“What makes biking dangerous is all the cars. What makes the bus so slow is all the cars. What makes driving a car so slow is all the cars. What makes everything too far away to walk is all the space we have to reserve for the cars.” 🚗 🚙 🚗 🚙 #biketooter

Everything you'll ever need to forget about Street Fighter strategy:

me, making boundaries cleaner: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

me, inadvertently creating new fuzzy areas by having created new categories: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

OH: Dragons Love Tacos is white people propaganda.

(This probably only make sense to parents.)

I feel like I talk about @bangbangcon all the time on here, but a friend mentioned that they didn't realize that it was actually happening this year! We're no longer using Twitter, and I think it's possible a lot of our usual audience isn't seeing our posts. (Also, the conference is at a different time of year than in the past, which might be confusing people.)

So, please help us out and boost this: Tickets for the 🚨 last ever 🚨 !!Con are available right now! https://bangbangcon.com/

An unexpected advantage of a standing desk (because I got it before having a kid) is that S can’t reach anything on it.

First past the post is the One Ring, isn't it? Everyone wants to get rid of it until they actually get hold of it!

Although I try to avoid unitaskers in the kitchen, two that are unreasonably useful are the cherry pitter and citrus squeezer.

Holy shit! Why doesn’t every screenshot app work like that?

@b0rk Weirdly enough, I thought I did and that it quit less, but apparently my memory conflicts with my muscle memory which has been hitting q for this instead.

Counsel deposing me some day: “And when you typed into the incident slack channel, and I quote, ‘ruh roh, Raggy’ what did that correspond to in the system logs?”

I must not reply. Replying is the mind-killer. Replying is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I’m not sure if I like or dislike this idea, but it is novel.

RE: https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01J2NAZEBENHZG872QA50PCB2P

One of the most delightful things about watching Sohla and Ham cook on the NYT Cooking channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7iNcYc7Joo) is seeing their teamwork in action, from meal concept and design to actual implementation. The pre-cooking vibes really reminds me of the best pair programming partners I’ve had.

Finally got bit by ripgrep not searching hidden files by default to change that default setting: https://git.kejadlen.dev/alpha/dotfiles/commit/143377611d6f6a6d8a70b9efb658a9ac426d3e45

Tradle is getting harder

RIP Eight Row: https://seattle.eater.com/2024/7/10/24195827/why-eight-row-green-lake-restuarant-closed

Loved having this restaurant just a couple blocks away. Didn’t get to eat here nearly often enough.

Something that I think a lot of people struggle to internalize, to really feel subjectively, is that a lot of what people did in the past is still present.

People grow up hearing about all sorts of things that people did in history and experience it as *exotic* and *archaic.* ie, “witch hunts” belong to a distant, superstitious, paranoid past, until you hear about some guy shooting up a pizzeria in Washington, DC because he heard Hilary Clinton was drinking the blood of infants to power her occult rituals.

Anyway, I give you the pharaoh and his tomb filled with treasures to accompany him into the afterlife:

https://archive.is/a2ITL

On the note of measurement theory one thing that drives me UP the wall in software: please know that an imperfect measure consistently applied is usually a source of more accurate information than a consistently shifting measure that may be considered "better" at a single point in time. If your goal is to make comparisons you sure as hell better be maximizing for making comparisons

What a perfect set of authors for this paper.