how the hell did anyone in the 90s actually read Gene Wolfe‘s New Sun series before e-readers with builtin dictionary lookups? did they actually use a dictionary at least once per page?

@seattledot.bsky.social Alaskan Way is currently one of the most negligent safety hazards I’ve ever seen.

Very useful post from Bryan breaking down the challenges of growing engineers in the land of AI

do the negative leap second next www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01...

The calendar for the first three months of 2026, with today, Saturday, January 31, highlighted. February begins on Sunday and lasts for exactly four weeks, ending on Saturday.

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015

Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

fun daily game cluesbysam.com

Bob is spot on about the need to shift from mode specific advocacy (such as cycling) to safe streets advocacy. Safer streets benefit everyone, including people who bike.

> British Chaos refers to a cluster of TikTok personalities that “once might have just been a local character in a pub in Stevenage but have become international celebrities

👏

I'm having some fun with maps.

I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments.

Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.

why aren’t there more bars in grocery stores? the one at u-village QFC is outstanding

[watching a jingle horse drag its feet]

Pathetic.

Fun episode! I worked at AWS at the time (DynamoDB Infrastructure). This was a memorable final on call shift. Some say you can still hear the chorus of pagers if you listen close enough.

ORCA wrapped dropped tonight, go check your stats

what do you like about it?

This trombone slide chart with multiple ways to play the same note from the 70s closely resembles a git branch graph.

It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great

why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files

academy award contending tiktok

This book, but with @swerveconfident.bsky.social on every page

worse than vista? wow

finished diablo 3 last night. hard to believe it was my first diablo game / isometric dungeon crawler

🎵 last night was the first night in eons i played a bass trombone part. The lowest notes were occasional F1/G1s while regularly cranking out E5-D5s gave me a new appreciation for lung capacity

"You're absolutely right!"

A Wikipedia-style guideline page on avoiding exaggerated wording by LLMs, with two sections titled Undue emphasis on symbolism and importance and Promotional language. Each section lists “words to watch” in a beige box, such as "stands as a testament", "plays a vital role", "rich cultural heritage", "breathtaking", and "must-see". Below, example sentences are shown with problematic phrases highlighted in yellow, including "enhancing its significance", "captivates both residents and visitors alike", "stands as a symbol", "reflects the evolving identity", "vibrant town with a rich cultural heritage", "fascinating glimpse into the diverse tapestry", and "value-driven experiences".

This is really fascinating

Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

mspaint traffic notices from WSDOT

AI generated drawing of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice where the child commands the walking broom to move the water, which is I probably some sort of metaphor

AI and Software Engineering, August 2025 edition:

dev.ahill.net/2025/08/08/a...

I wish I knew. It’s also painful for client side metrics on empheral workers.