there are lots of questions i have for the salt lake wizard, but the most burning one: how many steps do you get in a day, man?

plot twist, ai generative writing has become very shitty and full of dashes. not as safe as i thought i was

deploying an app with server-side rendering for the first time

i don’t understand why the past tense of a legal plea is “pleaded” and not “pled”. it feels wrong to me.

in an era of not knowing whether something was written by a human or a bot, i am genuinely proud of having a style of writing that is so shitty and full of emdashes that it's inimitable to any machine trained on basic grammar

ever just watchin' through marc maron specials and 2013 @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social sneaks up outta left stage?

tensors are biblically accurate vectors

strategy: make my style unlearnable by AI models by keeping it completely inconsistent and incomprehensible

i will give so much money to the first audiobook platform to add a “continue where you dozed off” feature

saw this and threw up in my mouth

popped open the windows VM for the first time in awhile and, admittedly, surprise seal when i needed it most won microsoft a few brownie points with me.

corporations trying to fencesit pride month under this administration

cracked open my college Canvas account for the first time since graduating a few years ago to find an old assignment and saw that i had 74 notifications had to physically go find and touch my degree to make sure i did actually graduate

my partner is getting really good at flexing the ethos of her doctorate in biology

i know that meta represents the peak of bug-eyed move-fast-and-break-things bros who’d sooner gouge out their grandmothers eyes and prop them in front of a monitor than lose a single advertising dollar but goddamn if smart glasses aren’t starting to look *kinda* cool

nothing is funnier to me than hozier doing a 10th anniversary release of his original self-titled album that he recorded outside and releasing it as "feat. NATURE", like the birds in the background are part of another fucking band

it's kinda fucked up that no OSS browser has the capability to remap keyboard shortcuts. if i can't navigate my tabs with H, J, K, and L, i will set myself on fire(fox)

your friday night isnt popping off until you're blasting the bootleg rip of "Temple of Storms (Combat Glockenspiel Version) - Cadence of Hyrule (OST)" directly into your ears with the volume high enough to finally deafen you for the rest of your life

it's very strange to me that the iOS app for Firefox has 12,000 stars on GitHub, yet the FireFox browser only has... 350? github.com/mozilla-fire...

god bless Pope Julius of Chicago www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSO...

lying on the ground after a bike accident and watching a car run over the headphone that came out of my pocket

the sequel to stardew valley is Microsoft Excel, where you make a spreadsheet for a second runthrough to minmax farm profits

some grad friends of Amanda’s recently invited us to chilli’s and i was skeptical at first. then we cumulatively slammed back like a dozen holiday margs for maybe $80 — gotta admit i was wrong to be skeptical, they kinda rock

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pretty crazy that the 2000s was the era of a hit band, the plain whiteys

pretty on-the-nose that Hims is an influencer peddled product for erectile dysfunction and Hers is an influencer peddled product for weight loss.

going into 2025 with this energy

the relationship meta is going so deep undercover you *have* to get a second wife, babe, it’s part of the investigation

broke: relationships are about sex. woke: relationships are about taking a pure soul and together developing a malignant codex of unhinged inside jokes until your communications are absolutely indecipherable to anybody else in your lives

manda doesn't stay super tuned-in to the news and i'm not sure whether to tell her that NIH funding is reportedly on the chopping block or to just let her live blissfully unaware of the Dumb Train™ heading towards us.

bit the bullet, deactivated the ol' twitter account.

implicit casts watching you multiply ints by floats before saving them to a typed schema

thinking today about a business analyst internship interview i had in 2017. my CS degree came up and i said something along the lines of "i do better at high-level languages than low-level ones" and the interviewer reamed me at length for being demeaning to "low-level programmers"

First day taking over as the economics columnist at the New York Times. My first question: what is the economy

if you thought the character count on x and bluesky were brutal, imagine trying to chisel out a profound manifesto on the side of three bullets

my new aviation hobby is taking the time between boarding and takeoff to speedrun setting every monitor around me to the exact same timestamp of the Challengers threesome scene

incredibly proud of the new handle

watching the substance. i hope i see zero (0) normal shots of dennis quaid’s face

reconfiguring my home network

my partner makes fun of my chronically fucked up sleep schedule but now that we’re in sweden on an 8-hour time difference, guess who wins today? *this guy* 😎👈👈

i will never run windows again as long as i live.

an excerpt from my absolute favorite review of Challengers. why would the pulitzer exist if not for this

i am at the edge of a kliff — the k stands for kubernetes

imagine being a comedian with a lifetime of experience in avoiding controversy, only to fall on the sword of public opinion promoting a movie about pop-tarts

on days where i'm struggling at work, i can at least fall back on being a very particular flavor of personality hire

i subscribe to @nytimes.com for hard-hitting, facts-driven journalism

a non-negligible amount of my anxiety is dedicated to misgendering animals

the plural for oompa loompa is actually oompas loompa, not unlike attorneys general

louis faucet jr