I feel like honesty in a relationship is key. So whenever prepping Mother’s Day presents, I feel it’s best to let her know she’s been bamboozled right up front.

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’

…why in the world would you choose to use the same symbol?

Considering putting "Manually generated content may be incorrect" in my mail signature

Evidently you’re not supposed to describe a string of predictable consequences as a FAFO queue in meetings.

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

People who think prompt engineering is just trying stuff at random until you get the results you hoped for: I have bad news for you about how the majority of programmers work.

Plutonic relationship: Where everything is going great and you’re part of the group but then all of the sudden it’s too small and distant to be considered real.

One of my teammates had to evacuate their house this week due to a gas main break, from a fiber install. Immediate thoughts: 1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay! 2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back.

"What's your maintenance project called?" "Project Theseus" "Oh that's a coo....wait a minute"

Whelp, icy roads and school’s cancelled.

I’m doing pretty well recently, but not like so well that I have a lot of patience for ignorant people saying stupid things about suicide and depression. www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...

Quick project since plates came in: I like to use plates and magnets for simple tool storage. First up: drilling and counter-sinking plates, ordered a stack of 6” squash plates for this but if space on garage shelves:

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Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered. The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...

When I was a young writer, I received a LOT of rejections. Now, after decades of hard work, I am no longer young.

Awwwwww yeah, my years of taunting how the Office team already did it with .docx has finally paid off.

@whit.zip got me the best Christmas tree ornament It’s Oregon Trail on and old CRT 🤓

"Why is there an emergency eye wash station in the team room?" "We do code reviews on Thursdays."

In retrospect, it was probably the "If you aren't familiar with WinDbg, it's an older style text adventure game designed by sadists" comment that got me in trouble.

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Getting in the hot tub at 10pm for the back seemed like a good idea to eventually get some sleep…but as I stare at the door 25ft away, there may be some regrets setting in.

I’m on a lot of other optimization these days…but only because fast builds let me iterate quickly and CIs give me confidence in the changes. Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority.

If there just one one skill or attribute that I think early in career folks should focus on, it would be, "be curious". This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious.

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

First draft is out Fiddler - Mistakes and Happy Accidents textslashplain.com/2024/11/24/f...

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Current status: fixing builds for OSS projects I haven't touched for a little while and wondering what in the heck I was thinking.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Red Team: We replaced it with decaf.

I have been in calls for most of the last 6 days with people talking about NICs and have serious doubts about whether we’re discussing real issues or if this is a very elaborate personally tailored psychological warfare experiment.

Hellooooo! I’ve missed what Twitter used to be so I followed @nickcraver.com over here. Best to start off strong with a pet pic.

I spent my sabbatical building a proper woodworking bench :)

Alrighty, let’s start small. Bathroom has been bothering me with cables, so let’s go USB for a few things and tidy up. First tip: these circuit finder and outlet tester combos are super handy. It’s a bathroom, so I can trip the GFCI instead of going downstairs to the breaker panel.

It’s been a few years since I had a feed and I miss seeing how so many people I admire are improving the world. Time to catch up. How are y’all doing?