Just updated a django project to python 3.14...man pep758 is really confusing the agents (allows except expressions without parentheses) peps.python.org/pep-0758/

There are a lot of valid criticisms of LLMs with what’s going on the world right now and how they’re being sold. That said, I read posts dunking on them with the counting letters as an advertisement that you have not looked into how they work at all.

That’s one way to lighten up text book a bit…

If you've seen the Numberphile video about the red/black knight game on the spiral board making cool patterns (like the pic below) I made a little tool to explore them: heathhenley.dev/knight-spira...

I started to study some real (heh) math for funsies… realizing that despite a PhD in engineering and years working in a tech co... I don’t actually know math lol Only very beginning stuff, building the reals from rationals, proving a bunch of stuff taken for granted my whole life, etc But... 🧵

me if i was a tree

anyone else worried that *we* might be “just a bunch of matrix multiplications”?

For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

one should not feel bad about obtaining pdfs of scientific papers by sketchy means --> that system is broken af one should feel bad about obtaining books by sketchy means though --> shame

I heard 3blue1brown call activation functions “squishification functions” years ago and since I’ve never been able to stop calling them that in my head

using LLMs in software starves one part of me; feeds another - weird feeling I’m objectively more valuable / productive now - the “builder” in me loves this, it’s like a drug almost on the other hand, it’s kind of empty feeling - and something I cared about a lot doesn’t really matter any more

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

Just booted up and old desktop - it’s running Ubuntu 14 and chrome 46 😬, got some upgrading to do I guess…

“Moving weird” is very risky after age 30

There is no cow level!

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

as a lamp guy, big light people confound me

Oh, you like cloning? That makes two of us

Just finished a re-read of "Story of Your Life and Others". One of my favorite short story collections ever, last read it probably about a decade ago and despite that, some parts of the stories stuck with me. It was cool to get to read them again given how I've changed and what I'd forgotten.

If you asked me to guess what my most productive day was in 2025 (in terms of commits) I would never have guessed Monday! 🤯 My year in: - Books: www.goodreads.com/user/year_in... - Code: git-wrapped.com/profiles/Hea... (source of this image) - Everything else: heathhenley.dev/posts/2025-s...

📎 it looks like you're challenging the status quo. have you considered that this will make the status quo very sad? look it's crying now

there's vomit stderr already, claude's spaghetti he's nervous, but assures it's production ready

Here we go! Took a long break again, been mostly donating to the climbing gym every month - but definitely missed it.

Day 21: Summing integers? Compiler vectorises beautifully—8 at a time! Switch to floats? It refuses, doing each add individually. Same code, totally different output. Why? 🤔 xania.org/202512/21-ve... youtu.be/lUTvi_96-D8 #AoCO2025

I recently speed up a cursor pagination query in postgres by 100x by switching the where clause from something like: where (a < c or (a = c and b < d)) to where (a, b) < (c, d) Maybe you db people are aware of this but something to keep in mind / check for when profiling and optimizing!

Excuse me GitHub, your Microsoft is showing (charging for time on self hosted runners 🤯) resources.github.com/actions/2026...

An active shooter was reported near Brown University's campus in Rhode Island, the university said Saturday. The suspect is still at large, officials said.

Ok at the risk of sounding like a crazy person...I feel like the input for day 12 of #AdventOfCode looks suspiciously like a hexdump, and the bytes mostly map to printable chars if you take them as hex values - but I wasn't able make anything of it I think there's an xmas easter egg in there maybe!

Big thanks to @was.tl for all the work and creative energy you put into these puzzles!

LOL I did this

I wrote an important essay that will improve your holiday travel if you follow its very specific instructions: airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com

you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2

Day 10: Factory,Manual Munchies #AdventOfCode

I just introduced a race trying condition to fix a race condition 🤦‍♂️

Someone should make a chatgpt wrapper for devs that's condescending and randomly sometimes closes your question as duplicate / off topic - you know, for those of use who grew up with stack overflow

Going to start putting all the advent of code stuff under this one post I think - I feel pretty loud with these

I've completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

Had the idea right away but mega struggles getting it implemented correctly in ocaml for part 2, just couldn't get it out I almost switched to get the star but not yet! I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

Wasn't pretty but I still got a couple internet stars... I've completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

Yay or nay on checking generated files (like clients for protobuf msgs) in version control? Vs just having the stubs and generating them with protoc as part of building

It's that time of year again! I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought

I found a weird case this week where adding a LIMIT to a query made it slower… In short - the planner was picking a less selective index (on a single col) when the LIMIT was included, so that it had to filter a lot of rows instead of just using the “good” index (on all the cols in the where).

One stupid thing you can do: have an ack deadline for a pub/sub msg that's shorter than the time it takes your service to process it You'll ddos your own service, be confused for a bit, and then just feel like a silly goose Or I suspect that is what would happen. I would never do that of course...

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

you yeet 13k lines of AI slop at them and be met with grace and candor... but I would still recommend exercising extreme caution before ever implying that the ocaml std lib docs are lacking 😀 #thetypesarethedocs

This website is awesome, brings back some memories xslt.rip And also used xslt at some point in the past to convert a user manual into windows help format or something…RIP

If you request that people call you doctor and you don’t work in a hospital or university you might be an actual clown, pls check

I don't buy it