Screenshot of a DoorDash error page reading: "Error: Client ID cannot be null or empty. Redirect Uri cannot be null or empty. Scope cannot be null or empty. State cannot be null or empty." (DoorDash's OAuth login flow is broken)
doordash also hungry and cannot function
was once New Amsterdam.
jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”
jd vance negotiating with Iran
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
Screenshot of meeting notes, mid-document. Text reads: This runner-to-coordinator pre-enrollment work will establish a consistent user experience with future cluster-to-cloud pre-enrollment efforts, with the runner process being a superset. Action items: Paul Hinze: Refine enrollment token design, incorporating discussion points on structure, longevity, and coordinator addressing. Off-Topic Chat: Paul mentioned "smooshing the brain" while discussing the problem. Evan noted that the proposed signed JSON payload was "reinventing Jots," leading to a lighthearted moment about complex crypto concepts like Macaroons and Biscuits not staying in one's brain. Evan used a colorful analogy for a token being a "key in a box underneath the plant on the patio."
🚧 just two delightful technologists at work, captured in their native habitat @evanphx.dev
What I appreciate most about this post is Evan just saying "I have a limit."
Pressure to match the machine's pace is as old as the machine itself, and not a lot of people are willing to say out loud that they won't.
Quietly radical stuff.
slack screenshot of me adding :sisyphus: emoji to our slack, because i'm gonna need it to express my feelings today
gonna be one of those days 😅🫸🪨
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i pride myself on knowing my tools. i didn't even realize readline was one I didn't know well, and i interact with it EVERY. SINGLE DAY.
oh the devastation of ignorance. oh the rapture of newfound knowledge 🎭
ok i'll stop crashing out now 😅
but wait. it gets worse. not only was there an undo, but an ENTIRE GODDAMN HISTORY. readline keeps a "kill ring" of your last 10 kills. alt+y cycles through older ones
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THE UNDO WAS RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME
ctrl+y
it just... puts it back
i use ctrl+u and ctrl+w constantly. just shredding the command line like a pro. very confident. and then sometimes i overshoot and kill something i needed and just sit there like a fool retyping it
today i learned that ctrl+y in the terminal pastes back whatever ctrl+u just deleted. my shame at this gap in my knowledge is matched only by the joy of this discovery ☯️
i wrote about the dark forest theory of the internet but really it's about how i was too spooked to run a server or share a thought online for like a decade
inze.ph/writing/moving-day
“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis
"You know I'm not one for hyperbole, but its the only thing I can come up with! Just seeing Tycho, there's [unsurename], Copernicus, Rainier Gamma. It's just everything from the training but in 3 dimensions and absolutely unbelievable! This is incredible!" - Reid Wiseman
"Copy Moon joy." - CAPCOM
just realized i'm responding to CodeRabbit review comments on my RabbitMQ PR the friday before easter github.com/mirendev/run...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
...should i go to church
honestly useful in lots of situations
Screenshot of a Claude Code session discussing EPMD (the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon). Me: "what a funny failure mode for EPMD." Claude: "Right? 'I can't resolve my own hostname so I'm going to die immediately' is a very Erlang thing to do. No retry, no fallback to localhost, just immediate principled death."
erlang appreciation friday 🫡
Screenshot of a GitHub pull request titled "Accept org ID in delete organization confirmation modal #126". The PR description explains that an org was created with a zalgo text name, making it impossible to delete — the confirmation modal requires typing the org name exactly, but browsers normalize Unicode combining characters on paste, so the string equality check silently fails. The fix adds the org's XID (e.g. org-abc123) as an accepted alternative input. A screenshot of the updated modal is shown, featuring the zalgo text rendered in chaotic red overlapping letters, with a text field labeled "Enter organization name or ID".
finally atoning for my past sins
(and if you're wondering why the @miren.dev org delete modal says "or org ID" - this is why)
Minnesota Twins player #30, James Outman
Hideo Kojima introducing a baseball player in a video game
Screenshot of an email From: "Empower | The Currency" Subject: Credit card debt nears $1.3T
i absolutely read this as a personal high credit alert for about three seconds. turns out it's just the whole country. so we're fine
Screenshot of my Claude Code session where I'm building and using a homemade music-cli tool. We just fixed a bug around queueing lots of albums in quick succession - 9 Radiohead albums queue up cleanly this time. Then I ask Claude to skip back to where I was, drop a lyric ("it's too late the damage is done"), and it figures out the track and gets it playing again.
been really digging "build the software // use the software" loops lately. will write it up soon.
Reminder to check your public library to borrow stuff for free like video games, books/ebooks, movies (including digital/streaming), and possibly even free museum passes and other goodies
Screenshot of terminal "ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING"
same, postgres, same
This is the future liberals want 🥚🍿
Big ups for team non-dogmatic! 😄🙌🙅♂️🐶
Yeah we're you're in "negative" territory I'm just hanging out in "conflicted and uncomfortable" lol and I bet our reasoning prolly has a bunch of overlap.
Thanks for reading, Rich! 💜
I get the sense I fall slightly more towards the "there's still _something_ useful in here" end of the LLM intuition spectrum than you. That makes me extra happy to hear you found something worthwhile in the writing. The whole community needs to keep thinking & talking!
spent the weekend introducing my old pal marx to my new pal claude and seeing what they had to say to each other. turns out: a lot!
ended up with two posts: one about attention (secretly, labor) and one about capital (surprise, new landlords).
