Exactly this! If it’s better than CarPlay, I will use it. If it’s worse, I want to be able to use CarPlay. I’m old enough to understand that car infotainment systems do not keep getting updated and quickly fade into obscurity. I won’t buy a vehicle without CarPlay as I know it will keep working for a pretty long amount of time.

Everything I do for the company is on the public GitHub and GPLed. Not overly useful to anything other than our product suite but it feels good to have it all open source. I used to contribute to Linux PAM but it’s been a good long time. Nowadays I just submit the random merge request for bug fixes. One day I shall retire and contribute to the networking stack. One day….

Finally someone who gets ME! I maintain the Go SDK and leverage Snyk and GitHub to perform dependency checks. I’m mostly using the standard library but I like feeling like I have someone over my shoulder double checking things. I maintain the things built on top of the SDK as well like the Terraform provider so it’s really nice having the foundation and the building. No one else cares but I rewrote the back off/retry logic this week so folk don’t overload the API. Supply chain attacks are scary. I run as few dependencies as I can without having to reinvent the wheel. I’ve have spent so much time double checking package signing and key security it’s insane.

I work in tech. No one cares about my updates to the client SDK. It would make for boring dinner conversation and it’s not like there is office gossip…I work from home. Do you want to hear about my chat about updates to the corporate PPT deck to illustrate the new logical flow of connectivity? Because marketing was on that call and they didn’t care either.

Reminds me of the NOFX song Oxymoronic.

I had assumed that in the era of smart watches, that a regular watch wouldn’t be popular. I don’t wear a watch at all but I am very surprised that there is this level of interest in watches. Kinda makes me happy that watches are doing well, I hope it’s a mechanical watch that has driven interest. I wish I knew why the interest level is so high though. Maybe it was on YouTube or something?

So we are going to assume rest api consumers use the api responsibly as opposed to making a ton of additional calls for no reason that an LLM will have to interpret rather than my existing Redis cache? I’m sure an LLM will be far more efficient.

This to me feels like a rift between the generations. I’m too old to likely ever trust these things to function without concern of what they will do. Folk older than me tend to excessively trust this type of tech and the folk younger than me seem the same. In my mind it creates a break between those in the ecosystem and those that are not. Like how a bunch of places in my town don’t have websites but do have Facebook pages for their business. I don’t have a FB account so it’s a pain for me but no one else seems to mind. It’s kinda weird being the generation that helped usher in the internet and modern connectivity yet being kinda left out of tech ecosystems (by choice or by exclusion).

I’ll admit that from the very start of the war, I have underestimated Ukraine. When the invasion via Belarus began, my hope was they could hold out for a couple of weeks to allow for a global response. Here we are now and it is absolutely amazing what they have been able to accomplish. I’ve heard they are having recruitment shortages in the military but I’ve also heard about the Russian wonder weapons that are ready but never seem to make it to the battlefield or function. So it’s tough to tell what is misinformation and what is not. If Ukraine is able to continue holding, their position only gets stronger. Taking out Russian oil infrastructure is doing long term damage to the Russian economy but it’s anyone’s guess how long Russia can hold out. I had such high hopes of hearing Swan Lake during the brief Wagner uprising. I wonder when someone in russia will actually organize regime change. The Wagner leader wasn’t getting much pushback in the towns he went through. Most people seemed to support him…and he was a terrible human being. It seems like the Russian people are just in the spot where they want another strongman to take over.

The US restarting Three Mile Island while China is just building brand new reactors and laying out insane amounts of solar. It’s certainly a metaphor.

It truly is the Russian tradition.

The Russian leadership has the benefit of not having to care what the Russian people think. I read that Putins approval rating is still above 70% so there is a long way to fall before there is any hope of regime change in Russia. Without regime change, there is near zero hope that they will halt the invasion. The question then becomes, how long can Ukraine continue the current pace of fighting and resistance. I wish i knew the answer and that they could hold out indefinitely but at some point, they are a smaller country with less resources. The regime change is Hungary has given me hope. Ukraine needs the support of EU countries since the US has thrown in the towel. If the EU can truly galvanize support for Ukraine, I believe this changes the calculus in Ukraines favor. In the near and mid term, the Russian economy can be irrational longer than the people can be solvent. Russia can drag out its decline for a VERY long time. I believe the tipping point hinges on the pace of EU support.

Rubio said: leaders should “check themselves before they wreck themselves in the direction that they’re going”. WTF is that. Was that early 90s when it was briefly popular. A whole generation just cringed.

I’m guessing that 7% of people have had an affair.

I thought about getting a color printer but I realized that I hadn’t used the color features in years anyways. I print documents maybe once a week and with my inkjet I waited for it to do a dance, warm up, and then print. This thing has like a 3 second delay and then immediately prints. It’s pretty amazing. Double sided printing saves paper so I’m happy with it.

Recently got a the Brother L2460DW and that thing was not expensive yet works so well. I got rid of a Canon Inkjet that no longer has supported print drivers. The Canon did fine with third party ink but it was from like 2009 and lasted to 2026 so I figured it did its duty with honor.

But if the US is the one blockading, those countries sending and receiving oil from the gulf will be blaming the country actually implementing the blockade which is now the US instead of Iran.

I’ve been reading these articles for about an hour now trying to figure out the plan. So, Iran blockades the straight and disrupts trade but starts letting some ships through and may be requiring toll payments. Not good but slightly better than nothing. The goal is to open the straight so the global economy doesn’t completely melt and the solution is to blockade all traffic in the straight? The means all traffic from US allies and adversaries. Now, the straight is being blockaded by essentially the US and Iran so no ships go through at all. What’s the plan? Keep it closed for what purpose? Does Trump think the US can ramp up oil, natural gas, and refining to plug the hole in the energy market? Is that the plan? I can’t see anything else making sense.

With the IRS, it was shown that at lower staffing levels, they don’t have the resources to audit large tax cheats like billionaires, just middle annd lower income folk. So I imagine they would be super happy to reduce IRS headcount.

Like yeah, that post was obviously insane, unhinged, and just flat out immoral…but could you imagine if he used Dijon mustard?