Happy solstice! This year my Estonian style kringle is trying a switch to bread flour and a tangzhong. Also, someone forgot to make the dough the night before. #Cooking #recipe

Mind the vigilance decrement #AI

$ redis-cli dbsize (integer) 0 Oh boy.

Finally taking a day full of meetings to also darn a hole in my hoodie. There was no way this hole would be invisible, so I went with thread matching the lining. #mending #repair #maintenance

Don’t forget Christmas and Chanukah use the same latin CH transliteration of the greek χ, hebrew ח sound. If it isn’t alliterative with jalapeño, you’re doing it wrong.

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Meanwhile, in Skagit community service: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrXMMDAy/ As an ex-okey, river lumberjacking has got catfish noodling beat. This is sheer madness. #cascadia #SalishSea

It’s adorable seeing NYTimes interleave conversations with folks at the #snohomish River, right snug along the northeast of the Seattle metro, with folks along the #skagit, up 75km north. But i guess the distance between Boston & Providence clearly isn’t worth making clear […]

TIL there exists a European Code of Practice for General Purpose AI Models: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai

If you’re in #skagit county, you may have had trouble figuring if the flood alerts mean you need to evacuate. You need to look at https://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/EmergencyInformation/main.htm And if you're in the 100-Year Flood Plain, you need to leave today. Here's the map […]

I’m really trying to write nice things about this MCP gateway and it just has other desires for its life.

Online job applications made hiring deeply out of whack previously, but now it is so much worse: https://jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silbert_jmp.pdf #AI

Just discovered who my client’s authoritative name server provider is. My therapist would encourage me to just sit with these feelings for a minute before taking action.

How are there not a bajillion AI safety startups. https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-teddy-bear-back-on-market

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes; Solitaire edition!

You know it’s going to be a good day when you need over a kg of flour for milk bread today.

Sometimes, I get files in my downloads folder that I cannot for the life of me understand from whence they came. I don’t even know how to summarize this thing. But I can say the document ends with recommendation of “Finalizing the ARMALICIOUS manufacturing and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I know that literally no one besides myself uses https://github.com/josephholsten/hig, but how do people actually stand git’s nonsensical command naming, to say nothing of how long all the commands are? I’ve really tried on this laptop, it’s been almost six months and my muscle memory still […]

Okay, that’s enough ITC Garamond Condensed nostalgia in ads. How about some Computer Modern Roman?

Just was reminded of MailMate.app’s plugin integration, so I through together a #zed editor plugin: https://codeberg.org/josephholsten/Zed.mmBundle Works on my machine, so you know, let me know how it explodes where you are.

All information I could find online suggests that running Wabi on #solaris 8 should be impossible. The Oracle docs suggest that, there are newsgroup posts about people saying it doesn't work, or that complex workarounds are required. But it all... just […] [Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]

Baby startup’s first post-incident debrief! And is that an ittl wittw critical-incident-review I see pushing through onto next weeks calendar? I think it is!

Is a wall of business speak better or worse for being written by a human instead of AI?

Someone out there believes qwen3:1.7b as a service is a valid business model. And they absolutely have paying clients.

Today’s shell script in a docker container answers the question, “How could I reinvent cron, badly?

And the moral of the story was: When they tell you they don’t know infrastructure operations, believe them.

This talk from @Quinnypig seems to be making the exact same point we came to as last weeks Production User call for Jails & Containers: https://kccncna2025.sched.com/event/27FVz/the-myth-of-portability-why-your-cloud-native-app-is-married-to-your-provider-corey-quinn-the-duckbill-group The […]

Startup prototype? Of course it’s build on MongoDB! sigh.

