Mike
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Some sort of devops or system or problem refinery. Smooth out everything but make sure you have all your dysfunctions together in one spot that gets scrutiny.
I liked the distilled version of the downturn indicators without the 7 big tech bubble stocks and they aren’t down but they aren’t up…. So like is flat a recession? Not really.
But will the bubble popping hit our 401ks that are obliged to be stock pumping mechanisms? Yes really.
But will the bubble popping hit our 401ks that are obliged to be stock pumping mechanisms? Yes really.
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I liked the distilled version of the downturn indicators without the 7 big tech bubble stocks and they aren’t down but they aren’t up…. So like is flat a recession? Not really.
But will the bubble popping hit our 401ks that are obliged to be stock pumping mechanisms? Yes really.
But will the bubble popping hit our 401ks that are obliged to be stock pumping mechanisms? Yes really.
I’m pretty good at avoiding it but I see a lot of the impulse to intervene and prevent the kid from adapting and also become the antagonist in the situation.
Let them fall off the chair after they disregard the guidance.
Berating them about disobedience is just gonna cause lonely holidays later.
Let them fall off the chair after they disregard the guidance.
Berating them about disobedience is just gonna cause lonely holidays later.
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I’m pretty good at avoiding it but I see a lot of the impulse to intervene and prevent the kid from adapting and also become the antagonist in the situation.
Let them fall off the chair after they disregard the guidance.
Berating them about disobedience is just gonna cause lonely holidays later.
Let them fall off the chair after they disregard the guidance.
Berating them about disobedience is just gonna cause lonely holidays later.
There’s an interesting coordination cost with the agents.
I typically write out an idea and the extra 20 minutes it takes to write it down also irons out a lot of roughness my brain was ignoring.
Then let the agent do the code while I’m folding laundry. Then I check the PR deployment and merge.
I typically write out an idea and the extra 20 minutes it takes to write it down also irons out a lot of roughness my brain was ignoring.
Then let the agent do the code while I’m folding laundry. Then I check the PR deployment and merge.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
There’s an interesting coordination cost with the agents.
I typically write out an idea and the extra 20 minutes it takes to write it down also irons out a lot of roughness my brain was ignoring.
Then let the agent do the code while I’m folding laundry. Then I check the PR deployment and merge.
I typically write out an idea and the extra 20 minutes it takes to write it down also irons out a lot of roughness my brain was ignoring.
Then let the agent do the code while I’m folding laundry. Then I check the PR deployment and merge.
We differentiated them by size.
“3 and a half inch floppy” was the name for that one. If you take the shell off, it’s a floppy disc.
The “5 and a quarter inch floppy” was in a softer outer shell but the interior disk was the same floppy material.
“3 and a half inch floppy” was the name for that one. If you take the shell off, it’s a floppy disc.
The “5 and a quarter inch floppy” was in a softer outer shell but the interior disk was the same floppy material.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We differentiated them by size.
“3 and a half inch floppy” was the name for that one. If you take the shell off, it’s a floppy disc.
The “5 and a quarter inch floppy” was in a softer outer shell but the interior disk was the same floppy material.
“3 and a half inch floppy” was the name for that one. If you take the shell off, it’s a floppy disc.
The “5 and a quarter inch floppy” was in a softer outer shell but the interior disk was the same floppy material.
I keep making it do redis crimes to avoid having a real database.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I keep making it do redis crimes to avoid having a real database.
I never realized the Cats character wasn’t Mr Mephistopheles.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I never realized the Cats character wasn’t Mr Mephistopheles.
So sad. I’m in rural New Hampshire and have 2gbps fiber. It’s so weirdly deployed.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So sad. I’m in rural New Hampshire and have 2gbps fiber. It’s so weirdly deployed.
The security meme was don’t roll your own auth. I think we are at the point where just don’t do it at all. It’s not gonna do what you think it’s doing and it’s gonna do what you don’t expect.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The security meme was don’t roll your own auth. I think we are at the point where just don’t do it at all. It’s not gonna do what you think it’s doing and it’s gonna do what you don’t expect.
I saw this in 2016 when I didn’t have time for gaming so used my video card to make Ethereum. It was never actually worth it at the time to upgrade or get more GPUs but it was after 6 months.
The crypto grifter logic is holding true for AI. It’s obviously not a winner-take-all market. This is dumb
The crypto grifter logic is holding true for AI. It’s obviously not a winner-take-all market. This is dumb
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I saw this in 2016 when I didn’t have time for gaming so used my video card to make Ethereum. It was never actually worth it at the time to upgrade or get more GPUs but it was after 6 months.
The crypto grifter logic is holding true for AI. It’s obviously not a winner-take-all market. This is dumb
The crypto grifter logic is holding true for AI. It’s obviously not a winner-take-all market. This is dumb
They’re not raising 2.3x their revenue. Annualized revenue is just a random month * 12 so these companies all pick the month they landed several deals and “annualize” that. The rest of the months are way less.
So if 1b / 12 is 83 million. That’s their best month ever? So maybe they’re at 300m ARR.
