RIP to a real one. We’ll miss you, shirt brother 🎅 #ITYSL www.instagram.com/reel/DPHgsbo...

I crushed the first two seasons of Mythic Quest when it first came out and then forgot all about it. I recently realized they did a 3rd and 4th season, so I'm back to watching that now.

GitHub's "New Repository" flow includes a section for instructing Copilot to basically create the "initial commit" on your project. "After creation, Copilot will open a pull request with generated files - such as a basic app, starter code, or other features you describe..."

Ruby's new-ish `it` block argument never seemed like much of an improvement to me over `_1`. But I just noticed a line of code where it reads quite nicely: `items.filter { it.is_a?(String) }`

incredible foresight from dhh 🥲 www.reddit.com/r/ruby/s/cga...

PostgreSQL 18 released today 🥳 www.postgresql.org/about/news/p...

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Costco’s $1.50 hotdog gets all the attention, but don’t sleep on the chicken bake. Crispy and delicious.

Incredible -- I love the ikea instructions aesthetic used to visually teach algorithms like this.

Strive to always create *high-context* screenshots - capture the whole page, not just a narrow area of interest - include the URL bar so I can see specifically where this is - use annotations: add an arrow, box, or snippet of text - pop open and include devtools DOM, errors, network if relevant

This post by @samwho.dev explaining Big-O notation in human terms with concise code samples and simple illustrative demos is a joy to read. samwho.dev/big-o/

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

You can write some really elegant (and easy-to-understand) bits of code with Ruby. Like I'll write a method, then adjust it a little, and then one more tweak. And then I catch myself say, "oh yeah, I really like how that turned out."

I got to use PlanetScale’s MySQL with a few products and was really impressed by their branching, migration deployments, and query monitoring. Exciting to see PostgreSQL become part of their offering.

I put up a 20 mile run today. That will be the longest training run before the Chicago Marathon in a few weeks. I should have got out earlier in the morning to avoid the midday heat, but still felt strong. Ready to do 26.2 💪

One of the better explanations I’ve seen of the Monty Hall problem. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S4roxs/

I need to do one of those asmr deep cleans of my mechanical keyboard. I’ve had it for 5 years and it is disgusting.

I’m reading Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built. I’ve listened to a couple of the wayfarer books. I’m interested to dip into another one of her worlds.

where can I acquire one of these CTA shirts?!

s-tier seems accurate I'm quite happy with Cursor and how it embeds in my development workflow. My only minor gripe is that the line-completion suggestions can get too persistent at times when I don't need them. Especially when they overlay on top of my typing for long lines.

It's time to pick a new iTerm2 color scheme. Help me out. What am I picking? iterm2colorschemes.com

League night 🎱 (9-ball) My 9-ball team won the divisional playoffs last night. We crushed, only having to play four of five matches to decide it. It was a great season. Exciting to have already qualified for June ‘26 Chicago citywide tournament 🙌

We're using command_model in a client's Rails app. It's a small, unknown gem that provides a really nice pattern for pulling business logic out of controllers while still making it easy to tell the caller if it succeeded and what errors there were. github.com/jackc/comman...

I could be using it wrong, but my experience of Basecamp is that, despite there being half a dozen places to have a conversation (all of which are clunky and unnatural comment sections), it encourages siloed DM-style conversation in “Pings”.

For my next installment of listening to all the audible books in my library on long runs — Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem.

I’ve tried several green chartreuse alternatives. Luxardo’s Del Santo has been one of my favorites, but it might be usurped by Chicago-made Green Key. Its flavor profile and complexity is pretty spot on and it has the same bite as green chartreuse.

Oops, I enabled this iTerm2 web browser feature on my default profile which immediately crashed the app and now I cannot successfully reopen iTerm2. I don't even need this feature, just thought it'd be fun to be an early adopter for once.

On a whim, I’m listening to No Country for Old Men. I’ve never read any Cormac McCarthy before.

