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I lost my health insurance to this

aight I stg there's some fuckery going on in the state of NY gov't right now. I can't take a motorcycle safety class for over a month because of a "procurement department contract dispute", and it seems my plate registration is so delayed that they can't charge me tolls

tired: boolean flags also tired: string union flags wired: bitfields

Scholomance is queer Harry Potter meets The Boys and it's one of my favorite series I've read in a long time

Fuck Harry Potter Go read the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik It's about the chosen sorceress with an affinity for destructive spells who stumbles into having to save the wizarding world from the equivalent of wizarding capitalists. Also, she's queer and badass.

Got got so hard. Talking about travel, I said I loved Copenhagen and Amsterdam and he goes "oh so you hate food and sun" and as a redhead with past food issues I felt attacked

This is some genuinely interesting shiz and I don't super duper think Google should be operating it. This is the responsibility of a nation, not a corporation. I will not have my personhood for travel arbitrated by a privacy policy and user agreement blog.google/products/goo...

Addendum: they charge the fastest of any headphones I've owned. It's actually super nice to just leave them on for 10 mins and go from 60> 100%, after a week of not charging them

Just asked AI to write me some code that integrates with the Google API, and I got to watch it do the same thing I did the last time, where I realized the SDKs suck, tried to hack around it, then bailed out and hit the REST API directly 🫡

tired: every cheapo single purpose gidget having its own shitty battery wired: every cheapo shitty gidget taking usb-c from a power bank

gonna make a competing React Server Components but have it be a k8s renderer. you like yaml? here's JSX and hooks, nyeh

when will "thought-terminating cliche" become a thought-terminating cliche

Great video on this! youtu.be/uOSnQM1Zu4w

Happy Earth Day

the fact that email providers haven't figure out a way to avoid marking class-action lawsuit settlement notifications as spam seems like an oversight

I'm judging (again)! Give it a go if you like making games

one interesting thing i've experienced as a working parent is that across the board, coworkers seem to have more empathy for a sick dog than a sick kid. like your sick dog is really sad, take all the time you need. your sick kid is inconvenient. please clean up that barf and log back into Teams.

We record @tmir.reactiflux.com in ~ 5 minutes! discord.gg/8ENyXHvK?eve...

new pic who dis

Did Spotify like, break the queue or something? It hasn't been clearing for me lately when I start a new playlist

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

I practice Development Driven Testing, by which I mean that if I develop enough code I might eventually drive another contributor to write tests for it

i have been using a duct-tape reinforced cardboard box as a trashcan for 2 years