big day. I have moved desks into a quiet corner of the open office :)

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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he's going to interview Mario

I think that's something I put on my retirement to-do list

Had a good time at the local BSides conference today. I sat at a table with a bunch of IT dads who took me under their wings with a bunch of tips for when the baby comes

The Oxide and Friends ep on LLM rigor was cool, but how does this work when you don't start from the baseline of having a team exclusively filled with very competent and diligent members?

I don't know (or care, really) how mega-corps tackle this, but I am really curious of what a successful coding-agent-use framework could look like for small teams. Some way to identify "sufficient rigor" while having guardrails to prevent sloppy contributions from even getting to the review stage.

Started reading Microserfs tonight, and wow has it sucked me in.

slipped on ice this morning and hurt my shoulder while falling. I miss being an invulnerable youth.

I want to build a script that blocks me from launching a coding agent unless I can provide sufficient evidence that I've actually thought things through on paper beforehand.

This is about having a great job that I love but not getting to write INSERT_MEME_YOUTUBE_INFLUENCER_LANGUAGE at work

Sometimes I wish I could have it all, but you know how it is

that said, thats what the tech paycheck's for I guess

I'm grateful to not work for a tech company. It kind of looks like a bummer given some people's posting the past few months

I played it when the switch remaster came out a few years back and it blew me away. Godspeed, gamer

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Olympic medal-winning teammates today.

Rivals soon.

Sarah Wilkes, Emma Miskew, Tracy Fleury, and Rachel Homan will be on four seperate teams for the first-ever Rock League season in Toronto from April 6-12.

rockleague.com/tickets

Enjoyed watching them together in Cortina?

What about Team Mouat... apart?

All four members of an epic rink are taking part in Rock League's first-ever season this April in Toronto.... on four separate teams!

rockleague.com/tickets

classic Friday afternoon. Deploying with my arse clenched

I love playing the role of a person putting various blocks into a bin and hoping they dissolve

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

Serenity (demo trailer) YouTube video by Matt Sephton

Serenity

A zen gliding and exploration game with procedurally generated music. Endless relaxation.

youtu.be/6kuETNxSWVM

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

3 people (including me) in person at the office today. -45 will do that.

Tweet from 2018 saying You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years? These are 3 major things you should focus on: - GraphQL. - Web Assembly. - Web Components. You will most likely end up using it so no better time to start learning it than today!You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years? These are 3 major things you should focus on: - GraphQL. - Web Assembly. - Web Components. You will most likely end up using it so no better time to start learning it than today!

Two years to go!

Hubris! I'm full of it! I forgot that I am nothing more than a highly evolved ape with a keyboard.

I was humbled today. I dared to use a toy javascript framework a month ago thinking it'd make my life easier, but it only cause me pain. The solution was to rip it out and just use vanilla JS.