don't cheap out on fitness and nutrition as you get older. in the american healthcare system, the time and money you invest now will pay you back many times over.
a gym membership costs less per month than most prescription copays.
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just heard about a company called pantio.
given that we're apparently living inside a black mirror episode, i can only assume the pig one is next.
if you can get 80% of the way there by prompting, a lot of people will stop at 80% and never develop the intuition that comes from wrestling with hard problems yourself
Black & White & Weird
todays mood
Cat in a sink
sink or cat bed?
the distribution of what's worth knowing is shifting
memorizing low level code syntax matters less when autocomplete handles it or it's generated
understanding data structures, system design, security fundamentals, debugging instincts, reading code you didn't write is getting more valuable
Introducing Void, the Vite-native deployment platform:
🚀 Full-stack SDK
⚙️ Auto-provisioned infra (db, kv, storage, AI, crons, queues...)
🔒 End-to-end type safety
🧩 React/Vue/Svelte/Solid + Vite meta-frameworks
🌐 SSR, SSG, ISR, islands + Markdown
🤖 AI-native tooling
☁️ One-command deploys
void.cloud
debugging is a persistence game
second week of swimming. Digging Shokz OpenSwim pro for providing the jams
in case you feel the need to deploy @tanstack.com start to aws using cdk.
github.com/andrewgillil...
monsters
im there for the taco bell
working with someone who seeks out others’ failures is exhausting
correction is necessary, but weaponizing mistakes to boost your own status erodes trust fast
strong teams don’t hunt for errors to win points, they fix them together and move forward
saw good luck, have fun, don't die this weekend.
if you share the sentiment that social media and generative AI are, on balance, a net negative for society, accelerants for the worst of human nature, you'll thoroughly enjoy this film.
if you're a tiktok doom scroller, you'll probably hate it.
been rockin shokz bone conduction headphones for about 3+ years for workouts/runs/walks/swims (yeah they have water proof ones) and wont go back to in ear headphones for exercise.
plus, how do people wear over ear headphones to workout. do they not sweat?
this means i can basically speak spanish at the level of a toddler
forgot to bring my headphones to the gym this morning, had rock me amadeus on loop in my head. gonna be a great day
this is the year, reviewing code is gonna be cooler than ever
stranger things finale did a better job than i expected.
wrapping up a highly entertaining show is hard.
enough loose ends were left open, because let’s face it, spin-offs == 💵’s
2026 is coming, remember…
does the lego gameboy come with the links awakening screen?! too cool
after a week of many cookies and eggnog (and very few vegetables) i find myself slugging away on the stairmaster. feels like deja vu, or possible insanity
chrimus shopping done, and zero dollars give to amazon. sorry jeff
remember when the mall used to kick ass this time of year, pepperidge farm remembers
loading some random bytes into memory...
dear future self, mixing swift and c++, set this value in build settings in xcode
tastes like purple