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Folks, this is a good bit AND can be effective at the right times. But if you imagine for a second that you won’t debase yourself in a moment of desperation to exert an iota of control over your child, you’re ngmi as a parent. Plus airplanes are fun! Kids are a great excuse to be silly!

Whew, what a great post. Heaven forbid a person has an _unproductive hobby_ these days. I appreciate the consideration of where to draw the line with automation, and the answer being "When people have enough time to do what they love to do," not "when people have enough stuff to consume."

A Merry Christmas to all! May your fears that paralyze be replaced with love that motivates. May you let go of your efforts to control in vain and hold on to hope that all that is wrong with the world can become right again through our good efforts.

Manifesting this again… Also, fun fact: Before the events of A Christmas Carol, Bob Crachit made the equivalent of $14 an hour.

New little tool I whipped up. tvc.thoriumsim.com I've got an Apple Shortcut which uses FFMPEG to compress videos before I upload them to Github, Slack, Discord, or anywhere else. It's a courtesy to the person on the other end who downloads the video. This puts that shortcut in a website. Enjoy!

I live in a cookie cutter floor plan subdivision, originally developed in the mid-50s. In the past 70 years, each of these homes has add-ons, adjustments, new facings, and landscaping. It's eclectic and delightful, thanks to no HOA and a generous city permitting office. Also Oreos are dope.

Yes! People have described Remix as imperative instead of declarative, eg. Remix is not `ui = fn(state)`. That is not the case - Remix still uses JSX. It's hardly more imperative than React is. What's different is the reactivity model. Remix has manual reactivity. That's the only imperative part.

This resonated strongly with me, especially the conclusion. I'm in a similar situation and have similar concerns. AI has made it really easy to do poor work very quickly - art, code, writing, and especially harassment and bullying. And you don't have to be good at bullying for it to be effective.

📝 “Growth” is an interesting word. In the natural world, you tend to it. In the business world, you “hack” it, “engineer” it, and do everything you can to otherwise accelerate, manipulate, and manufacture it into existence. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-li...

He's close. The bats were in the second one, when they get swallowed by the giant space anaconda.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

My 4 year old wanted you all to see her stop-motion nativity video.

@profanity.accountant hit me

Feeling festive

Minor key Christmas songs >>>>>>

People are asking a lot of questions that are already answered by the pie.

Coconut cream pie is the best pie. That is all.

The best pie is New York Cheesecake and the best cake is Boston Cream Pie

I've got big plans for this week 😎

Volunteered at a place that does starship simulations for school field trips. Was taught to program the simulator controls. My first big program was an XML file-backed database. It sucked. I’m still making starship simulators to this day.

The infant is sleeping on my lap while I work, and her face is turned away from me so I can’t see if she’s actually asleep. Solution? Continuity camera on my iPhone viewed with Photo Booth. Modern problems call for modern solutions.

I miss a lot of people from the dead bird site who have chosen not to come to Bluesky, but I was just reminded of someone else who is prominent over there and thought “oh, they exist still. I haven’t thought about them in months” Felt good.

Things governments give away for "free" (eg. paid for by taxes at large, not by individual consumers) Public parks and museums Libraries + Free Wifi Police and Fire Departments Sidewalks Public street parking Public school Public restrooms Community events What am I missing?

🤔 What if there were a conference without talks? Just hanging out with OSS maintainers & builders, seeing what they’re working on, and learning cool stuff by actually talking to people. 🤯 What if hallway track turned into the whole event! 💡 @tannerlinsley.com is exploring it. Interested? ⬇️

I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.

This good boy says “you can put up a Christmas tree and listen to Christmas music in November if you want.”

Just filled out literally the worst online form of my life. Laggy, missed inputs, poor A11y, and it requested duplicate information. Unrelated, but I found it funny that the form was built using a beta version of Angular 1.3 - the most recent 1.x is 1.8.3.

If I were AI king, I would decree that all training must be done using 100% solar. Buy batteries if you must run non-stop. Otherwise, when the sun goes down, training pauses for the night. We can do AI without externalities. We just have to make some trade offs

Do you like free books? How about historical fiction? Detective novels? Well, have I got the book for you! My sister’s first book in her detective novel series is on sale for 100% off. Get it while it’s hot! www.amazon.com/Pennington-P...

I’ll note that all the candidates that I voted for in my very conservative Utah city were elected. None of whom were endorsed by the Republican Party of Utah County.

I get to meet one of my life-long best friends today!

The biggest questions that Remix v3 asks: - What if we let the browser do more work? (events, signals) - What if component reactivity was manual? (this.update()) - What if everything had a URL? (Frames) And perhaps the biggest question of all: - What if we stopped using `const`?

A reminder for Halloween: Every person trick or treating should get candy, no matter their perceived age. Things are even more scary and oppressive than ever. Let people have one night of fun and whimsy.

I just created the “Remix 3 Resources” repo, collecting useful links related to Remix 3. It has *super* granular links to the Remix Jam live stream for each API, feature and demo, plus a bunch of demo apps and 3rd party integration examples. github.com/markdalgleis...

A nice way to clean up event handlers in React effects. useEffect(() => { const abortController = new AbortController(); websocket.addEventListener("message", (event) => { // Do Stuff }, {signal:abortController.signal}) return () => abortController.abort() }, [websocket])

Someone should do a tier list video of all of these proposals. WebTransport is S-tier, don't @ me

Struck by this Orange site comment about gen AI. It seems so obvious in hindsight. Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...

Regular reminder that if you're looking for a great money monitoring app, Copilot is excellent. You can try it for 2 months free with my referral code. FA7G7K

Astrophysics question: If stars are formed by gravity pulling hydrogen atoms together so tight that they undergo nuclear fusion, releasing energy in the process, does that mean almost all of the energy we experience on Earth comes from Gravity? That's kinda bananas, considering how weak Gravity is.

"AI is going to fundamentally change every industry!" ...Is that fundamental change in the room with us right now? (For reals though, it's been almost 4 years. Anybody have any examples of how AI has fundamentally changed an industry for the better?)

Hosted my first large gathering at my new house this weekend - 20 people, and all seemed comfortable and like they were enjoying themselves. It's kind of thrilling that it worked out so well, since I had a hypothesis that this house we bought would be great for hosting large groups. I was right!

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm looking for work! I'm a JavaScript/TypeScript expert with a ton of experience in Node, ASTs, Testing Frameworks, Docker, and more! - 10 years experience - Former core maintainer of Prettier - 315 GitHub repos, 198 npm packages suchipi.com/Resume2025.pdf

This is now my go-to resource when folks ask me what I like about Bluesky.

Yay! I passed!

Yay! I failed my first home improvement inspection! (I didn't realize that garage power outlets need GFCI protection)

Screaming at this infographic

A Christmas Carol is a story about love, grace, and how everyone deserves second chances, even the rich and miserly who have terrible ideas about who does and does not deserve our care. IMO the story would be much worse if Tiny Tim had bust a cap in Scrooge’s neck.

Palette swapping has got to be one of my favorite animation techniques, as demonstrated in this blog post: blog.prototypr.io/color-cyclin... And this demo by Mark Ferrari: www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/