When my calendar is all meetings about the work I would be doing if I weren’t in meetings: “all rebase and no commits”

Apparently you can be depleted and repleted but not merely pleted.

Like when you leave your cat with relatives and they stage elaborate photo shoots teaching the cat to smoke cigars, cheat at poker, play Russian roulette

We definitely should use different pronouns for robots and mainframes.

and here I thought 'polycrisis' was what happens when someone forgets to bring the snacks to board game night

I think it's the standard library used by Turbo Pascal

Whenever I use calipers I feel like a real engineer

Make the chime version only for paid subscribers. (Subscription proceeds could go to charity? Tinnitus research foundation or something 😂)

Rick & Morty robot purpose pass the butter meme, but with the robot being Claude Code and doing menial work of resolving git merge conflicts

bugs bunny is laying on the ground holding a carrot in his hand Alt: bugs bunny is laying on the ground holding a carrot in his hand

don't forget to make that left at Albuquerque

Awesome but also if I squint it looks like almost half acronyms 😂

Be Just and Fear Not tombstone from Rocky Horror Picture Show

Be stoned and fear everything

I also use home assistant (of course), frigate for cameras, audiobookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks (routed through pangolin so I can use plappa on my phone), and thinking about getting a paperless-ngx / etc. setup for managing documents.

oh hello yes I am audience

Something relatively light and familiar works for me usually. The Good Place?

The AI Vampire This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

100% feeling Yegge's AI Vampire in my life steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

Go developer survey 2025 showing ages of respondents. 9% are 18 to 24, 35% are 25 to 34, 33% are 35 to 44, 16% are 45 to 54, 5% are 55 to 64, 1% are 65 to 74, 0% are 75+, 1% prefer not to say

There's all sorts of fun stuff in there, though I was immediately turned to dust by this graph, as I'm approaching an age cliff

it's never too late to start time traveling

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I learned that my name is mentioned in the Epstein emails because he ordered a copy of my book on Amazon, who emailed a receipt.

I’ve decided to donate the full retail cost (and then some) of that copy to a local charity for survivors of abuse.

a sign that says do not talk to driver is taped to a wall Alt: a sign that says do not talk to driver is taped to a wall

You could make a sign

Somehow Apple charges less for RAM than many workstation manufacturers 😂

Oh can’t wait. I see you might be discussing some things I helped get into rust-openssl. I’m sure only good things are said about OSSL_PARAM 😂

Starting new projects and finishing projects are entirely independent pursuits.

SORRY I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF ALL THIS DUMB SHIT WITH AI

I think this is the beginning of Snowpiercer

Has some Owl House vibes

Same. My ubiquiti stuff and my NAS are beasts that are hard to downsize.

My rack is “short depth” and still is like 70% empty space

Part of me wishes I could consolidate my half rack into mini racks.

Decorating Cents hosts ruining a perfectly fine green dollhouse by inexplicably turning it into coffee table.

But as I’ve learned from watching the 90s fashion dumpster fire, Decorating Cents, you could turn the dollhouse into a lovely table.