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

I’m like 98% sure that anytime you see data on a map, GDAL was involved in the stack, probably in multiple places

Remember, in software development: always, no matter the circumstances or conditions - choose to be pragmatic over dogmatic.

It drives me crazy that both dropbox and google drive fail silently if you try to download a folder with too many files. Both will literally give you zip with the first "x" amount of the data downloaded and say nothing... If you're going to share a lot of files on either, zip them first...

⛴️ Autonomous vessels significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of bathymetric #data collection. But their adoption and operation must be balanced with #safety and sustainability at sea. Read more about how our partner FarSounder help makes that possible ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ftMwQ

I just read that Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) sang co-lead vocals on “Don’t Cry” by Guns N’ Roses 🤯

Sometimes privacy is too much to ask for

Was sliced bread really that big of a deal?

I think clothing companies are beginning to overcorrect for the “women’s clothes never have pockets” issue - Maddy’s clothes now all have like 6 pockets - she just got a hiking shirt and found a “secret” pocket in it lol

South Park was one of the first shows that I wasn’t allowed to watch growing up - which meant I would naturally find ways to watch it at friends houses, etc. Haven’t seen a lot of the newer episodes except the most recent - but love this for them

I wrote an incredibly exciting piece with some notes about using page heap to catch a buffer overrun that some boneheaded dev introduced into the code heathhenley.dev/posts/using-...

“With four parameters I can fit the shape of an elephant, with five I can make it wiggle its trunk, and with a trillion I can fit the entirety of human knowledge.” - John von Neumann - Michael Scott (probably)

@sciencevs.bsky.social episode request: prenatal vitamins with detectable heavy metal concentrations, some over California prop 65 limit Hearing about this more and more and it does seem like that are studies looking at it Eg: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

iOS beta “liquid glass” is starting to grow on me… but aside from that - the iMessage spam filter improvements are really nice, goes straight to jail and doesn’t trigger a notification

A gated community for parrots called Planned Parrot Hood.

Running when it’s humid is a whole different beast