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Philip Borenstein
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a person of interest 🍸
now that I think of it, any queer-coded flair would work
January 10, 2026 at 9:37 PM
a hanky code, but for SUVs? ok :)
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
TIL men are:

- disproportionately estrogenized
- gender hectored
- porn-addicted

so liberal women are horny to get banged/shot by "real men"
January 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I knew ASCII when it was 7 bits and had weird halfbrothers SIXBIT and RAD50 working over at DEC
January 10, 2026 at 8:59 AM
My son is LLM-wary. After troubleshooting his laptop with Claude and then seeing the code I've put together with Claude Code, he says: "OOHH! For someone like you who knows what they're doing, this is a force multiplier!"

I said "EXACTLY!" and almost forgave him for running Windows when he was 14.
January 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
He can't even get the trains to run, never mind on time!!
January 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
While I was in the hospital, needles and blood didn't bother me. The blood tech would come in, I'd open my arm, chat about their day, get poked, three times a day.

Regular checkup blood draw? "Just do it I don't wanna look!"
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
We have unopened boxes from two moves. That means the contents haven't been SEEN in over 15 years. My partner pulls out a trophy I got in 10th grade. "Toss?"

"Noooooo! That's the most important award I ever got in my LIFE!"

This kind of thinning works best when a disinterested person does it :)
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
"Why It Matters"

has overtaken

"That being said"

as the most loathed locution

Thank you for your attention to this matter
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Throw it out. If anything is valuable, someone will salvage it downstream.

After cleaning out my stepfathers office, I decided never to leave that job to anyone.
January 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Scarface (1932) but directed by Wes Anderson.
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
in this house we believe

stack traces are read from the top down
all whitespace is collapsible to one space
Pluto is a planet
January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
When really bad things happen in the world, watch for people focusing intently on piddly shit to reify their panic
January 6, 2026 at 3:38 AM
This is his response to everything having to do with a woman: "I would have been nicer, but she was nasty and disrespectful. If she had been nicer, I would have backed her."
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM
where my mind went
"foot-flavored donuts"
not at all what you wrote
January 5, 2026 at 12:20 AM
there goes Drynuary
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
nope, never been mellow
not likely to be anytime soon
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
sending dessert
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 AM
so, leftovers?
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I'm using Claude to crank out tools that I've been wanting for years. Because I know the domain, this kind of app, that kind of UI, this kind of net access, I get good results

I know nothing about images. I ask: "Make me a cool picture" and I get line drawings of ice cubes
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 AM
it always comes down to tabs vs spaces
January 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Christopher Pine is an actor who played James T Kirk, captain of the Enterprise

Christopher Pike was the captain of the Enterprise before James T Kirk

upon this foundation I will build 2026
January 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Came across this Claude-Coded app. The prompt: "I asked Claude to build me a surprise app that would delight me and it built this"

adrift.today
Drift - Messages in Bottles
Cast a message into the ocean. Discover one in return.
adrift.today
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Just last night I was thinking:

"I want both a TUI and a web UI for this project. Surely some clever person has figured out how to do this with HTML."
December 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
That is some fine top shelf Tiffany network type ribbing, I tell you what!
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM