It *is* Tuesday after all.

Yeah. It's slightly crazy.

And to be clear, this was because of a tooling bug

Note to self:

It's probably a good idea to length limit the size of your prompt to the LLM.

For some completely unknown reason, it appears that Github Copilot CLI struggles to handle a 227 megabyte prompt.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.

100%. And it seems to still be kickass ML.

But I'd been spending *hours* at various Lego sites trying to identify the sets and Bing Reverse Image Search found the 5 models I was trying to find in literally seconds (it struggled with one set but I eventually found it).

Just going to throw out how insanely helpful Bing image search is at identifying 20+ year old Lego Models :).

My team's RTO has been postponed indefinitely because of <reasons/>, but I'm giddy about the concept of taking the train to chorus tonight - the trip will be about 2x as long but 2x cheaper ($18 for parking vs $6 for a day orca pass).

Maybe this was an "acknowledging my kink" post?

Not 100% sure. But heaven knows I tend to find the strangest software related tasks to be "fun"....

As in fun things like "Create an abstraction to allow others to implement their own arbitrary multithreaded runtime in Rust"...

You know, fun :).

Chatting with a coworker describing a new suggestion of theirs as "fun".

I'm now beginning to wonder if I'm a closet software masochist.

My grandfather used to quip about an ad he almost certainly never saw saying:

"Jesus Saves! (<small text> at the First Security Bank</small text>)"

A photo of a desktop covered in stickers including several ninja cats and other stickers

Pulled out a pile of stickers to find a treasure trove...
@kclemson.bsky.social @threddyrex.org

It somehow disturbs me that in 2026 developers appear to have forgotten that there are languages other than English.

Also that the .Net "Char.IsLetterOrDigit" is a Unicode aware API - and thus cannot be used to validate strings constrained to the US-ASCII range.

Any idea what's up with the hundreds of "great tip" comments on the issue?

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Dolly Parton's words and melodies have a way of soothing the soul and reminding us that brighter days are possible. The soaring opening of SMC’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” captures that spirit of hope and renewal. 🎶

Heat, electricity,and internet are 100% not overrated.

I want a cable I can use to connect my laptop to its dock, and my dock to my monitors.

And none of the USB cables I owned until a week or so ago could do that.

Hello Alice, glad to finally meet you!

Oh, I found some, but I have this huge pile of cables (including ones from Apple) which aren't.

Why is it so hard to find USB-C cables that function as data cables and not charging cables?

A snow covered yard covered in a couple of inches of snow. A green shed is in the background and a wooden bench is in the foreground.

So this is happening.....

A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Oops, horsesass.org 😀...

I started following you oh so many years ago on horsesass.com.

I STILL reference the blog posts you wrote about the 2004 governors election and the recounts.

I learned so much about elections from them.

There's nothing that feels quite like sending an email to a couple of VP's asking them for help with a technical problem, only to have to send them a second email saying essentially "never mind"...

Sigh.

If it was on lake Bellevue it was probably the Crab Pot.

I owned that one for years... Even though it had nothing to do with anything I wrote (Ungermann Bass XNS transport offloaded to a coprocessor which sometimes became unresponsive).

And I believe there are still people who curse me because of it.

Oh, I thought that was me 😊. Heaven knows I broke enough stuff in your design when I reimplemented it (for example the aforementioned race condition was only exposed because I misread your spec and set a timer to too short an interval).

The Ancillary Function Driver?

And of course, both bowser.sys and afd.sys were named by our mutual boss.

Umm. You didn't spend a day wandering through various offices trying to find a particular WFW machine which refused to relinquish the master browser role courtesy of a race condition in the WFW browser implementation.

I wonder who that might have been...

That was written before I was tasked with writing the MS-BRWS protocol spec. Mostly because I was one of the only people who remembered the details of how it worked.

That was 6 weeks of my life spent staring at code I wrote 15 years earlier.