If I was this contractor I probably would have named my business Rebar McEntire

it's so funny that you can go through like 8 rounds of interviews for a company to check for "culture fit" and then they can just sell the whole dang thing and ope that's the culture now, hope you're still a good fit

I’m slightly terrified by the implication here that meat-based popcorn exists.

prince harry truly in his livejournal era. he is on aol instant messenger checking to see if the royal family is online and then changing his away message to a song lyric that's clearly about them

Via @[email protected], Couple neat tricks from @[email protected] on how to better enable interactive SwiftUI previews: peterfriese.dev/posts/swiftui-…

I enjoyed Katie Porter’s reading material, but I enjoy both the general joke and the complete Chicagoland pandering of Robin Kelly, an IL rep, bringing a gargantuan bag of Garret Popcorn. x.com/reprobinkelly/…

A lot I read about COVID is lamenting the slow uptake of the bivalent vaccine, and I’m wondering how much of that is folks (including me, my wife, and my mom) who caught COVID before they could get the bivalent vaccine, so then have had to wait 3 more months to get the shot.

I love when I get a letter informing me a service with my personal information was breached, and to compensate me they’ve given me several free years of identity theft protection from…Experian, who had one of the biggest personal info breaches ever. Good work everyone.

Every time I give a try to a type unsafe programming language.

This is probably only slightly less implausible than the conversation which actually happpened. x.com/badlipreading/…

None of my business

Calling all tech innovators! The call for papers deadline for #AppriseConf is fast approaching on January 31st. Don't miss your chance to share your ideas with the tech community - submit your proposal now! More: forms.gle/GKxDm8ipQZqi1o…

Sounds like a World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases when the storm is so bad that it destroys your emergency warning siren.

Whoever got Github to automate re-pointing chained PR requests to the proper branch after the preceding PR is merged, you are my hero.

Woot, finally have the battery replacement scheduled for my Bolt next week. I am excited to have a) 100% capacity instead of 80% (software cap installed by Chevy as a precaution until replacement) and b) Less chance of bursting into flames.

Blargh. Well, if you were wondering if you were getting the Twitter sign in / can't sign in / please sign in loop on Tweetbot by Tapbots because you hadn't updated, I can confirm that updating to the version released today doesn't fix it.

Extremely curious to see if this post via micro dot blog makes it over to Twitter given their read API having a major sad on third party clients. Here’s hoping it’s just a bad deploy and not third party client access getting the boot…

For anyone who started following this account since the beginning of the year (or who missed my original rage-quit announcement): I'm now over at Mastodon! mastodon.social/@designatednerd