California is where you build a tech company. Texas is where you take it because the only thing left to do is reduce costs as you slowly die.

Only true heat can empty out good neighbor’s outdoor seating.

I really don’t like how much I like upping the text size on iOS… again.

The ending of Let Bartlet Be Bartlet. How did I go to sleep after watching this show when it aired?

I wake up to a heat advisory every single day.

I don’t like living like this.

Baldur thinks that when he leaves his tech bubble, everyone is much more critical of AI. I couldn’t disagree more. Everyone I know involved in tech, especially in the tech-adjacent fields of journalism and various parts of “nerd” culture is furious about AI. And in my experience, there’s no one more wary than web developers when it comes to AI. My own bubble here couldn’t be further from embracing it.

Meanwhile, I know tons of people who love using CoPilot or Gemini or ChatGPT. Random people tell me all the time about how AI is a better editor/Grammarly for their writing. They talk about how some tedious things they did are easier. I hear things like:

It was so much easier than trying to figure out the right Google Search or watch a 15 minute video on YouTube to figure out what was subtly wrong about this Excel function I wrote. I hate writing sympathy notes. I never know what to say. ChatGPT wrote something trite, but it was enough for me to edit it up a bit and help me get over my procrastination/fear/anxiety. I can’t believe how well this summarized these research papers and helped me to actually figure out which one was relevant to my question.

I’m not all rah-rah about LLMs and what they’re bringing us, but I continue to think that the folks who are most ardently against AI are just plain wrong when they claim these tools are not useful or that no one wants them. That doesn’t mean I think that the hype is fully justified, but pretending these things don’t work or aren’t useful or only produce slop is a skeptic’s wish-casting.

New Overcast tomorrow also means my … tri-annual discovery that I am still subscribed to the Marco.org RSS feed.

JD Vance is a deplorable sycophant created by a breathless and dumb liberal elite media.

I guess that makes him just like Trump.

Am I rewatching West Wing to dissociate? Maybe.

Not many shows can choke me up as many times as the first half of the first season of The West Wing.

Yes, I just watched S1E10. No, this is far from the first time I’ve cried this season. Yes, it’s at least my third time seeing The West Wing.

No editor feels as good as Nova to me, but it’s missing too much and has too weak an extension library to make up for it. It’s really frustrating. Also, the vim bindings are just missing too many things.

Baltimore— restaurant full of working class white people upon learning someone seems to have taken a shot at Trump, “Did they get him!?” Followed by universal disappointment. Staff and patrons alike.

Where are the rumors about AirPods Max with USB-C (that can be folded 🤞🏻)?

As if I’m not pissed enough at the NYTimes, they go and attack me like this?

Permissions systems are hard and complex. While I know and use a lot of terminology, I’m a bit worried that I’m misusing or missing out on jargon that could help me discuss things more precisely. Has anyone done a zine-style deep dive on the world of authorization?

My RStudio install just had… no preferences suddenly. Fine. But when I re-installed, I can no longer add system installed fonts for my editor? This will push me right back to figuring out VS Code for R or the new Posit thing.

I don’t like how the fuzz I’ve used for years interacts with the distortion pedal I now love so naturally now I’m thinking about fuzzes again. Pedals are a scam.

Finally read Ben Thompson’s The EU Goes Too Far from a couple of days ago about the EU and the DMA– I couldn’t agree with it more.

… what is problematic here is seeking to ban the fairest alternative — direct payment by consumers — and thus effectively taking Meta’s property.

The only thing that annoys me more than having to watch Star Wars as early as possible each week because of social media is having to restart my AppleTV once or twice a week to fix HDCP bullshit.

I announce I’m taking a walk or having a snack or stepping away from my desk with a sudden flurry of various funny links sent to mostly people I work with.

Remove the charitable donation tax deduction and set inheritance tax at 100%, on a sliding scale from $10M to $20M.

Easiest, most fair way to increase revenues I can think of.

There’s a new toe album coming! And they just released a new track!

Can you imagine being able to write and perform this?

This is something worth aspiring to.

Elsa, seeing me on r/guitarpedals, “You don’t need any more pedals.”
Me, “I’ll have you know, I’m avoiding buying a used pedal, available locally, that I’ve been considering to replace one I have.”
Elsa, “Like the new big box was supposed to replace the old big box?” (in reference to my amp(s)).

“We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?”

“When you learned Latin?”