US citizens: We just want to go to the doctor. US government: Here is a triple-tax-advantaged investment vehicle.

Something I've been wondering about LLMs: The Wolfram article and others mentioned how LLMs don't strictly emit _the most_ likely next token. This apparently makes the output more interesting and read more naturally. Does this technique send it down bad paths and cause the hallucinations?

Don't be alarmed, I won't be blogging daily, but I did just publish a second article in as many days. Everything is lock-in rcrowley.org/2025/everyth...

Are they called "posts" because you HTTP POST them to the server?

Question about Republicans: Are they stupid or evil? Question about Democrats: Are they stupid?

Tired of hearing about the risk of electing inexperienced politicians when Chuck Schumer

What’s a Republican promise worth?

Is 64.7% yes on Prop 50 enough to just paint the whole state blue?

The short-term solution to gerrymandering is “eat shit, Texas.” I often wonder if the long-term solution is to knock it off with geographically defined districts altogether.

I’m cackling at how many of Cuomo’s wins sound like just the most racist gated communities you can imagine.

Most vibe-coders writing CLAUDE.md files probably don't even know who John Gruber is.

All the IOPS you can eat, now on a smaller plate.

Chat, is purposely starving 40 million people a high crime or misdemeanor?

Who among conditions creates us ? never race

@adamschiff.com why are you voting to seat any judge Trump nominates at all but especially right now?

What in the military propaganda is going on that the Blue Angels are flying around San Francisco during a government shutdown?

Sam Altman is Keenan Feldspar.

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

A Watergate a day keeps the Democrats at bay.

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

Chat is murder a high crime or misdemeanor?

What's another million IOPS between friends?

OH: "You can do anything you want in your last ride in a Waymo."

I am a man of sophisticated tastes. For instance, I switch from Japanese whiskey to Bourbon to go with s’mores. Pairs well.

Just discovered an honest-to-god good use of stunnel(8). Having a great day.

Lazyweb: There’s a statement from a computer science pioneer (Knuth, in my head, but it might not be him) that talked about his preference to “use my own routines” or something like that, making points about libraries, abstraction, and code reuse. I can’t find it. Anybody got a citation?

Imagine the invention of anesthesia. Someone got so high that it was medically useful.

Is Claude the new awk?

Just used the Stop button in a web browser in the year 2025.

Anyone want to jump on a zoom to import their postgres database to @planetscale.com? We've got a coupon $100 for you

I think a majority of the benefits of AI I see touted recently fall into the category of "systems integration." If the best we can do for this whole category of software is slot-machine-level odds of getting two things to talk, we suck.

I did not have Postgres on my bingo card for 2025 but here we are and let me tell you this thing rips. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

We talkin' IOPS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r9P...

The future I want for AWS rcrowley.org/aws/future/

Can a human look more evil than Emil Bove?

States’ rights except if states are trying to rein in the dystopian effort to replace labor with autocomplete.

Every Cub should genuflect before every at-bat from now on.

@ellie.wtf Congrats on the ship!

If you don’t have kids, every night is date night.

So do we have to pay our taxes next week or no?

Is destroying trillions in stock market capitalization, disproportionately held by the (very) rich, actually the most progressive thing Trump has ever done?

Seven days after I joined @planetscale.com, I pitched what would become PlanetScale Metal to @samlambert.com. Now all of PlanetScale's customers can run Vitess the way Slack runs Vitess, on the fastest NVMe drives you can get in the cloud. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

Big game tonight!

Potter isn't selling, Potter's buying!

@nicolefv.bsky.social on the Pragmatic podcast was every bit as good as you’d expect.

If the two business models are bundling and unbundling then the two governmental models are bungling and unbungling.

If every billboard in San Francisco is about the same thing, that's a bubble.

Wow that's the first time I've seen a simple "you've won $600,000" phishing scam make it all the way to a Gmail inbox in practically forever.

I made a thing. It doesn't help with [waves arms] all of this. But I made a thing. rcrowley.org/mergician/