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

i can't wait to marry her

huffin' a whole can of copium 2nite

*did i stutter?*

in case you're wondering — lawmakers weren't prescient, this just... used to happen during the AIDS crisis, it was legal to buy the life insurance payout of patients (e.g. we'll give you $10,000 now for your $100,000 payout), and then use those earnings to lobby against HIV research

it is absolutely insane to me that i can run dual instances of AlphaFold2 on a machine that could barely crank out Borderlands 4 at 60fps without flickering

one of the most important lessons that i've learned in my career is that dark mode is nice for day-to-day use, but light mode is *way* better for demos

this one is truly chicken noodle soup for the AInxiety-ridden soul — certainly one of the denser sets of annotations, but highly worth a read if you need something to feel reassured about being human. a huge shout-out to @stevekrouse.com for pointing me to the original source!

tempted to get this framed

The “$22 + tax” in the link preview makes this feel like the blue shark’s PPV OnlyFans content

only one cat in the world that could make a nap seem like a threat, and she’s starin’ right at me

polyamory was invented to prop up the board game and TTRPG industries.

which bus line is this

i deeply appreciate the consistency of animals. every night, the cat is sitting on my side of the bed. every night, i climb into that side of the bed. and every night, she hisses at me as though it’s her side of the bed.

being an slc resident when it starts to rain

i gotta do it this "get em while they're young" style is how unstructured recruiting markets unravel. universities used to do the exact same thing with medical residencies, and is the reason why we have the National Resident Matching Program & Match Day blog.chaoticgood.computer/content/note...

at night i lay awake and ruminate a recent OSS PR i made with a clever fix that could’ve just been solved with an upstream dependency update

the first time i showed my parents my site, there was a beautiful it-all-comes-around moment when my mom asked "your logo is a computer on fire? like how you used to break the family computer all the time?"