everyone in Stranger Things is saying “goddamn” so much like they’re stimming

📍I checked in at Pittock Mansion / Portland / OR

how does someone who was a serial Swarm/Gowalla user get in on the @beaconbits.app beta? asking for a friend, who is me

cut the filter paper out of my espresso routine for the first time in ages and it came out the same. i think it might’ve even looked a bit better while brewing? big if true

I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

finally unfollowing a bunch of tech influencers and celebrity programmers i’ve never met or talked to. i want to be here for community, not work

on to better books 📍P's & Q's Market / Portland / OR

finished reading “Project Hail Mary” yesterday and it was… fine? good story but Weir’s writing style felt juvenile to me, like i was reading a YA novel. is “The Martian” like this too, or was it really just because of PHM’s protagonist? it makes me not understand the critical acclaim tbh

always feels like a win when i can find some really good food on the road 📍Pipeline Craft Taps and Kitchen / Mount Shasta / CA

📍I checked in at Meze Eatery / Grass Valley / CA

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

my mezcal margarita is slowly but surely clarifying 🥃👀

my mom got this picture in her memories today… tell me why i’m giving MrBeast in 2008 😬

the power came back 😮‍💨

getting my taste of how awful PG&E is; power is out at my brother’s place in NorCal while he hosts our whole family and his girlfriend’s whole family. no estimated time for it to be back, and we were gonna be cooking all day. merry christmas!

i agree sooo hard. consuming the level of resources that AI requires all for what… saving 1-2 minutes of the tedium involved in copying your grocery list over to your phone’s Reminders app? that’s just so deeply fucking irresponsible

oh my god stop putting stevia and erythitol in every fucking drink please just let me have a little normal sugar PLEASE i am BEGGING YOU

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

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i don’t know why i let my intrusive thoughts win but i bought a bottle of sparkling coconut water and it was absolutely foul

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

“Titanic” Ending Explained: Why Did the Ship Sink?

okay, Eugene, i’ll admit i forgot about your game 📍Lion & Owl / Eugene / OR

we gave Susan a piece of himalayan sweetness popcorn and she’s locked tf in on that bag now. she’s never drooled like this before.

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

deeply amusing to see one of the most unrepentant AI influencers write a post "stop holding it wrong. don't use it to generate slop. your job is to deliver code you have proven to work." after pretty much daily announcements on how great the slop future is

I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

the source for these findings is deeply funny

livid

nothing like a really good breakfast sandwich right after a hike 📍St. Johns Food & Beer Porch / Portland / OR

been trying out one of Pesado’s high extraction portafilter baskets and its been an incredibly frustrating experience that i’ll probably give up on after today, but at least i poured a pretty good one

wtf it’s like 3-4 months too early for this shit

wait did Sakamoto Days really just feature a brief explainer on how/why free will is an illusion

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

✅ @handle.invalid has been verified by @bsky.app.

it’s been a very interesting couple of months

EMAIL FROM VENDOR: Your package was delivered! ME: oh, great! thanks! EMAIL FROM UPS: Your package was delivered! ME: … great APPLE WALLET: Your package was delivered! ME: I GET IT

just in case anyone was wondering, i did NOT tear up a little at the end of “Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake” and think to myself about how it added emotional gravity to the original trilogy. i don’t know why people are saying that i did that

ok i also made “hojichai” masala tea creme pies and really wish i’d managed to get my act together and fill them this morning before the cookie swap, because… i made sooo many… 😵‍💫

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

the chile cheese shortbread cookies i made were a huge hit at the 3000th Annual Holiday Cookie Swap!! lots of good cookies here 🤩

finally, a good idea

i wish you could turn off those “are you sure $APP should have access to your location?” reminders… like, yes, my fucking weather app needs that. i am positive.

i guess the constitution is just a “longstanding principle”

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

signing out of "alumni" slacks that spark more anxiety than joy (please clap)

this was "reported" by NewsBar, which is a satirical publication in Croatia. this OTHER article was real tho: www.vice.com/en/article/t...

he literally reformed and renamed the entire company around this. in a sane world, the board would fire him

Homelessness and Housing are top issues in Portland. It would be unacceptable for the Mayor and staff to not show up to address the missing $21 MILLION dollars that Council was not informed about. Council has subpoena powers and if the executive wants to force our hand, so be it. We will use it.

this article may be about academia, but a lot of it applies very broadly and it really hits: > We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.