good morning

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Due to an unfortunate typo, I am participating in a “Get Out The Goat” program on this Election Day.

action shot from this weekend’s climbing competition

tired of databases? try 100,000 tiny json files in a directory you will certainly not regret 100,000 tiny json files in a directory

after years of painstaking research, scientists have constructed the Worst Possible Slate for Cambridge City Council elections

jumpscared by my own research paper appearing halfway down this blog post

My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

"dooh-ster"

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use ballroom is illegal to build in most American cities.

“Call of Duty: Hallucinatory Fever Dream” looks incredible

find yourself a nemesis who hates you as much as Claude hates strcpy being used in curl

Isaac Chotiner strikes again

dudes rock

this is what peak performance looks like

Every day, Github's UI finds new ways to surprise and delight me.

oh no, the engagement-farming Resistance Liberals have found my dog picture

I’m always saying this

“Do you know how fast you were going, sir?”

this is a sign of a high-quality project, right?

HERE COMES THE FREE WATER

finally, some Good Code crates.io/crates/fibon...

y'all are missing the hottest yard sale of the season

at first glance, I thought this was a paper about particularly bad airfoil cross-sections

“be warned that this really is research code; it is sensitive to compiler versions, GPU setup, and sometimes even being looked at the wrong way, and we have no intention whatsoever of supporting it.” hell yeah

Release Notes with Threatening Auras

Bluesky's moderation challenges stem from the fact that it was founded by Blacklaws, but the average user is a Cousin. In this essay I will

Too Like the Lightning (2016)

the viral marketing for this game is out of control – a whole musical??

you should go read this thread

om nom nom nom

taking the Northeast Regional from BOS → NYC, it’s time for Train Math

it's time for another Fun User Experience on github dot com

Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)

Greetings from AWS, This email is to inform you that our previous email about changes to invoice emails has been changed. Those responsible for the previous emails have been sacked. Please enjoy future AWS emails.

it has been seven^W zero days since the last npm supply-chain attack

follow-up: I have now learned that the haunted Star Market has been haunted for 20-ish years

I love that "the haunted Star Market" is an unambiguous descriptor for folks in the Cambridge / Somerville area.

"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (Hirschman '70)

ah yes, the non-window seat

very excited to see Halo 2 (2004) coming to the Nintendo Switch!

I am experiencing baseball

whyyyyyyy

the gate agent is using a new and creative definition of "on-time departure" for a flight that has been delayed by 70 mins

god I love LLVM documentation

it's saturday night, and you know what that means* *time to drink exactly one (1) beer and make a dimensioned drawing of my new home office

"No one can play Silksong because its release took down Steam and the Nintendo Store" is really the funniest possible outcome, well done everyone

life pro tip: you can get free LLM API access by finding people crashing out in Claude Code issues, then looking at network requests from their vibe-coded websites!

very relatable, honestly

hi I'd like to report a murder