2 weeks working adjacent to kernel hacking and I've already run into like 3 pretty-trivial-to-make changes that are locked up in niche industry usage or academic papers that would improve performance for everybody???

More American light rail should be run in grass right-of-ways

Might be able to convince work to send me to FOSDEM 👀

Air to Ground Message: THEY FORGOT ABOUT US Area: Louisville, KY, USA Type: Airbus A319 A: #a04ffa9825f F: #f6a61ec55c5

the two flanks of leftist politics are communism and anarchism. communists want to relitigate tiananmen square and anarchists truly believe that the world wants a vegan bookstore collective. I will die for either group before I lift a finger to help the volkisch-left DC pundit dipshits

I know things are dire, but I can't be the only one noticing that more and more software events/conferences/whatever include zero women speaking or giving a workshop

This June, Civic Louisville is spending the month on bikes!

Only sending Internet memes to totally orthogonal group chats so I retain my reputation for being funny AND original

"No, Liz, it's not Evan Almighty. It's Ethan Almighty, a movie about a rescue dog. Kelsey Grammer plays the Governor of Kentucky. I'm the voice of the dog."

The amount of petty bickering between municipal and county governments with intensely shared interests in the metro isn't exactly surprising, but it's still discouraging to know how much better we could be doing with more regional civic organization

These are some of the more reasonable regulations on data centers that I've seen come out of any city, effectively allowing existing businesses and telecoms to build sensibly-sized facilities as needed, while making the city unattractive to hyperscalers and high-power-density data centers.

me, looking at myself blankly in the mirror every morning:

It is weird to be at a point in my life where I have a vested interest in a particular marginally-viable flight route that only exists because of a city subsidy sticking around

Me, describing my progress over the past week to another engineer: Sure hope this seems like enough, I'm already worried about my productivity. The other engineer: Have you slept this week?!?

your first drop-in group class is free! come learn how to strangle people, it's extremely therapeutic!

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Starting a lucrative gambling addiction recovery program for programmers who can't afford market rate tokens

Ever since I was very young, I knew I wanted to be terminally online

Tired: prompt injection Wired: prompt ejection

Gemini, dehydrate this meat. Make no mistakes.

"real New Yorker discourse" is IMO the easy back door to anti-immigrant feeling for New York leftists

props to Belgium, the only nation to have a combination surrealist-trans pride kit

Whoever called it a Blunderbuss really knocked it out of the park

Had flash of inspiration in the shower this morning that I could explain the E-series numbers (AKA "why do resistors come in funny number values?" ) by analogy to musical scales, the E12 series is based on the 12th root of 10, just like (1/2)

You know, it might not be adequate, but the bay area is a breath of fresh air for transit compared to home

Y'all some of these shots I took on the embarcadero are gonna be great I can't wait 👀

Only some people get to defend themselves slate.com/news-and-pol...

Man, rsync dude turning out to be just, like, a workaholic retiree engineer who's trying to have his cake and eat it too is such a bummer. And not because it's a particularly egregious sin! It's a bummer because it's such a human flaw! Like, my flaws are probably as great in magnitude.

Met a legend today

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

new work is mostly good, as those things go in 2026 America, anyway :)

I need to get into more inscrutable music

For trans girls it's music taste

Hello, EMU 👀

cc @erinrose.bsky.social

(not a fan of the "we'll have jobs for a decade fixing all this stuff"-flavor of take because my experience has been that things will just be left broken)

look ai is absolutely part of the problem here, but we're really dealing with the fallout of a decade of "move fast and break things" at the same time

We could have high definition video live streaming back from the orbit of every minor planetary body in the solar system but noooooo we had to get flock cameras instead

I mean fuck Robert Rodriguez was 24 and Spielberg was 25, we used to actually *give young people opportunities* and not be a moribund culture owned by a gerontocracy that refuses to let go of even a sliver of power

I go just long enough between nix config overhauls that I forget a lot of nix in the mean time

lesbian bed death doula

Kinda unbelievable color right out of the scanner on this one? (Pen F, 38mm/f1.8, Cinestill 400d) #filmphotography

Welp, there go my hopes of a sub-$1200 steam machine

i have hand-rolled 3 short rolls of HP5 and I am going to find out which of these cameras has weird shutter issues at high speeds (please don't be the x570 please don't be the x570...)

The right-wing does not have “less infighting” and they certainly do not have “more fun.” What they have is more funding.

and who can forget that the knicks play at MSG, where “[they] claimed that if an ‘openly’ trans woman were noticed. it could ‘damage MSG's reputation.’ the first former employee adds that they were told the very sight of [a trans woman] made the garden brass uncomfortable.” but go knicks, i guess.