A sobering blog rant
An engineering blog-post with a title like “the death of the junior developer”? Written by Steve Yegge? Gotta read it, right? Sourcegraph has their own chat assistant, Cody, but the point is more gen…
Trump from Mars, Biden from Venus
One surprising aspect of "political polarization" is the ways it's correlated with men vs women. From this NYT article about a post-debate poll: In the pre-debate poll, Mr. Trump had l…
“Insight Porn”
The only reason I bother trawling through HN is for the occasional gem like this: (Source) Hacker News is just a part of the larger web. It's the same reason you see so many people arguing over…
Point lobos flowers
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Book haul from a sale
Monthly recap: May 2024
Major update * Hiking: Sneath Trail and El Corte Madeira * Fanime (!) with Tara Minor update(s) * Finally switched from my Apple Watch to a Garmin Insight (more on that later ...) * Preferring…
The tower
This tree stump looked like a scale model of some sort of mountain fortress.…
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My favorite Russian songs
Context I’ve been sharing some of these off-and-on with people, I thought I’d spend half an hour and sit down and make the list. “Don’t tell my mom I’m in Chechnya” The most hummable of all these,…
Summer walk downtown
Just something about this lamp-speaker
Malfunctioning speaker had a sort of electronic wail to it: [wpvideo h9DYHG2m ]…