networking is an incredibly important part of maintaining a professional presence in your creative industry, but it can be daunting. have you tried being completely fucking ridiculous online

Twin cities friends: I'll be speaking tomorrow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science on how AI disrupts the sometimes precarious balance of scientific incentives.

a “Space Force”, if you will

We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs! tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #numpy #scipy #scikitlearn

just one wittle wegular expwession

Today in "text is just unbelievably cursed", your interlocutor learns about how Emojis are constructed

they said AI isn't capable of writing good poetry, and yet

Progress! We've graduated to parsing bugs on 3-way interactions: github.com/quarto-dev/q...

I think I've gotten to a point of my Choro guitar playing where I can tell it sounds bad, but it... feels good? It's nice to no longer dread practicing!

As a Brazilian reading an Argentinian, it gives me no pleasure to recommend an essay that focuses the unhealed collective soccer trauma of an entire nation into the sickest, sickest of burns But it is a great damn essay, and an all timer of a burn

Academics don't go over time on your presentations, challenge level impossible

Dammit y'all, I'm now hungry.

Excellent post throughout. This a class I wish I could take!

A machine learning view of the randomized controlled trial, as a bridge from patterns to actions.

I love our roborock, but it loves to play footsie when I'm working on my standing desk and it kind of freaks me out every time. Can't the cameras detect feet and keep their distance?

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Can you all spare some love for the poor old anxious lady preparing for fire alarm drills this morning? 🥺

If you want to know what hell is, I'm debugging a tree-sitter external scanner, and the values in the _boolean_ valid_symbols array eventually spell "markdown" in ASCII. those should all be either 0b00000000 or 0b00000001. I'm back in 1993-era buffer overflows. Great!

The deeper I get into m̦aking a͕ r͇̟̓obust Markdo̸w͉̩ͣn parse̥̿ͅr̸̋, t̮he clearer͚̾̃ I̜̍ͩ ș̄tart se̦ͯeing th̀̍ͭé u̡̲ͣn̙ͬi̋v͋̕ers̎̆͢e̴ͣͣ

Wowee someone hotboxed our building elevator, good lord

Today's pedant eye twitch, brought to you by "mIRC chat rooms"

I hadn't come across this essay until now. It's very, _very_ good, and you should read it. (minor: I can't help but wonder what a wank analysis would say about the essay itself, right around the Clausewitz reference.) Still, the first 2/3rds are truly excellent. Again, go read it if you haven't.

Do you use homebrew? PSA! Something on homebrew decided to add this gem of a line to my .zshenv: echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv Apparently I started a shell 6500 times before realizing this problem. (Guess how I knew the number) I'm just speechless.

Look you can’t convince me that some of the truly wild good bell labs stuff (like, say, S) isn’t at least in part from acid. I met some old bell labs people, is all I’m saying

I mean, what do you even say.

I understand why SICP has fallen out of favor, but I think it remains the single best text to improve one’s software engineering skills. So many hard problems in software are best solved by finding the language hidden inside the problem, and writing an interpreter/translator program

I will personally donate $10k to a charity of your choice if you figure out how to stop folks from putting spaces in their filenames.

"Markdown is great, people can read Markdown, LLMs are good at Markdown, we don't need error messages"

gfd it people, don't obviously use LLMs to write _academic papers_. What is wrong with y'all that you do not understand how that's a dumb fucking thing to do? The entire-ass point of academic papers is for you to tell me what you think. If I wanted to know what an LLM thinks, I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF.

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Artline markers! They’re refillable too. If you’re forced to not use the Actual True Superpowers (hagoromo chalk on a good blackboard), then Artline 5109As are an acceptable alternative. They’re also readable from 25 feet away (and erase cleanly) which is a concrete accessibility win!

Nice lil' new Quarto release. You can also expect 1.9 to see more under-the-hood work to set up foundations for bigger things in 2026.

Just now I joking to a friend that I need a therapist who's also a software engineer to truly make sense of my head, and he told me about Jay Earley. (Yes, that Earley) just... what? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ear...

Maia’s writing is out of this world, and this explainer on this year’s economic Nobel is an exceptionally good piece even for her. Just go read it. It’s phenomenal.

Agente Secreto is a very good movie. And, when you’re done with that one, then you might be ready for Bacurau

How's your Friday afternoon going?

"Claude code, please make me a Firefox extension that will hide some idiots^Wusers. Put a [hide] button and give me a way to see the list of users. Thanks!" This is the result. Look, I've been trying to tell y'all, software engineering is about to get _extremely weird_ in the next 6-24 months.

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding? why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

scambot follows arrived on Strava. What a world.

I'm trying out tailscale for the first time. It turns out we still can build good software! Really impressive.

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Case in point: Posit paid me this morning to suffer through learning an extremely obscure corner of a parsing library so that you all (eventually!) don't suffer from weird markdown parsing issues. (hi tree-sitter external scanners, you're too complicated even for Claude. But I beat your ass.)

Ooo hades 2 is fun

Who will win? - a 20-page furniture assembly manual, or - a well-medicated adhd patient

this is besides the point and I know we're all halfway-to-blackpilled here but the fact that we can all read this debate openly on bsky reminds me of the fleeting old days of twitter

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

Colder than Minneapolis (we’re expected to hit 90 today, wat)

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.