this is a reference to the Haber-Bosch process providing Germany with precursors for explosives in WWI while also enabling massive industrial production of fertilizers and incredible improvements in food production, well done mad libs horse

Impressed by the very on-point pun the flared response (the top one) worked in at the end.

first crack at pies in A While turned out pretty ok! chicken pot pies in 50% whole wheat crust 🍜🍽️

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

if you ask me to Five Whys something you are probably ending up with a USCSB Narrator Voice line about failure to create a culture of safety around whatever hazard I'm fired up about that day

Worth answering on main: infantry depth is primarily psychological and only secondarily about replacing losses or changing out ranks. But that psychological factor is so important that functionally all contact infantry fight with depth and usually quite a lot of it (4 to 10 ranks being normal).

doing a "how to use AI in academia" course that's just a series of "the AI suggested an idea, here's how to get it to give you book recommendations you can take to a librarian", "the AI helped you figure out a link between concepts, here's how to read the primary sources", etc. All offramps.

Niners out here getting dotted up by Hank Hill, cherish these moments

so I said it sounds like you're feeding powerpoints to your vain and dismal cope that work ethic can substitute for a sense of accomplishment and then his liver started crying

Die Hard is indeed a Christmas movie! Also thanks to WHAM! for the inspiration ;) #nostalgia #80s #synthwave

Focaccia for Winter Solstice Kalamata olives, onion, garlic, rosemary, branches, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, sesame seeds, yellow pepper, and Parmesan cheese

wow bsky what an absolute trainwreck you've delivered to the Conscientious Sportsball Objectors

am I psyching myself up to make chicken pot pies in a day or two? damn right I am

the group chat is to posters what a window is to russians

Unfortunately the Malört hot chocolate is good cc: @sickoscommittee.org @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

apparently I want to rant about this today. I claim that there are way too many "trivial* fundamental basics" of Doing Computers for any one "senior" to know them all, even within their primary domain (like, I'm not embarrassed that I don't know React basics as a platform guy)... * like the trivium

a friend just described the way that some people in software describe LLMs as /uniquely/ positioned high leverage technologies that people need to bandwagon now or be left behind on as prosperity gospel shit and that is so completely on the money lol

I suspect people think in terms of correction of error because 1. the reality that complex/complicated systems are absolutely riddled with errors is disconcerting 2. so is the idea that we don't know why things work

I wrote a post about why I don't like the name that Amazon uses for their post-incident review process: "Correction of Error". surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/20/w...

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

its incredible how many great novels over the last few centuries also revolve around people's angst over being able to secure a job that doesn't involve manual labor

sick joke that my appetite for type 2 fun is concentrated around incident response and investigation

Oh my goodness! 👀☺️🙏🏼🍜🍽️

A deep dive into rushing concepts from @alexblickle1.bsky.social using data from the @ftnfantasy.com StatsHub. Learn the trade-off between inside zone and outside zone, and what's the most important reason for counter runs. ftnfantasy.com/nfl/a-deep-d...

"The Subtle Footgun of TVar (Map _ _)" by Matt Parsons www.parsonsmatt.org/2025/12/17/t... #Haskell

🎵 No one's nickname's incredibly sick like Gaston 🎵

bell curve meme {use a sqlite file, nooooo databricks athena snowflake, use a sqlite file}

I enjoyed this formulation: "The cutesy language flows in one direction only. Your compliance is demanded in the language of contracts; their failures are communicated in the language of the nursery." www.joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-in...

salmon pancakes came out quite photogenic today 🍽️🍜

new from the NYT Subscriber Estrangement: why it's hurtful and unfair that people are not giving us money to read our fashy bullshit, as told by our editorial board

i know most of my network is neteng, cybersec, & programming-ish folks, but if anyone out there is into hardware engineering, we have some senior & principal spots open at Blue! blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/j...

going into 2026 like

we are still relitigating DEI huh you took the pronouns out of bio and replaced it with nepotism and "CEO revolt" and AI productivity revolution and number went down go touch grass lie down in it, die, feed mushrooms, become grass

Art by • Nico Delort

Everything is terrible, but I made blackened tilapia with mango salsa! 🍜🍽️

gonna make a ubiquitously useful SaaS called The Enemy's Gate and not invest in reliability at all, as a bit surely nobody's made this joke I am gonna get so many internet points for this send skeet

I worked with Ruapehu Lowline Angus to develop some recipes for their beef earlier this year, and these are available for free on their website below. If you’re in AoNZ, it’s the best beef I’ve ever had and they have an ethos of conservation and sustainability that is unmatched.

I! still! hate! cloudwatch! metrics!

Man, Ardant du Picq has some absolute all-time great quotes. The one below isn't entirely *accurate* per se - I have kind of a higher opinion of 'Asiatic' (read: Persian) tactics than he does, but the bit about the Romans is ::chef's kiss::

hi, database on-call here. please stop posting pics like this! I know it _looks_ adorable when dead tuple counts are that high, but Postgresqls only do that when they're in _serious distress!_

a collection of tales of the questing and disgraced knights of the round table, titled Those Who Walk Away From Camelot

There was a great talk at re:Invent about the Oct. 25 us-east-1 outage! My impressions on the talk are here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/14/a...

We need to be more intentional about practicing stuff without automation to make sure we know how to do it.

Company that can’t get AI to clearly explain its own data transfer pricing is gonna take a whack at summarizing “Finnegan’s Wake.”

better to be *pro thing you like* than *anti things* even if the distinction between these positions is negligible Easier to appeal as "pro human liberty" than "anti-state"

This is a good presentation. 1000% agree on the “be nice” bit.