Microblog
This is my own private microblog where I post one- or two-sentence thoughts, spur of the moment, with no context. Think Twitter, but instead of the whole internet's poison concentrated in one place, it's just my own. Proceed with caution. (Newest posts are on top.)
Tuesday, February 04, 2025 at 10:21:37 AM (EST)
I haven't done anything that makes me truly happy in a very, very long time.
Monday, February 03, 2025 at 09:19:51 AM (EST)
The new Turing test will be when an 'AI' model can program itself directly in machine code.
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 03:18:19 PM (EST)
If Trump manages to end the IRS, I will literally get back not just many tens of thousands of dollars in annual income, but more importantly, I'll get back roughly one entire month of every year of the rest of my life. ('Normal' people really just don't understand how much of an insanely unreasonable buearocratic burden income taxes are for a small business owner.)
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 02:37:32 PM (EST)
Yes, of course I believe in slavery reparations... for the thousands of hours of pointless busy work imposed on us by the IRS.
Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 03:35:55 PM (EST)
If your 'app' doesn't work on a rooted device, it is broken. As such, I will throw it in the trash.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:04:42 PM (EST)
We have a bill of rights, sure. But what we need is a constitutional amendment that requires anyone in elected office to be capable of correctly defining "rights."
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:32:07 AM (EST)
The cure for social media is to work on making something.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 01:26:09 PM (EST)
Note to future me and other devs, my new favorite way to get debug info from PHP is to json_encode it and stick it in a header. You could log it to the JS console as some have done, but that only works if you're using the PHP to generate HTML rather than Commodore 64 basic binaries.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 08:35:03 AM (EST)
No tax on tips or overtime is not good enough, because I'll still have to report my tips, and now I'll have to report how many hours I've worked in a week. The only acceptable solution is to shatter the IRS into a million pieces and scatter it into the wind. There is no compromise.
Monday, January 27, 2025 at 11:34:35 AM (EST)
Things I get so lost in that I lose track of time include, apparently: Writing a PHP script that generates a C64 basic program binary from Wordpress data.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:00:59 AM (EST)
Once you have a child, it's difficult not to get a least a small glimpse of how God sees us: as children, who may have been led astray by the evils in the world, but who are nonetheless worthy of love.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 09:05:19 AM (EST)
Trump signs executive order making software licenses not just illegal, but also retarded
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 04:20:21 PM (EST)
It's the same old story: I have a half dozen cool, productive projects that I really want to work on, but I can't because of a half dozen b.s. governmemt-related projects I 'have' to do more urgently.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 10:29:52 AM (EST)
Me using an Avantis console for the first time: "This is Unix, I know this." (It is, and I do)
Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 08:46:48 AM (EST)
The last two posts have nothing to do with each other. worriedly smirks and looks around at a room full of skeptical faces
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 09:17:28 AM (EST)
I guess one reason my 'career' was never destined to go anywhere is that I'm simply not interested in fixing problems caused by other people's negligence.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:29:40 AM (EST)
Apparently, I've made a career out of finding bizarre Active Directory corner cases. Largely due to a poorly thought out decision I made 20 years ago when setting up this domain.
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 08:15:52 PM (EST)
I play one little offroading game for a couple hours and now all of a sudden I need a steering wheel and pedal rig
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 09:09:42 AM (EST)
I'm tired, and cold, and tired of the cold.
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 12:23:10 AM (EST)
Why are there so many retarded tech people? (Sorry, I was reading hacker news again)
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 11:03:09 AM (EST)
Imaginary numbers are roughly as imaginary as continuous functions.
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 09:54:50 AM (EST)
I like the whole 'protect my tweets' thing, because it keeps me from posting anything.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 11:30:57 AM (EST)
Actually, my real posistion is, fine lets take them over but only if we abolish the Fed and the IRS and end all the wars first. No sense in making them less free than they already are.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 11:28:19 AM (EST)
How about instead of taking over Canada and Greenland, we just get rid of passports and trade restrictions and also the federal and state governments? (gets thrown out of window)
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 10:05:16 AM (EST)
I guess what I'm trying to say, is that it's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I just don't care.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 09:40:46 AM (EST)
Some people have what could be called a passion for their technology-driven career. I have what would most accurately be thought of as the exact opposite... Due in large part to my understanding of what technology could be, and isn't. It's the lazy perfectionist's curse, in a somewhat different form.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 10:46:55 AM (EST)
When the docs say "you can write your own extensions" it should be implied that "you'll have to maintain your own extensions"
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 10:37:44 AM (EST)
One of those old unix lessons is hitting me today: just learn Make.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 08:51:19 AM (EST)
The whole world is moving to wayland, and here I am disabling my display manager
Monday, January 06, 2025 at 12:43:05 PM (EST)
Remembers that GDQ is a thing. Happily tunes in. Within seconds, sees multilple masks and pronouns. Disappointedly remembers that many, many people are badly damaged goods. Oh well, after saying a quick prayer, still up for watching weirdos do some good speedruns.
Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 09:22:17 PM (EST)
Oh were you waiting for me to answer? I just figured you were going to mock anything I said so I stayed quiet.