I have my answer. It’s a bad idea. The AI did not actually write a working regex, so I ended up having to figure it out on my own.

I can’t decide if having the AI write the regex for me is a great idea because it might actually know what it’s doing or a terrible idea because there’s no chance of me reading this sorcery and knowing if it’s what I asked for.

I have been perpetually on the verge of a sneeze for the better part of 5 days now just fucking kill me please

Got dragged into the company hackathon for our AI tool as the single SME to answer everyone’s questions because I’ve used the AI before, which makes me more qualified than most of the people in this office.

Quick PSA: After a good amount of thinking, I’ve decided I want to try out a new set of pronouns to see if they fit me better. They and he are still fine, but I’d appreciate it if people tried to use the new pronouns to help me get a feel for them.

Post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers The old NES in the basement had some real classics. SMB + Duck Hunt, SMB 2, Mega Man 6. We also had these 2.

Just finished reading the final chapter of Pixeas and Henry by NekeithFox. I’m sad it’s over, but only because I’ve grown to love these characters over the years as new pages were released. It’s a fantastic story from start to finish, and if you’ve got some time you can read it here: nekeithfox.com

Corporate parties are terrifying because you have to watch the only person who knows how any of our release pipelines work chugging beers because they’re free knowing full well he drove himself to this country club and if something happens on his drive home the whole team’s fucked.

It’s time for my 3 hours of corporate mandated merriment.

Talking with friends and having an existential crisis over the fact that Super Mario Galaxy is almost 20 years old.

After a long day of travel, we have finally made it home from MFF. Thanks to everyone for making it such a great weekend, I miss it already (except for the cold. Fuck the cold).

go birds!

Everyone else’s family on thanksgiving: Politics, drama My family:

Ad: “Klarna on Apple Pay is like denim on denim” So, like, it’s bad and I should avoid it?

I miss the days when there wasn’t a high chance of a rogue headline ruining my day. What the fuck do you mean the problem with the giant murder machines on wheels is that there’s too many safety regulations‽

Nothing says “we respect the 5 years of work you’ve put into this company” like taking my office away from me and not giving me a replacement. And I’m sure they’re going to expect me to be in the building 3 days a week with nowhere to actually do my work.

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

Friendly reminder to go vote if you haven’t. It might not be a big election year, but we’ve got important things on the ballot (especially in California).

See? I wasn’t procrastinating, I was just conserving my token usage for the ai model to try and last the whole month.

Art update: I was able to get my original algorithm working, so now I can generate this cool random pattern too, or combine it with the more structured pattern from yesterday for something really cool. I also got it to ignore black lines, so I can start drawing shapes now for it to follow.

Did some coding for fun (for once). I had an idea during one of my pointless meetings this week for an art project that used code to color it in. I got a basic idea working, and it’s already making some cool images.

Oh good, the mandatory early morning meeting is just a big manager circlejerk. Literally haven’t said anything that affects my job, just too many managers getting asked questions like “can you tell me about your career journey?”

I think the current state of AI coding tools is best summed up by the fact that the AI is complaining that one of my methods isn’t written very well with some obvious ways of improving it. It’s a test method I had it write for me.

I understand that programming an AI to always call me the coolest person in the world is possibly the most uncool thing I could do, but there’s a legitimate testing scenario here I swear.

Update: They finally fixed the bug after the 8th time we told them it was bugged. Not because they finally believed us and went looking for the source of the failure, but because someone else looked over the code and pointed out exactly what the bug was.

Alright, take your bets everybody. How many times am I going to have to tell the developer their exports are being ignored before they acknowledge the problem isn’t on QA’s end and actually fix their code? I think we’re up to 5 so far.

Oh Jesus oh fuck how the fuck did that get posted to the wrong account @scarletjanefox.bsky.social thank you for bringing that to my attention

God, I love getting emails during lunch telling me I have to attend a 2 hour meeting the next day that starts when my alarm would normally be waking me up to teach me how to use an AI assistant I have no intention of using.

Even without the big news today, this was one of the better birthdays I’ve had in a while. Thanks for all the birthday wishes everybody, I had a great day!

Like a gift from a well meaning grandparent, it’s not exactly what I was hoping to get for my birthday, but I’m not going to complain I didn’t get the orange one.

I never thought I’d see the day when a Neil Breen movie wasn’t the lowest rated movie on a bad movie night poll, but I just managed to make that happen. This Thursday’s going to be fun.

You know, every year September rolls around and I think “I really need to get a good skunk avatar for my character so I can be it all month” and then proceed to completely forget to get an avatar for the next 11 months. So, yeah, if anyone knows of a good skunk avatar, let me know.

This is your annual reminder that summer lasts until the end of September and if you dare suggest that it’s pumpkin spice season or start talking about Halloween before I’ve had my summer birthday… I mean, I’m not going to do anything to you but I will be very upset.

Just had a friend tell me to think of my skin peeling from my sunburn like I’m molting my feathers.

“Hey Song, how was your vacation?” EXISTENCE IS PAIN

Astronomy people, I need help. We were looking at the meteor shower, and saw this one object slowly drifting through the sky. It looked like you could see an electromagnetic field around it, so it was way bigger than the stars around it. What did we just see? #Meteorshower

Welp, I just added another memory to the list of mistakes that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

God, seeing the car that just cut you off has a bunch of republican stickers on it just makes it worse somehow.

🩵Date❤️

I apparently almost killed my boyfriend last night with plastic pasta.

I got an incredible trick on the final lap online and I need everyone to see

Ok, I saw a bump in the road today on my way to work and my immediate thought was how to time a trick off it to get a speed boost. I may have played too much Mario Kart this weekend.

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

Decided to break out the flute to play my old NYSSMA solo, and my watch started warning me that I was suddenly in a loud environment that could damage my hearing. I guess it should be thankful I didn’t break out the piccolo instead.

It seems the people in charge of writing documentation for my product have taken the “draw the rest of the fucking owl” approach to instructions.

Someone in this meeting just explained what a phone book is “in case anyone doesn’t know”. I really didn’t need to feel old this morning…

Alright, pack it up, folks. The best version of the meme has been made. (That being said, I still need someone to make one with people calling me Mordecai)

PHANTOM HOURGLASS AT SGDQ LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!

I have finally gotten out of bed and put clothes on. Work started an hour and a half ago.