UnitedHealthcare just sent me a plaintext email with all kinda of fun HIPAA-covered information. It read, basically,
Hi, [full name]. Your new insurance policy went into effect on [date], with out-of-pocket limit [dollar amount], and also covering your dependents [list of names].
That’s awfully carefree of them.
This is either sunset behind clouds, or San Francisco has grown a volcano.
A confession: I’m sitting around on a Friday night indulging in some agent-driven development and loving every moment of it.
I hear a lot of people I respect and like talking about their ideas of the things AI could never do, and my own experience is vastly different. A lot of those impossible things work really well today. And that’s fantastic! I’m having great fun seeing how quickly it can get through chores I’d been putting off, and at a quality level I’m happy with.
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new U.S. fully integrated exchange in decades - CBS Texas
It’ll be inevitably be seen as the Dollar Store stock exchange. Can’t cut it on NASDAQ? List it on Y’all Street!
“Well, we IPOed!”
“Congratulations!”
“…in Texas.”
“Do you need to use me as a reference?”
Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology has quietly walked the policy back. […] Drives from Seagate, WD, and others will work exactly as they did before—complete with full monitoring, alerts, and storage features.
That’s fantastic news. I still don’t know if I’ll stay with Synology, as I’d already started migrating off it, but now I won’t completely rule it out.
Python Release Python 3.14.0 | Python.org
We had PyPy and PyPI. Now we also have PiPy.
I don’t know if the perfect video game exists, but “Hades II” slots itself flawlessly into the part of my brain that weighs such things.
“Challenge: Name the worst possible TV show you can imagine.”
JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.
Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.
Think I’ll walk a little faster.
