Posts by "Danny" Rench
Rahm didn't listen to me back when he was hyping Musk's never-gonna-happen hyperloop. My idea was slightly less dumb and impractical: DIRIGIBLES.
Launch from Northerly Island. Service to ORD/MDW/PWK. Put ads on the bottom for people stuck in traffic to stare at. No tunneling required.
They should have kept this pic UNDER WRAPS amirite
A screenshot of the regex in question
Someone at The WELL linked to this hilarious part of the Claude Code analysis which detects user anger via regex, which is ELIZA-level intelligence alex000kim.com/posts/2026-0...
The fact they chose to key the stats on the letters in the puzzle instead of date means they aren't planning to ever repeat a puzzle
A screenshot of the summary screen for today's Merriam Webster's Blossom game showing blank stats. It appears their stats API is not returning data for today's puzzle.
They released the 2026-04-01 game data in time, but this seems to have broken stats for today.
They key the stats not on the date, but the puzzle_id (ex: "N-AGIKLT" is today's), which may be part of the problem, if not the root of it.
Expecting something weird for tomorrow's @merriam-webster.com #blossomwordgame
Normally their graphql API returns game data days or weeks in advance, but ask it for 2026-04-01 and it's 🦗🦗🦗
I had a tiny twitter interaction with Margo ~2017. I made an oblique reference to her anti-Clinton/pro-Jill Stein views and she gave it a "like" which I'm not sure how to interpret (and we'll never know now; RIP)
Also voted Margo, despite the age of the recordings. Makes me regret not nominating the 2001 release I probably listened to most that year: the NUGGETS 2 box.
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
D'yer Mak'er. I don't want 4+ minutes of white guys goofing on reggae.
4. Fresca
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
Long ago, the company I was at got acquired by this company that had a system named "Ockham" and nobody really knew how it worked. It was J2EE + Oracle running on fridge-sized Sun servers with fancy F5 load balancers. Everyone involved was either laid off or quit within a year.
When someone suggests a project name like this in a meeting, we all have a laugh and move on.
Unless there's one guy (and it's always a guy) not laughing. Then you end up working non-ironically on Project Icarus for the next 6 months.
Naked Raygun JETTISON (1988)
Sounds like some of the same arguments I hear in software development. Depressing. If you push a bug, you own it!
Fantastic post answering a question I’ve had, if we can all write all the code now, where are all the cool new code bases and tools?
www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...
It's between this and Twisted Teens BLAME THE CLOWN (unless TT's BTC was actually from 2025; accounts vary)
Bernie! I don't use any of the big feeds but I've made some lists, like this one with (mostly) Chicago -area politicians, journalists, and activists: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Saved (?) by a former intern whose family business recently sold for $900 million… is this the future of “indie” venues…
Well done, leaders. Great work!
That's a story too: mainline north suburban dems from Brad Schneider on down backed Fine and that only got her 3rd place
Watch out for Unplug ICE, screen grab below. According to a Google search it's a phishing scam.
Popped up on my TL as a reply but it wasn't in reply to anything 🤷🏻♂️
Report and block is my advice. Don't follow or hit any links!!
There's currently an $18 mountain of Love & Rockets and associated comics on Humble Bundle, and I'm going to be overseeing a low-key Discord book club to read it all over the course of a year or so. www.humblebundle.com/books/love-a...
My IG ads are an alternate-universe where I'm a culture-warrior homeschooler and/or evangelical pastor and/or aspiring grindset thought leader. I should lean into that.
The racket is IG doesn't care about ads being wildly off-target since they get $$$ from hapless advertisers thinking they're getting "reach."
TIL instagram will push ads at me from an account I blocked
#WhatsUpMetaDevs
Hi @hashnode.bsky.social when I point my RSS reader at one of the blog feeds you provide, I get an HTTP 429 with a "x-vercel-challenge-token"
It's making it impossible to use the feeds. Is there a workaround?
AB InBev took over the Pabst Brewing contract. Production of their boomer brews has been shifting to St. Louis for a while, with City Brewery in LaCrosse taking on Old Style and a few others. Now it appears ABI is culling the portfolio -- in addition to Stag kegs I've heard bad rumors about Schlitz.