Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke.bsky.social
Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
Darkness fell, like a cliche in a room full of poetry majors.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Darkness fell, like a cliche in a room full of poetry majors.
I wonder if the AI boom impact on RAM prices will make people give a shit about being resource conscious in their programming again.
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I wonder if the AI boom impact on RAM prices will make people give a shit about being resource conscious in their programming again.
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I mean, as we're seeing with the metal-in-cheese recall, the same product on the same assembly line is being sold for dramatically different prices.
And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...
And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I mean, as we're seeing with the metal-in-cheese recall, the same product on the same assembly line is being sold for dramatically different prices.
And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...
And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...
My VLC wrapped for 2026: Top artist was "Unknown Artist", top album was "Unknown Album".
Single top track was "Vocal Warmup 2.mp3".
Single top track was "Vocal Warmup 2.mp3".
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My VLC wrapped for 2026: Top artist was "Unknown Artist", top album was "Unknown Album".
Single top track was "Vocal Warmup 2.mp3".
Single top track was "Vocal Warmup 2.mp3".
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As dumb as that is, I miss the days where the Next Big Thing actually did something as earth-shattering as "move a person around slightly faster than they could walk themselves."
Now it's "the NBT is an update to the predictive text your flip-phone used to have, only it's planet-killing."
Now it's "the NBT is an update to the predictive text your flip-phone used to have, only it's planet-killing."
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
As dumb as that is, I miss the days where the Next Big Thing actually did something as earth-shattering as "move a person around slightly faster than they could walk themselves."
Now it's "the NBT is an update to the predictive text your flip-phone used to have, only it's planet-killing."
Now it's "the NBT is an update to the predictive text your flip-phone used to have, only it's planet-killing."
The thing that most impressed me is how shortly after all the hype about accelerometers and fancy processing, "hoverboards" with basically mercury switches became a thing, until battery safety issues shut that craze down prematurely. Now it's hard to imagine a time before them...
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The thing that most impressed me is how shortly after all the hype about accelerometers and fancy processing, "hoverboards" with basically mercury switches became a thing, until battery safety issues shut that craze down prematurely. Now it's hard to imagine a time before them...
Among the things that surprised me in today's Timdle, the Suez Canal opening, and the US crossing 300M residents.
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Sort 8 historic events chronologically. Daily game.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Among the things that surprised me in today's Timdle, the Suez Canal opening, and the US crossing 300M residents.
www.timdle.com/daily
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What the L?
What are we landmarking this month in Berkeley, a city with 3 designated landmarks for every 1000 residents? A 1964 apartment building. Why are we landmarking it? It is L-shaped.
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What the L?
Assuming that the "API costs" aren't a loss leader (hahaha) and fully amortize the training costs, and as they note the data they're looking at is 2020 to 2025, and their example is a 6% gain, so does this mean Anthropic is looking at roughly 1%/year ROI for AI?
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December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Assuming that the "API costs" aren't a loss leader (hahaha) and fully amortize the training costs, and as they note the data they're looking at is 2020 to 2025, and their example is a 6% gain, so does this mean Anthropic is looking at roughly 1%/year ROI for AI?
red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-c...
red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-c...
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this doesn't mean we sit back and watch 'em spin; it means we have to be ever more mindful of anti-democracy efforts to silence and disenfranchise folks
... because we are in fact winning
... because we are in fact winning
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
this doesn't mean we sit back and watch 'em spin; it means we have to be ever more mindful of anti-democracy efforts to silence and disenfranchise folks
... because we are in fact winning
... because we are in fact winning
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the tl;dr is
anti-abortion and right-wing funders, including some of the richest mf's on earth, are absolutely burning cash in US elections right now because even with gaming the system, they can't get the results they want
anti-abortion and right-wing funders, including some of the richest mf's on earth, are absolutely burning cash in US elections right now because even with gaming the system, they can't get the results they want
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
the tl;dr is
anti-abortion and right-wing funders, including some of the richest mf's on earth, are absolutely burning cash in US elections right now because even with gaming the system, they can't get the results they want
anti-abortion and right-wing funders, including some of the richest mf's on earth, are absolutely burning cash in US elections right now because even with gaming the system, they can't get the results they want
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I now know what I'm going to use as an excuse for anything.
Fog of war, as in: Officer, I ran the red light because I was surrounded by the fog of war.
I did not eat that last cookie. It was consumed by the fog of war.
Fog of war, as in: Officer, I ran the red light because I was surrounded by the fog of war.
I did not eat that last cookie. It was consumed by the fog of war.
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I now know what I'm going to use as an excuse for anything.
Fog of war, as in: Officer, I ran the red light because I was surrounded by the fog of war.
I did not eat that last cookie. It was consumed by the fog of war.
Fog of war, as in: Officer, I ran the red light because I was surrounded by the fog of war.
I did not eat that last cookie. It was consumed by the fog of war.
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Tony's a hero. Give some money if you can.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tony's a hero. Give some money if you can.
