Have I mentioned how much I hate working with npm?

It’s like adopting the tech debt of 100 strangers and injecting it straight into your codebase—voluntarily.

JavaScript devs heard about “DLL Hell” and thought, “Wait… that sounds like job security.”

So we made it standard.

A photo of a hand holding a stick shaped like a small sword.

Whilst clearing brush around my home, lo did I come upon an mighty relic. Behold.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Lao Tzu didn’t actually say this, but I thought it was funny 🙂

"Only when mosquito lands on your testicles, you realize that there is always a way to resolve problems without using violence" - Lao Tzu

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

INSTEAD OF DEPRESSION try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave. Andrea Gibson

Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Wisdom

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.

A photo of a yard, with a tree on the right, blanketed in snow

Snowy days in Kansas 😊

Every day, I wake up, And I feel like I’m in the matrix. I know there’s a very large community of people who are aware here, but out there in the world, there are so many people plugged in so hopelessly dependent on the system, and they can’t see it. Or they don’t want to.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

An image of an optical illusion

There is truth, and there is what we perceive to be true–it is not always the case that the two are one and the same.

When it comes to politicians on both sides of the aisle…

Believe what they do, not what they say.

In shock announcement, Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip Trump unveiled his surprise plan, without providing specifics, at a press conference with Netanyahu.

President Donald Trump said the US would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere, moves that would shatter decades of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reut.rs/4gJbdQ5

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg.

Read more here: tcrn.ch/4aKfIZa

A collage of a sunset, fire pit with a crackling fire, and a fire-roasted hotdog and marshmallow

Sunday nights like this are pretty hard to beat 😊

Picture collage of a black barbell from several angles

Damn. This black barbell is sexy. Does anyone else get excited about new equipment, or is that just me? 😜

It’s a wild world out there. Music brings me solace.

A screenshot from a fitness tracking app, showing a summary of the workout completed

A short leg day is better than no leg day. Especially if it’s been a while 😅

This is not a meme coin.

This is Nvidia, $NVDA, one of the world's most valuable companies.

Yesterday it closed down 17% causing the largest single stock crash in history. Today, it closed up 8%.

It gained billions of market cap today.

It’s true 😅

Hypothesis: the new AI Stargate project, especially given Larry Ellison’s involvement and his comments about AI surveillance, is a nod to the CIA project of the same name: www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

a hot dog is being dipped in a bowl of ketchup . ALT: a hot dog is being dipped in a bowl of ketchup .

I bought the dip