Looking for work. Will DevRel for coffee or wine 😁

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated. I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

@danarestia.bsky.social Really great interview with Paul. He does so much better in that format, and with questions that come from you, than on TV. I learned a ton.

There's a ton of Open Source developers out of work right now. The same developers that maintain the libraries and runtimes you all depend upon for your apps. The same libraries and runtimes all your AI code is built upon. Hire or sponsor someone today.

After decades of sitting at the computer a certain way, I'm trying to learn to sit without using my mouse as a brace. Wow, this is hard.

@danarestia.bsky.social I'm appalled by what ESPN has done with the ESPN+ app. They have absolutely ruined it. I love watching lacrosse, but this honestly might just turn me off. The ads are unacceptable, the seek is totally broken, and it's super glitchy. It's honestly amateur hour. So painful.

@danarestia.bsky.social That was my first time seeing Spallina play in person. I understand now why he confuses so many people. He's certainly a very good player, but he's just no CJ Kirst. He also rubs other players. At one point, he chirpped the entire Denver bench, and had a few goes at the refs.

Whoever is running GitLab is trying their hardest to ruin its reputation. What the hell are you doing over there? Someone please take control of this ship!!

I swear I'm going to leave GitLab if they keep popping up the GitLab Duo sidebar. Fuck you and horse you road in on you asshats. I don't want your fucking agent!

And what is with GitLab Duo being forced down our throats?!? Everything is just getting more terrible by the day, I swear.

With absolutely no notice, GitLab renamed Issues to Work Items. Not only do I hate it, it's extremely confusing for new and existing contributors alike. Terminology that has been used for decades has now been changed for no justifiable reason. Please change it back!

Can we *please* add a way to get the parameter names of a function reliably in JavaScript? Ruby is way ahead here. Way ahead.

I really don't like Gradle's daemon. I wish it were something you had to enable in your local settings rather than it just being employed by default.

With all the distracting cookie garbage and location requests, I honestly don't think companies actually want to sell any products online. It's nothing but a waste of time trying to find what you want.

So far, in my experience, AI has turned out to be atrocious at helping to shop. The product suggestions are just way off or overly generic. Probably because even a human can barely shop effectively online.

Your mindless CVE scanner is not open source's problem. Take it up with your admins / organization to invest better.

It's that time for curling! youtube.com/watch?v=p60I...

It's truly devastating that the American flag has become a sign of hatred.

Shift+Delete from the URL location bar is broken in Firefox (at least on Linux). Come on now!

I just noticed that ruby-lang.org got a refresh. Nice!

I owe a lot of my laughs to Catherine O'Hara. She was brilliant. Damn. RIP.

The only cursors I can tolerate on Linux are the capitaine-cursors. The package build for Fedora is currently failing, so I had to compile them myself. But I'm back up and running.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.

@riviantrackr.com I think I talked my Uber driver into test driving a Rivian. When I described that you can charge at home and don't need oil changes, he responded with a brilliant slogan. He said, "so I can just buy and drive". 🎯

Rivian really needs to provide EVs as loaners for multiday service center appointments. Just kicking it to Enterprise is not a great look. cc @riviantrackr.com

Genocide is not a politics topic. It's a human rights topic. Get it straight and don't play dumb.

Framework laptops are incredible. I just replaced the display (literally just the screen part) on my spouse's computer because the backlight had failed. $165 later and its like a new computer again. Seriously awesome.

Corporations are psychopaths. I bought a range from Samsung, but it arrived damaged. They couldn't replace it because they didn't have any available, so I had to return it. I then purchased the same range from Lowes. Samsung won't grant me points for the purchase because I didn't buy it from them.

Closing the latest chapter in my career. Actively looking to get started with the next one. If you’re looking for a seasoned developer for DevRel, DevOps, and/or engineering roles, let’s chat!

I had to get a postgresql server up and running after years of being away from database work. I was pleasantly surprised to find an easy to follow and working tutorial in the Fedora Docs. Fedora, this is why I stick with you! docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-...

In 2025, my alma mater won the NCAA D1 lacrosse championship for the first time in my lifetime, I herniated a disc which damn near broke me, and I bought a house for the first time in my life. 🎢 Hoping for a boring 2026.

Let's at least pretend to try.

I've now been denied the 5,000 tax credit by the state of Colorado for my EV purchase, even though I qualify on all criteria. I expect this bait-and-switch from companies, but not from my state government. I made a decision based on this promise and it I was seemingly lied to. Come on Colorado!

If I skip a track from a playlist running in shuffle on Tidal, it's like, "cool, I'll play that one next instead."

A JRuby user upgrading an old app recently filed a bunch of bugs about poor perf versus CRuby. In almost every case, it was an optimization or logic change we never knew about, and once added JRuby is faster. If something isn't as fast in JRuby as in CRuby, it's a bug. Report it!

I tried to sign up for Tuta, but apparently they never approve you request for an account. Moving on, I suppose.

I'll buy an appliance from the first store that doesn't answer the phone with an AI assistant.

This is really cool, and right by me. I watched it being constructed these last few months. I look forward to spotting wildlife as I pass under it.

My Nest was trying to optimize my furnace by reducing the temperature to take advantage of cheaper energy rates (time of use). I have a fucking propane tank you nimwit! (I even configured Nest accordingly). Internet of dumb.

Whenever you buy a product, the company now assumes you are a diehard enthusiast who wants to be notified every hour about the product and every other product they sell. NO.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

The GitLab CI YAML reference should just be the home page of the GitLab CI documentation. That's the page we want 99% of the time.

@riviantrackr.com Quick question. For the efficiency ratings in your tire guide, is the stock 22" range tire considered 100/100?

I've also been using AI to help understand the nuances of a real estate transaction and finding professionals. Again, it's a super useful tool for getting answers to common questions or computing things like costs. It also helps cut through the ad-ridden internet. But sometimes, it's just dumb.

I've been playing around with AI to help with interior and exterior design ideas. It's certainly a very useful and valuable tool. However, sometimes, it's dumber than a box of rocks. The slop of AI is a lot like brainstorming. Some ideas are amazing. But most are harebrained. Take it for what it is.

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high. SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”. Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers. People need & deserve assistance Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich Be mad about that

Based on my own experience, late night online shopping seems to have been replaced by late night exploring curiosities with ChatGPT. Apparantely, it's quite good at estimating building projects.

Excited to see IONNA is now LIVE on the Rivian mobile app and in-vehicle navigation.

Writing documentation for a site built with Antora is just so, so easy. That's not me saying that as the main author of Antora. That's me saying that as the main author of the documentation that's built with Antora.