My internet has been such trash the past couple days, ugh.

Yet another time when Go pretends it has static type-checking but internally is poking all around an IO object to see if it can seek or close or whatever.

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/fixing-rss-mailcap/

Inside of you there are two engineers.

One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the right tool for the task. Please, they cry, avoid the awful hacky workarounds!

One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the same tool for the task. Please, they cry, make information actually discoverable!

Both sob in commiseration together as they end up using 5 separate tools, duplicating the data 3x, and suffer all of the hacky workarounds with none of the discoverability.

Half the time when I see BDFL, I read the B as “bastard” instead of “benevolent”, probably because of BOFH.

My inner urbanist winces every time S wants to build a parking lot when playing with his duplos (which is often).

As, I guess, promised, the blog post on access control and private methods in Ruby:

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/06/better-know-access-control-part-2/

I tried to make this measured, though it probably would read better as a straight-up rant. It'd certainly be shorter…

Coming to a mailbox near you if you are a subscriber.

hot take: ephemeral chat is actually kinda nice because if there's no history to search it means you'll be more likely to put important info somewhere it actually belongs like a wiki or mailing list

chill out and let chat just be chat

Woo, so excited to see the virtual #ORCA card available in Google Pay! Curious when it'll make its way to iPhone too, but a big milestone for sure 😁

#SoundTransit #KingCountyMetro #Seattle #Transit

@kingcountymetro_bot https://mastodon.gruezi.net/@kingcountymetro_bot/112673607041203736

I feel this way about senior engineers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/crosswords/chess-players-grandmaster.html

Often the best code documentation is a commit message that links to an issue thread full of notes and screenshots

So, today I was here. This was one of the most unusual historical marker signs I have ever seen.

Charming. Serious. And #NinjaTurtles. #TMNT
#DoverNH

I’m for the most part a Forgetter and it always impresses me how some people I’ve worked with can pull out such detailed memories of things they’ve done in the past, but my memories of such are generally pretty spotty.

https://www.thecut.com/article/memory-people-who-remember-vs-forget.html

One of the best parts about living in the city and having hyperlocal community is how often we run into friends when we’re out and about.

#Seattle - if you are interested in:

* Stranger Things walkie talkies
* Retro tech
* Radio waves what even are they
* The sun & how it creates a charged layer in the ionosphere allowing us to bounce messages off it like skipping stones on a lake

Then I have good news for you! We just spent the day putting up some GIANT #hamradio antennas in a field & we're inviting Seattle to visit this weekend as part of the "open house" that is #FieldDay http://www.seattleradiofieldday.org

pic: 1 of 7 masts going up

I’m watching a skateboard vert competition and it’s sponsored by the document destroying company Shred-It and damn if that doesn’t make perfect sense whenever it shows up in the background

Yikes, MeFi is doing a rewrite? I’m sorely afraid that’s going to be the end of the site. I very much hope not, but given how most rewrites wind up…

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26454/MeFi-Site-Update-June-19th

All models are wrong. But some models are wronger than others.

OH: "/api/v1 is an emotional support api prefix"