my absolute favorite thing about software updates on Windows is seeing an error message with a hex code pop up for less than a second before disappearing, and then wondering if my computer will ever boot up again
TIRED: Prompt Engineering
WIRED: Promptcrafting
INSPIRED: Prompt Divination
spent like 30 minutes debugging why my Apple Maps snapshot images for check-ins suddenly broke yesterday after switching from HTTParty to Faraday… turns out Faraday sorts request parameters by default?? why??? param order usually doesn’t matter but sometimes it REALLY does, like signed URLs
steamed some more eggs, with smoked shoyu, sesame oil, and a bit of crisped up shredded pork. i think this is going in the regular breakfast rotation
it’s time to stop it with the “shake your device to report a problem” pattern. i don’t want to see that shit in any apps in 2024 or beyond. “this Vision Pro app is so buggy. smh (literally)”
set a reminder to buy Ghibli Museum tickets for my brother and me, and i went to the website at exactly 5pm and was presented with this lol. RIP
my descent into the indieweb continues: now my posts have a little form to send me webmentions if someone responded to them from somewhere that isn’t Bluesky or Mastodon!
i finally started reading Way of Kings and, i’m not very far into it yet, but the main thing that keeps me coming back is definitely Kal and Syl
sometimes i think about all the hours i’ve spent building and overengineering my dumb little website and how 99% of my traffic is still just to read a blog post i wrote over a decade ago… but then i remember it was fun and still is fun so who cares?
i am a simple person with simple wants and needs. i don’t ask for much. just a lot of green onions. a lot
just spent 10 minutes writing an extremely detailed GitHub Issue and, seconds before posting it, realized what the problem was and how to fix it. Friday Brain 🫠
tomorrow, my team launches what is probably the highlight of my career so far. i haven’t been able to say anything like this since i helped build the original GraphQL API at GitHub back in 2016
i’ve been using Bridgy to backfeed replies/likes/reposts from Mastodon and Bluesky back to my own site… and now i’m finally showing them off. feels good to check off another box!
TURBOTAX: We found something missing from your federal return. State Tax Refund Worksheet: Item Q line 2 should be entered.
ME: i don’t know what that means. can you tell me?
TURBOTAX: it means go fuck yourself lol
woof, i forgot about that 50% price hike for JR passes back in October. i guess this’ll be my first time just buying tickets as i go 🤷