Unfortunately my proposal to add 100,000 bufos to Unicode was struck down by the consortium

What does Ricky think

“You never stop at a light without leaving room to escape from a carjack. I live in Edina. No joke” is such a perfect bit I’m jealous I didn’t make it up

Pilates workouts are GREAT for core ime

Got into them in college. It's a lot of garbage, but sometimes they produce something that feels almost poetic?

There was a twitter account back in the day that combined SICP with the king james bible, and some of the quotes were rly good

Third winter

The exit strategy seems to be to get acquired by anthropic/openai

Popcorn is so good. Can't believe we invented that one

HAPPY "THE WHOLE PLOT OF THE ZERO ESCAPE GAMES STARTS TODAY" DAY

the one and only that will be

watch out for snails

19 hours later and I feel like we got a delightful amount of snow.

Plus, what a great way for MSP snow removal infrastructure to flex.

I read to do this in some article YEARSSSS ago, and it's just been poking around in my brain

I never thought it'd happen, but today my habit of starting all my git repos with an empty commit has paid off.

Happy "None of Us Will Be Shoveling This Snow" Day for all who celebrate, which is all of us.

Meetup has been getting worse for awhile. Someone should make another one and start the cycle anew.

A hot take: our perceptions are skewed by the industrialization of clothing. A world where making clothing by hand is the default would normalize the mistakes more

So much this. I know the standard advice is "nobody will care or see", but these hobbies are all about the act of creation - taking raw material and breathing life into something via human effort. So it makes sense that you'd want it to be something of high quality

I'm at this weird middle point with sewing, where my ability to perceive issues has grown beyond my ability to actually not make those mistakes in the first place. Currently trying to get past that so that I can enjoy the process and not care so much

I'm realizing that the trick to enjoying any hobby is just an enormous amount of hubris, combined with radical acceptance of flaws in the result

I've been scraping the metro transit GTFS feed for about 36 hours and it's kind of lovely to see the activity ebb and flow over the course of the day

I'm in this photo

And before we go saying "well the database is really impressive"
- no evidence that it's being used anywhere critical
- and after glancing at the code, I would not.

I don't wanna argue too hard against the whole factory advice, since I think there's good ideas in there.

But if I'm gonna try and emulate their practices, I would like more confidence that it'll actually work

I am low-key unimpressed by the StrongDM AI thing. I would expect some extremely impressive output given the hype, but so far I see... Oauth for agents, and a custom DB for convo history?

(Am I missing something obvious?)

But yeah I'm in the same boat as you: I've been creating my own thing from a bunch of pieces, and I keep waiting for _something_ to put all the pieces together in one box

I've ended up on zellij/tmux for this, with helix/vim as an editor.

AFAICT nobody has solved the "place to comment on the diff" part in a good way yet, I just push everything to GitHub and wrote a script to fetch pr comments and get markdown back.

Counterpoint: hopefully we get to the point where our tokens/sec is fast enough to not need this. Why bother parallelizing when each task is done quickly

Gastown (supposedly) solves the "many agents integrating with each other" problem and I think that's a pretty huge deal - I would really love it if GitHub let me throw Claude at solving merge conflicts automatically

I mean you definitely get to the point where one coding agent just doesn't go fast enough. I was cooking up a side project this morning & was waiting on Claude to spin on a problem so I could give it the next one

Yeah big ++ on that, I will admit to not having used it, but it feels like the purpose of gastown is to make people understand what's possible instead of being the thing