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But my arms get so tired.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I just watched a nine minute video about a vacuum cleaner product launch and I would do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6J...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

New short blog post: Backoff-with-retry can be much simpler. commaok.xyz/post/simple-... Also, maybe peek at commaok.xyz/post/blog-sc....

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

github: use ids, usernames are unstable, don't even store them. also github: our api endpoints take usernames, not ids.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Bay Area Gophers: Come to the Go meetup on May 27! lu.ma/fn57nlhh?tk=... (I'll be giving a short talk. But you should come anyway.)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Short story brigade: On Hope, by Spencer Holst. www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/holst_s...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Been sharing young software (sketch.dev) with friends, and they are responding unasked with UX journals: what they did, how it felt, what worked/didn't. Beyond being SO USEFUL, it has given me optimism. The ability to observe and record is a serious skill, and it's more widespread than it once was.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

My 7yo, on the way to school this morning: “Do you use the Oxford comma?” So grateful for these teachable moments and the opportunity to raise my kids right.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

If you are interested in an easy recipe for a merge queue, sans code review, this is my favorite so far: sketch.dev/blog/lightwe...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Finished Zahra’s Paradise. Crushing. And then, idiot that I am, thought it was a good idea to read The Onion.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

I find it rather telling that in ai-2027.com the last humans to have irreplaceable skills are...AI researchers.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" (Pride and Prejudice)

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

We keep finding cups of sugar hidden around the house. With straws in them. We disappear them and move the bag of sugar. Our 7yo never says a word. Anyone know where to buy a food-grade 5 gallon buckets with padlocks?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

A cheap, bare bones, fully electric truck. I’m in. www.theverge.com/electric-car...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Bought chili lime crickets on a lark. Opened the bag. Brain says go ahead…but hand is like, yeah nope, can’t fool me, those are bugs, we don’t eat bugs. (Verdict: not bad, really.)

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

4 weeks to the day after a software update bricked our car, it is functional again.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I have a problem. I will use a crowbar! Now I have lots of problems.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post, on being polite to LLMs: commaok.xyz/post/manners/

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Waymo in 3 years: Our route today takes us through a sponsored drivethrough restaurant, but don’t worry, ordering is optional.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The strawberry problem is alive and well.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

The dealer: > It looks like the car does not want to communicate with the scan tools we have. It is probably going to be a few more days here. The update may have taken out one of your computer modules. I vacillate between annoyance, amusement, and a sort of self-schadenfreude.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

A software update yesterday bricked our car. It’s getting towed to the dealer now. Computers were a mistake.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments