absolute opium for the soul

very startling that a massive development ecosystem learned all at once over the weekend that the `gh` CLI was storing no-TTL OAuth tokens in plaintext that persisted even after `gh auth logout`. even more startling that GitHub seemed to learn about it at the same time the rest of us did

"for this security demonstration, i will show you the most effective solution for verifying that a compromised machine is secure after an attack" *types `rm -rf /` into the console*

MTG is proof that you can build an entire game out of weird edge cases if you try hard and believe in yourself "there are no 1-card infinite combos" into "what about..."

vibecoding aint shit compared to how life-changing developer containers can be

preparing myself emotionally for “did the pope write magnifica humanitas with AI” discourse

i’d be genuinely curious if there’s any research into the effectiveness of a security breach and what day of the week the breach occurs on. like, if you run an attack at 4:59pm on a Friday and the engineers on the other side have to take the weekend to fix it, is the attack more effective?

meta: you can use our dataset so long as you only publish 10 samples publicly also meta: you can download them in batches of no less than 331 and each one is going to be 60GB.

my sickest occupational satisfaction is coming up with new and creative ways to ensure everybody on the stack wants to kill themselves

if pikmin were real our government would kill them

i often think about permissions for people (including myself) in terms of “Clicks Away from Apocalypse” (CAPs) and this is why. agents can be cool but why in the hot hell would you use them that close

the 2020s is the era of discovering that everybody over the age of 50 committing crimes loves to talk about those crimes, in writing, over email

amanda's been out of town for a week and the lesson i've learned is that the cats see her as Earth Mother Gaia, Provider of All Life and Love and they see me as "some fucking guy who also sleeps here"

>:l

none of this is to defend the honor of the Pope, which is definitely not how I intended to spend my lunch break. the Pope doesn't need an internet rando in his defense. my concern is that an unreliable methodology would be used to mark peoples' work as low-effort through no fault of their own.

a bit concerning that the accuracy of the detection tool's peer review: a) does not confirm any accuracy against tweets, specifically; and b) notes that false positive rate is higher among stubs (<50) words: worth noting that each tweet here is close to, if not a stub. The first one is exactly 50.

i know a couple people who’d be more open to believing climate change exists if it could be blamed on a beef between a massive volcano lizard and his space whale nemesis

the last 48 hours of my life have been MySQL kicking the shit out of me. i know that the ellisons are a horrible family who want to buy the freedom of the press out from under us — which gives a bit more weight when i say that MySQL may be the worst thing they've ever done

one must imagine sisyphus happy

i appreciate how my package of 4 pairs of underwear from REI is referred to in all of my shipping updates as my "gear"

if i were to describe the most horrid periods of my career, about 98% of those moments would involve the phrase "GitHub Actions". it's heartwarming to see CI/CD on GitHub also makes LLMs want to kill themselves.

also relevant: it's a library for data pipelines, which already invites the pipeline->plumbing->sharded->sharted chain of thought

ugh — a feature in my library for "running identical things in parallel" lends itself very well to using the term "sharded", but i don't want to actually *use* that term because when i say it out loud it sounds too much like "sharted"

doing a little personal research project about the management economics around "flat" or self-structuring organizational structures, and two of the most notable examples are Valve Corporation and al Qaeda

getting two cats that look the same seemed cute at first. but now? i get up in the middle of the night to see them staring at me side-by-side like the twins from the shining

the whole andy weir business feels very "gotcha" to me — like the marketing company really sent him into a shitty situation with no context his work is pretty much entirely garden writing. literally all of Artemis was premised on "what would the moon be if space travel was the same $/mi as airfare"

arc browser: we're the browser for power users! sidebar tabs! many spaces! come on over! also arc browser: if you try to use our custom keybinding feature, we will take you out back and shoot you like the sick animal you are

...hmmm. i'm writing a Unity library at the moment and thought i'd come up with a clever name for it, until I ran it by my partner and she said it sounded like "a convention for pedophiles" i'm saving the rename until the library is stable but now i'm surrounded by horrifyingly-named interfaces

i feel like most of the problems in my life at any given point could be helped, if not solved, but one Really Fun Drink

impulse-bought an acoustic bass guitar and — i don't think i fully appreciated how fucking thick the strings on this thing were going to be

bluesky desperately needs a setting to mute any notification from accounts less than, say, a day old.

i remember in the early 2010s, once of the coolest tech jobs you could dream of having was a disney imagineer. i can only imagine their job at this point is to program the drones that detect if a child is about to see two Elsas and shoots the one closer to unionizing

nevermind, project hail mary was *so* much better than the rebound fuck uber ad

amanda’s taking me out to watch Project: Hail Mary and when i asked her what the premise was, her explanation was “please help, my sun, it’s very sick”

hearing somebody on the strictly business side say "i'd love to sit in on the engineering call where the decisions get made!" is always hilarious to me. it's like hearing somebody ask "i'd love to sit in on a meeting of math perverts anonymous to see what goes down!"

somebody's service dog is on a long leash and keeps deciding to sit next to me with the most "pet me" look in its eyes and i'm not allowed to pet it because it's on the job dogs with jobs are cool, but dogs with jobs that they're terrible at are amazing

> bachelorette season cancelled because Draper police confirm momtok-star-turned-tv-host threw metal chair at her boyfriend's head while she was a star of Mormon Wives utah relevance in popular culture has peaked.

apple intelligence has perfected the art of giving me a list of anti-recommendations: things that, given an input, should absolutely *not* be the output.

pro gamer move: undermine green energy into declare war without planning into obvious energy crisis into recession

graph theory: the theory that you can solve literally any problem if you have enough thumbtacks and red yarn

iconic spiral: feeling too stressed about tomorrow to fall asleep, which makes tomorrow so much worse

nothing that i have done or will ever do will match the pride i feel when i’m the tallest person in an elevator

not the nyt crossword team personally attacking me

the weirdest part about DTF St. Louis to me as an STL native is the made-up neighborhood of Twyla. like… that place is as buroughed up as could be, y’all didn’t have to invent your own white-collared enclave lmao

sickos:

this was clearly written by the same staffer who updated Ahmadinejad's Wikipedia entry

i need to work on getting my data pipeline framework to a releasable state, for no other reason than that amanda will kill me if i keep talking to her about "my pipelines"

was this headline written by somebody Owens cut off in traffic or stiffed on a tip? they did the man hilariously dirty here, i love it

tux is considering which window he should jump out of