There’s nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can’t code!

I think I used a PS4 controller and limited myself to the D-pad (no analog stick)

It absolutely 1000% should.

And rephrase: many of y’all DO make it, you just don’t sell it here. Maybe fix that kthxbai.

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Car manufacturers of America, I am once again asking for an electric vehicle with

NACS charging,
200-mi range, and
is a sedan or hatchback and not another 🤬ing crossover.

I have a low-mileage VW I am happy to trade in for this car. But none of y’all make it. Maybe now you will?

I read a fantastic answer to "Why did you never monetize your writing and go professional?"

"'Professionalism' is the demand that creative and intellectual work submit itself to the aesthetic standards of capital before it can be admitted as legitimate."

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This is why we should fund science.

Barbecue is a style of cooking, it is not the same thing as grilling, and a grill is not called a barbecue.

In the immortal words of @designatedwitter.bsky.social: “Feels like pissing on a wildfire, but at least I got my dick out.”

American religiosity has been in decline for some time, but the way some performatively religious people have accepted Trump will accelerate that decline significantly. It’s a mortal wound to the credibility of American evangelism.

Reading over CloudFlare’s EmDash, and my thoughts are:

You can’t call it a successor—spiritual or otherwise—to WordPress without plugin/theme compatibility.
What am I even doing with Smolblog?
…no, seriously, what am I doing… and why am I doing it…?

I’m having a hard time with all their intentional comparisons to WP when it’s not even PHP. The migration path is, AFAIK, “get your AI to port your plugin/theme”.

It’s a great CMS, but if there’s no direct path to migrate plugins/themes, it’s not a “successor” to WP.

Hey Apple, can you tell me why the 🤬 Launchpad search can’t find stuff in the 🤬 Applications folder anymore?

(Maybe why you felt the need to integrate it with Spotlight instead of just filtering the list like before?)

Mac Pro (2006-2026).

A machine that was meant to be the peak of all things Mac, a no-compromises device to end all no-compromises device, but ended up instead being forgotten by all but a few nerds with money, like MKBHD.

Survives in Goodwill form and at 90% discounts on eBay.

A system-on-a-chip architecture with unified memory doesn’t leave room for a modular system with discrete RAM and GPUs. RIP Mac Pro. (For real this time.)

WordPress is actually overly aggressive with this! I remember an issue where we were using `enclosure` for the post thumbnail, and WP overrode it when there was just an audio file in the post.

Somehow an infinite loop got past most of my unit tests and didn’t show up until the integration test. So here’s how to run Xdebug on the command line for the next time this happens.

My theory is also that code is a language, though much more precise than most human language. So an LLM’s task of “what would a plausible answer sound like” is more often correct.

Also there’s so much bleeping boilerplate everywhere.

We’ve used sticker ninja, don’t know off the top of my head if the do what you need

To be fair, there ARE good Christians out there who aren’t of the evangelical kind. I’m not against them. I’m against the hateful manipulators and sycophants who wrap themselves in Christian flags and verses and try to say they’re only following God’s Word.

WHY

Describing it now, it feels very reminiscent of “a state’s right to what, exactly?”

Ben’s article really focuses on “private corporations shouldn’t have veto power over elected officials.” In a vacuum it almost makes sense.

But making that argument now, with these elected officials… it feels off.

The answer probably lies in Altman’s phrase “human responsibility for autonomous weapons systems”. Which is not the same thing as not having autonomous weapons.

They were prepared to do everything but facilitate kill orders from autonomous agents without human oversight and that was not enough

I’m glad Anthropic is sticking to their principles and not giving into pressure from the United States Department of War. I wish they weren’t working with them at all, but I’m glad they are holding to the principles they do have.

if fantasy can include things that are impossible, why can one of those impossible things not be a totally functioning society that is not prone to real-world systemic issues?

anyone who thinks you can't write conflict or engaging stories in that kind of setting lacks imagination

May I propose: Becca Scott?