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.