Just now realizing that of all the GAT stuff I read back in the day, no one started the explainer by saying "when you have a type inside a trait that isn't generic, we call that an associated type". They all just assumed that I knew, which I didn't. 'Cause TIL.

an ass eagle, you say?

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Today I helped out a lot of people as they processed the trauma of dealing with the software that I wrote for them.

Look deep within your hearts. You know it to be true.

It me. This will make 26 years I've been watching these dweebs give up on me and everyone else, early and often. Fix your hearts.

Looking at you, rubocop

Yeah. My take here is that this is another indication that chatbots just kinda suck in terms of how they fit our overall needs. As a discovery/ramp up/research/prototype tool, they're nice, but past that - no. I'd rather have a dynamic HUD than an swarm of agents.

I always thought it was so cringe when people had top 1% Growth Hacker or Top 5% Engineer in their LinkedIn bios. Since I updated my Bluesky profile I have had several people say "Oh so you think you are an expert"

And again, I've said this a lot, but if I had a nickel for every time I've seen an entire new wing of operational overhead get introduced to an org because it would "make art automatic", I would have _far_ more than two nickels. Art is invention and expression. New kits just means new kinds of it.

Astro 6 is here! We completely rebuilt the Astro dev server and build pipeline onto a new, more powerful runtime-agnostic architecture. Plus: New Fonts API, CSP support, an experimental new Rust compiler, and more... astro.build/blog/astro-6...

Every doom prognostication around AI is predicated on the presumption that programmers won't immediately get weirder, and even more extra than ever before, if you give them a little talking pokemon that lets them do supercode. No. They'll get very, very weird. They'll start to DIY the pokemon, too.

staring bleakly into the realization that i've done an embarrassing amount of worldbuilding in a setting no one has played in since 2005

mhat do you wean

a lot of people don't know this but the proper pronunciation of "vibe" is "weeb"

Heeey, look, it's me! I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

atproto question: is there anything in atproto docs about users collaborating on a document? whose pds should it live on? how is this supposed to work? if its data that is not "personal" but shared, where is it supposed to live?

strong opinions about htmx forming after using it on some tools the last week or so. the basic bottom line is: I understand that htmx needed to evangelize to get people's attention, and I agree with restful design, but I object to any tool that claims it gets rid of work, when it just moves it.

My god if I just get to see her take down one bsky dweeb like this every few weeks my time here will be so, so worth it

"Dark mode is a farce," I smugly announce as I draft and release yet another flashbang html page into the wild where it can assault yet more migraine sufferers. "There's no science to support it," my face shrinks slightly from the weight of my self-assurance. I'm so good at this, I speak only truth.

I guess the only upside is that if we can shift gears by 2028 we'd still be in the mess we're in now, yes, but we'd also be looking at ridiculous class and economic mobility for the kids in elementary school today. Worth believing in. Better things are possible.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

I know lots of people have said it but: seeing how useful documentation, tutorials, process outlines, testing, and reference materials are for models, and what a differentiator it all is, I think now's the time to really push for tech orgs to formalize codifying those things.

drafting so many quotes and replies and posts and then never posting them. drafts are my goblin brain containment field

the algorithmic filter bubble is when i can't force people on my social network to look at my posts every time they log on

Something I tell people, specifically new programmers, is that I know tons of people who can code, but far fewer programmers.

Part of (definitely not the biggest part) people's aggravation w/ AI right now is a bunch of orgs w/ FOMO rushing to cram bad AI into their gizmos. Where AI is useful, it's _obvious_ what to do with it. People gotta quit forcing chatbots and stupid crap on users (impossible, I know).

Me, reading my model's suggested plan: "oh haha, lol. no. no, you think way too highly of both of us, robot. no, no, hahaha, gosh, could you imagine? but no."

no i don't want to talk about it. just give me the nards cereal. yeah. you heard me. the one with the nards.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

It rained last night, specifically on one neighbor’s house. The rest of the street got a little damp, but their yard is a total deluge.

Without warfighters where would the wargamblers be? How could they do their warbetting and get in on all those sweet sweet warbucks? Did you think of that?

New prints dropped in the shop again! Can't get a tattoo from me in person? Get a tattoo print for your walls! ko-fi.com/anatomoth/sh... #smallbusinessEU #smallshop #tattooart

"Gosh this sucks. Somebody should do something I guess. I feel bad for y'all." Okay, thanks Congress. Thanks for the press release via social media post intern. I know, I know. You're just a widdle guy and now you're all tuckered out.

> @covie93.bsky.social

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

A soap opera about a group of people who are trying to survive a genocide while the rest of the world more or less ignores them. Wonder why I'm thinking about that today.

Still grumpy that no one tried to cast Guy Pierce as Cyclops. No shade on Marsden, I dig him in the role. It's just that Scott's morality is aligned fully towards his people, and I can totally see Pierce rocking that kind of character on the same level that Jackman clicks w/ Logan.

i mean seriously, if you want 4-6 hours to evaporate enjoyably in the blink of an eye, throwing dice over IRC and writing a living novel with a few friends will do exactly that.

still feel like folks who've done IRC tabletop or played text adventure games are having the most normal reaction to Claude right now. people are just shocked at how much reading a bunch of text can stimulate your imagination.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app. Try the open beta:

damn it I've worn these progressive glasses for like a year now and i just realized what angle i should be using to look at my laptop screen

I love that my son knows he can be honest with me about why he wants to come home from school. "I just don't like that class." I get it, buddy. But, no. You should've told me you were sick or something lol

I think, from here on out, every time I hear a Democrat whisper anything that even sounds like a funding request to me, I'll instead donate to TCP. They need to fix their hearts.

To be honest I also think that the only model as a service shops which will be viable long term will also be the ones that invest in a closed verification ecosystem that everyone enjoys and trusts.

About code review: I once had a tech lead on my team decide he didn't like me (fair) and start stonewalling all my PRs with nits, actually held one of my PRs hostage for a few weeks and deliberately cut into deadlines. To this day he tells people it was my fault that he "had to do it".

It's actually pretty, if I'm being honest, clever. Horrible, too. - Algorithmically influence your feeds. Make the algorithm biased to activity surges. - Pick legitimate actors who agree with you and have followings. - Produce artificial activity surges briefly on lightning rod posts.

i've just spent the entire morning debugging an elaborate process only to find out that i did it all very well the first time and i just logged the wrong thing. how's your day going