There's a little-known letter from Chaucer that records his tasting flavor-blasted doritos > [...] mye mouthe wys accosted with sych violence by thee triangle I was laid out upon mye bed f'r three nyghts avvash in a dread sweat that did not abate until my humors weir set aright

I edited my early drafts of this… a lot because LWN is a place to report on technical topics rather than air out editorial opinions, and I think I managed to achieve the former Still difficult to do! Especially with the outcome unresolved

I wrote a high-level overview of where flakes sit in the @nixos_org ecosystem, how they're useful, and why parts of the nix community are split about them for LWN: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10942…

I formally verified my Python webapp against the verification criteria “is it good, chat gbt?” Simple as

Told my wife I was debating who had the best-looking and easy-to-handle AI hardness online with other dudes and she banned me from social media

My business is using PHP? The Personal Home Page software?

Days like today I am so glad to be out of the SRE on-call rotation game I don’t need an intermediate CA rotation in my life, heartbleed was enough for me

Writing in “George Bailey” for every candidate on my midterm ballot then going home to respectfully avoid eye contact with my wife as we prepare to retire for the evening into our separate beds

People act like Rust is some great language and yet when you ask for evidence, its supporters present very compelling and well-reasoned justifications for using the language. Seems a little suspicious if you ask me

Venture Capitalists are burning so much money to ghostwrite posts with LLM tokens when they could easily get the same level of insights they’re used to with an incompetently-written Markov chain

Last night we deliberated between watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day (budget: $225 million) and It Ends (budget: $80,000)

I can accept many of the inevitable aspects of aging, but the exponentially-increasing rate of bodily maintenance is obnoxious purely from the perspective of how much time it takes to keep things running smoothly

Flying my Roadster to the nearest Wendy’s and crashing through the roof, emerging from the twisted wreckage screaming that I need three Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers immediately or I’ll die

Alright I’m building the CachyOS kernel from a nix overlay I found, let’s see if it’s all that and a bag of chips

dhh as a cautionary tale about what unbridled optimism and excess dopamine does to a person

You have the courage to resist a Chinese spy gf but do you have the courage to put on the thigh-high socks and catfish Chinese labs for your country

I need to find where to buy dunkaroos for my 6yo’s lunch box