Notes

Feels absolutely surreal to announce this, but it’s a huge milestone 🥲

I got promoted this week and earned my first “Principal Software Engineer” title after 13 years in the game 🎉

ok, i’m obsessed with this 🤩🦠🍞

ME: ugh why won’t this sourdough starter monitor i just bought stay connected to my wifi?
ME [opening microwave to check on the jar]: … wait a second.

feels like the first break i’ve had in weeks 🥲

shipped a PR that changed how our entire site’s authentication works, without a feature flag, and nothing broke 🤘😎

if there’s not enough room for it in my dishwasher, there’s not enough room for it in my life

hard pass

friends don’t let friends install the GPG Mail plugin

ME: I’m the only person on this website—
PARTNER (not letting me finish): Wow!

remember how dope StreetPass was back in the Nintendo 3DS era? i still wish they’d brought it back for the Switch, but @tvler took that idea and built a StreetPass browser extension for Mastodon! as you browse around, pages with a rel="me" link to someone’s Mastodon profile will accumulate in the extension just like walking by someone else with a 3DS 😂 https://streetpass.social

i created my Threads profile mostly just to take a look, and the app was instantly annoying. algorithmic feed, no way to turn off replies in the feed… it’s just thoughtless and unexciting engagement bait from blue checks and people i don’t know. pass.

.net??? absolute amateur shit https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-countdown-plus-details/

pizza night with the bros!

1. garlic scape pesto, mozz, sliced scapes.
2. red sauce, local arugula.
3. twona (tuna two ways. spring onion, buffalo mozz, half olive oil, half red sauce with capers)
4. local mushroom medley, mozz, ricotta, chives.

this is why i wish bluesky wasn’t capturing the attention it has been. this is what they’re trying to pass off as moderation: the option to hide impersonators, hate speech and nazi posts as opposed to banning them outright. this should be completely unacceptable.

lmao this is the most incredible self-own https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

back when i exported all my tweets and put them on my own site, i stored syndication links back to the original tweets and always meant to show links to them in their footers. i guess i’m glad i didn’t waste the thirty minutes now that they’re all login walled

one of my favorite things about Tears of the Kingdom is that i can’t type “totk” on my phone without it aggressively autocorrecting to things like “york” or “total”.

but apparently nobody else can either, because every time i try to google things about totk, even the search suggestions are autocorrected 😭

emerging from my social media hole to say that i am feeling extremely distressed with the month of June. it is inhuman to have released Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all in the same month. who would do this to me and what did i do to deserve it

wrote my first post for a company blog in… actual years? 😳 check it out! https://firehydrant.com/blog/using-advisory-locks-to-avoid-race-conditions-in-rails/

git checkout -b oauth-more-like-o-no-auth