Since it's December, I can note this: I don't want a lot for Christmas...
Abolish parking minimums and upzone those brownfields, let's get some shit built!
Abolish parking minimums and upzone those brownfields, let's get some shit built!
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Since it's December, I can note this: I don't want a lot for Christmas...
Abolish parking minimums and upzone those brownfields, let's get some shit built!
Abolish parking minimums and upzone those brownfields, let's get some shit built!
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Learning that why California is Like That is because they spent ~2 decades more or less creating a landed aristocracy
And if you're not a Californian, you're probably wondering: "Huh? Inherit property taxes? Why would a $2M home pay just $1,300 per yr?"
You don't understand what makes us special:
-Prop 13 1978: Freeze-ish property taxes
-Prop 58 1986: Inherit from parents
-Prop 193 1996: Inherit from grandparents
You don't understand what makes us special:
-Prop 13 1978: Freeze-ish property taxes
-Prop 58 1986: Inherit from parents
-Prop 193 1996: Inherit from grandparents
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Learning that why California is Like That is because they spent ~2 decades more or less creating a landed aristocracy
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
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... the process of calculation. It's like "we didn't have computers, so we made up all of this complexity" rather than just letting them be as conceptually clean as they are.
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
... the process of calculation. It's like "we didn't have computers, so we made up all of this complexity" rather than just letting them be as conceptually clean as they are.
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I think this is related to how poorly math is taught generally. Once I realized that matrices are just a way to project an x-dimensional point into an x-dimensional space along arbitrary vectors, so much was instantly intuitive to me, and I still wonder at all the jargon derived from from...
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I think this is related to how poorly math is taught generally. Once I realized that matrices are just a way to project an x-dimensional point into an x-dimensional space along arbitrary vectors, so much was instantly intuitive to me, and I still wonder at all the jargon derived from from...
This entire thread is absolutely beautiful, and I'm torn between "Fuck MacOS, I don't want to put any energy into it" and "my Mac could look so much better" (even though, functionally, it so lags Linux... except for Logic Pro).
some icons are very similar to their original designs, and some really aren't. i tried to keep them all having a similar colour palette to keep them quickly recognizable, but played with the silhouette because apple making everything a ~rounded square~ sucks ass actually
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This entire thread is absolutely beautiful, and I'm torn between "Fuck MacOS, I don't want to put any energy into it" and "my Mac could look so much better" (even though, functionally, it so lags Linux... except for Logic Pro).
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
Installed VLC on my phone because I finally got fed up with what Google has been doing to the Android music player that's become YouTube Music, and holy shit what a revelation it was to have a tool that does what I want it to do, and isn't just a big funnel to get me to pay more money.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Installed VLC on my phone because I finally got fed up with what Google has been doing to the Android music player that's become YouTube Music, and holy shit what a revelation it was to have a tool that does what I want it to do, and isn't just a big funnel to get me to pay more money.
OMG, Google, I fucking hate you.
(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)
(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
OMG, Google, I fucking hate you.
(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)
(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)
Fired up Firefox to retrieve an old password, and it's claiming that a one-off password used only for Facebook was part of a breach on September 30, 2023?
I've changed it, but I'd expect that'd have gotten more press than it apparently did, can't find anything on such an incident...
I've changed it, but I'd expect that'd have gotten more press than it apparently did, can't find anything on such an incident...
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fired up Firefox to retrieve an old password, and it's claiming that a one-off password used only for Facebook was part of a breach on September 30, 2023?
I've changed it, but I'd expect that'd have gotten more press than it apparently did, can't find anything on such an incident...
I've changed it, but I'd expect that'd have gotten more press than it apparently did, can't find anything on such an incident...
Oh, fucking charming, Homebrew has somehow destroyed my PGVector install, so my Postgres database is now unusable.
Have I mentioned in the last 15 minutes how much I hate this miserable excuse for a platform?
Have I mentioned in the last 15 minutes how much I hate this miserable excuse for a platform?
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Oh, fucking charming, Homebrew has somehow destroyed my PGVector install, so my Postgres database is now unusable.
Have I mentioned in the last 15 minutes how much I hate this miserable excuse for a platform?
Have I mentioned in the last 15 minutes how much I hate this miserable excuse for a platform?
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It is actually interesting that the Republican Party brand is already so toxic that they are trying to seed spoiler candidates to help incumbents win in tight races.
The whole "we're using AI to overturn the two-party duopoly" thing is an obvious smokescreen. NPR ought to be able to see through it.
The whole "we're using AI to overturn the two-party duopoly" thing is an obvious smokescreen. NPR ought to be able to see through it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is actually interesting that the Republican Party brand is already so toxic that they are trying to seed spoiler candidates to help incumbents win in tight races.
The whole "we're using AI to overturn the two-party duopoly" thing is an obvious smokescreen. NPR ought to be able to see through it.
The whole "we're using AI to overturn the two-party duopoly" thing is an obvious smokescreen. NPR ought to be able to see through it.