Dan Lew

Instead of project post-mortems, my team runs celebration of life ceremonies.

A neon sign that says "FREE DELIVERY" but the "R" has been covered up by a small bag, so instead it says "FEE DELIVERY." (The sign also has a a ramen bowl & the word "OPEN" on it, but that's irrelevant to the joke.)

When you no longer offer free delivery but don't want to pay for a new neon sign.

I asked a Jeopardy expert help.

Her advice?

"Question everything."

I'm joining the culture war, on the side of culture.

I have thrown my hands up about testing terminology because everyone uses these terms slightly differently. One person's unit test is another's integration test, etc etc etc.

I care far more about what I'm getting out of them vs. their taxonomical classification.

Give 110%? No thanks. That’ll reduce my battery life quickly.

Living that slow charging, 80% limit lifestyle instead.

Store sign that has the Domino's logo on top and "GUNS" on right below it.

A mini strip-mall of three stores (all attached): a gun store (named Strapt), a Domino's pizza store, and Strapt's gun training center.

I'm at the Domino's.

I'm at the gun store.

I'm at the combination Domino's and gun store.

For the crime of donating to a political campaign, your punishment: one thousand years of spam emails & text messages.

A safety pin with a bent paperclip looped inside of it.

Who needs a fidget toy when you could have safety pin + bent paperclip

Headline of article is "Appeals court sides with ICE over its tactics against protesters." Next to it is a picture of a protester, already pinned to the ground by multiple people, being excessively pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range.

Masterful juxtaposition between this Star Tribune's headline & accompanying photo.

Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales.

Why are sensors on bathroom sinks so crappy, but the sensors on the paper towel dispensers flawless?

How did the paper towel industry develop such technological lead over faucet manufacturers?

The fact that it's called "mmds_spell.txt" makes me suspect that it's for a spellchecker.

The added words at the bottom that aren't all caps are probably words the user wanted not to have red squiggles underneath it.

🎵The LoveSac is a little old place where

we can sit together 🎵

A donation form where the preset buttons for donation amounts are $25, $70, $129, and $240.

Is there some sort of weird psych trick around these preset donation amounts...?

Picture of a person wearing a knit sweater that is colored green, white & black in a pattern reminiscent of GitHub's commit activity graph.

GitHub commit activity sweater

Saying "never meet your heroes" is like saying "never date; you could get your heart broken." True, but also, you could have a great time!

I've met some of my heroes. They ranged from lovely to horrible, but I wouldn't give up the good experiences just to avoid the bad.

A settings screen for an Asus router that has a "famous game list." The entries are: "Age of Empires", "BitTorrent", "Counter Strike", "Playstation2", "Warcraft III", "WoW", and "Xbox Live".

My Asus router's convenient list of "famous games", from the year of our lord 2025.

Some fun stories from the (mostly) innocent hacking I did on Displate's website.

blog.danlew.net/2025/11/18/h...

Folks haven't been this excited about steam machines since the industrial revolution.

Random side project: Balatro's least erratic Erratic decks.

blog.danlew.net/2025/11/03/b...

The unfortunate thing is that feedback is least needed in your stable, regular setup - and that'd be the only place where you get out the hardware solution.

I most often hear things fail when people are out and about (in a coffee shop, in a meeting room, using new headphones, etc.)

Hmm, is there a software solution for this kind of feedback? Or would that be too laggy/distracting.

Finally wrote up this short post that's been on my mind forever, regarding audio problems in video calls: blog.danlew.net/2025/10/16/f...

Book "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law" by Beth Lew-Williams.

Excited to start reading the latest book from my sister, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social!

(Maybe if I'm lucky I can get the author to sign a copy...)

A 2D maze game where you guide a dinosaur across a landscape with many bridges. Each bridge has a diamond on it. Notably, two of the locations have an odd number of bridges connected to it, which makes the maze impossible unless you start/end on those specific nodes.

I didn't wake up thinking I'd be explaining the Seven Bridges of Königsberg & graph theory to my 2nd grader, but you need it to solve this maze game in his school's math app.

(You pick where you start, and every bridge disappears as you cross it, so it requires Euler's bridge analysis...)

Certificate stating that I am a verified human. "For proof of humanhood. They are made of flesh and blood. They smile, they grieve, they dance. They are NOT a Robot."

I'm undeniably human!

(Verified by this fantastic CAPTCHA game from @neal.fun: neal.fun/not-a-robot/)

When I was in philosophy, my professor would constantly use the phrase "you can't be a married bachelor".

But I just learned one of my kid's friend's last name is Bachelor. Someday he might be married. Take that, college professor!

I'm surprised Silksong is getting such glowing reviews; it was released with a fuckton of bugs.

One way to test whether a candidate is a serious prospect for your company is to schedule an interview right when Silksong releases tomorrow.