Sketching (poorly) my next linocut/shirt print project. Don't let the bullshitters do your math for you!!

One of my card-mates at indoor putting league tonight told me my putt was so nice and floaty and that's already a top candidate for nicest thing anyone said to me in 2026.

"Welcome back from your holiday break!"

I sold my first two dyed discs today! After a few weeks of no luck, I had just yesterday decided I was going to bring them home from the local shop and try to sell them online instead. As usual everyone was correct that I needed to be more patient.

New print, who dis Live a life of purpose, amiright

Why tf am I crying after watching the new project hail Mary trailer

#3: a "factory second" disc that I bought new, used a few times, and decided I hate. This time I spaced on placing the disc. I had a line marked on the disc so I could center the disc name in the yellow section for good contrast... But forgot to align when placing. Those colors though 🤤

#2: another used play it again find. This brand's plastic is supposed to be stellar at absorbing dye. It had color to begin with, but I wanted to experiment with a floral look and the plastic so I dyed it anyway. I messed up the timing, badly, and got some nasty streaks all over the edges.

Disc 1: an older but good shape play it again find. I considered wiping the stamp, but I thought I could swirl to accentuate it. Unfortunately I didn't realize the swirl direction would be backwards for a righty... Which maybe no one but me cares about. Looks good though! Wish I'd used more yellow.

I went on a little run of discs over the last week. I got a little fire in my belly, because I decided I'm going to try to get about ten or so into my local disc shop for consignment by black Friday. Eek!

YOU GUYS THE ROBOTS ARE GOING TO START MAKING US DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM

Aaaand another one today. I *love* the colors on this disc... But I'm not sure I'll enjoy looking for it in the brush. I can't wait to throw it, I've been playing without a straight midrange, waiting until I got this one dyed. Hopefully the straightness keeps it out of the brush every throw.

Another disc to report. Tbh this is probably the one that convinces me to monetize this hobby, damnit. Not that I'll sell this specific disc, because it's a light weight that I can actually throw and those don't come around very often, but I'm pretty sure I can make more good ones like this.

So tonight I bought a used "digital converter" turntable for 20 bucks. I guess it's for playing a record directly to a flash drive.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Spent my Indigenous Peoples Day chucking plastic circles into the woods on some beautiful Potawatomi land.

AI coding sucks CJ just one-shotted a 15 min rant and it's incredibly refreshing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUk...

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

It’s probably not going to work very well, for reasons well described by the subculture I’ve stumbled into, but today I started my first glue bed disc dye! A clear champion factory second teebird3 in clear glue and acetone pcad dye. None of that should make sense to you…unless it does.

If you were wondering like I was, it takes five months of public GitHub inactivity to wear off your free maintainer copilot subscription.

Ayyy, an entire summer (and then some) went by, and Friends! With code. didn't even hang out once. We miss each other, so come hang with @pav.vin, @jonallured.com, and I as we take turns giving summer reports to start the school year. www.youtube.com/live/tGxbsQA...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I bought a shirt at a concert 25 years ago from the band hum (you'd prefer an astronaut is a perfect album -- all rippers no skippers -- & it still holds up). It's the oldest band shirt that I still wear. The design looks...very homemade. It is one of my favorite shirts. But it's on its last legs.

i can't think of anything witty to add to this that's funnier than what's already been written, so you're just gonna have to read it www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

"There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated." ordep.dev/posts/writin...

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

me solving a rubiks cube: algorithm based on mnemonics... more mnemonics....more mnemonics....COMPLETE BLACKOUT WHILE MY HANDS PERFORM WIZARDRY BASED ON MUSCLE MEMORY...mnemonics, mnemonics, done. I am astonished every single time that middle part works out and I don't understand what's happening.

"I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Blink twice if you need help, YouTube ai caption robot.

Hello, I am a creative professional. Generative AI is incredible and empowering, and will only get better. I love generative AI. In the last 12 months, my creative business has dropped more than 50%. I hate generative AI. Read more... reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is...

This week's friday micro-improvement: a pre-commit hook to remind me when I've marked a file as `skip-worktree` from the git index. (Sometimes I want to keep a non-prod change locally, without accidentally including it in a commit.)

> Trump would be “a creative disposal strategy” sentence fragment of the year 👆

MY KINGDOM FOR A FIGMA CODE GENERATOR PLUGIN THAT *DOESN'T* USE AI.

2 things I changed in my aerospace (nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/gu...) config while setting up a new laptop this week, both of which I am pretty excited about:

MY KINGDOM FOR AN LMS PLATFORM THAT USES THE KEYBOARD INSTEAD OF MOUSE INPUT ONLY!!!!!!!! IT'S 2025 WHY CAN'T I HIT ENTER TO PLAY THIS STUPID TRAINING VIDEO OR ADVANCE TO THE NEXT STUPID TRAINING VIDEO??!!?

Today I went whitewater rafting for the second the time in my life. We nearly flipped, the rower fell out, I chucked a rope across the river and dragged them in. It was....intense yet satisfying. I can see why people would do this. Also 10/10 sightseeing 😍😍😍😍.

Sssooooo today was my last day at Camunda! I wrote about my first experience as a "Developer Experience Engineer," and the things I'll take with me from that experience: www.stevenhicks.me/blog/2025/04... Shout out to all my friends at Camunda that I will miss dearly.

I'm not sure who is a/b testing the new Spotify feature today that switches playback randomly between my laptop and my phone every ten minutes, but please add me back to the control group 🙅‍♂️

All together -- this looks pretty good, I'm mostly happy.

I have been hemming and hawing about actually printing this shirt, practicing on white undershirts because I just could. Not. Get enough ink to transfer. I finally discovered a process that works reasonably well, and got this sucker printed.

In an attempt to escape watching the great american collapse I've been finding time for art again. Working on a rainbow trout print to bring to my college bestie in a few weeks (which I *think* is his favorite fish but I guess we'll find out).

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

fr, if the COBOL works you just don't touch it.

Hey friends, come hang with me, @pav.vin, and @just-be.dev for a little dev show and tell in 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mve...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Uuuuggghhhh I just submitted a survey to our school district stating that my biggest concern with taking phones away from students all day is that, in the event of a school shooting, I want to get a text message from my kid that says they're okay. This is freedom? 👊🇺🇸🔥

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

The best part about these Confluence ads during season 1 of the Severance Podcast is that they don't realize how appealing the idea of severance is as you're waiting for the confluence search box to load. "Ha ha obviously no one would ever choose severance over our product" ARE YOU SURE 👀😬😐😵😵‍💫