Book people are the best people

I appreciate beautiful application design with thoughtful use of color, but I honestly prefer spartan monochrome UIs most of the time.

After literally months of wanting to plan and track my workouts better, I finally did it! I have reference sheets for warm-ups and cool-downs as well as weekly workouts with progressions and a monthly tracking sheet.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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I am so excited about Apple TV's plans to create a Misborn movie series and a Stormlight TV show! Who are your casting picks?

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

FreeBSD is fantastic

We've got some good senators in CO.

Is anyone working on a programming language that is designed for LLMs first? Code is already very conducive to LLM generation, but I imagine there are likely different design trade-offs if a human is not the primary one interacting with the system.

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

I've written a lot of code in quote a few languages, and I have yet to find a development experience that comes close to Clojure.

We should not have to watch a video of a man being shot from sixteen different angles to prove that he didn’t deserve to die in the gutter.

I finally upgraded my phone, and it actually has a good camera!

I'm not sure how, but Starbucks and the like seem to have convinced a lot of people that is *hard* to roast coffee dark. It's like, "our coffee is premium, because we have perfected the secret techniques of burning coffee to oblivion."

My daughter (13) just referred to Half-Life 2 as having "early video games graphics," and I'm afraid to tell her about Pong.

If you have ever wondered how to count "Blue Rondo a la Turk": 🌮🌮🌮🌯-🌮🌮🌮🌯-🌮🌮🌮🌯-🌯🌯🌯 You're welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKNZ...

I'm going to write an article on this systemd-nspawn setup I made for persistent, isolated development environments. Now, I just need to create a website to write the blog post on...

I've been wanting to run an isolated dev environment for work on my home computer (linux) that is similar to what I'd get with FreeBSD jails or a Solaris/Illumos zones. I discovered systemd-nspawn, and while it's a little more work to set up, it is working great! I get a complete dev system w/o a VM

13YO gets to suggest some songs for an upcoming school event playlist, and she asked for some song suggestions. You'd better believe we listened to Beck, Cake, and the Flaming Lips!

Good morning, beloved. Know justice. Know peace. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I think my family is starting to get tired of me talking about neutrinos.

I just got the Stormlight RPG for Christmas, and I'm GM-ing a game with my two oldest kids. Is there a group interested in playing online?

Guys, I ate like a pound and a half of cheese. Would not recommend.

You know those times you just get the urge to install Illumos/OpenIndiana on that spare computer you have? Yeah, I can relate.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Apropos of nothing: I cannot stop thinking about how perfect pretty much every aspect of K Pop Demon Hunters is.

Bryan has one of the most well-reasoned recommendations for the use of LLMs for technical folks. I appreciate his acknowledgement that LLMs are revolutionary tools, but they are still tools. I also love the take that they are currently more adept at reading than writing.

The difference between application programming and systems programming is the difference between the mindset that thinks "memory is fast" and the one that thinks "memory is slow."

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

claude code keeps reframing my instructions for handling partial failures as "partial successes," and I'm like no, fool, the glass is half empty.

Well, I here's a win for AI: I had seen this made-for-tv movie years ago, and I could never remember enough about it to find it. However, chatgpt helped me find Vanishing Act, and now I want to re-watch it. If you like 80s made-for-tv mystery movie, I'd highly recommend it.

I think cyberpunk is the flavor of sci-fi that I am most likely to see in my lifetime.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: City and Colour Martin Sexton Jacob Collier DC Talk Yeah, that's only four. What can I say? I don't get out much.

The AI stories about people losing their minds chatting with bots are indicators of a need to regulate these companies but also red flags that mental health is absolutely cratering and the same people who should regulate need to address this increasingly and intentionally precarious environment.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

I just heard an old dial-up modem. ...then I realized it was actually just my stomach growling.

praise: this looks like a useful, minimal standard for review comments. I'm be using this on my team!

The Greenpath theme from Hollow Knight is some seriously good music.

I see that the company North Spore is offering a $2500 mycology scholarship for graduating HS, undergrad, or grad students northspore.com/pages/north-...

Is there a sports happening now or something?

Now that Halloween is over, it's time to start asking the serious questions like "what should we eat for thanksgiving?" and "what should we eat for Christmas?"

Should I go trick-or-treating with the kid who likes trick-or-treating or stay home and play Hollow Knight with the kid who doesn't like trick-or-treating?

The web has long self-selected easy options over good ones. With the rise of LLMs, I believe this is even going to be more pronounced, and it will make deep research skills *more* valuable. 1/4

I've always found Domain-Driven Design to be awkward with web apps, and I think the main reason is that it is often more difficult to maintain large aggregates, separate write models from read models, etc. when most objects last only for the one HTTP request. It makes more sense for stateful apps.

Sounds like Amazon may be divesting from games in this round of layoffs. If you’re a talented engineering leader and are interested in Apple re-investing in games: DM me!

I have always wanted to get into game development, but I know I wouldn't be able to stick with it unless I had a sense of accountability to finish what I started. Are there any good beginner gamedev communities out there?

My wife took on some extra child care responsibilities today, and it was so nice to have some time to myself. I even got to bake three things: mozzarella and pesto monkey bread, beignets, and pizza.

I really hate AI slop

Here's a side project I'm picturing: A personal finance system based on double-entry bookkeeping (like GNUCash) that uses TigerBeetle and SQLite running completely locally.