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👨🏻‍💻 Artisanal Programmer + Writer Still cries at a good film. Still kisses with saliva. Blog: https://thread-pool.com/ Portfolio: https://portfolio-2024-swart-nu.vercel.app/ Github: https://github.com/yarocruz
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“This is not the worse job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had. This is not the worst job I’ve had.”

And speaking of not making much money, I would appreciate your support in either subscribing to my blog or pitching in 3 bucks to get an ebook. thread-pool.com/my-honest-ap...

I've been renting all my life and have always had the intuition that I couldn't afford to buy a home, but after my house hunting adventures for the past two weekends, now I know why I can't afford one. I don't make much money and have too much debt. It’s simple mathematics.

Me and my lady requested a showing of a condo through Redfin and things escalated quickly. I’m using ChatGPT as second opinion mortgage lender and also therapist, and it’s really freaking good at both.

Paul McCartney looks like Tig Notaro in her seventies.

I want a rug in the shape of a circle. This is fantastic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVeR...

Interesting. I did not know that NPC was a pejorative term for a liberal/democrat by the MAGA cult. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckY...

Update on ThreadPool. I'm offering a premium plan. If you haven't subscribed yet, please consider doing so and if you want to support me, definitely sign up for the premium subscription. thread-pool.com/my-honest-ap...

“And it was all yellow.”

God I love this. And I love The Cure so much it hurts my goth bones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL0B...

Happy Valentines Day all. I truly love all of you digital super egos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgM...

Or maybe we should let the whole notion of a “social media” just die.

I’ve been using both, Mastodon and Bluesky, and even though the experience on BlueSky has been positive, letting a platform decide for you what to look at is just not the way. We need a reset and a slow down, if this form of participating on the internet is to survive.

Nicholas Carr is pretty much on the money here. He wrote The Shallows and was right back then. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

He’s my role model in how to be middle aged. youtu.be/LPNHwwXh3Ks?...

"This guy f@#$!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-v...

"The word influencer shares an etymological root with influenza." -- from the book Superbloom: How Technologies of connection Tear us Apart www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Tonight’s plan is Blue Velvet, a nice family movie. I’m introducing David Lynch films to my lady. Stream Blue Velvet on Max play.max.com/movie/5c667e...

"I been alive 2 more decades longer than you. I know how playlists work. Please don't "ladysplain" this to me. We made them on cassette tapes way before Spotify existed." -- Me and what I really want to say to 20 year olds.

There’s a lot here to process, but I recommend putting this one in your to read later app. archive.ph/5u9hg

Took me a while to finish reading this one. I think the book is fantastic and it should be an A24 movie already. www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.” — Marco Chupabola

The earnestness of how The xx write earnest love songs makes me all sappy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqfl...

Either these people are painfully neck-deep in survivorship bias that they have no tucking clue that many will never be able to escape trading time for money, or they now that saying that anyone can have that level of financial success will sell more books. www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

The Super Bowl: the one day a year when an entire country pretends that grown men giving each other concussions over a leather ball is the pinnacle of human achievement.

My playlist making talent is terribly underrated. open.spotify.com/playlist/74Y...

If you love notebooks you will love this book. Finished reading it today. Took a lot of notes about it. www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

I want my wife to look at me with the same devotion and watery eyes that Andrew Garfield has for Florence Pugh in We Live in Time. boxd.it/FC5u

Dear diary

film still #43 Irving’s dream. Filming pov. #severance

You know what I like to do in my terminal late at night? I try to find my way through an infinite maze. 🧌 minotaur: Multiplayer SSH game, beware of the minotaurs! 🎮 ssh frittura.org -p 2020 🦀 Rust & @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/ricott1/mino... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #ssh #game #terminal

“Your real resume is just a catalog of all your suffering.”

Ezra Klein nails it hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

This week has been kind of a dick.

Latest post on the ThreadPool. Ever been told that Programming is just about “solving problems.”? I was, and never like it, and I think I figured out why. I cracked it. thread-pool.com/why-programm...

Other people want your attention too.

This one goes deep. www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...

“You can’t quote-dunk your way out of fascism.” This 404Media piece slaps! www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

So this morning at the Gym, in #downtownorlando, I saw a man reading this book. The man “happened” to be a Caucasian man, probably in his ‘60s. It was not a good look for him. www.amazon.com/When-Race-Tr...

The Angular Doc is finally out. They finally made the Trilogy framework docs. youtu.be/cRC9DlH45lA?...

Now that I’ve reached my mid 40s, when I listen to people in their early 20s, I can’t help but ask myself, “God, was I this stupid?!” and it hurts me to reply back to myself, “probably yes.”

The Fight Club original motion picture score is a banger and I don't understand why I never listened to it before. The Dust Brothers where the first Trent Reznor's and Atticus Ross’s. open.spotify.com/album/7BNrUf...

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.”

There’s something kafkaesque about this. thispersondoesnotexist.com

Is Carl Newport considered part of the podcast “manosphere”?

Romantasy: Spicy sex scenes and romance tropes with supernatural elements. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

The Pitt is not just the most accurate medical drama, it is a really freaking good show. Noah Wile kicks butt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipWM...

The SNL 50 Years of Music is just pure joy. They are truly the last bastion of showing the kids what’s up.