You’d think Gruber would have an affinity for people who make large, ill-founded stretches to try and score points from a group they don’t like.
There should be half-sized dishwasher-safe occy straps you can use to tie down Tupperware containers so they don’t flip over and fill up with manky water.
I received a typo'd acknowledgment today, "undertandable". My diseased brain then decided to go off and spend time coming up with a meaning and etymology for that word because why would it do the things I need it to do.
From the Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among", and the Middle English both, from Old English toð, from Porto-Germanic *tanthu, from PIE *dent, "tooth"
To be among teeth.
"undertandable" then is to be subscribed to aus.social right after someone has been to the fucking dentist.
An engineer goes off at the current fad, LLM-based feature development. Particular reference made to grifters and the inability of most companies to even do the basics of software engineering correctly.
I’m kind of bummed to learn that Aubrey Plaza is not playing David Haller’s psychotic hallucination in Agatha All Along.
I was never jealous of any of my friends until two of them escaped capitalism within days of each other.
Saving for posterity because it is so generally usable
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
Author describes building the first homelab
Guide to creating home (computer) labs
Book on becoming a better programmer
I recently needed to use UUIDv5 in c# and was shocked to find it isn't in the framework.
Never not here for an article on somebody creating a retro computer with a raspberry pi or similar
Notes on one method of note taking
Good explainer on S3 and how different it is to a traditional (read: unix-inspired) file system.
Notes on one method of note taking
Notes on how one person uses Obsidian