Roasted Seaweed flavor Lay's Stax are peak

this is an interesting paper that tangentially touches on some of that: arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...

i've been banging this drum a lot lately. definitely seen a few PRs where AI use didn't speed up the process, only shifted the burden to the reviewer. plus i think folks are generally undercognizant that in our complex systems, _authoring speed_ is only one of many constraints in _delivery velocity_

the oracle bone script developed from proto-Mayan, change my mind

i think about this one a lot

- a hand-carved Christmas sleigh, full of lavish fabrics for a Hindu wedding (i am not Hindu)
- a small tin box printed with a medieval unicorn. inside? a portrait miniature of Hildegard of Bingen
- an entire unopened Magic: the Gathering "Festival in a Box" draft kit

wondrous relics found while cleaning my apartment:

- my high school Macbook (i am 35), missing its battery and RAM, lovingly smeared with mud
- a Vermont District 1 Little League pin. neither I nor my wife have ever been involved with Little League

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

Dwarf Fortress' classic "babies take control of those who carry them (like a rider controlling an animal mount) and perish of dehydration because they're babies that don't know how to pour drinks" bug is back:

Vast and trunkless legs of stone $200
Half sunk shattered visage $150
Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command $800
Hand that mocked them $3600
Pedestal $150

someone who is good at entropy help me budget this. No thing beside remains