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.

Bakers can't be choux-sy

I just realized the my favorite video games all start with "H"! - Hollow Knight - Hades - Half-Life - HStardew Valley

Dinner tonight: muffaletta sandwich with homemade olive salad.

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

After finding the Farseer Trilogy a bit slow-paced for my taste, I almost did not continue with the Liveship Traders books. Am I glad I did though! I just finished "Mad Ship," and I'm about the start Ship of Destiny. These books are fantastic, and they get me much more than the Farseer Trilogy did.

Database companies are all in the pocket of BIGINT.

After spending the bulk of my past two weeks using Claude and Claude Code, I have to admit that they make some simple, repetitive tasks a bit easier (especially since I'm a very slow typer), but they also didn't improve my overall productivity much. Also, I kind of hate the feel of using them.

Metroidvania > Open World

I just closed over 100 tabs open in one VSCode Window.

I just saw an article titled "Windows or DragonflyBSD - What are the differences?" I'm like, my brother, who do you think your audience is?

I would love a VSC-based project management system where I can create tasks as Markdown files that are stored in Git that follow certain templates and have project management assets stored alongside my code. Internet, does such a thing exist?

I can hardly believe it, but as of today, I have two teenagers in the house!

I made the mistake of watching The Amazing Digital Circus, and now I'm on a YouTube fan theories/lore rabbit trail.

When people successfully vibe code a database, compiler, operating system, or high performance game, that's when I'll be interested.

Unpopular opinion: Jira is pretty good, actually.

I love me a good Gantt chart.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Time for a rewatch of K-Pop Demon Hunters. This time with the kids 😁

Days since I last built a compiler: 0

I've been doing calisthenics for the past couple of months, and I just hit 10 clean pull-ups for the first time in my life! It's a good feeling.