I guess this has been a busy summer -- I just wrote my first TIL in over a month and there have only been a handful of them besides that. github.com/jbranchaud/til

I had Cursor/Claude-Sonnet try generating the OpenAPI schema and endpoint docs for an upcoming API feature. I gave it a minimal description of what I was looking for. It pulled in enough context from the internal impl of this feature to get me 95% of the way there on the first pass.

I was MVP on two of my pool league teams over the past year which qualified me for the yearly MVP tournament on Saturday. It was a lot of fun to compete with all the other MVPs. I was pretty underwhelmed with how I did and got knocked out after 3 rounds. Maybe next year.

It's possible that I'm seriously underestimating garbage collection technology, but the same truck comes to collect both our dumpster and recycling bin on the same day, it all goes into the big opening in the back, and I'm starting to wonder why I'm separating my recyclables.

This is a really fun set with Four Tet, Fred Again.. and Skrillex. I'm more in it for the Four Tet and Fred Again.. tho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahe9...

when you learned Git for the first time, what resources did you use? Did you like them? Mostly looking for answers from folks who learned Git in the last 5 years or so. Looking for resources to potentially add to the Git website

Having Cursor write and run unit tests while I enjoy my breakfast ☕️

I felt strong on my 17mi training run this weekend. About 6 weeks out from the marathon now 💪

One of my favorite tools for testing email logic and rendering in development is mailhog. It's a handy little go binary that runs an SMTP server and a bare bones web UI for viewing the emails. Does exactly what I need and nothing more. github.com/mailhog/Mail...

Shoutout to @jakeworth.com for sharing this ITYSL soundboard with me 🤩 ithinkyoushouldquote.me/soundboard/

Not sure if I really want this, but I'd be interested in seeing how useful a CLI script that can use git and an LLM to produce a summary of the set of commits that I've just pulled down onto the main branch. Basically, "What have my teammates been up to since I last pulled from the remote?"

Cursor's agentic mode generally gives me good results, but consistently thrashes on trying to produce passing tests for the work it has done. This is a Rails codebase with minitest tests. Maybe it would do better with rspec?

Chicago-made green chartreuse alternative 👀🍹

we are in for a few years of security nightmares

I took to the air a couple of times in a 9-ball tournament last night. Both were good hits, so I got out of tricky spots without giving up ball-in-hand. On one I nearly made a fairly thin cut. This was my first time "jumping" in competitive play. The practice is paying off.

🚀 Today I watched 'Get Started with Vimium' on Egghead. It was really good! A couple of things I learned: egghead.io/courses/get-...

When I was getting rid of my audible credits before canceling that sub, I was trying to get the most out of them. A 47 hour audiobook seemed about as good as I could do. Currently listening to and really enjoying King’s The Stand.

Software Development: *spend 2 hours carefully building up a super complex mental model for a core piece of the software system where you need to make a change* *eject it all in 5 minutes as you go down a rabbit hole figuring out why your version manager won't install the latest node version*

In some cosmic sadistic coincidence, a few nights later our Kidde smoke detector started going off at 4am for no reason/smoke/etc. After 30 min of trying to get it to stop, unplugging it, triple checking the manual… we had to brick it. Must have been defective. Hopefully they’ll send me another.

League night 🎱 (8-ball and 9-ball) I’m on a string of 8-ball loses which is frustrating and starting to get in my head. However, I played some of my best 9-ball ever tonight, handily smoking my opponent.

I had to disassemble the electronics panel of my oven, peel off the touch pad, and clean both sides of all the buttons with isopropyl alcohol to get this thing to stop beeping non-stop at 3am and other random times. Thanks Reddit for saving me $500+ calling an appliance guy.

Smile or grimace? Hard to say. It was a strong 14 miles out and back from the lake despite the heat. Training is starting to feel back on track, just gotta keep pushing for 9 more weeks 💪