Andy Hill
ahill.net
Andy Hill
@ahill.net
seattle
married elder millennial, software engineer, linux, transit, music, weightlifting, hiking, cycling

ahill.net (personal) / dev.ahill.net (tech)
This trombone slide chart with multiple ways to play the same note from the 70s closely resembles a git branch graph.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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academy award contending tiktok
September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This book, but with @swerveconfident.bsky.social on every page
September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
finished diablo 3 last night. hard to believe it was my first diablo game / isometric dungeon crawler
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🎵 last night was the first night in eons i played a bass trombone part. The lowest notes were occasional F1/G1s while regularly cranking out E5-D5s gave me a new appreciation for lung capacity
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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"You're absolutely right!"
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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This is really fascinating

Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
mspaint traffic notices from WSDOT
The cute animals got stuck in traffic, so this time you just get Greg. Greg's here to help you get through Seattle during the full NB Revive I-5 closure from I-90 to NE 45th St this weekend.

From 11:59p Fri. to 5a Mon. NB I-5 will be clamped shut (closed). Express lanes open northbound.
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
AI and Software Engineering, August 2025 edition:

dev.ahill.net/2025/08/08/a...
August 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wish I knew. It’s also painful for client side metrics on empheral workers.
Does anyone know why all cloud-native open source ecosystem uses pull model to expose their /metrics (instead of pushing the metrics)? Pull model is really poor when the metric cardinality exposed on a single endpoint increases.
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
rode this recently, such an amazing improvement. yay!
Good news: the new Alaskan Way protected bike lanes opened for travelers today.

Project info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
@stevekamb.com is there a place to buy a digital copy of Level Up Your Life? Ideally for a Kobo device. I saw your note about an updated version coming in 2026, but I’m having trouble waiting that long.
July 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
speeding up CI pipelines is always A Good Thing
July 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The bus #8 is so slow, we all beat it to Stewart Street and this very slow cadre of dancers crossed the finish line first.
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
started playing the messenger yesterday on switch, good times.

quarble is probably my fav so far
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
computers: still awful
June 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand
June 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.
June 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the driver of a totally packed 8 line bus in seattle only allowed the bus to be entered/exited from the driver’s entrance/exit, instead of the other 2 doors that open on the bus.

yay fare enforcement? hopefully there’s a way to collect fares and not slow down normal bus entry/exits
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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this is among the most cursed images I've seen on this website and I was here during the Alf era
But how is the sausage made? According to a video released on Instagram, Saucy was created by Dillon T. Pickle.

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2025/05/portland-bangers-new-mascot-gets-an-unhinged-origin-story.html 

📷: Portland Bangers
May 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM