) Homebrew. An alternative to Gemini or Claude?

Supreme Court Republicans of the United States,, or SCROTUS

@birb https://harper.blog/index.xml

Remember Kent Beck? “Kent is re-energized thanks to using AI agents to build stuff. Kent has been coding for 52 years, and the last decade, he’s gotten a lot more tired of all of it: learning yet another new language or framework, or debugging the issues when using the latest framework. What […]

It took 30 minutes with Claude to generate a 24KB standalone Python script that converts my Mastodon archive into a single HTML page. Very simple!

The ghost is in the shell The ghost is in the shell Hi-ho, the derry-o! The ghost is in the shell.

Donatas Jonikaitis showed up at run club one evening and shared his project for the summer: Yosemite Extravaganza, a kind of CityStrides for Yosemite National Park covering all 1,800 miles of trails he could find over 49 days. So we joined him for his final […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

“I speak now not in malice but in earnest despair, for the conclusion you have drawn is of such astonishing simplicity that it grieves me more than I can readily convey: and yet I'm moved less to anger than to sorrow, so profoundly indeed that I find myself unable to discern whether your words […]

Imagine a future where you have the source code and build tools for any arbitrary binary ever released. And you can now modify, build, and run that code. https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkids2-decomp/blob/852f47a4905a08d5d652387597bc5b47d29582f2/CLAUDE.md

It has come to my attention that QNTM’s There Is No Antimemetics Division is now available as an audiobook.

“I’m stuck on PROBLEM with THING” “Oh, yeah, I posted a solution to our slack channel.” “There’s too much stuff in there, I never read it.”

“At best, you have a proof-of-concept of a good idea that, if some very smart people work very hard, might become a viable product.” https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/the-problem-with-vibe-coding.html

Reading with increasing incredulity and horror: “The app runs an embedded JBOSS Undertow web server, talking to a Lucee which is a free, open source implementation of CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language). Under the hood, it's all a servlet running on Java 21 (configured in the server.json and box […]

HBO being acquired by Netflix would be an ignominious end. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-buy-warner-bros-deal-reshape-hollywood-1236442967/

It’s Bandcamp Friday!I won’t bore you with every album I purchased at 1:30 a.m. I have a bad habit of buying a mass of albums from various artists based on singles I liked, and some turn out to be pretty great and some turn out to be totally awesome, but it’s hard to be sure without sitting down […]

Remember… iOS 7 was his fault as well.

There really is no clearer way to demonstrate that you don’t belong at Apple than to leave for Meta.

Happy 34th birthday QuickTime! “December 2, 1991: Apple ships its first public version of the QuickTime player, bringing video to Mac users running System 7. Containing codecs for graphics, animation and video, QuickTime confirms Apple’s status as a leading multimedia tech company. The […]

Sol remains a perfect beautiful gem of an app that just keeps working. “The Swiss army knife of sunlight tools with a design inspired by the simplicity of the sundial. Use it to plan the perfect photograph, time exercise sessions, guide natural sleep cycles, catch the sunrise and sunset, or map […]

The amateurs pack up and leave when the sun drops below the horizon but the pros stick around

Knowledge from dead fish and upside-down rhinoceroses https://improbable.com/2025/12/02/statistics-lessons-from-a-dead-salmon/

“But as I began to look more closely at the company, I began feeling like I’d accidentally stumbled on an eldritch horror. CoreWeave is saddled with massive debt and, except in the absolute best-case scenario of fast AI adoption, has no obvious path toward profitability. There are some […]

Stephen returns from Thanksgiving Break to find seven little projects that need his attention

I’ve started a new app today and was 80% done real quick but this second 80% is going to take more time for sure

@drahardja Saratoga is covered with Flock cameras because of course it is

Oooh this fucker is going to get away with it no matter what happens.

“Seals and sea lions, along with walruses, belong to a group of marine mammals called “pinnipeds.” Pinniped means fin or flipper-footed in Latin. These animals spend the majority of their time in the ocean but come on shore for long periods of time. Although seals and sea lions are similar […]

We watched (and listened) to the sea lions for a while. They like to sun on the beams below the pier.

For Black Friday we visited the Santa Cruz Wharf to observe carnivorous mammals for the youngest’s Biology project. Our attention was drawn to a huge flock of comments on the water.

Gotta run!

Fondly thinking back to the time I found a bunch of race conditions in Shure's embedded C++ code by linking to it from an iPhone project 😌

“If we do this correctly, nobody will ever notice, it will just keep working like before," doesn't lead to raises or promotions huh

My level of participation in complex projects is often, “This button is blue, but it should be green. Why is it blue?"

“Once someone has secured a resource, they may support limiting others’ access to it.”

I did some research (I asked a large language model) why Shabana Mahmood hates immigrants and it responded, “Mean people suck."

It boggles my mind that people who know how to code and are able to use LLMs to automate code generation effectively draw the conclusion that learning to code will not be relevant to future generations.. Encouraging people to cultivate some awareness of their own skills and understanding would […]