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