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Reg Braithwaite 🍓
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy
It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book called "JavaScript Allongé" or from my work at companies like PagerDuty […]

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It’s a Swinging Christmas. And it’s 0% AI!
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Reg Braithwaite 🍓
okay so like a month ago @trashpanda sent me one of those 'spycam finder' doodads that you see going for like 80-100 dollars online that supposedly 'find spy cameras and gps trackers'. I've always been curious if they actually work or whats inside. So I just […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There was a doctor. They were very, very good at their job. Other doctors referred tricky patients to them. Other doctors had consults with them.

But lately, the doctor noticed they no longer enjoyed being a doctor. The cause was obvious: ChatGPT. Patients would walk into meetings with virtual […]
Original post on social.bau-ha.us
social.bau-ha.us
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm attending Groove School today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPwGdbkfmsM
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Rapid Transit.
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.

And yes, Motor Glider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When you switch your org to vibe coding, the velocity of pull requests generated is going to go way, way up. Which is better, right?
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Github keeps suggesting commit and pull request titles and summaries when I use Web Flow. And it interrupts me when I'm typing.

I'm not going to criticize Generative AI for this. The deep, fundamental problem I have with anything or anyone suggesting how I describe my changes is that the most […]
Original post on social.bau-ha.us
social.bau-ha.us
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It has been a little over a year since my mother passed away. She had 15 seconds of fame some years ago when I wrote about her breaking into IT in the 1960s. Today, I celebrate the memory of her being woke before that was a word.

When she discovered that my […]

[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Reg Braithwaite 🍓
the fun thing about actually reading books and loving the English language for its weird complexities is that the two words that make up “Vanity Fair” can also be read as “self-indulgently mediocre”
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“Everyone is welcome to apply for a marriage licence and get married in Ontario, whether you live here permanently or temporarily. There are no gender, residency, citizenship or medical requirements when applying for a marriage licence. The requirements are […]

[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Reg Braithwaite 🍓
Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?

I’m running for California State Assembly!

Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
August 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Back in 2008, I wrote “No Disrespect,” an essay in which I reminded myself that despite the heady intoxication of creating things that didn’t exist before... I really was an ordinary clerk.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/no-disrespect.html

I didn't know it yet, but there was a term of art […]
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social.bau-ha.us
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
One of my first-ever #gliding lessons, a flight with Poul Hansen in an SZD-50 Puchacz. Late Autumn of 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnw3hgjlhhU
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
One of my first-ever gliding lessons, a flight with Poul Hansen in an SZD-50 Puchacz. Late Autumn of 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnw3hgjlhhU
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Two hour local ramble in @SOSAGlidingClub's fancy DG-1001 two-seater last Friday, with fellow member JT as PIC in the back seat. Solo #gliding is amazing, but sharing a flight is nice in a different way, with extra eyes to manage situational awareness and trading off the stick and rudder work so […]
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social.bau-ha.us
August 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
> “It’s a very simple goal. To finally overcome the curse of Twitter, which is that people will have used Twitter or X for a decade and never bought a single thing.”
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0

OMG, what‽
August 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
LLMs have taught us that the Turing Test doesn't determine whether machines are intelligent, it actually determines whether humans are credulous.
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just before taking an instructional #gliding flight with Joerg Stieber. Joerg is @SOSAGlidingClub's past president, an exceptionally fine instructor, and a very proud Bavarian. 🇩🇪
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@josephcox Signage on television is more permissive.
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In July, Musk said that 50 percent of the US population would have access to Tesla’s robotaxis by the end of the year. And he predicted that Tesla customers would be able to update their own vehicles to drive autonomously without supervision by the end of […]

[Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As bombastically awesome (or awful, depending upon your taste) as his later prog pop/rock albums were, Alan Parsons' first album is a interesting little gem, a musical interpretation of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7htAlPqwBI
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM