At the end of the day a piece of wood or a bit of an assembly line doesn't usually have an opinion about the fact that you're weighing it.*

People are not like this. People notice when they are measured. Hence, we must think carefully about how we attempt to measure the experience of people and who gets into our sample because of it.

*pragmatically speaking -- physics & philosophy discussions about uncertainty principle for another day!!

The US finally takes aim at truck bloat https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design

I need to start a TikTok channel about being a trad programmer.

One that writes code without sprints, stories, epics, reviews, specs.

Just sit down with my keyboard and compiler and watch the build output scroll by.

God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

How can I make fun of this, I would do exactly the same thing in this position

Ok but can the new airpods detect when I'm shaking my head AND rolling my eyes while on an audio call while simultaneously making non-committal "hmmm" noises?

Finally got around to disassociating the garage door relay+sensor from SmartThings to move it over to Home Assistant. I have no idea why I waited so long to do so, either - it took almost no time at all and it had long since stopped working (since Samsung deprecated the service that the previous homeowner used to integrate the relay into SmartThings), so there was not even a downside if I was unsuccessful, since it wasn’t working anyway.

Damn, Ted Chiang’s writings on LLMs are just as good as his short stories. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

Enabled VisualHostKey yes in my SSH config (thanks @rixx@chaos.social!) and it’s strangely nice to see the semi-artwork every time I make an SSH connection.

Me when running a service:
Oh no. One of our back-end services is down. This is causing latency spikes on the front-end and in the mobile app. Users don't understand what's happening, so they keep hitting reload. This is adding even more load to the server and making things worse. Only technical users know to just wait a while, and then try again later.

Me when using a service:
What the hell?! This should've loaded already! Why so slow?! I'll click reload a few more times! *ReloadReloadReload*

Do I know any trans health nuts? There’s a feature request in my fav calorie tracker that could use decisiveness and hard design choices: https://github.com/simonoppowa/OpenNutriTracker/issues/80

thread in which I talk about why the "wrap your games console in a towel" or "reflow the bga" thing works to fix some consoles, and it's nothing to do with solder balls.

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/113084336056277361

Well, if nothing else, the Internet Archive case does make me feel much less bad about using Anna’s Archive.

I’ve become such a wuss since we installed AC.

TIL about gx in (neo)vim, which opens a a file/url natively.

to the publications that stylize headlines and other content in ALL CAPS, but who use `text-transform: uppercase` instead of actually typing the headline in caps: i see you, i appreciate you, i love you

love how the tech industry just reclaimed “sparkling autocomplete”

I kind of want to switch my Fediverse software over to gotosocial, but the thought of migrating while maintaining the same subdomain is just not something I want to tackle.

Some very smart, talented, and creative friends of mine recognized that "herculean tasks" and "sisyphean tasks" seems a bit limiting, so they came up with some more.

I love these and have now collected them:
https://another.rodeo/tasks/