This, 100% this. LLMs are unreliable and need independent verification of everything because they sometimes just make stuff up.

Picked it up on the basis of this skeet, finished the first book today. An absolutely solid murder mystery with two fascinating protagonists in an incredibly rich world I love finding new authors, thank you.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Yipee!! For the first time in almost 15 years, I don't have to think before I delete a work email :)!!!

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

Yesterday I went to the old house to pick some stuff up and discovered a friend in our driveway... He was chill bit watched me like a hawk as I put the stuff in my car. I know black bears are generally pretty chill but it was still somewhat unnerving.

It is simply astonishing how much of a difference a portable air conditioner makes. We've had it running for only an hour or two and the apartment is SO much more comfortable.

A long but phenomenal thread from Alice.

Today's "fun with LLM slop": let blob_url: Url = format!("{}{}", endpoint.trim_end_matches('/'), format!("/{CONTAINER_NAME}/{BLOB_NAME}")).parse()?; instead of let blob_url: Url = format!("{}{CONTAINER_NAME}/{BLOB_NAME}", endpoint.trim_end_matches('/'))).parse()?;

People keep telling me I look just like Luciano Pavrotti several times, which is incredibly flattering imho..

It is so fascinating living in a "modern" apartment. We'd forgotten about the amount of urban light pollution there is (we can almost read in the bedroom with the blinds completely shut). Also the noise from the street. Otoh, it's wonderful to be able to walk to dinner in the evening.

We really need to stop lumping all AI together. When you say things like "AI steals art" and someone counters with "What about the AI that can find cancer?" Those are two completely different things. Generative AI/LLMs are what is being talked about in the first and analytic AI is the second.

I have forgotten how profoundly stressful moving is. And how utterly exhausting it is. Especially when you're downsizing from a very large house to a 1200 square foot apartment... Otoh, my step count for the past week and a half is through the roof....

Ariana DeBose is a dancer, singer, and Academy Award-winning actress. DeBose tells us about the inspiring and pioneering life of Puerto Rican singer, actress, dancer, and activist Rita Moreno. #WeAreAmerica250

Found some old t-shirts while cleaning up...

It’s National Streaming Day, and it’s the perfect excuse to stream SMC’s oz-tastic concert, ‘Wicked Wiz of Oz.’ 🎥💚 This network-quality stream is only available through May 31. 🌈 SMC presents: Wicked Wiz of Oz 📺 Video on Demand | May 16 - May 31 💚 Streaming Pass: bit.ly/4sMtyma

Would you like a sick-ass, 66-page low-level #OSE adventure (replete with random tables) set on an island sandbox overrun by Hell and those convicted by the Inquisition for just $9.99? @brianyaksha.bsky.social and I are just 30 backers from funding. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... #osr

This makes me so sad 😢. My heart goes out to his family.

My group at Microsoft is significantly remote (my boss and team PM are in socal, team members are as far away as New Zealand). Once a year the entire team gathers in Redmond to celebrate our successes and meet face to face.

Walked into a conference room early for a meeting and was the only one in the room. And suddenly had a flashback to the "power seating" games that people used(?) to play where they carefully picked the seat they used based on power politics.

O. M. G. We finally announced a stable release for the stuff I've been working on for the past couple of years!! @heaths.dev @analogrelay.net

OMG, the @seattlemenschorus.bsky.social show this evening. Standing ovation for the show. Standing ovation for the encore. Standing ovation for the impromptu encore of the encore. This may have been the best audience I've ever had the privilege of singing for. Such an amazing show. So proud.

Looking through memory boxes and we found....

Ellie's latest crowdfunded game is now live! Check it out!

Come see us Saturday at Benaroya Hall in Seattle!! This show really is over the rainbow!

Also, the ill fated MS-DOS encyclopedia, and it's hastily written replacement, copies of internal hardware designs for early OEM hardware. Internal specifications for long forgotten features. So much history.

Scott called me up last week to tell me about this, and I kinda went giddy with excitement. It is SO COOL that this stuff is being published.

Breaking out of @rahaeli.bsky.social's most excellent thread so I don't hijack it (read their thread, it's insightful). I've told this story a bunch before but what the heck, it's fun. It was 1992, I was working on a test utility for Windows NT 3.1.

This is coming up THIS WEEKEND! If you're in the Everett, WA area, it's an amazing show and well worth seeing it.

Note to self: It's probably a good idea to length limit the size of your prompt to the LLM. For some completely unknown reason, it appears that Github Copilot CLI struggles to handle a 227 megabyte prompt.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.

Just going to throw out how insanely helpful Bing image search is at identifying 20+ year old Lego Models :).

Chatting with a coworker describing a new suggestion of theirs as "fun". I'm now beginning to wonder if I'm a closet software masochist.

Pulled out a pile of stickers to find a treasure trove... @kclemson.bsky.social @threddyrex.org

It somehow disturbs me that in 2026 developers appear to have forgotten that there are languages other than English. Also that the .Net "Char.IsLetterOrDigit" is a Unicode aware API - and thus cannot be used to validate strings constrained to the US-ASCII range.

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Dolly Parton's words and melodies have a way of soothing the soul and reminding us that brighter days are possible. The soaring opening of SMC’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” captures that spirit of hope and renewal. 🎶

Heat, electricity,and internet are 100% not overrated.

Why is it so hard to find USB-C cables that function as data cables and not charging cables?

So this is happening.....

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

There's nothing that feels quite like sending an email to a couple of VP's asking them for help with a technical problem, only to have to send them a second email saying essentially "never mind"... Sigh.

Pro tip: If you have a large monorepo in GitHub and are ever thinking of having copilot open 200+ minor formatting issues assigned to copilot, so that copilot agent creates 200+ PRs and then telling local copilot to automate approve/merge of those 200+ PRs, maybe just... don't.

I have to say I'm not upset that my jury duty got cancelled today. I really wasn't looking to being in downtown Seattle on Wednesday (although I'd likely be in a courtroom during most of the chaos).

Seattle area: Run, do not walk to see Cirque du Soleil Echo in Redmond. It's that good. And we ARE seeing it again

Tonight's dinner conversation included Cantors diagonalization proof, Othello, and Ranked Competitive Breast Growth. #welcometotheosterhorde

I just learned that one of my early 1990s coworkers, Adrian King has tragically left us. Adrian was an amazing individual and was responsible for possibly one of the most epic Microsoft promotional videos ever made. He shows up at about 11 minutes into the video.

The 2000 WA State gubernatorial race was an eye opener, and @goldy.horsesass.org's excellent coverage at HorsesAss gave me an excellent primer on how it's possible for elections to be both messy as heck, and 100% reliable. The "messy as heck" part is mostly where "election fraud" claims come from.

TIL that King County Jury Selection is done fully remotely, not in-person. I'm so excited that I *don't* have to go downtown for at least the voir dire part of jury selection.

Today’s happy homeowner... Had to drill a hole in the side of a cabinet in my daughter's house. We had an appropriately sized hole saw already, so no problem, right? We forgot to measure the thickness of the cabinet. Did you know a 3/8 inch hole saw won't cut through a 5/4 inch cabinet? FML.

In today's "Fun with LLMs", I had an LLM (Claude Opus 4.5) correct me on the word choices I made in my instructions. It said it didn't need to follow an instruction because the instruction only applied after a *task* was done, and it had only done one *step* of the "task".