LLMs Aren't Your Friend! They're dangerously sycophantic due to the way they're trained and the incentives involved and you should reject them as a false solution! esoterra.dev/blog/aigg-ll...

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. See the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

A new draft of the 2035 Wake County Transit Plan is out and I'm pretty disappointed. The plan drops commuter rail in favor of spending $1.1 Billion on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) down I-40. For transit to succeed, it needs to be faster than driving. This will never be that. #NorthCarolina #WakeCounty

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

New for the Nebulized — I analyzed the US metro areas where you get the best walkability, bikeability and transit for your housing dollar. It’s a wild ride nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I will speaking in ~1 week at #fossy2025 about Befunge! It's a fun casual talk about the language and showing off some tools I made for playing with it! I'll post my slides and a link to the recording on my website here! esoterra.dev/talks/2025-f...

Every time I make a conference talk, I make a theme for it based on the conference's website/graphics. This time for #fossy2025 I've decided to share that as a template for others to use! docs.google.com/presentation...

I've started a new job as a Senior Software Engineer at Amplify working on learning experiences!

I wrote a blog post the other day about 12-hour time. Don't take it too seriously! It's a bit of a silly one. esoterra.dev/blog/fixing-...

Do you work at a company you like that is actively hiring Software Engineers? do you know someone who does? Consider referring me to them & them to me! My website homepage now has a "Hire Me!!" section with info about me, what I'm looking for, and how to contact me! esoterra.dev