up at 3:30 am to feed the baby, time to take a big drink of water and check the news

Time to revive “you can’t call yourself a software engineer without a PE license and the associated liability” discourse

my wife and me: why does everyone here keep asking if we’re in a medical profession? also my wife and me: used the words “epigastric pain” and “anhedonia” (respectively) in casual conversations with care providers

Become ungovernable.

happy new year to everyone except the Apple Watch Health app

no tunnel but the tunnel whose contours we identify for the purposes of finding its exit, no light but the one we follow to better times

There's a scene from "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" that's a perfect encapsulation of a certain corner of substack dot com:

Here are a few places I played Caves of Qud: - In my home office after work - Sitting on the couch with my wife - In a small curtain-separated alcove at the local emergency department - In the surgical department's waiting room, slightly past midnight

corntab is how you schedule feedings for the localhorse

{fixed it for you

shout-out to the hospital guest wifi network, which blocks Github, Stack Overflow, and Reddit

“Fire Watch” (Connie Willis, 1982)

probably gonna get a lot of use out of this over the next few years

hell yeah

oh no, my phone has done an overnight update to Liquid Glass

My “I ace the cognitive exams that my doctors keep giving me” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

wishing a happy "Advent of Code Difficulty Spike" day to those who celebrate

I feel bad for @utopia-defer.red. But this is tremendous content.

@theguardian.com's fundraising banner pairs exceptionally with the drunken raccoon photo

chat should I get Metroid Prime 4 or Kirby Air Riders?

"Just like Seasonal Affective Disorder, our photopolymer resins can be cured by sitting them down in front of a bright blue lamp for an hour or two"

it has been 7̶ 0 days since I have been on the Oxide podcast to talk about a Weird Bug

heartbroken to learn that Detroit's pro sports teams are the Lions, the Tigers, and the... Pistons?? they gotta do a name swap with the Chicago Bears ASAP

oh my god

please enjoy my alternate cover image for this week's podcast

Declare (Tim Powers, 2000)

“yeah, the thing about working at oxide is that if you write a really bad show stopping bug you get punished by having to go on a podcast” - @elizas.website

Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures:

Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me. oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...

incredible table of contents here

this is a personal attack

Google Maps: "Okay, now jaywalk across the road and cut through the bank parking lot – hopefully it's not locked for the night!"

currently trying to convince my wife to read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by telling her it's a love story. she is skeptical (but I stand by it)

Snow Crash (1992)

Important local news:

ah yes, the well-known "branch on [incoherent sputtering noise]" instruction

shout-out to the 55-year-old woman in Southern California who has joined "the #1 dating site for single parents" using my email address

what

"The R290 ATW Heat Pump features Fairland's built-in AIoT service for self-managed performance." ah yes, the Artificial Intelligence of Things

good morning

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"