: It gets more true every year: “enshittification” is a word for disney adults

: every time chat prefixes something obvious with “this is the subtle part:” I think …

: Would CloudFlare or CloudFront please rename to something that doesn’t start with CloudF, I …

: The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master.

: Always disappointed to click a link on a .blog domain and find a Substack :( This isn’t an …

: I haven’t had a laptop in several years, and I haven’t worked from a coffee shop …

: I didn’t realize that every blog hosted on Typepad has been deleted. What a fucking disaster. …

: I’m really excited that Uel is back www.greaterrealityarea.net

: all you monitor people seem miserable. ‘i bought a 27" 8k monitor i hate for …

: 2 years apart, merry ☧mas

: has anyone with conference room naming authority been bold enough to call their building’s …

: Speaking obliquely, I’m currently working on a project to demonstrate that I can write …

: domain owners should get a TLD email address; i own micahrl.com and so i should be able to receive …

: Testing some domains, all of these render as punycode in the browser, I wonder what micro.blog does …

: see if you buy a fun domain you have to at least do something with it, like this is the bare minimum …

: DNS would be so much more fun if Unicode didn’t show up as punycode so often

: Testing some domains, all of these render as punycode in the browser, I wonder what micro.blog does …

: it is outrageous to me that the domain chex.quest is registered and just parked. theres only one …

: Idea: HTML for shortcodes I have a lot of experience with Hugo and I like the concept of static site generators in general. I …

: Startup idea: tackle builds across the stack We need a single tool that does all of: local builds (replace Make/Gradle/etc) CI builds (replace …

: Working on a polyglot (Java/Go/JavaScript) at work, it really seems like build and CI systems are …

: Decided that being able to easily insert work before my working copy is worth using a new tool. I …

: I suspect there may be architectural software decisions that have cost human kind more time and …

: the idea that the government should step in to prevent 12 year olds from asking the cloud for images …

: Another LLM feature I manifested

: Claude finally made it to AI 4, glad to see them catching up to ChatGPT which is probably going to …

: My kingdom for a password manager that reads my text messages and emails. Jesus fucking christ I am …

: The biggest sign that OpenAI believes in the future of machine intelligence is the abject laziness …

: I wish there was good third party highlight/bookmark support for LLM answers. A few times recently …

: Final unfiltered thoughts on Claude Code The last three things on my mind from this week of building LDAPEnforcer from scratch. Claude Code …

: More unfiltered thoughts on Claude Code Continuing from last time. Was very exciting to work with this yesterday. Then I kept waking up …

: Some unfiltered thoughts on Claude Code Everyone is right, Claude Code is fucking mindblowing. dang it can build the code, run it, see an …

: I just type stuff in to Claude Code then load up the Anthropic Console and watch my balance go down. …

: You know, the calendar view that I would prefer is a nine day week+ view, starting on Saturday and …

: Earthquakes For a while, it felt like I could read everything on the Internet that I cared about, that I could …

: Cordwifto Part 2 A screenshot of a web page running in an in-app browser, talking to an in-app webserver, inside an …

: Cordwifto I embedded Hugo in a Go library in a Swift library in a Cordova plugin in a Cordova app to see if it …

: why is the US government wasting its time with a tiktok ban when there are REAL problems with …

: My first sunrise of the year this morning at Mueller Lake Park… planning to see one every …

: Someone told me this yesterday and I did not believe them. Funny in an X (formerly Twitter) sort of …

: Holy shit this list of features is enormous. https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2 S3, Postgres, CSS imports, …

: The most inscrutable icons in my dock are in the IDE and LLM sections

: Opening a project that has been only in zed inside other editors and it looks SO wrong. Not just …

: Wishlist: good web UI for flipping through diffs. I’d like to be able to export a few commits …

: I wish I could give o1 access to a regular Git repo and have it commit its changes in a branch, with …

: Charming captcha (is such a thing possible?) from LibraryThing

: htmz is a neat hack

: Finally able to give the Project Blue gift that I’ve been sitting on since February. Happy …

: Ice crystals in the morning

: Been a Gandi customer since at least 2009, maybe before. As of today, I’m fully migrated off. …

: I think the funniest thing to me about the Apple privacy lawsuit which was just settled is the …

: AI chatbot feature request: a button to summarize the current state of the conversation and any code …

: Cool stats from the past couple of years

: New Years Day brunch, mini baked potatoes and caviar

: Every time I go on a bike ride or get in a pool it amazes me that the company from California has …

: it’s nuts how my entire generation got its feelings hurt so bad by intentional listicle …

: Baked-in-advance Christmas Day quiches (Christmas Eve whisky for scale) btw, quiche is mega easy and …

: noms de guerre Definitions nom de guerre noun pseudonym (historically) a fictitious name used in war nom de …

: if i understand correctly, a.m. stands for after midnight and p.m. stands for pre midnight

