Seattle millennials vote late from spite having grown up in areas where early voting is the only recognized civics.
Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Seattle millennials vote late from spite having grown up in areas where early voting is the only recognized civics.
Computers can be boring to kids but Drawing zeros is something my older kiddo likes.
Today we gonna draw a lot of zeroes and practice our scales.
You gotta know your scales to orchestrate.
Today we gonna draw a lot of zeroes and practice our scales.
You gotta know your scales to orchestrate.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Computers can be boring to kids but Drawing zeros is something my older kiddo likes.
Today we gonna draw a lot of zeroes and practice our scales.
You gotta know your scales to orchestrate.
Today we gonna draw a lot of zeroes and practice our scales.
You gotta know your scales to orchestrate.
"Suffering is only temporary, giving up lasts forever."
"Suffering is only temporary, giving up lasts forever" - Sockeloen socks x 3
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November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Suffering is only temporary, giving up lasts forever."
Telegrams needed generics.
> But no other punctuation was represented then, not even a period (dot, full stop) in IBM or telecommunication equipment.
> One can see this in early telegrams, where one said "I MISS YOU STOP COME HOME STOP". "STOP" stood for the period the machine did not have.
> But no other punctuation was represented then, not even a period (dot, full stop) in IBM or telecommunication equipment.
> One can see this in early telegrams, where one said "I MISS YOU STOP COME HOME STOP". "STOP" stood for the period the machine did not have.
Origins of the Term "BYTE"
Some history of the 8-bit and other bytes
web.archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Telegrams needed generics.
> But no other punctuation was represented then, not even a period (dot, full stop) in IBM or telecommunication equipment.
> One can see this in early telegrams, where one said "I MISS YOU STOP COME HOME STOP". "STOP" stood for the period the machine did not have.
> But no other punctuation was represented then, not even a period (dot, full stop) in IBM or telecommunication equipment.
> One can see this in early telegrams, where one said "I MISS YOU STOP COME HOME STOP". "STOP" stood for the period the machine did not have.
aesthetically pleasing failure-
all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't create a lyrics system that displays a one-line song
all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't create a lyrics system that displays a one-line song
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
aesthetically pleasing failure-
all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't create a lyrics system that displays a one-line song
all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't create a lyrics system that displays a one-line song
crossover memes for band and computer nerds
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
crossover memes for band and computer nerds
Unpopular opinion but using LLMs to stretch yourself w/either time or technicality as constraints requires getting really good at defining the question to others.
Learning to use words more accurately and effectively to get your desired goal matters now perhaps more than it ever has.
Learning to use words more accurately and effectively to get your desired goal matters now perhaps more than it ever has.
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Unpopular opinion but using LLMs to stretch yourself w/either time or technicality as constraints requires getting really good at defining the question to others.
Learning to use words more accurately and effectively to get your desired goal matters now perhaps more than it ever has.
Learning to use words more accurately and effectively to get your desired goal matters now perhaps more than it ever has.
As a parents in Seattle watching Portland closely–
It's interesting to consider how city kids today will grow up hardened by the state while the supposedly grit-hardened are told it's always someone else's fault.
It's interesting to consider how city kids today will grow up hardened by the state while the supposedly grit-hardened are told it's always someone else's fault.
Gresham elementary school closes due to ICE operation
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October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As a parents in Seattle watching Portland closely–
It's interesting to consider how city kids today will grow up hardened by the state while the supposedly grit-hardened are told it's always someone else's fault.
It's interesting to consider how city kids today will grow up hardened by the state while the supposedly grit-hardened are told it's always someone else's fault.
Developers when LLM Agents go off the rails on simple tasks:
Fenton!
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Developers when LLM Agents go off the rails on simple tasks:
PlantUML in JavaScript indicates why GitHub chose MermaidJS IMO.
Used PlantUML for years but it's not snappy and can be a real PITA to get working in GitHub Codespaces with port forwarding and the Markdown extension whereas Mermaid just works.
Used PlantUML for years but it's not snappy and can be a real PITA to get working in GitHub Codespaces with port forwarding and the Markdown extension whereas Mermaid just works.
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
PlantUML in JavaScript indicates why GitHub chose MermaidJS IMO.
Used PlantUML for years but it's not snappy and can be a real PITA to get working in GitHub Codespaces with port forwarding and the Markdown extension whereas Mermaid just works.
Used PlantUML for years but it's not snappy and can be a real PITA to get working in GitHub Codespaces with port forwarding and the Markdown extension whereas Mermaid just works.
Look if it didn't take the power of burning a sun to run then I would love an LLM that functioned like an AOL Instant Messenger chat where you could interrupt the current train of thought by just bombarding the bot with messages.
Forget vibe coding- where's interrupting a stream of thought?
