“It’s frankly terrible what Snoopy has been doing to Americans like Linus in terms of his blanket, and the United States will not hesitate to pursue a powerful response if Snoopy continues down this dangerous path,” Trump said during his speech to the families of fallen U.S. military service members

“Some see 15-minute living and low-traffic neighborhoods as a kind of globalist conspiracy to restrict freedom…Now comes the Urban Truth Collective--aka Grant Ennis, Brent Toderian, Tom Flood--to turn the tables on the conspiracy theorists.” Thanks @cityobservatory.bsky.social! #1HourCityConspiracy

So true. It’s a rather sick sect at this point. Aside from the plethora of sexism, racism, bigotry, and other horrors that exist in said church that they need to resolve. 😑

Real talk. So frustrating we don’t actually solve problems.

Have you been using Apply Silicon to do machine learning? For example, with the LLMs with MLX and the Neural Accelerators in the M5 GPU? 🧵 1/2

A whooping cough outbreak in an elementary school down the road. Meanwhile I finally got around to reading Candle In the Dark and only a few pages in, you get to its eerily prescient passage. Sigh.

Oh dear gawd this is horrifyingly spot on. Like a punch right smack to the nose. Blood and all!

Why did I look up what Tolstoy thought about the US, I should have known that catty bitch would only hurt me

Last set. It’s been a week and a half. If only there was enough time to elaborate it’d be a grand adventure of a story to tell. 🧵

A few more. слава України! Breakfast vittles. Pays to know how to handle the kitchen! Sun rising over Seattle in new ways as spring enters and summer time already encroaches. 🧵

The past week. A few photos of the days. A monorail, introspection, a grand birthday, a milestone and love. A little metal, more truth, setting high above it all and achieving goals that once seemed lost to fate. 🧵

Real talk: Drummer’s fear. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXM7CjPDSQH/?igsh=MTB0Y3pyemVoZjlpMA==

In 2023 I put together this stereo build https://adron.github.io/stereo-build/ Today I'm adding a new element to it. Will report back and update accordingly!

Well, I did like Cursor, but today’s news doesn’t actually bode well for that situation.

I do enjoy it when Hulu gives me Spanish language commercials. It’s like a pop quiz from Duolingo.

Just to be clear.

If you run a meetup that is into Gen AI, coding, and related software development related things could you give me a ping? Just a direct message here on LI would work. Cheers!

There is a horrid number of interviewing processes that are utter garbage. The “do this leet code” ones are the most absurdly out of touch. More on that soon with some suggested solutions.

When you're managing the state of your database and its respective schema, do you... 1. Setup migrations and have a folder with files, etc, that manage each state (version) of the database schema over time for history or... 2. 🧵 1/2

Checked out Last Call in Frelard today. It had a cool feel, decent vibe with some classic rock and metal. Great Philly cheese, even with a wiz option. Also had prominent glory hole juice 🧃 Don’t ask, I’ve no idea. Also, no idea who Brian is but I guess fuck Brian. 🧵 1/2

Is AI actually helping or hurting development? I had things to say. https://youtu.be/naB2peVOTv8?si=3BC1uaItsApK7Haf

@shanembailey.com BTW almost all the big box stores do that shit. They’re a stain on life itself. They’ve been wrecking small business for decades now and it’s disgusting how they operate in such a dehumanizing way toward customers, all for not very much lower prices.

I always find it painful for those of us that understand the semantic, etymologic, systemic, historical, and related first principles of things that have happened in our life time. 🧵 1/11

Gotta say, Nekrogoblikon is one of the most romantic bands in existence, absolute bangers!

It seems like they don’t realize they, and their support of the pedo party is one of the BIG reasons why. The only way the US is gonna maintain population in the coming years is… drumroll please… Immigration.

A conflated question comes up these days. What does “reviewing a PR really entail now?” Is it AI enabled and mixed with one’s own speed reading? Do we still still expect to read every line of code commit? What’s your expectation now? I have mine, what’s yours?

I've been using several tools lately: Cursor, Claude Code (VSCode), and CoPilot (VSCode) and the differences here are stark. Cursor is solid, the planning stages, custom IDE, etc are pretty solid. Kicking off additional agents, super easy. 🧵 1/3

Morning tunes ended up being several different bangers, I present thee: https://youtu.be/Q7KzEH3DQSY?si=Ba-8m62TcRkUkrP7 and https://youtu.be/RxwT40ZIC5Q?si=-0Jf7XpHtGcNTl98 and https://youtu.be/LQkmz8NxVSM?si=WimJp7pB7hjl74Lh

I bought this Apple watch a while back and have opted for the info heavy watch face style that has the ole' hands of the clock. Lemme tell you when it is close to the hour I have misread it and jumped so many times already. 🧵 1/2

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Let’s see… exercise, fun, independence, low cost transportation, reduced use of fossil fuels, lower wear on roads and other infrastructure. Maybe something we could promote?

What should be my morning tunes? What are your morning tunes?

Officially used my watch to pay my transit fare! No more Orca Card needed! 🤘🏻

Ok, I'm going to rant for a moment. If you're setting up calls and sending an AI "person" to talk to me on the phone there are very few ways you don't get black listed/blocking/refusing business by me immediately. EVERYBODY else should start doing this too, it is unacceptable. 🧵 1/10

A successful day trip to Portland is finished! Good times, good trip, much success! Even picked up some new shoes!

Let’s play, where am I!

How Sound Transit should have installed bike racks in trains. This is a functionally superior way, more convenient to enter and extract one’s bike, and safer for passengers too.

After the wandering lunch on Mercer, on the way home I opted to get off at ID and rode over, then flipped around and decided to take the ferry to Bainbridge! 🧵

Nice day for a wander about. After wrapping up some project work, boarded the Link for a stop at Tat’s. Which BTW, not a lot of reasons to just go to Mercer Island except: 1. Bike around the island. It’s nice. 2. Visit Tat’s 3. Go to some of the great parks! 4. You live or work there. 🧵

It's kind of an SRV day today. Just solid, good, unquestionably top chops blues all Texas style is where it's at for me. IYKYK. Got inspired lately to really, truly, pick up the guitar and not just play but write and go back through all the gazillion songs and things I've written. 🧵 1/2

The new light rail connecting the Seattle to Bellevue to Redmond areas is hands down one of the most magnificent light rail extensions in the northwestern United States. 🧵 1/6

The view coming into South Bellevue is nice!

Rolled into Judkins Park stop (excellent park!) and into Mercer. This is truly transformative, as much or more so than the actual damned 520 & I-90 bridges when they were built! 🧵

I had rented a Wombi to verify this exact scenario. Super cool to see someone else rocking the (Tern) Wombi on the rack on the Link!

Going for a cross lake ride on second day of revenue service ops.

Well said. Very prescient.

Fair.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

Good morning Seattle. Hope everybody is ready for the weekend and to raise your fists against the tyrant! ✊🏻 Also the historical lake crossing commences tomorrow! 🤘🏻 So many good things!