The emergency room I went to a couple weeks ago texted me a link to pay the bill. It’s to some generic payment system called “Papapapay”, which couldn’t sound scammier if it tried, and it shows a white screen if you open it in Safari.
Sometimes I’d swear they’re trying to train us to open phishing emails.
Pollito is still a photogenic little fellow.
It’s been a busy week at work. Our coffee maker broke and had to be sent for repairs. Engineering speed suffers when devs are low on caffeine.
I ordered a cheap coffee pot from an online store and had it next-day delivered to the office, then unboxed it and brewed a pot. This was very well received.
Banner over the street on my commute.
I think someone at Target’s having a bad day. I got a store credit card there a while back. It’s never left my house except to take it to Target. Today I got an unauthorized transaction message. Now I’m on the phone with their fraud department, with a wait time of 15 minutes.
Bathroom poster, Brickhouse, SF.
I did not add that sticker.
SF BART stations have restrooms with keys that have expiration dates.
The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 travel router I bought a year ago is on sale today for 38% off. If you’ve been on the fence, get this now.
Summary: check into a hotel and connect this, instead of your phone, to the paid WiFi instead. Then connect your phone, laptop, Switch, whatever to the router’s WiFi. Only pay for the one device, have your own firewall in place, and route everything through your own VPN if you want (we watched American Netflix from Germany).
I’ll never travel without one again.
Brendan Barker Obituary (1974 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers
Oh man, this hurts. Brendan umped our kids’ baseball games and he was wonderful, both MLB-level good and unfailingly fair. We’d chat and joke with him before games and during slow parts, but it didn’t matter: he’d still call our kid out a minute later.
RIP Brendan. You were a true role model for hundreds of kids.
Bob, being dogsat, likes to perch on the back of the couch behind my head.
She stood a cautious distance from the racked spamcannon, its GPUs glowing with malice and infrared as LLMs cranked out personalized spells. The tokens oozed out to the fediverse through a web of fake egirl accounts: “OMG… You would… look so cute… in these Skechers! ”
It was as profitable as it was horrible.
Because my ex-employer pays for a “platinum plan” health insurance policy, with family premiums of like $6000 per month, when I had a routine medical procedure last week, my out of pocket expense was “only” about $2000.
‘Murica. Shit yeah.
I’ve been using Just for a while as a task runner. It’s similar to Make, but optimized for developer ergonomics with a vastly simpler syntax and a wonderful CLI. I’d also been using Mise for other environment management things, such as installing specific versions of Python and NPM and other tools in a project directory.
Someone introduced me to Mise’s own newish task runner, and it just might win me over from Just for most things:
- Instead of using 2 tools, I can use 1.
- Just still feels nicer to me, perhaps because I’m more used to it, but Mise is good enough that I don’t think I’d miss the extra features.
- Mise lets you write tasks in separate files, which lets any editor handle them well without having to support justfile syntax, but still shares a CLI with inline tasks.
I like it.
I had a patch embroidered for my wife, a foot doctor.
Today I’m trekking the 1.5 mi walking part of my commute with 20 lbs of iron in my backpack. I’m reasonably confident in my ability to get it there with me intact. I’m less confident of my power to schlep it back home tonight.
Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just accidentally coaxed into life by sniffing the top of it.
When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed only”, the desire to turn it into a blog post is almost irresistible.
I’m super excited to be joining a small company next week as their first dedicated security engineer. After being at much larger companies for a little while, I’m ready to be back in the trenches.
What a job search looks like in 2025: 4 weeks, 27 interviews, with 20 different recruiters and employees of 21 different companies.
This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long tradition of watching the WWDC keynote together. Then I’ll go back to mostly ignoring the hype for another 364 days.
We worked to lose a nice bit of weight over the last 6 months or so. Today I hit the treadmill carrying a backpack loaded with the same amount of weight I’d lost. Holy cow. How did I do that every single day?