Visiting DC and came to see this quote at the Jefferson Memorial. I had seen it online once, it resonated with me then, but it especially resonates today as we see the system under obvious strain. Glad for an opportunity to see it in person.

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

▶️ im_on_a_boat-lonely_boys.mp3

I got about the perfect Father’s Day gift from @dallasnagata.bsky.social

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

Lmk what you think

Found the drinking hole for Junior Programmers!

Finally understand enough about type systems (functional knowledge) and Haskell (just enough) to fully understand "parse, don't validate." The idea is simple tho: Attach type system information at the system boundary so those invariants can be reused! lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11...

a network thats split up into separate and independent components that can be reused by other parties is just so fucking cool especially now that were at the point these components can be chained together: you can take blacksky's relay, feed it into appviewlite, and connect that to deer

My son insists on using a kid’s toothbrush like he has at preschool, though we got him an electric one. Last night we’re brushing teeth together and suddenly he starts insisting on the electric one. I ask why and he hits me with “I want to be like you, daddy!” for the first time. Still feeling it.

Working on the seasoning to our wok this morning. Between the hammered carbon steel and the strokes of seasoning oil, it looks like a rustic painting!

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

This has surely been done before, but I just came up with this local dad joke and got a laugh out of @dallasnagata.bsky.social Knock Knock Who’s there? Chee (You know the rest 😂)

Why do programmers prefer Dark mode? Because the light attracts bugs

Bought some food weights that weren’t available on Amazon, and was reminded how nice it is to get stuff from smaller passion project businesses. This was a nice surprise!

This but unironically youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA

My New Year’s Resolution for 2025 is to make a website. Like, not a blog or a professional site but a geocities-style Web Site with like, pages and stuff. Topic tdb. I think I need like… accountability partners? Does anyone want to… make sites?

Strawberry-Raspberry Lassi!

My son, the random password generator.

Stencil warning anticipating my intrusive thought when finding a random minigun.

Making some future gauzy memories

Another misconception: That speciation is slow and that gene barriers are strong. The last portion of this podcast talks about speciation in the Galapagos after an invasive fly decimated a population of finches, happening within a human lifetime and it’s *fascinating* youtu.be/v_2LAtQKzNU?...

Spent the morning at Sea Life Park, a new experience for the kids! The displays were a big success, letting the kids get up close and personal with a bunch of interesting creatures.

I really don’t understand how my kids manage to exude so much cool. Even the baby knows how to work a prop for a photo. Must be @dallasnagata.bsky.social’s influence.

Giving a talk on AI/ML for Designers, a la @wattenberger.com’s “hard and soft” essay, so not “how to use AI tools to help with design” but instead “how to reason about AI as a design solution.” I’m struggling with a title because “AI/ML in UX” is too vague. Ideas? wattenberger.com/thoughts/har...

“We ought to only read books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? […] What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune.” - Franz Kafka Mouthwashing lived up to the hype.

Getting to the point in my life that there’s a lot of kid birthdays, and I have a lot of girls in my life despite spawning boys. Lucky Javi! I try to find gifts that reflect their interests but nudge towards STEM. Today was dinosaurs! Fun challenge to fit constraint while respecting her femininity.

I made the mistake of commenting on politics, so I’ll say this: I don’t like politics. I’m anti-partisan, believe in horseshoe theory, and care more about facts than winning. If your first reaction is to filter info through a partisan lens, I’ll probably piss you off, so don’t follow me please.

This bear’s expression is sending me. Very “I just woke up and this is too much” energy.

Took the kids to the Honolulu Zoo today, also took my camera and actually took some photos! The ʻaukuʻu is my favorite.

You can just add “space” to any word or phrase to make it sci/fi, just like you can add “cyber” to make anything sci/fi. That’s why cyberspace is so powerful: it’s double sci/fi.

This. I've thought about this a ton, and I've come to firmly believe the solution to AI scraping lies in legal, not technical, measures. Adding limitations to who can access websites undermine the fundamental principles of the open web. When you lock AI out of the web, you end up locking up the web.

ESLint Rule: Only const moose

Pretty sure my kid exudes much more cool than I ever did. 📍Kaka’ako Waterfront Park

Made some Agua de Flor de Jamaica!

nice! we are going to need to get a Lexicon style guide going soon... a couple notes off the top of head

A fellow /r/Hawaii mod and SWE’s 8 year old has requested a gaming rig for Christmas. Instead of a 40XX-based machine, I’m trying to convince him to get an rPi 5 and a copy of “Code the Classics.” It can technically do 4k gaming! (He may put this under the tree then unveil the PC after 😂)

now you can run `npm install bluesky-comments` to use bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! thanks @coryzue.com 🙌

By popular request, here's how to add Bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! This requires some technical know-how for now, but I'm hoping that we see some no-code solutions for this pop up soon, like Ghost or Wordpress plugins. emilyliu.me/blog/comments

My son is really into (Hot Wheels-type) cars, and @dallasnagata.bsky.social has now introduced him to the real versions of his toy monster trucks via YouTube, and gotta say I’m actually really impressed by the skill on display, especially using the big wheel physics to maneuver in mid-air!

I miss this internet. I like BlueSky because it feels more like this internet. youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E

Happy #AlohaFriday! Did you know that Casual Fridays evolved from Aloha Fridays? In the 1960s, the Hawaiian Fashion Guild campaigned to have employers let men wear aloha shirts to work on Fridays to support Hawaii’s garment industry. By 1970, aloha attire became everyday business wear in Hawaii!

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back. So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!) More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Another thing is back from the old Twitter that I’m not nearly as nostalgic about: The follow-unfollow growth hack. I like to *actually* connect with *people* on a human level, so I don’t really do the follow-back thing anymore for exactly this reason—gotta talk and engage first!

Congratulations on being over capacity, @bsky.app! A throwback to a bygone era, updated for our new home, made by me as requested by @edfff.com.

Metaphor is my game of the year. i asked director Hashino a very specific question. He replied, “To be honest, you asked a question that really hits the core. I’ve done many interviews, and I haven’t had a question like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Here's an article as a gift in case in non-subscribers want to read. And if you love it, do consider signing up through the gift link. The fact that Gene has a job to do this at WaPo is amazing. wapo.st/4fTJRX7

@maruahues.bsky.social here, maybe can get this for your son for Christmas, and can see how much he likes the intersection of CS and games! www.amazon.com/Engine-Archi...