uh oh, I seem to have hit the "now you need to understand this creaky tower of JS tooling to fix a build error that makes no sense" phase of my tinkering with modern web UI tools.

High value bribes are a great parenting tool for determining what your kids are actually capable of.

A very smart friend of mine, high level tech guy, just doesn't use any social media,, doesn't really check his phone or follow news sites. Inspiring.

I have the specific kind of anxiety that comes from responding to multiple Calendar Availability forms with the same days without having yet heard back.

The plan? We’ll start a sparkling wine business out of Champaign, IL

Gradually, all the ads I'm seeing on here have become normal tweets from engagement-hungry weirdos.

that's gotta validate their choice of Go for typescript a bit, a quick 5x compile time improvement github.com/golang/go/issu…

There's a weird part of me that is frequently tempted to just turn LinkedIn into my personal blog.

Saw some coding interview prep guidance that recommends familiarizing yourself with 4 or 5 sorting algorithms at the same level it recommends being aware of hash tables. That strikes me as crazy. Is that crazy? I've impled most of the classics, but >99.999% of code calls 'sort'.

Given that my previous experience with reference checks was "you list a couple names, and nobody probably calls them", interacting with a system that wants detailed personal info about them and then sends them an automated survey about you feels a bit jarring.

the simple pleasure of annihilating your children in Mario Kart.

I seem to be on the same evening walk schedule as a rather large urban coyote; we see it most nights now. Would seem cool if my dog wasn't desperate to play with it.

I know the arguments for normalization and the efficiency of modern rdbms, but there's always a part of me that looks at a few 100b of data spread across a dozen tables and all accessed together and gets sad thinking about how much easier some nested structs and arrays would be.

Every single online service needs a "don't serve me AI generated content with human content unless I ask for it" feature.