Forget vibe coding- where's interrupting a stream of thought?
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Look if it didn't take the power of burning a sun to run then I would love an LLM that functioned like an AOL Instant Messenger chat where you could interrupt the current train of thought by just bombarding the bot with messages.
Forget vibe coding- where's interrupting a stream of thought?
Forget vibe coding- where's interrupting a stream of thought?
Buddy Holly was a talented star born in Lubbock that reactionaries only acknowledged after tragedy.
In life, West Texas culture treated Mr. Holly like crap. A star from West Texas toured after being rejected by their own hometown and ended up shaping generations on their own.
In life, West Texas culture treated Mr. Holly like crap. A star from West Texas toured after being rejected by their own hometown and ended up shaping generations on their own.
Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central
Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.
www.climatecentral.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Buddy Holly was a talented star born in Lubbock that reactionaries only acknowledged after tragedy.
In life, West Texas culture treated Mr. Holly like crap. A star from West Texas toured after being rejected by their own hometown and ended up shaping generations on their own.
In life, West Texas culture treated Mr. Holly like crap. A star from West Texas toured after being rejected by their own hometown and ended up shaping generations on their own.
Nobody:
Tech dads:
HEY VSCODE VIBE ME GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR AND LETS PLAY A GAME.
Tech dads:
HEY VSCODE VIBE ME GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR AND LETS PLAY A GAME.
Voice support
Visual Studio Code voice accessibility features. Learn here about the various ways VS Code can be used with voice.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Nobody:
Tech dads:
HEY VSCODE VIBE ME GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR AND LETS PLAY A GAME.
Tech dads:
HEY VSCODE VIBE ME GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR AND LETS PLAY A GAME.
It would be nice to have one set of devcontainers for developer tooling like PlantUML and Jupyter.
Perhaps ridiculous but is it possible to bring up a fleet of Codespaces on a private network interface?
Surely there exists a toggle to flip on a fleet.
Perhaps ridiculous but is it possible to bring up a fleet of Codespaces on a private network interface?
Surely there exists a toggle to flip on a fleet.
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It would be nice to have one set of devcontainers for developer tooling like PlantUML and Jupyter.
Perhaps ridiculous but is it possible to bring up a fleet of Codespaces on a private network interface?
Surely there exists a toggle to flip on a fleet.
Perhaps ridiculous but is it possible to bring up a fleet of Codespaces on a private network interface?
Surely there exists a toggle to flip on a fleet.
codspace
codspace has 76 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
So there's scale sure- but what should individual developers be doing for localhost development to avoid a personal mishap?
Running VSCode in devcontainers and limiting the code permissions on the host OS can limit blast radius.
What else?
Running VSCode in devcontainers and limiting the code permissions on the host OS can limit blast radius.
What else?
I don’t think people yet fully appreciate how the “lethal trifecta” restricts agentic AI use cases. When private data access, untrusted inputs, and external actions converge, you create a structural vulnerability we don’t yet know how to contain.
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …
simonwillison.net
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So there's scale sure- but what should individual developers be doing for localhost development to avoid a personal mishap?
Running VSCode in devcontainers and limiting the code permissions on the host OS can limit blast radius.
What else?
Running VSCode in devcontainers and limiting the code permissions on the host OS can limit blast radius.
What else?
Dang the beauty is the simplicity.
One piece that stands out is how can there be a guarantee "TLS cannot be intercepted"?
Wouldn't 'certificate pinning' and possible other techniques also be needed?
One piece that stands out is how can there be a guarantee "TLS cannot be intercepted"?
Wouldn't 'certificate pinning' and possible other techniques also be needed?
RFC 7636: Proof Key for Code Exchange by OAuth Public Clients
www.rfc-editor.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Dang the beauty is the simplicity.
One piece that stands out is how can there be a guarantee "TLS cannot be intercepted"?
Wouldn't 'certificate pinning' and possible other techniques also be needed?
One piece that stands out is how can there be a guarantee "TLS cannot be intercepted"?
Wouldn't 'certificate pinning' and possible other techniques also be needed?
Scuffle at Head and the Heart when they played the Capitol Hill Block Party.
It's like damn dude calm down it's a slow song in Seattle.
It's like damn dude calm down it's a slow song in Seattle.
What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Scuffle at Head and the Heart when they played the Capitol Hill Block Party.
It's like damn dude calm down it's a slow song in Seattle.
It's like damn dude calm down it's a slow song in Seattle.
What if lies of omission were shown in real time?
A small theatre with crowdsourced bubble facts on screen like this could be fun.
A small theatre with crowdsourced bubble facts on screen like this could be fun.
📽️ WATCH: In 2016, the Mississippi River broke through a levee and wiped out 1,200 acres of Steve Williams’ farmland.
