Me: Use the open sriracha before you open a new bottle.

Kid: OK! opens the new bottle

Me: Why did you open that?

Kid: I couldn’t find the other one.

This is literally where I found the old bottle when I opened the refrigerator.

An open refrigerator with a half-empty bottle of sriracha on the very front of the middle shelf, label facing forward saying “SRIRACHA”.&10;&10;There is another open bottle of it in the background. It is not the 3rd one that the kid just now opened.

I just released Frozen BBS v1.3.0. It has a boatload of backend improvements, not all backward compatible. I think this will be the last change this large. It now has all the base infrastructure I’d imagined from the start. Future releases should be more incremental.

This year’s winner of the “Most Random Present” award: my buddy who gave me a set of throwing axes and some night vision goggles. I’m still not entirely sure how this all goes together.

2 crossed axes and what looks like black binoculars

My kid wanted to watch Airplane! tonight. This is the best, goofiest movie ever. I could watch it 1,000 times.

My sister worked in infectious disease control at a large hospital. Her department head asked her to write their flu response protocols, so she did. When their state wanted to have flu protocols, they asked around to the hospitals and ended up using her work. When the CDC was writing their national plans, they heavily cited the state’s.

She would have wept — wept! — at the idiocy we’ve brought upon ourselves.

I take some consolation that she never had to see what we’ve done.

The state of local AI today: llama3.1 (the 8B version) runs well on my MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM. I run it with Ollama. There’s a decent FOSS terminal app, Aider, that lets you do useful things with it.

Install those and you can have a reasonable coding assistant that’s 100% free and 100% local.