So if 1b / 12 is 83 million. That’s their best month ever? So maybe they’re at 300m ARR.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
They’re not raising 2.3x their revenue. Annualized revenue is just a random month * 12 so these companies all pick the month they landed several deals and “annualize” that. The rest of the months are way less.
So if 1b / 12 is 83 million. That’s their best month ever? So maybe they’re at 300m ARR.
So if 1b / 12 is 83 million. That’s their best month ever? So maybe they’re at 300m ARR.
I assume that’s how Tom Clancy wrote so many books. He was just supposed to finish one but kept thinking of ideas and tossing them at ghost writers.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I assume that’s how Tom Clancy wrote so many books. He was just supposed to finish one but kept thinking of ideas and tossing them at ghost writers.
What they’ve done is actually unabashedly usher in authoritarian apologia and anti-trans “question-asking” that is unforgivable. Dark patterns are the tacky decor at the death camp.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What they’ve done is actually unabashedly usher in authoritarian apologia and anti-trans “question-asking” that is unforgivable. Dark patterns are the tacky decor at the death camp.
The classic fallacy that code is somehow good or valuable.
It is all bad and terrible. It’s a data sewage pipe that could have been built better but wasn’t.
It is all bad and terrible. It’s a data sewage pipe that could have been built better but wasn’t.
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The classic fallacy that code is somehow good or valuable.
It is all bad and terrible. It’s a data sewage pipe that could have been built better but wasn’t.
It is all bad and terrible. It’s a data sewage pipe that could have been built better but wasn’t.
Neither. Off listening mode is an option when it’s on?
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Neither. Off listening mode is an option when it’s on?
Just to be clear, it didn’t say anything bad to anyone who recorded it. It’s not like Wikipedia where everyone sees the same page. The whole point of LLMs is to be non-deterministic which means it could go mecha-hitler again on just some people viewing your entry sometimes.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just to be clear, it didn’t say anything bad to anyone who recorded it. It’s not like Wikipedia where everyone sees the same page. The whole point of LLMs is to be non-deterministic which means it could go mecha-hitler again on just some people viewing your entry sometimes.
I always expect the worst when people get so wealthy they can’t have any real friends or connection with people.
Any little impulse gets amplified by the sycophants and they become a monster.
Dumb and embarrassing things snowball and the sycophants gain power as their target gets more isolated.
Any little impulse gets amplified by the sycophants and they become a monster.
Dumb and embarrassing things snowball and the sycophants gain power as their target gets more isolated.
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I always expect the worst when people get so wealthy they can’t have any real friends or connection with people.
Any little impulse gets amplified by the sycophants and they become a monster.
Dumb and embarrassing things snowball and the sycophants gain power as their target gets more isolated.
Any little impulse gets amplified by the sycophants and they become a monster.
Dumb and embarrassing things snowball and the sycophants gain power as their target gets more isolated.
We need a CSS fix where we can put “!important” beside it and it’ll override some stuff but not other stuff and nobody will be sure what is going on.
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We need a CSS fix where we can put “!important” beside it and it’ll override some stuff but not other stuff and nobody will be sure what is going on.
Somehow I get California too and my non-regional diction comes from the mid-Atlantic suburbs
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Somehow I get California too and my non-regional diction comes from the mid-Atlantic suburbs
They totally predicted it but it only worked via religion at the time so they drew a hard barrier into the founding documents.
If they’d known that parasocial relationships to TV personalities were gonna blossom into a cult, they’d have included it for sure.
If they’d known that parasocial relationships to TV personalities were gonna blossom into a cult, they’d have included it for sure.
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They totally predicted it but it only worked via religion at the time so they drew a hard barrier into the founding documents.
If they’d known that parasocial relationships to TV personalities were gonna blossom into a cult, they’d have included it for sure.
If they’d known that parasocial relationships to TV personalities were gonna blossom into a cult, they’d have included it for sure.
Clarifying pronoun trouble: I could contribute more but since there is a walmart in town, there are probably way more people using SNAP than I would imagine.
But if not for this dang income tax, so many more meals, on or off of wheels, would be available.
But if not for this dang income tax, so many more meals, on or off of wheels, would be available.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Clarifying pronoun trouble: I could contribute more but since there is a walmart in town, there are probably way more people using SNAP than I would imagine.
But if not for this dang income tax, so many more meals, on or off of wheels, would be available.
But if not for this dang income tax, so many more meals, on or off of wheels, would be available.
Hard agree. Even more interesting is that when switching back to IC, after having managed or directed, the perspective shift is incredible.
I’m a lot more grateful for my manager than before I had to be one. Just let me build!
charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...
I’m a lot more grateful for my manager than before I had to be one. Just let me build!
charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…
charity.wtf
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hard agree. Even more interesting is that when switching back to IC, after having managed or directed, the perspective shift is incredible.
I’m a lot more grateful for my manager than before I had to be one. Just let me build!
charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...
I’m a lot more grateful for my manager than before I had to be one. Just let me build!
charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...
At least a blog draft came out of it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
At least a blog draft came out of it.