the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

Stellar essay.

I may have fucked my career. 🤷‍♂️ we’ll see

Like all modern people, I view all happenings through my particular political lens. Which is why I need the Knicks to win, because the NBA finals is urbanism versus suburban sprawl

I’ve had too much of too much and want to switch to a just right amount of too much in my life. The problem is that we are all trying to avoid too little of just right and we overcompensate.

Things are happening

Some news on the Haskell Foundation front discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-fo...

Best lesson for any pursuit

Sometimes when you’re on a work call with me, this is what’s happening on the other side.

Some of you may think this account is about programming, but in reality it’s about obsessing over real small details (sometimes to the detriment of my life at large). Don’t get it twisted, programming is but one view into this. Coffee, jazz, and aviation are the others.

The gcc source has some good finds:

I’m in the group chat, where we share every coffee we make with each other. Pretty much my main reason for getting out of bed these days. I was asked to demonstrate a slowsetta, so here’s what that looks like.

This is how you all use Claude, right?

AI can read scientific papers for me? Oh man, imagine all the time I’ll save! Can it watch movies for me too?! I’m so excited for it to write a story I can read to my nephew! Maybe next it’ll write the eulogy I need for my friend’s funeral!

I am consistently ghosted for adjunct positions in Canada 😞 Teaching is pretty much the only thing I felt genuinely good at, so my ego is at all time lows.

wrote a few paragraphs today about why early Stack Overflow was such a special and rewarding community to contribute to and why so many of us who were there have never really stopped mourning its slow but steady decay meta.stackoverflow.com/a/438314/465...

Happy Sunday.

Happy Wednesday

You can see me slowly wake up on this very Monday of mondays.

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It will be hard to explain, but I did shed a tear and get choked up at the conclusion of the halftime show.

I love being unable to edit my posts. Picture unrelated

I am now instrument rated. It’s interesting, I’m very thankful for the additional skills. This give me and I feel like this rating. Be safe for pilot, but I can’t help feel the rating is also a bit of a burden. The skills atrophy so quickly! A lot of work just to stay sharp.

Happy Wednesday!

"…neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state…where the police usually respond with discipline and restraint." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

I’m on my bullshit again #ottawa

“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people,” he wrote in 1976.

one thing i’ll note is that the administration is desperate for a repeat of 2020 and the targeted jurisdictions refuse to give it to them

What if… and hear me out… I am actually just not very good at anything?

You can tell from the web design of the GPS Operations Center that it's foundational infrastructure for the entire modern world. (Via @berthub.eu) gwcc-ws.cce.af.mil/gpsoc/

Bonkers around DC today. (The smudges on the G1000 are not from me, I would never)

Happy 2026 Bunny prints in the snow!

Happy Monday from Ottawa

Happy Friday afternoon from Ottawa

Haskell, where the programmer, not just the whitespace, is significant.

Monday in Ottawa!

Hello from Ottawa

I saw a video of someone explaining how Spotify is “listening age” works. And they made a plot where the X-axis was year and the left-most year was 1990. Everything left of that was labeled “way way back”. Just put me in the ground now.

After a rough 6 weeks, I needed this. I already have my float rating, so I’m just working on better confined area techniques and other “real world” concerns… like beaching!

“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet

This is a good one! #coffee

Living in Ottawa, a bilingual city, provides exposure to some great signs. I saw this one yesterday at the clinic

Happy Saturday!

The swans will continue until morale improves

Trying to get my swans consistent. These are the three from this week. They’re OK! Smooth neck still alludes me.

The other day I got to experience my first time dying in IMC. It was fun! #aviation

Hispanic heritage month started last week in the US, but Latin American Heritage Month does not being until October in Canada. I propose that we call these two weeks Puerto Rican Status Fortnight, and never speak of it again.