Ok I had to take my mind off things, was driving myself crazy. Still gotta flash the software and boot it up, but pretty stoked about a RPi5 powered guitar pedal 😊

Well, I *was* excited about putting my PiStomp together today, but... well... yeah. I think I'll just do the build tomorrow.

On a lighter note, I'm still kinda mad that KMart of all places had the greatest retail commercial ever made www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03U...

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

Well, today fucking sucks. I'm gonna go make a sandwich and unplug for a bit, what a shit show.

If you don't have 'em... get 'em. If you haven't used 'em in a while... clean 'em. And pray you won't need 'em.

They want violence. And they will get it. Even if it means they have to start it. And if we're not willing to *end* it....

And if you haven't figured it out yet, we're on our own. Our Dem reps in DC are posting about high prices. They are part of the problem. Get involved locally. Get to know your neighbors if you don't already. We got absolutely no help from our Senators, Reps and Governors coming. They're feckless.

Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Congress after a literal dictator takes over both the Executive and Judicial branches:

Yyyyyyup

Nothing quite like fixing a bad fret job and rescuing a guitar that never got much play time because of it. Plays like butter now

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This was also neat 5 years ago when the Raspberry Pi 400 dropped. But the battery is kinda cool I guess.

Every single button being shaped exactly the same in a single homogeneous layout is no better than a touch screen. Distinct shapes and arrangements allow our brains to pattern match much more quickly. This isn't really a step up.

You have *got* to be f--king kidding me

My non-verbal 9y old son mildly sprained his ankle last night, and has been in the best mood all day despite not being able to walk all that well. I, of course, am an absolute wreck.

RIP MS Office You had a good run. support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

1. Start business selling basic necessities 2. Buy up competitors 3. Preoccupy your customers with getting mad at each other. 4. Raise prices 5. Profit, as your customers are so mad at each other they end up ignoring you.

Spineless sycophantic cowards.

Oil is just an organic battery for solar energy. All energy is ultimately solar energy.

Just finished Metroid Prime 4, and... I'm disappointed. A little pissed, but mostly disappointed. This is the weakest Metroid game I've ever played. And I've waited 19 years for it. I just... ugh.

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

Pretty sure all the gig economy apps were the absolute first to hit stage 3 enshittification

Fun¹ facts, the last time we were at this spot in our orbit around the Milky Way we had the largest mass extinction even in our planet's history (The Great Dying). Dinosaurs didn't even exist yet. We had one continent, and the avg temperature was ~18ºF (~10ºC) hotter than now. ¹ok maybe not so fun

> I love the First Amendment and abhor censorship, and yet I have reluctantly come to believe that the Great Firewall of China will be a long-term benefit to that country. Fuck. This hits *real* hard. Because it's right.

The thing I wish devs would get into their thick-ass skulls is that even other *professional* developers... experts in their field... do not have all the same experiences. Don't make assumptions, write the damn instructions, answer the questions. Everybody benefits.

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ST finale is gonna stay with me a while. Flawless? No. Fitting? Definitely. Satisfying? Absolutely.

I had my first kid right as the smartphone era started kicking off. Finishing up my "young and stupid" years literally right before social media was a thing feels like I got on the last chopper out of 'Nam.

You don't have to ban social media. You just have to ban algorithmic feeds

Metroid: Fisher Price

Good lord Retro must've had a complete and utter dumpster fire on its hands with MP4 if this is what they actually shipped. Whoever designed this clearly doesn't understand Metroid.

I'm convinced that people who hate on the last episode of Stranger Things are dead inside. Just internally rotting, self-loathing shells. Once-human carcasses powered by pure spite and bitterness.

"It's a simple question doctor. Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?"

"AI democratizes [X]" At this point, I'm treating this as a dog whistle for mediocrity. Just... petty people getting upset that some people are better at something than they are, or have better taste. Spoiler: both skill AND taste are what makes those things good. Which are intrinsically human.

People want the output of expertise, without putting in the work required to become an expert.

The speed of react compiler and the corresponding eslint plugin is what currently blocks adoption at @sentry.io. Dev startup time went from a couple of seconds to 40 seconds, linting time doubled to over 4 minutes!

Life is valuable because it's finite. Art is valuable because it takes practice and time to create it. It's never about the end. It's always about the means.

This is likely to fall on deaf ears as we're going through this collective hysteria episode of skipping the "boring" stuff and getting to the "good" stuff with AI. Here's the thing: the good stuff is only good because of all the boring stuff you overcome.

That's also what AI does when used. You skip the process of painting. You skip the writing. You skip the thinking. All the hard stuff. And the result you get isn't just empty and generated on somebody else's work, it's also pointless.

AI is a cheat code. Remember when you were small and you tried cheats in video games? Infinite health, resources, that kind of stuff. That's what AI allows you to do—gain more by doing less or, at times, nothing at all. It might feel great. You've broken the "game", right?

The ST5 de-aging screwed up the eyes. It's always the eyes. Almost as if they're unfocused and not looking at anything.

It took quite a few decades to prove out, but I think we can definitively say that the modern stock exchange was a complete and utter disaster. Publicly owned companies are, were, and always have been a mistake.

Time to make a JS->C build pipeline for React? Being able to do your SSR and RSC handlers at native speed with native memory management would be absolutely *killer*. I'd love to build my servers in something other than JS

Metroid 4 needs a "omg shut up mackenzie" mode. This is f--king Metroid. I don't need my hand held. Exploration is the goal, not an obstacle.

Can we stop naming Tech things after characters and things that are the embodiment of pure evil? JFC I'm embarrassed to be in this industry I swear to fucking god

> llm struggles with software > author improves docs to help llm > llm still gets shit wrong > dev finds much improved docs result in it being easier to just do it yourself > ... > profit