I think a fundamental problem is that my brain is all map and no reduce.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

DoorDash is my swiping app of choice

I don't know who needs to hear this - but `tar` has a handy flag (`-S`) for compressing sparse files. If you don't use it when compressing VM volumes, you may end up filling a disk unintentionally and wondering where 80 GB of data suddenly came from.

Writing 500 lines of code to avoid writing 100 lines of yaml >>>>>

I would have mocked this captcha implementation a year ago. And yet the authors ended up ahead of the curve in bot detection.

I have ~2 boxes with about ~900 cables each, but somehow 0 of them are USB3 type-B. why

Are people really running `kubectl apply -f $random-github-url` when they see it on random blogs?

Thanks to AI, I’m constantly worried about putting em dashes in my writing now. How am I suppose to give everyone the bonus context they need?

Vibecoding today instead of my usual copy/pasting chunks of code into Claude and asking for feedback. Its neat, but feels weird.

If I code predominantly with AI output -- am I actually writing software? Am I copying someone else's work? Can I look back and say "I did this"? Does it matter?

@yashdalfthegray.bsky.social good to see you here

On Amazon, your digital marketplace can be different than your physical goods marketplace. If your digital library (kindle, etc) is set to another country, lots of stuff mysteriously fails. In my case, I couldn't get Libby or Audible to work at all.

Okay, I'm several days into bsky and I love the simple timeline view of the world. I'd forgotten how much less chaotic this feels.