Email from daycare: Our bank's check processing OCR can't handle the digit 7 if you put the fancy horizontal line through it, so please don't do that

wot mate you got a license to multiply those matrixes? yeah you heard me right

The useful version of this: pass the phone around and each person dictates "I'm pretty hungry and would eat anything" or "I really want one or two slices of pepperoni or cheese", and the app constraint-solves for how to optimize your pizza order (which you check first, ofc) This... is not that.

The Grok system prompt is going to be the Rosetta stone for future historians trying to figure out 2020's racism

Baseball is implementing ABS, so football needs to counteract this to maintain balance in The Force NFL will remove the uprights (let's be honest: eyesore). Field goals will be based on refs eyeballing whether or not the ball passed through an imaginary mid-air rectangle, a clear improvement

Mid-40's update: right before Thanksgiving my kids asked me to pitch a baseball on a full-length pitcher's mound, which I did, and today my elbow is *almost* back to normal

Proposing we adopt the following aphorisms "toiling on the loom" is when you could have easily used AI for something but didn't "running the dishwasher" is using AI exactly the right amount "pillow talk with furby" is using it too much

I'm trying to teach my sons about toxic masculinity early, but it's hard to do this without a definition of masculinity in the first place, which in turn is hard to describe without leaning on stereotypes that I don't want to perpetuate. Any pointers on some reading?

Fun story from today. I'm currently trying to get `--strict` on by default in TypeScript 6.0. Our test suite has many tests which are written with `--strict false`, so I am updating them by adding a special comment our test suite recognizes for options // @strict: false However...

We have to hold the line here, otherwise future candidates are going to get *millions* of dollars in childcare expenditures paid for by their parents, in complete violation of the spirit of campaign finance laws

Boomer moment for me today getting angry about the Houston Texans existing instead of the Houston Oilers, a fact that is 27 years old but I only just now learned

Has to be weird to be a Republican, where paying capital gains taxes is tyranny but getting shot in the face isn't

[person trying to do the same thing that two million other people have already done] how is anyone supposed to be able to figure this out?

Ravenna Boulevard bike lane

Every time I load up Around the Well I go "why is The Trapeze Swinger 9 minutes long, that's ridiculous" and end up listening to the whole track

Sharia law hero Donald Trump implements ban on riba in accordance with the Qur'an

"dentifrice" sounds like what they call toothpaste in the Wicked universe

The Wrath of Grapes

It's very strange to watch Dodgers fans try to make jokes that only work if the Dodgers are bad. You won half of the last six World Series! Go be a Rockies fan if you want to complain about your team, this is stolen valor.

sort of along my recent repost, the issue at hand has been the same since the dawn of capitalism: when automation increases productivity, who gets to capture the value of that productivity increase? the beef is not with the productivity. it's with the value capture

I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis

20 years of doing my own taxes under salaried employment and I still can't keep W-2 and W-4 straight

Everything is IP theft except actual IP theft, which is fine

We should go back to the software license that banned use by a dozen specific companies sourced directly from a Business Insider listicle

oh my GOD we just saw the logo for the Kraken Pride Night this year and holy shit???

Specific reaction emoji you can apply to your own message that indicates "I have inserted a critical 'not' somewhere in the text, reset your brain and read the message again please"

So-called schema-less "databases" use vastly more power, corrupt data on a whim, and disemploy schema designers. The alleged productivity gains are simply not worth the costs. Consider using a real relational database instead of rowslop in your next project

it is very depressing to me that people’s misunderstanding of a technology coupled with their investment in a culture war is causing them to outright deny the overt and obvious benefits of that technology

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Stay hydrated folks, you're gonna need it

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Tim Walz needs to order the MN state police to arrest this ICE agent:

"come and take it" but for my REITs

My GopherCon talk was just posted!

Imagine Harris, in a debate, saying Trump wanted to kidnap a foreign president. It'd be a career-ending gaffe and would be mocked for years.

For real, it's legitimately useful to have an objective "you are not tall enough to go on this ride" bar for reading comprehension

Depending on which users you ask, "old enough that you don't have to support it anymore" is either 2023, or < 2008

Open source in a nutshell

Labeler that tells you when someone is worse than gpt-4o at detecting sarcasm

It's the first Monday of 2026! Awful, we know. But have you tried out TypeScript's native previews, or do you hate when your editor and builds are faster?

The five horsemen of the apocalypse: Microsoft, Facebook, TikTok, me, and @en-js.bsky.social

Some Mondays are a little bit Tuesday, or even a little bit Sunday. But this Monday is pure, uncut, weapons grade Monday

Going back to the job I generally enjoy tomorrow after being off for 3 weeks

(eating waffle fries directly out of the air fryer) she's right

I want to get back into my regular routine, but my regular routine is going to work, which I don't want to do

The desire for term limits is just a manifestation of the general principle that voters like their (long-serving) reps but don't like other districts' reps If voters wanted to enforce term limits on their own reps at the ballot box they could, but they simply don't

Hold space in your hearts today for the parents who are back from holiday travel, sick, and home with kids who are somehow bored despite having a small mountain of new toys (it's me, I'm the parent)

When we named our kids I wrote a very dumb script to scrape a list of candidate names from Wikipedia, which we then selected from. I don't think it would be accurate to say we "relied on JavaScript and regular expressions to name our kids".

* Write a cuneiform complaint about copper quality