There’s always money in the banana stand.

I’m doing new dad shit and I need to be doing old dad shit.

My midlife crisis won’t be a car, it’ll just be A/V equipment. Maybe that’s what this all is. At least I still have hair. Idk.

I need to do better.

I don’t really want to use Threads but I (unfortunately) use Reels pretty heavily and it keeps pushing me there. I have begun to enjoy The Pitt conversation I’m seeing there. Idk if bsky has these things and I’m not seeking it out, or if the community on here just never grew large enough.

I sometimes forget that my 2 1/2 year old doesn’t know or care about “fidelity” and I should stop ever trying to tune the media he is consuming in any way. (He got a toy that projects books on the wall and I keep fiddling with the focus. Other examples…)

If nothing else I'm good at distracting myself. I am trying to sell my old receiver and passive speakers. I wouldn't mind keeping them but they're bulky and don't make sense. In the attempt to sell them, I have done more research and learned more about them than I ever have.

Sometimes it feels like life would be easier if I didn’t want *things* so badly.

Tried out a makeshift surround setup this weekend I just don’t think it’s going to work out with the seating arrangement in our room. A bummer but I’m not surprised. All I want is to hear sound from the front and also to the side, slightly behind me.

Maybe the rule is “if I still care two weeks after the baby arrives than I can get it” because sure, whatever.

it's amazing how once I start looking at anything with audio I start to think that I listen to music all day every day. I don't and I won't.

modern actual facebook.com is truly a terrifying place.

Can anybody tell me if "surround sound" is worth pursuing for just a living room tv setup? I have never bothered to have rear surround speakers for an actual 5.1 setup, but I've always sort of wanted to. I have a nice soundbar and have been entertaining the idea of surround speakers. Worth it?

I hate any time I get into audio because there's no ceiling to it. You can't just dabble and end up with "arguably the best" audio setup. The more you research the worse it gets. Video's ceiling is pretty low. Not inexpensive you top out quick. Audio never ends.

Roar. Roar. Roar. Like a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Considering between two different speakers upgrades for the new room, and I have to keep telling myself over and over again that doing nothing is the most correct third option.

One year to the day what the fuck.

I did a bunch of interior painting over the weekend. It's weird how home ownership just forces you to learn to paint. The worst part about it is that by the end, I'm much better at it than when I started. But then it's over, and by the time I have to paint again I'll suck at it.

I ordered 500 coffee filters shortly after my son was born and they are about to run out. I commented to my wife then about how they marked the passing of time and we chatted about it again now. She had the idea of writing a journal entry every time we have to order coffee filters.

I think the keyboard may be giving me carpal tunnel but it could have also been the month of picross I played on a Nintendo DS. Jury is out.

existing waste deep in a pool of your own technical debt is a privilege that few get to experience any more.

skeet

🥳

Fucking January.

When It's Cold I'd Like to Die.

assert_eq!(331837854931968, count); this is nothing, but it's still a big enough number to boggle my mind and sheer scale of computing.

“I don’t wanna get die hard chain murdered” -wife

I can't believe I made into 2026 Forbes 30 under 30!!!!! 🥹🥹 it's surreal to work doing what I love every day, I'm deeply thankful for everything 😭💛

The Monday after Thanksgiving is one of the harder Mondays of the year. This year it will feel like a warm bath. We spent the last 4 days potty training our toddler. I can't wait to go back to work instead.

My toddler shit in the toilet today. Happy Thanksgiving.

30s me is constantly frustrated by 20s me.

Hard to describe the feeling of introducing yourself to people you already know, but only through teams. You do great work, I'm just bad at small talk.

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I miss baseball. Also my christmas tree is already up. Gonna be a wild winter y'all.

You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line.

ChatGPT possesses the ability to do a bad job much faster than a human.

I wasn't a fan of either team so for this world series I was able to just cheer for baseball. And boy was it a good series for baseball.

When was the shift from sharplab.io to lab.razor.fyi and is this what I should actually be using? It seems featureful. I have been noticing UX issues in sharplab and after some digging found somebody who said lab.razor.fyi is the thing these days.

As a joke they should make them play again tomorrow lol

17th inning you gotta drink the grossest beer from the back of the fridge. A cucumber stout. A watermelon abomination.

Throughout my career I would argue that I've made a lot more money reading code than writing it.

fuck baseball

Short but sweet demo of some of the more recent Visual Studio debugger + Copilot improvements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e79N...

tweet

This is Tim Robinson's new Netflix show. It's really stuck in my head since watching the first episode. Sunday night HBO comedy so you know it's good. Check it out.

I find myself using the ✨ emoji so frequently in conversations right now that I'm attempting to make a keyboard macro for it. What I've found is that while it has an alt code, most of the applications I've tried to don't correctly interpret the 5 digit alt code.

Watch The Chair Company.

How can you not be romantic about baseball.

Wish I had something rant and rave about. I am now the owner of two identical keyboards but that's not interesting.