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.
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the inset train dining room table continues, I'm trying to get a very consistent height ring cut, so I made a large Lazy Susan so I can spin this thing against a router to try to cut it.
December 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
the inset train dining room table continues, I'm trying to get a very consistent height ring cut, so I made a large Lazy Susan so I can spin this thing against a router to try to cut it.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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(b) Prohibited Grounds for Withholding.—
(1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
(1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
(b) Prohibited Grounds for Withholding.—
(1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
(1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
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Really makes you think about the people who claim being drunk made them accidentally racist.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Really makes you think about the people who claim being drunk made them accidentally racist.
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keep pushing the epstein files until we get single-payer healthcare and UBI
The epstein files must be absolutely the most damning documents in history for them to be federally rescheduling cannabis today
December 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
keep pushing the epstein files until we get single-payer healthcare and UBI
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This is ridiculous. Consensual reality, the very idea that we inhabit an understandable universe where any beliefs we have in common are grounded in verifiable facts, is being destroyed before our very eyes.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is ridiculous. Consensual reality, the very idea that we inhabit an understandable universe where any beliefs we have in common are grounded in verifiable facts, is being destroyed before our very eyes.
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The willingness to obey is incomprehensible to me. objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...
December 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The willingness to obey is incomprehensible to me. objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...
Sorry, I can't help you with the response from the LLM. I can change the system prompt to try to get the LLM to give a more relevant response to your prompt, but we'll need a significant sample of prompts and the sorts of responses you expect to make that happen. These things aren't magic.
December 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sorry, I can't help you with the response from the LLM. I can change the system prompt to try to get the LLM to give a more relevant response to your prompt, but we'll need a significant sample of prompts and the sorts of responses you expect to make that happen. These things aren't magic.
The news that you can use a hot glue gun to melt candy canes (for things like building gingerbread houses) has me wondering who's gonna be the first to release a food-grade hot glue gun.
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Good morning and happy Wednesday!
Last night, I learned, that if you put a candy cane in a hot glue gun, it will melt and you can use it like hot glue.
Which is helpful when maki...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The news that you can use a hot glue gun to melt candy canes (for things like building gingerbread houses) has me wondering who's gonna be the first to release a food-grade hot glue gun.
urusai.social/@mdmrn/11573...
urusai.social/@mdmrn/11573...
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LOL I don't usually go to the ad hominem but this guy was smashing folks in the Epstein age range while covering Epstein (simultaneously pretending to not know Epstein) so fuck him
David Brooks being in the Epstein pics reminded me he got divorced from his wife of 28 years for sleeping with his 20 year old research assistant, but I'd forgotten *this* was the book she assisted him with
lol
lol
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
LOL I don't usually go to the ad hominem but this guy was smashing folks in the Epstein age range while covering Epstein (simultaneously pretending to not know Epstein) so fuck him
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
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No, literally: VANDALISM. There is a LAW describing the name of that building and its grounds. You can't rename it without an act of Congress.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
20 U.S. Code § 76h - Board of Trustees
www.law.cornell.edu
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
No, literally: VANDALISM. There is a LAW describing the name of that building and its grounds. You can't rename it without an act of Congress.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
Someone else took me to task for describing anthropomorphizing LLMs as developmental disability, and as someone formally diagnosed with learning disabilities in the '80s, I'm actually angry about it.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Someone else took me to task for describing anthropomorphizing LLMs as developmental disability, and as someone formally diagnosed with learning disabilities in the '80s, I'm actually angry about it.
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I kinda get how for physical objects where inventory projection is an issue, or limited resources like theater seats, you might want web site shopping carts to have time limits.
But holy shit, for digital resources, make that time limit days or weeks, not minutes.
Cc: karaoke-version.com. Sigh.
But holy shit, for digital resources, make that time limit days or weeks, not minutes.
Cc: karaoke-version.com. Sigh.
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I kinda get how for physical objects where inventory projection is an issue, or limited resources like theater seats, you might want web site shopping carts to have time limits.
But holy shit, for digital resources, make that time limit days or weeks, not minutes.
Cc: karaoke-version.com. Sigh.
But holy shit, for digital resources, make that time limit days or weeks, not minutes.
