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.

It's ironic that an HOA is formed to protect the value of a property, yet its very existence scares away buyers. HOAs in the US are an absolute mess. You spend 1M for a house, then have to pay these gate keepers extra to NOT be allowed to do things on your property. Completely absurd.

Every single time I got to a doctor for something, I pay for the services at the time of my visit, AND THEN I get a bill for additional charges. The medical system in the US is an absolute scam. No other business would be allowed to run this way!

OH: I don't think the emails reflect reality.

I can't believe I actually have to tell someone that a new issue requires a description, not just a link somewhere else. If you're going to file an issue with an open source project, at least put in a half-assed attempt at a proper report. Don't expect the maintainer to work harder than you.

I really can't stand that browsers remember 404 pages in the autocomplete history. Why would I want to go back to a page that didn't lead anywhere? Come on.

I could not live without linked worktrees in git. If you don't make use of them, you really should.

I know the docs are good when I, the creator of the software, use them.

Nice. YAML anchors help keep the workflow DRY.

The medical system in the US is so broken that I truly do fear for my life.

Where do people typically publish GraalVM native images for a project? Do they go into Maven Central, or do they get attached to a release on GitHub or GitLab?

We truly are still in the stone ages when it comes to primary care, especially orthopedics. I feel like doctors are just guessing. As a result, crucial diagnoses are missed. And there are so many conflicting opinions on how to fix problems. We live in pain because we still don't understand the body.

It's truly sad to see Ruby deteriorating. For example, I can't install Ruby 3.0 on Fedora anymore for testing because of some obscure OpenSSL problem. It's just maddening.

After struggling with intense back+hip pain for months, I learned this week that I have a herniated disc. That's not the most maddening part. The way I found out is that I decided to order my own MRI, which revealed it. Had it been checked sooner, I might have been able to prevent it from happening.

Ruby deciding to remove the logger from stdlib really makes me hate Ruby. I don't know how else to put it. I just detest that decision. I'm vehemently opposed to it, but no one seems to give a shit.

As I look to upgrade my computer, I've come to realize that I've never really loved any laptop. There's always just some quality or design issue.

GitHub Support is /dev/null

It's extremely frustrating to live in such a backwards country.

With the exception of tools, from this point forward, the only dependencies I want to use from the npm registry are ones from the same project. I want absolutely nothing to do with third party dependencies. All they do is create problems in the long term.

Don't even bother ever reaching out to GitHub support. They DO NOT care about you. Their response to everything is "too bad, deal with it".

It's so asinine that you can't yank a specific version of a package from the npm registry (like you can with a RubyGem). Honestly, we think we are so advanced, yet we can't seem to do the most basic things.