I’m playing Silent Hill F, which is beautiful, well made, and playable for up to 30 minutes per day until I get the heebie jeebies and have to put it down.
In certain forums I frequent, some people developed the habit of commenting on other users that “this sounds like AI wrote it”. Confession: I downvote every one of those. This blog you’re reading at this moment is 100% handwritten. I haven’t used AI to write a single word or edit a single sentence. It’s wholly, completely, my work. Yet, one tool I tested labeled it “about 30% slop”, apparently because I enjoy punctuation and sentences longer than 4 words. I have no patience for that.
Huh, whatever could that be?
It looks promising.
Awww, yeah.
Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs:
Federal data shows Oracle filed for 2,690 H-1B visas in fiscal year 2025 and 436 so far in fiscal year 2026, totaling over 3,100 visa requests.
Oh hell no. You cannot make me believe that the talent they’re seeking isn’t already here, or that this isn’t fraud.
macOS Tahoe has one feature that I adore: a setting to remove an app’s icon from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Far too many apps want to put their icon there for no helpful reason other than to remind me that they exist. That led to a proliferation of apps like Bartender (which I use to like before it sold out), Ice, and others that let users control what shows up in the menu bar.
I don’t need those apps anymore and I don’t miss them.
Here’s the 1Password icon in my menu bar. I have never, not once, ever used that icon for anything useful.
In System Settings > Menu Bar, I removed 1Password’s “Allow in the Menu Bar” permission.
Ta-da! No more unnecessary icon, and no third-party menu bar manager app required!
I wrote a little Python web chat thingy ages ago, Seshat. I haven’t touched it again in over 15 years. Someone asked me for permission to re-use that name on PyPI. I’d refuse under other circumstances — supply chain attack, anyone? — except that I strongly doubt there’s a single user of my package anywhere. The new person wants to rename their legitimate, long-lived project in a completely different niche so there’s no chance of confusing the two, either.
Because of all that, I’m agreeing to it. They’re starting the transfer process and I’ll approve it. If you’re the one person in the world using my abandoned project 15 years on, please consider vendoring my code. In fact, you can flat-out have it. Call it your own. Put it under your own license for all I care.
In short: some time after March 2026, the Seshat name on PyPI will start pointing at something else.
You can tell much about a person by the logos they wear. For example, if someone has a shirt or jacket with the “HH” logo, you know they’re a brand ambassador for Hamburger Helper®️, and are huge fans of beefy, cheese-product flavored pasta meals they eat thrice daily.
Artemis II is go. 🚀🌕❤️
My back’s been killing me after some weekend hijinks. This morning I threw a 20 pound plate in my backpack for the commute, which is the only reliable method I’ve found for fixing it.
Target texted me the same one-time password 3 times in a row. No April Fool’s joke here. This really happened.
