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funemployment status: RESCINDED.
marriage status: REVOKED.
reality tour: STARTED. EMBRACED.
employment status: REVOKED.
employment status: ISSUED.


i am a grown adult that lives in an apartment
Ed Balls
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
shout out to reqwest, but consider disabling the default feature "system-proxy". in my test suite my tests were taking upwards of 1s when making requests against a wiremock server.

after a lot of tweaking, i found that removing the system-proxy feature brought the test run time from 1s -> 20ms.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
maybe i don't understand the context here. but who could possibly be celebrating the existence of a 50 year mortgage unless they also celebrated this country's wealth chasm.
Do the math. It don’t add up
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
i just got cropdusted by my cat
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
manspreading on a flight should be a class a felony.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
through work (yay employed) i know have a full all-access pass to the jetbrains app suite. rust rover is quite good.
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
i found the 10th circle of hell (airport starbucks). still — grateful.
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by rejection enthusiast
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
it has been a long time since i have flown and i am stunned by how good airplane wifi has become.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
this doc on common rust lifetime misconceptiosn is eye-opening 🙇

github.com/pretzelhamme...
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
i bought a digital scale that has an app the other month, but am waiting to not be fat to start using it.
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ahhhhh i finally have a usb-c iphone 🥳
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For the last two covid shots, I've taken a Claritin right after the shot, and the difference in the intensity and the duration of the symptoms has been remarkable. I wasn't sure until after the second time doing this that it was a placebo. It still might be but probably not!
i got my flu and covid vaccines about four hours ago and i can already tell that tomorrow's gonna suck. love that it is working.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
found the dang std::thread::sleep that was hitching up my app that i recently converted (but apparently missed this) to async rust.

i wish there were a better way to detect this. i did spin up tokio console hoping to see stalled polls but it was infrequent enough that maybe it didn't register..
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
my roborock vacuum wasn't working great, so i emptied the dustbin for the first time in three months. i also turned it over and there were cat toys in the rollers, preventing them from moving at all 😂

totally understandable but it would have been cool for the robot to tell me things were sideways.
October 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
cross compiling a smallish rust release binary on aarch64 -> x86_64. good lord.
a skeleton in a walker is walking down the sidewalk .
ALT: a skeleton in a walker is walking down the sidewalk .
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
i got my flu and covid vaccines about four hours ago and i can already tell that tomorrow's gonna suck. love that it is working.
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
democrats should consider running on a platform of making tshirt tags either comfortable or easy to remove.
October 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
i'm basic
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reposted by rejection enthusiast
You can't say "peace out" at the Pentagon anymore. You have to say "war out"
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
siri show me something extremely lazy and smooth brained
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by rejection enthusiast
You already know that dogs play poker. But did you know that cats play pool?
October 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
the pho i had this evening in atlanta was the best i can remember. i left the restaurant with fireworks going off in my head.
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
spent about 45 minutes tracking down why my app was logging 401 errors but the browser was not seeing the 401s.

I was using Option::or_else(my_401_macro!(...))? 🤦

So the macro which returns a 401 after emitting a tracing log was always getting evaulated b/c I wasn't using a closure.
October 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
almost exactly lined up with when i sat down to play.
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM