Patrick
@pck.rocks
Head in the clouds, feet in compiler output. Climate and sports (basketball, soccer) when I feel like it.
I thought this was an incredible post: www.artmann.co/articles/30-...
30 Years of <br> Tags
Three decades of making things on the internet
www.artmann.co
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I thought this was an incredible post: www.artmann.co/articles/30-...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Clearly @theonion.com has never known the joys of tipsy/tired/impulse purchases
Man Who Didn’t Order Anything Online Still Checks Name On Package Just In Case Amazon Sent Him A Little Present
theonion.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Clearly @theonion.com has never known the joys of tipsy/tired/impulse purchases
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I made html_of_jsx a bit faster and published a blog post about it: how it's done and some won'ts!
sancho.dev/blog/making-...
sancho.dev/blog/making-...
Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster | sancho.dev
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
sancho.dev
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I made html_of_jsx a bit faster and published a blog post about it: how it's done and some won'ts!
sancho.dev/blog/making-...
sancho.dev/blog/making-...
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this is one of the more thoughtful and balanced things i've read about LLMs in a while!
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
this is one of the more thoughtful and balanced things i've read about LLMs in a while!
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
Risk management is increasingly becoming a core software competency with LLMs, looks interestingly-related:
riskfirst.org/Risk-First-S...
riskfirst.org/Risk-First-S...
Risk-First Software Development Second Edition | Risk First
Now available in digital format
riskfirst.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Risk management is increasingly becoming a core software competency with LLMs, looks interestingly-related:
riskfirst.org/Risk-First-S...
riskfirst.org/Risk-First-S...
An OCaml thing hit my feed through the not-OCaml people I follow. Oh no.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
An OCaml thing hit my feed through the not-OCaml people I follow. Oh no.
The scariest new thing out there are people using the term "warfighter" instead of the less PC "18-20 year old American teenager I would like to turn to red paste in order to get rich."
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The scariest new thing out there are people using the term "warfighter" instead of the less PC "18-20 year old American teenager I would like to turn to red paste in order to get rich."
Look, I don't know ball (blowing a 21pt lead still means you're ass).
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Look, I don't know ball (blowing a 21pt lead still means you're ass).
Bulls should let the bench finish games.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Bulls should let the bench finish games.
Man those 5-0 days were great, bulls straight ass again per usual. Idk how I even thought it was real.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Man those 5-0 days were great, bulls straight ass again per usual. Idk how I even thought it was real.
Pope played Crusader Kings a few years ago and was like "yeah I can paint the map, lfg"
Pope Leo tryin' to make me a Catholic.
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pope played Crusader Kings a few years ago and was like "yeah I can paint the map, lfg"
Pope Leo tryin' to make me a Catholic.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Pope Leo tryin' to make me a Catholic.
BMJ has what I like to call a "scuttlebutt-hole": www.bmj.com/content/391/...
That's it. That's the skeet.
That's it. That's the skeet.
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
BMJ has what I like to call a "scuttlebutt-hole": www.bmj.com/content/391/...
That's it. That's the skeet.
That's it. That's the skeet.
New FoC!!!!!!!!
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New FoC!!!!!!!!
> This is an opportunity to state a far broader principle: you cannot have Democrats responsible for winning power and saving the republic and simultaneously responsible for honoring a set of norms the right has already destroyed. That’s not how it works
Yep.
Yep.
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
> This is an opportunity to state a far broader principle: you cannot have Democrats responsible for winning power and saving the republic and simultaneously responsible for honoring a set of norms the right has already destroyed. That’s not how it works
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah, Democrats lost my vote and my financial support today. I don't know why I bothered supporting @durbin.senate.gov or @duckworth.senate.gov, bad ideas, out of touch, completely impotent.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Yeah, Democrats lost my vote and my financial support today. I don't know why I bothered supporting @durbin.senate.gov or @duckworth.senate.gov, bad ideas, out of touch, completely impotent.
I wanna put this on a payment plan with @404media.co and @defector.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I wanna put this on a payment plan with @404media.co and @defector.com
American Wood Council makes this very neat load calculator if you, like me, want to stop worrying if your new tv mount with a 1 foot arm is about to tear itself out of the wall because you needed to use shorter lag bolts to avoid going through concrete behind the stud.
awc.org/calculators/....
awc.org/calculators/....
Connection Calculator
awc.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
American Wood Council makes this very neat load calculator if you, like me, want to stop worrying if your new tv mount with a 1 foot arm is about to tear itself out of the wall because you needed to use shorter lag bolts to avoid going through concrete behind the stud.
awc.org/calculators/....
awc.org/calculators/....
> Every morning, I wake up and ask myself: why isn’t OCaml more popular?
The tooling is terrible compared to competitors and you need to be decently bright to learn the language.
As a sales person told me once, you won't be wildly successful until dumb salespeople can sell your product
The tooling is terrible compared to competitors and you need to be decently bright to learn the language.
As a sales person told me once, you won't be wildly successful until dumb salespeople can sell your product
Why I love OCaml
Personal blog of Marc Coquand.
mccd.space
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
> Every morning, I wake up and ask myself: why isn’t OCaml more popular?
The tooling is terrible compared to competitors and you need to be decently bright to learn the language.
As a sales person told me once, you won't be wildly successful until dumb salespeople can sell your product
The tooling is terrible compared to competitors and you need to be decently bright to learn the language.
As a sales person told me once, you won't be wildly successful until dumb salespeople can sell your product
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Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM