What's the longest place name in the U.S.? Why, it's Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg,%20Lake

Imagine the optics of letting go of everyone and your last remaining person working on critical infra goes on LinkedIn to say they had to talk to leadership and let them know why he can’t do his job without the people they let go, so they decide to re-hire these […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116172179294783146 "Is there a point to understanding things?" is, I think, the single biggest open question about Software Engineering as a discipline that has opened up over the last 18 months. I expect it'll be answered in the affirmative, but a) I don't […]

Thinking about how AI is the demon cat from Adventure Time. "I have approximate knowledge of many things..." lol. https://youtu.be/ZDS-iSueBQ4?si=P1ith_10AJejohCM #ai #dev

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116148772813747144 To expand this point: software is composed of code, organizational processes, and people. A surprisingly large number of software developers are narrowly focused on generating code and miss all the surrounding processes and people (skills […]

Wow, I guess it's summer now

One side effect of the AI coding revolution is that now when doing a code review, you can have the experience of arguing with an AI, but through an intermediary. #softwaredev #ai

Thinking about how I got a new desktop and laptop computer several months ago, (desktop died, laptop was 13 year old,) and how that turned out to be fortunate timing with all the AI companies now buying up all the supply. Now I just hope what I have last a while […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/116116812032776927 Let’s do some math… feeding a person 2,000 calories a day over 20 years is about 15 million calories or 18Kwh… or the power required to run one of the gigawatt data centers for 0.007 seconds

I set up an account at communities.social Testing it out, pretty empty right now, but in time it could become something nice. No meta, which is a bonus. Look me up if you like! I am really happy to be clear of Facebook, and it would be nice to see more long-form content from folks

Started shifting away from streaming and building up my personal music library again. In the process, I've realized that lossy audio codecs are becoming obsolete. Storage and bandwidth are so plentiful now, does it matter if a song is 20MB?

California landscape looking quite scenic with help from the winter rain.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

“This is crazy,” she said. “How can our government be doing this?” One helluva story about administrative subpoenas. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A lot of companies looking for expert technical consulting are stuck in a tool analysis paralysis, thrashing around between different open source options or different product offerings, struggling to write extensive "implementation" plans that map whatever the latest hype is onto the correct […]

True, but surprising to see in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: "#wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1 "The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it."

"Cow tools" lol https://www.wired.com/story/veronika-is-the-first-cow-known-to-use-a-tool/

Getting back into listening to podcasts, and have been reminded how great Hidden Brain is. https://www.hiddenbrain.org/

Proposal: call reverse chronological algorithms "spew machines" since they reward whoever is most extremely online and posts the most. I think that might counteract some of the weird nostalgia that leads so many to somehow think it's some kind of pure symbol of a simpler, safer, better Internet.

Looks like there was a data breach at Instagram (about a year ago.) Might explain some out-of-the-blue password reset emails, or hacked accounts. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1q99t5d/instagram_data_leak_exposes_sensitive_info_of/

Oh, hey. Circumstances compel me to remind you not to boost stuff that confirms your priors without checking first to make sure it's true. Just because you like the sound of something, just because it's plausible, doesn't mean it's true. People say things that aren't true. They have lots of […]

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

Well, it appears that norovirus is making the rounds in my extended family, (myself included, but fortunately was short-lived.)

Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]

This was my holiday card design for the year, which ended up being another lino cut. Merry #christmas !

I was in an art supply store today to get stuff for a print I'm going to do for my holiday card, and it occurred to me that the last time I was in there was last year, to buy stuff for my holiday card print. Now I feel I need to have a goal to do enough art that I need to go there more than just […]

Everyone who works in tech should read this manifesto about "resonant" computing: https://resonantcomputing.org Related WIRED article: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-techdirt-mike-masnick-common-tools-alex-komoroske #tech #softwaredev #ai

Made myself a minestrone, and now I'm thinking about how great it is that, yes, it's the holiday season, but it's also soup season. #tistheseason

I still don't know when we'll see it show up in the metrics, but I now have an unshakeable conviction that Windows is cooked. For years, advocates have been touting successes from government office-software conversion projects to the popularity of the Steam Deck, and I remained unconvinced…

The Roosevelt Institute has released its report on the U.S. media crisis. Its key conclusion: "The crisis facing American journalism is the predictable outcome of decades of corporate libertarian media policy that prioritized commercial logics over democracy." Here's the full analysis […]

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Did a 50 mile ride out to San Gregorio Beach and back. It was a cold ride, but it was sunny at the beach!

Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰 Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed. 404 Meda, @404mediaco Bolts, @bolts Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant Casey Newton […]

"There are accounts that are run by troll farms, that are run by nation states, and then there are accounts that are just trying to make a buck by pretending to be American." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj38m11218xo

Trying out colors and painting without relying on lines being part of the final composition. #art #digitalpainting #krita

Doodled my brother's French bulldog while it was napping on my lap. Glad to know I still have some ability even when I don't exercise it as often as I should #art #drawing

King of UK, to his own brother: "That does it, you're not a prince any more. Out you go." US, now that Trump is clearly implicated: "Technically it's not really pedophilia if the girl is 14." The freaking *British royal family* is doing a better job cleaning house than we are.

Fascinating video of what happens when you exposure durian shell to 3300C / 5972F heat https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1olgp5i/durian_skin_is_so_heat_impenetrable_that_it_can/ #food #durian #tootsea

So the motherboard on my PC died, and I decided to take the working components and reuse them in a custom PC build. All I ended up reusing was the graphics card and hard drives, but it feels worth it: I fit an AMD Ryzen 5 9600x based PC build into a 13"x4.5"x11" case. It is small, and fast […]

Well, Windows 10 reached its end-of-life, which seemed like a good time to switch my HP workstation to Linux. Joke's on me, because after I installed Ubuntu Studio (KDE variant of Ubuntu,) and after a few days it corrupted my NTFS-formatted data drive while writing to it. Fine, I thought, I've […]