Cc: karaoke-version.com. Sigh.
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TNR called me a “conspiracy theorist” for saying that Russia and white nationalists were involved in Trump’s election in 2016 and “unhinged” for suggesting that child rape material could be used to compromise Trump.
Both of my assertions are widely accepted as fact now, but the TNR articles remain.
Both of my assertions are widely accepted as fact now, but the TNR articles remain.
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TNR called me a “conspiracy theorist” for saying that Russia and white nationalists were involved in Trump’s election in 2016 and “unhinged” for suggesting that child rape material could be used to compromise Trump.
Both of my assertions are widely accepted as fact now, but the TNR articles remain.
Both of my assertions are widely accepted as fact now, but the TNR articles remain.
Everything is a fuse if you're brave enough.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everything is a fuse if you're brave enough.
The thing about articles like this is that you can instantly see who's the weaker person in the pair programming team. Who's the suck-up who manages to come out smelling of roses, and who's the unsung hero who stayed up late to bail out the process and fix his incompetent shit.
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI. jonready.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The thing about articles like this is that you can instantly see who's the weaker person in the pair programming team. Who's the suck-up who manages to come out smelling of roses, and who's the unsung hero who stayed up late to bail out the process and fix his incompetent shit.
Interacted with a reply from someone who was obviously keyword trolling. After that exchange started to feel a bit hinky, went out and searched the person's name and read a few threads, and...
Good reminder to block and move on.
Good reminder to block and move on.
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Interacted with a reply from someone who was obviously keyword trolling. After that exchange started to feel a bit hinky, went out and searched the person's name and read a few threads, and...
Good reminder to block and move on.
Good reminder to block and move on.
Wow. If you wanted to destroy my remaining faith in an organization, you probably couldn't be more effective than an email titled "Scientific Validation Confirms Blue Zones Integrity" with body that reads like the worst conspiracy theory appeal to authority.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Wow. If you wanted to destroy my remaining faith in an organization, you probably couldn't be more effective than an email titled "Scientific Validation Confirms Blue Zones Integrity" with body that reads like the worst conspiracy theory appeal to authority.
Thinking about the revelations about Oliver Sacks making stuff up, and what we already knew about Malcolm Gladwell, and how much we like LLMs telling us what we want to hear.
Humanity really seeks out being lied to.
Humanity really seeks out being lied to.
December 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Thinking about the revelations about Oliver Sacks making stuff up, and what we already knew about Malcolm Gladwell, and how much we like LLMs telling us what we want to hear.
Humanity really seeks out being lied to.
Humanity really seeks out being lied to.
That moment when I feel stupid because Apache for all the virtual domains was logging to my user home directory, and /var/log/apache wasn't readable to that user, and there were 36G of old log files clogging up my web server that I couldn't find...
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
That moment when I feel stupid because Apache for all the virtual domains was logging to my user home directory, and /var/log/apache wasn't readable to that user, and there were 36G of old log files clogging up my web server that I couldn't find...
I suspect I'm an outlier, but the fact that I can't have the Netflix app open on my Chromecast, or have the Netflix web page open on a browser, without having overly loud trailers playing is a large contributor to my "subscribe to watch the thing I wanted to watch, then cancel" use pattern.
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I suspect I'm an outlier, but the fact that I can't have the Netflix app open on my Chromecast, or have the Netflix web page open on a browser, without having overly loud trailers playing is a large contributor to my "subscribe to watch the thing I wanted to watch, then cancel" use pattern.
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Here's some legislation I'm almost surprised not to have heard any member of Congress propose yet:
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here's some legislation I'm almost surprised not to have heard any member of Congress propose yet:
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Figure I should note that we started watching Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out movie, and... the thing about unlikable suspects is that we have to have some reason to care what happens to them.
After we finally got Blanc on the screen, we still didn't. Turned it off to watch something else.
After we finally got Blanc on the screen, we still didn't. Turned it off to watch something else.
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Figure I should note that we started watching Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out movie, and... the thing about unlikable suspects is that we have to have some reason to care what happens to them.
After we finally got Blanc on the screen, we still didn't. Turned it off to watch something else.
After we finally got Blanc on the screen, we still didn't. Turned it off to watch something else.