: “Signing in just got easier!”, the website threatened

: The ecstasy of triumph / The agony of defeat

: Bluesky has such a nice web experience (“even” on mobile), responding instantly and …

: For readability Defenders of short lines in source code have won the day when it comes to defaults from automatic …

: Are there any positive effects of a system full of demons which you can ward off with an incantation …

: I am made to understand that it is stylistically incorrect to underline hyperlinks, but, with …

: Which side does the rendering again? So-called “server-side rendering” is actually “server-side serializing, network …

: In the cloud, you must pay the piper, who, one must always remember, charges more than you’d …

: Last night at Lazarus

: Finally, the web is taking cues from the best UX in the world (PBX phone trees) (to be clear you …

: I miss Twitter bots. Wish fediverse hosting was easier… not sure I care to be manually …

: I cannot abide the hideous portmanteau “transpile”, sewn together as it is from two …

: There’s nothing important left unsaid because it’s too hard to write online. Nothing …

: Nominitive determinism, OpenAI edition Enjoying the alternatives to human intelligence brought to us by the Alt Man

: The reason it’s hard to draw a line in the sand to determine the line for “true” …

: I wish my podcast player did automatic text transcription - even a bad LLM would be okay, and even …

: shiftwidth=3 Like everyone, I have my own code formatting opinions. Whenever the urge to share them gets too …

: Made a mezcal old fashioned (mezcal, orange bitters, Agave syrup) again, but added a pinch of salt …

: Stuff like this makes me want to make my own game. Something cool about not sending a link but …

: Recently reminded of the Trent Reznor Prize For Tricky Embedding, for which nominations continue …

: Accepting comments via access.log I am somewhat dissatisfied with the comments server on my main website, and have been hunting for …

: I learned in the reflector.show episodes about the Young Thug trial that a televangelist in the 80s …

: The secret `brew install` algorithm How to install programs with homebrew: Type brew search PROGRAM and wait for it to show results …

: I see how one might believe that “the purpose of a system is what it does”, and I see …

: TIL that “lorem ipsum” is the corruption of pain itself. Lorem ipsum is typically a …

: Coordinated Lunar Time In April, the White House released a memo on a standard for lunar time (PDF). I hope it is not too …

: Quoting, Raymond Chen Via The Old New Thing A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s …

: Food tracking Perhaps a weird way to put it, but it’s accurate to say that I’ve been enjoying tracking …

: If you see something strange, say something strange

: Just beat my move goal while sitting at a restaurant eating spicy food

: Something else I noticed after updating to Sonoma: although I’ve tried many times in the past …

: Realized since having a baby why YouTube face is so annoying: it’s an exaggerated face we make …

: Let’s Kerberos Cool thought experiment Whenever I think about Kerberos I think about the …

: I’m not trying to make everyone mad, but I gotta say, an Alpine Linux that used systemd for …

: Claws: sharpened Chitin: waxed Splines: reticulated Glands: excreting 👹

: Patterns

: My favorite math scratchpad app Soulver is available on iPhone again - way nicer than a spreadsheet …

: I really wish they would like, put a murderous dictator in charge of HDMI (and all) versioning. if …

: Quoting Ryan Tomayko on how many levels of headers you really need in your documents: Remember that …

: Operating system feature wish: userspace programmable files I frequently find myself wishing for the ability to really treat the filesystem as an API. Imagine a …

: UGC privatization could improve AI models An off the cuff idea: AI training on public data is driving privatization of user-generated content …

: Browsers need better account primitives Michał Sapka notes that PhpBB is a good way to create a small community. I’d like this to be …

: I am seeing more and more bad hyphenation recently, this is just so sad :(

: Copiloting LLMs building GUIs Hypothesis: LLMs will enable developers like me to build apps that require a serviceable but not …

: Homelab aesthetic quotes from computers are bad And I think that’s how I became the person I am today: I want computer networks to operate in …

: A router-enforced EULA for IoT devices A recent shower thought: consumer routers could enforce good IoT manufacturer behavior by placing …

: Ironic to use social sanctions (“climate incinerating”, etc) against cryptocurrency …

: Qubes + Whonix is one of the best ways to make sure you don’t leak your identity on Tor but I …

: Musing on AI tools Regarding AI prose suggestions like this, it seems to me that there’s a big divide between …

: Blue skies, Sierra Ferrel, chickenshit bingo. Thanks Luck.

: This would have been my dream laptop until my 2019 onset of RSI :( I miss working out of coffee …

: TIL: Narrow banking Fascinating history that feels very relevant today: there was recently a bank startup called TNB …

: PLS DO NOT TAKE

: Imagine browsers offering synced window.localStorage, with an in-browser UI for whether you’re …

: Circa 2000 or so, my family went on vacation to South Carolina to visit my grandparents. Here I am …

: Experimenting with a micro.blog account. Goals: keep posts on my own domain… … but …

: Test post, pls ignore