Ranting into my drafts folder again.
16.02.2026 20:24
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Ranting into my drafts folder again.
My work this morning involved cache invalidation, an off by one error, and naming things, so I've completed computers now.
I think there is value in the friction of doing detailed work.
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Five years ago I got a fumbling rendition of a Ted Greene arrangement under my fingers for Christmas. I’ve since had children, and this has not improved my musicianship. Man, I gotta get back to it.
Have a merry little holiday, whatever you celebrate.
A screenshot from a music app showing that Chris' recently played music includes Ottawan's D.I.S.C.O. right after "When No Birds Sang", a collab between abrasive grindcore band Full of Hell and shogaze band Nothing.
I contain multitudes, ok.
A box of Dark Arts Cat Nip coffee, with a faux screen printed image of a cat dangling from a branch and the text “hang in there”, like the old motivational posters.
My coffee this morning has a whole end of year mood going on.
I think I just like it now 🤷🏻♂️
AWS: so you want to back up a S3 bucket huh?
ME: yeah, should be pretty straightfor...
AWS: CREATE A BACKUP POLICY MANAGER BACKUP MANAGER POLICY.
Fair 😂 On to a serious recommendation: short story The Things is seriously worth reading if you haven’t.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
A few months ago I found this band too punishing to be listenable, and now I keep spinning this EP. I'm still not sure I _like_ it per se, but there is something drawing me back. I am surely having an unsettling experience of art.
frontierer.bandcamp.com/album/the-sk...
This started as a series of bluesky posts here and quickly grew enough it deserved its own markdown. It's a rambling about a book I'm excited for, and caring to read.
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#booksky I guess?
New Rolo Tomassi EP, new Conjurer album, new Astronoid track.
It’s a good day to like loud guitars.
Coffee 3: Changes Diff’d
I'm having a lot of three coffee days lately.
There are two flavours of backend victory: number go down, and number go up.
Just scored a big win for number go down at work.
Please clap.
Whoa a mirror that’s black on both sides
Nick is a lovely human with whom I am privileged to work.
Unfortunately for him, I am an irreverent and incorrigible prankster who has been feverish for several days, and as such have pent up devilry. Ergo…
A wild thing about having children is you can be doing some ephemeral software bullshit like debugging database timeouts in the morning, then take the kids to the local pool in the afternoon and oops surprise you just formed core memories that you’ll cherish for the rest of your life.
Name one lyric that goes harder than
> Untimely ripped into this world
> I was born again as a girl
This may be the heaviest line ever written. Low Teens is a contender for my favourite album of the past decade.
youtu.be/I1kRMGs7UuQ?...
A surgically precise dose of kindness but hell yeah dude you have the goods.
Nobody tell Henry from online that he’s Already A Writer because I’m stoked for these endeavours.
I run a linear, there and back again, route for #couch25k and my free dopamine tip is to offer high fives to people coming in the other direction.
Like hell yeah we got this.
Chugging Keurig in an unsqueegeed shower because the wall instructed live, laugh, love damn it.
TIL I am “sustain moderate shoulder injury by sleeping” years old.
Mildly incensed by all the CEOs lionising long hours at the office, I peeled back a small corner of my filter and wrote a short, slightly unhinged, and likely incoherent post. The kind of raw cringe post I can only conjure in a state of child-induced sleep deprivation.
Absolutely sniped, but the best I can do is something like this:
getOrganization("foo")
.then(org => Promise.all([org, getMembers(org.id)]))
.then(([org, members]) => ({org, members}))
Which still feels like a lot of ceremony and artifice 😕
Yes.
> I’ve felt unmoored by all of this … by a “get that bag” culture that seems to have accepted these tools without much consideration as to the repercussions; by the discourse.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
