UBI has been tried experimentally enough times that the only time a headline should say there are “surprising results” is if it doesn’t work. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/112700889501338009

@nat My own intro to results-oriented thinking came from poker, rather than M:tG, which I think is both a game that more people know, as well as an even more stark demonstration of the importance of that type of thinking. (IIRC, it was perhaps Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book, but the date on that seems wrong, since I thought I was introduced to this earlier than 2005.)

Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

Periodic reminder that NIST does not approve of expiring passwords.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecretver

> Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.

Classic response to my username.

Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives

https://www.macstories.net/roundups/managing-your-mac-menu-bar-a-roundup-of-my-favorite-bartender-alternatives/

I understand that Applause has attempted damage control, but trust is something that you can’t get back that easily after such shady behavior.

Finding myself doing TypeScript type shenanigans at work, and I’m pretty sure this is me reaching peak midwit senior engineer in TS, so hopefully I’ll be over this hump soon and find simpler ways to attain the same confidence without jumping through type system hoops.

Or at least I’d settle for being able to more easily understand (or express?) the type signatures that I’m writing.

This is a good point, but also this bisection in and of itself is pretty amazing to be able to do, when each bisection test takes 4 hours to figure out if the commit is good or bad!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ratkins/112675470604166076

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…

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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