Chris Adamson
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I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. He/him. Working on docs for 🍏.
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I pulled Duke out of an old box because I needed a squeeze toy for my hand, though now I mostly use this Cocoaconf ball for my arthritis.
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I pulled Duke out of an old box because I needed a squeeze toy for my hand, though now I mostly use this Cocoaconf ball for my arthritis.
Not sure if this is ironic or just incongruous.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not sure if this is ironic or just incongruous.
Has anyone considered teaching Nate Silver a new skill? Y’know, get the guy an O’Reilly or Prags book on Python or something? Maybe swap out his face and voice for an anime girl avatar and start VTubing? Something more viable than whatever he thinks he’s doing currently.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Has anyone considered teaching Nate Silver a new skill? Y’know, get the guy an O’Reilly or Prags book on Python or something? Maybe swap out his face and voice for an anime girl avatar and start VTubing? Something more viable than whatever he thinks he’s doing currently.
Wife and I threw a couple hundred bucks at local food banks to help get them through the Republicans’ SNAP tantrum. Yay, employer match.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Wife and I threw a couple hundred bucks at local food banks to help get them through the Republicans’ SNAP tantrum. Yay, employer match.
My Slack status for today:
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My Slack status for today:
One nice thing about iPadOS 26 and Liquid Glass is that the folders on my home screen don’t black out background Mitsuki-chan’s eyes anymore.
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One nice thing about iPadOS 26 and Liquid Glass is that the folders on my home screen don’t black out background Mitsuki-chan’s eyes anymore.
What percentage of people do you suppose use spreadsheets like Excel, Sheets, or Numbers and have no idea how to enter a formula or that they even exist?
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What percentage of people do you suppose use spreadsheets like Excel, Sheets, or Numbers and have no idea how to enter a formula or that they even exist?
I just rolled credits on Fire Emblem Three Houses for the third time, this time as Bylass + Dimitri.
August 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I just rolled credits on Fire Emblem Three Houses for the third time, this time as Bylass + Dimitri.
Sometimes when I’m brainstorming a piece of writing, I’ll put together a playlist to fit the mood, or maybe have songs that indicate a certain key moment or event. Maybe the last song is the end credits.
Anyways, maybe I’ll have time to write this someday. For now, I jot down ideas when I can.
Anyways, maybe I’ll have time to write this someday. For now, I jot down ideas when I can.
August 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Sometimes when I’m brainstorming a piece of writing, I’ll put together a playlist to fit the mood, or maybe have songs that indicate a certain key moment or event. Maybe the last song is the end credits.
Anyways, maybe I’ll have time to write this someday. For now, I jot down ideas when I can.
Anyways, maybe I’ll have time to write this someday. For now, I jot down ideas when I can.
First time charging the #mache at a Tesla Supercharger, one of the 325 kW models. OMFG, was this fast. It was going up like 1% every 30 seconds.
August 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
First time charging the #mache at a Tesla Supercharger, one of the 325 kW models. OMFG, was this fast. It was going up like 1% every 30 seconds.
Was talking with my wife tonight and found ourselves wondering “when did movie marquees disappear?” I mean like the big ones that would be on the side of a building or out in the parking lot facing the road. We’re certain we haven’t seen one here since moving to Grand Rapids in 2008.
July 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Was talking with my wife tonight and found ourselves wondering “when did movie marquees disappear?” I mean like the big ones that would be on the side of a building or out in the parking lot facing the road. We’re certain we haven’t seen one here since moving to Grand Rapids in 2008.
I need you people to understand what you’ve done.
In my 1-on-1 with my manager this week, he asked me to explain Umamusume.
I WORK AT APPLE, PEOPLE. YOUR WEIRD ANIME GIRL HORSE FETISH HAS GONE TOO FAR.
In my 1-on-1 with my manager this week, he asked me to explain Umamusume.
I WORK AT APPLE, PEOPLE. YOUR WEIRD ANIME GIRL HORSE FETISH HAS GONE TOO FAR.
July 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I need you people to understand what you’ve done.
In my 1-on-1 with my manager this week, he asked me to explain Umamusume.
I WORK AT APPLE, PEOPLE. YOUR WEIRD ANIME GIRL HORSE FETISH HAS GONE TOO FAR.
In my 1-on-1 with my manager this week, he asked me to explain Umamusume.
I WORK AT APPLE, PEOPLE. YOUR WEIRD ANIME GIRL HORSE FETISH HAS GONE TOO FAR.
This might be the clearest public Wi-Fi TOC I’ve ever seen? It feels like it’s written for humans instead of lawyers.
July 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This might be the clearest public Wi-Fi TOC I’ve ever seen? It feels like it’s written for humans instead of lawyers.
Well yeah, it figures that my #applemusic number one all-time streamed song is what I have my HomePod wake up alarm set to.
June 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Well yeah, it figures that my #applemusic number one all-time streamed song is what I have my HomePod wake up alarm set to.
This is the most range I’ve ever seen on the Guess-o-meter. Yay, summer. #MustangMachE
June 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is the most range I’ve ever seen on the Guess-o-meter. Yay, summer. #MustangMachE
So, let’s see if I understand this right. This software update exists solely to prevent *future* software updates from locking me out of my car. Is that right?
I mean, y’all could try not sending out future software updates like that, but you do you, I guess.
I mean, y’all could try not sending out future software updates like that, but you do you, I guess.
June 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
So, let’s see if I understand this right. This software update exists solely to prevent *future* software updates from locking me out of my car. Is that right?
I mean, y’all could try not sending out future software updates like that, but you do you, I guess.
I mean, y’all could try not sending out future software updates like that, but you do you, I guess.
Annnnndd… that’s the end of anime figures coming in to the US. Thanks, Grandpa Crazypants!
April 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Annnnndd… that’s the end of anime figures coming in to the US. Thanks, Grandpa Crazypants!
Anybody else starting to contemplate the possibility that the Switch 2 just won’t launch in the USA, at least not by the announced June 5 release date, thanks to Grandpa Crazypants and his ever-changing moods?
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Anybody else starting to contemplate the possibility that the Switch 2 just won’t launch in the USA, at least not by the announced June 5 release date, thanks to Grandpa Crazypants and his ever-changing moods?
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
Why yes, I did just buy a new iPad before all the prices go crazy. Can you blame me?
April 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Why yes, I did just buy a new iPad before all the prices go crazy. Can you blame me?
Sigh. Looks like running Steam for Windows on Whisky is dead.
March 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Sigh. Looks like running Steam for Windows on Whisky is dead.
At some point, the phishers will stop talking like Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon (or Petra from Fire Emblem Three Houses), and then these scams will have one less reliable tell.
That day is not today.
That day is not today.
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
At some point, the phishers will stop talking like Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon (or Petra from Fire Emblem Three Houses), and then these scams will have one less reliable tell.
That day is not today.
That day is not today.
Yep, all the tech books I ever wrote got hoovered up for Meta's AI from the pirated books dataset. Fuck Zuck.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
(👋 to erstwhile coauthors @bdudney, @RedQueenCoder, and […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
(👋 to erstwhile coauthors @bdudney, @RedQueenCoder, and […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
March 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yep, all the tech books I ever wrote got hoovered up for Meta's AI from the pirated books dataset. Fuck Zuck.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
(👋 to erstwhile coauthors @bdudney, @RedQueenCoder, and […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
(👋 to erstwhile coauthors @bdudney, @RedQueenCoder, and […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
February 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM