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OH (kids): “Is there is difference between Nevada and Purgatory?”

October 2025. No Walmart nostalgia slop required.

I was going to move mg Bluesky account to my own PDS this weekend but it turns out it’s Fall, not a cloud in the sky, and 72 F outside. Foiled again by the weather!

Years ago parents would be proud of their kids growing up to be CEOs of large tech companies. Now I worry that if any of mine do they are going to get "CEO brain" and just say dumb shit. m.slashdot.org/story/425346

No surprise it’s the iPhone Air but I will concretely say: the iPhone Air is a great phone. I hope Apple doesn’t bail on it in 2 years like the Mini.

“Deprecate time-based one-time password (TOTP) 2FA, migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA.”

Rough enough day that I am contemplating going back to old and bad habits, like fajitas from Chili's.

The dog can make it about nine feet on a walk before he sees a new Halloween decoration and absolutely loses his shit.

The billion dollar company is feeling the squeeze from a trillion dollar company. www.wusa9.com/article/ente...

Getting very panicked messages from some friends about the shutdown and how their income is going to stop. Again.

“Deprecate time-based one-time password (TOTP) 2FA, migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA.”

Triple DESes? In this economy?

I don’t think I would have been a groyper either way but jamming in garages and basements in high school kept me out of the worst trouble. Same with a skateboard.

Now that I’ve seen that McDonalds is bringing back the Monopoly game, it seems like a good time to mention that from 1989 to 2001 the whole thing was rigged by insiders. Truly a bonkers story. web.archive.org/web/20180731...

I don’t even understand what this nostalgic about any of this? A lobster tank? Layaway?

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

Capitals saving Washington sports for me today.

Decided to go outside and catch some live tunes instead.

Every other commercial during this football game is an ICE recruitment ad. Grim.

Yes yes “pineapple pizza” is divisive but have you tried durian pizza?

The “technologyification” of classroom education for students sucks so bad man.

cmon man, Astros fans can’t read

Republicans: Trifecta control of both chambers of congress and the executive branch that regularly overreaches on its authority. Permanent 6-3 conservative ideological majority on the Supreme Court. Media: “Shutdown blame game: who’s at fault? JD’s new podcast has the answers.”

Post a concert photo (Muse, 2019)

Well, given some "events" around RubyGems, I did learn about `rv` out of this, and think it's great.

Seems like Apple is walking back the most egregious glass stuff in Safari for 26.1 at least. www.macrumors.com/2025/09/22/i...

Blep.

“Decline in K-12 National Reading, Math, Science Scores Probed By US Senate Panel” m.slashdot.org/story/446912

iPhone Air is pretty great. We’ll see about battery life though. I am not going to make any conclusions for the first two days while my phone does… whatever is new phones do.

Twitter was much more career oriented for me. It worked out pretty well, I credit Twitter for getting me two jobs. Bluesky is mostly lurking and abstract thinking.

Do you have an open source project or start-up that you want to feature LIVE on the keynote stage at githubuniverse.com? I want to hear from you! Details here on how you can enter and maybe win a trip to San Francisco: gh.io/zerotomerged #ZeroToMergedContest

They should reincorporate Enron and let it be part owner of TikTok too.

The words I always wanted to type but never got around to. Good read.

Tubes are clogged.

Websites are fucking awful. 🥺👉👈 Cookies? 🥺👉👈 Newsletter? 🥺👉👈 Chat with our AI / Live Agent? 🥺👉👈 Exclusive deals? 🥺👉👈 Watch this video?

Reluctantly, “go birds” (offer valid for one time only, restrictions apply).

Orchestra. I managed to get 1st chair out of 6 junior year (Cello), my friend knocked me down to 2nd senior year. He majored in music in college though, fantastic musician.

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

I know I’m not the first to think of it, but a cheap crappy electric toothbrush is amazing for cleaning bathroom fixtures.

Apple Trackpad battery is swol.

On Nov 10th, the day before #dotnetconf, we're hosting the .NET Foundation Summit. This is a one-day free virtual event showcasing awesome #dotnet open source projects. The CFP for #dotnet open source projects is currently open. sessionize.com/dnfsummit-2...

lol dude was retired for 4 months. www.nhl.com/penguins/new...

Looks like Ubiquiti bricked a bunch of switches with a firmware update. community.ui.com/releases/Uni...

At this risk of saying something obvious, the misinformation is going at 1000% the past two days on some other social platforms. Make sure your family doesn't get caught up in it.

nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out. No more api keys needed to publish from your release process. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...

No surprise but Fairfax County VA’s special election for a house seat went handily to Walkinshaw. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

EVEEEEEE