Another weekend, another batch of maintenance. - Throwing together some granola, trying date syrup instead of honey - gluing back together a swinging door that one of the spawn had wrecked (somehow forgot pictures) - putting a fresh coat of Pedag creme polish […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Wow, when did confluence get absolutely horrible? - sidebars inside and outside document bodies - toolbar headers inside and outside document bodies - floating helper widgets everywhere - insane default horizontal whitespace while navigation is obscured - capabilities and content hidden under […]

Oh fun, I’ll be one of the mentors at this weekend’s PyData 2025 Newcomer Sprint on Sunday. So if you’ve wanted to get a patch submitted to CPython, NumPy, Pandas, Spyder, Jupyter or something else, a handful of us will be there to find a reasonable first issue to work on, get it written […]

Every time I hear people say that “you are allowed to take up space”, I think to myself that two strong eyes of breath ought to be enough.

I made carbonara. It's better than it looks – the starchy water, egg yolk, and cheeses made the pasta perfectly creamy – but next time I'll at least double the pancetta and add a few more peas*. (*I know, I know. But I like peas in carbonara.)

Honestly, why are people buying Kerrygold over the cheapest option? Is it being used in something so delicate you can taste that the cream was cultured? Is it because of the fraction less water than from American dairies, but not to the importance that ghee makes sense? As someone who makes […]

We shall see how obnoxious all the itty bitty beets are. Plus delicata rings since I’m the only person who appreciates beets in the house. #Cooking

At least the worms appreciate this year’s failures #Gardening

Publishing failures is so much harder because they happen so often, and often the end result looks like a bunch of salvage attempts that are hard to depict or describe. Success tends to look one way, failures come in all shapes and sizes.

This year’s beet harvest is officially a Learning Opportunity. Cultivar Bull’s Blood, planted 3” spaced, and left to mature full season. Didn’t cut and come again for greens, just tried to keep the roots. The remaining leaves are mature, spotted, and mixed up […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Roasting some squash and processing some root veg from the garden today. If we like the kuri, will likely process the seeds for next year. #Gardening

I guess #systemd has decided that locking has to happen by a single root-owned process. Yet another step away from multiple-user capable systems, which just ends with all privilege separation looking like nested full-operating-systems. https://lwn.net/Articles/1041316/ #Unix

Haha! Another reputable open source project besmirched by accepting my mediocre patch. Someday the world will get wise, but not yet.

So when SNAP disappears Nov 1, and people I know have standing to sue the USDA, who’s bringing the case to them?

In Portland for the #ZFS summit, at the University Place Hotel’s “Health Club”:

I just caught myself unironically describing a mobile app’s data usage in units of floppy disks. We all have room for improvement, I guess.

Every time you dream about being able to go into orbit, you’re dreaming about spending the amount of energy needed to live a normal life for 680 people, for a year. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2022/ph240/beardslee1/ And that’s mean usage, not median, so we’re including the energy used in […]

Approving drilling doesn’t make it financially viable, especially since exploration hasn’t even begun. And even if it does become viable, it’ll take years upon years to negotiate upstream contracts, build pipelines to midstream, and only then will “black gold” begin to flow. But what do I know […]

Homeschooling means 9pm arguments with a textbook about whether the Celts simply moved to Wales, Ireland, Scotland or were destroyed, if any person existed who was actually Anglo-Saxon, and when it’s appropriate to use the term Dark Ages. There are no right answers in my house.

People speak about millenial cringe like it’s a recent thing, but I’m reading the 1999 source of a BeOS IRC client’s leet speak support: https://codeberg.org/BeOS/Vision/src/commit/f58ba2ae1172dc97d435495561675f0a07d7bafa/src/VisionStrings.h.l33t

Syncthing is neat, but I swear “normal” users want the feel of the StrongSync WebDAV client’s use of APFS NSFileCoordinator to transparently ensure local sync. Offline? Online? VFS just makes posix file operations do the right thing. (Where by “normal”, I apparently mean blissfully ignorant of […]

I’ve been looking for an excuse to upgrade my mixer with some of the improved replacement parts from https://www.mrmixer.store/attachments-and-upgrades/upgrades But I’m a little dismayed that today’s mishap would have qualified as “gross misuse” if my unit wasn’t a hand-me-down and I’d actually […]