Have you ever used The Policy Wonk to manage your AWS permissions? Cool! Me too! But alas, my ex-employer stopped developing it and archived the repo. I updated my own fork with the latest commits and updated PyPI to point at its new home.
Same Wonk, same dev, same license, new URL. See you there!
A seasonal reminder that a “fun size” Twix bar would be roughly the size of my forearm, and anything less is false advertising.
Why I’m Returning the reMarkable Move: Premium Hardware, Mediocre Software
The device itself is amazing. It’s capable of much more than its oddly limited OS and apps will allow.
When I see the HH logo on clothing, my first thought is Harter House, a local butcher shop where I grew up. My second thought is Hamburger Helper, and I think that’s probably the correct answer.
Mrs Tek and I are having fun playing “Pokémon Legends: Z-A”. I made the mistake of looking at its online reviews and the hate it’s getting is surprising to me. While it’s not the best game I’ve ever seen, we’re enjoying it.
Rippling’s MDM has been force upgrading our office Macs to Tahoe, even though our update policy specifically said not to force major version upgrades. Their support confirms this is a bug they’re working on and advised me to temporarily turn off all enforced upgrades.
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.
Watching the Bills game at a bar in San Francisco.
The kitties are acutely interested in my project.
I have found my happy place.
(Lake Tahoe, Cali.)
New hotel, new cloned keycard.