He signed up for a federal program in 2019 to retire the damaged fields. But instead of help, he and his daughter had to spend years farming the unfarmable: https://propub.li/3KFetS7
He signed up for a federal program in 2019 to retire the damaged fields. But instead of help, he and his daughter had to spend years farming the unfarmable: https://propub.li/3KFetS7
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What if lies of omission were shown in real time?
A small theatre with crowdsourced bubble facts on screen like this could be fun.
A small theatre with crowdsourced bubble facts on screen like this could be fun.
Moss on a honey bucket works harder for D6 than Dan Strauss.
Seattle deserves better than a Ballard boy getting clowned on by a conservative leaning council.
Seattle deserves better than a Ballard boy getting clowned on by a conservative leaning council.
When Alice Lockhart, of @350seattle.bsky.social, asked for a return to the standard 2 minutes, committee chair Dan Strauss said "we are continuing to monitor if one minute feels too short or if one minute is feeling all right," thanked her for her feedback, and ended the meeting a few minutes later.
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Moss on a honey bucket works harder for D6 than Dan Strauss.
Seattle deserves better than a Ballard boy getting clowned on by a conservative leaning council.
Seattle deserves better than a Ballard boy getting clowned on by a conservative leaning council.
Talented journalists hired to provide cover for editorial shenanigans.
How do you save the paper without leadership fundamentally changing.
How do you save the paper without leadership fundamentally changing.
I tell a lot of people who are skeptical about subscribing to the Seattle Times is important to support the talented journalists there, even if they dislike the editorial board, but this kind of slant makes it really tough. The Harrell campaign would write a similar headline to cast doubt on Wilson
October 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Talented journalists hired to provide cover for editorial shenanigans.
How do you save the paper without leadership fundamentally changing.
How do you save the paper without leadership fundamentally changing.
Was a holdout but Claude is legit.
GPT uses affirmations to butter up responses and it's just not my thing.
I don't need a bot to say great job—
I need the deets.
GPT uses affirmations to butter up responses and it's just not my thing.
I don't need a bot to say great job—
I need the deets.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is pretty good. Never touch ChatGPT anymore. I also appreciate that Claude assumes you’re literate and doesn’t italicize and bullet point everything.
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Was a holdout but Claude is legit.
GPT uses affirmations to butter up responses and it's just not my thing.
I don't need a bot to say great job—
I need the deets.
GPT uses affirmations to butter up responses and it's just not my thing.
I don't need a bot to say great job—
I need the deets.
Seattle needs leaders who won't be pantsed by the national admin over entirely foreseeable circumstances.
Bob Kettle was told and is just not the man who can lead Seattle today.
Harrell, Kettle, Nelson, and Davidson will sell out Seattle to the national administrations if push comes to shove.
Bob Kettle was told and is just not the man who can lead Seattle today.
Harrell, Kettle, Nelson, and Davidson will sell out Seattle to the national administrations if push comes to shove.
Seattle Councilmember Bob Kettle, expressing "shock" at Trump's announcement that he plans to send the military into more "dangerous" cities, just said (in the context of public safety at Seattle Center) that the threat makes it "even more imperative that we do think was right here in the city."
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Seattle needs leaders who won't be pantsed by the national admin over entirely foreseeable circumstances.
Bob Kettle was told and is just not the man who can lead Seattle today.
Harrell, Kettle, Nelson, and Davidson will sell out Seattle to the national administrations if push comes to shove.
Bob Kettle was told and is just not the man who can lead Seattle today.
Harrell, Kettle, Nelson, and Davidson will sell out Seattle to the national administrations if push comes to shove.
Company works on energy verde.
We are fossilizing bad air molecules.
Natural Sun Gas powers petrovoltic cells run on internal photon combustion.
We put a spoiler on our energy supply to make it go faster called batteries.
We are fossilizing bad air molecules.
Natural Sun Gas powers petrovoltic cells run on internal photon combustion.
We put a spoiler on our energy supply to make it go faster called batteries.
The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous:
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
www.politico.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Company works on energy verde.
We are fossilizing bad air molecules.
Natural Sun Gas powers petrovoltic cells run on internal photon combustion.
We put a spoiler on our energy supply to make it go faster called batteries.
We are fossilizing bad air molecules.
Natural Sun Gas powers petrovoltic cells run on internal photon combustion.
We put a spoiler on our energy supply to make it go faster called batteries.
Why enroll in college town that legally cannot provide a full education when the same tuition money buys a full education elsewhere?
Not much in Lubbock outside of TTU.
Not much in Lubbock outside of TTU.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Why enroll in college town that legally cannot provide a full education when the same tuition money buys a full education elsewhere?
Not much in Lubbock outside of TTU.
Not much in Lubbock outside of TTU.