mastodon 4.7.3Man about San Francisco. I want better public transit & biking infrastructure. I write code for money. I talk a lot about music & movies. Born & raised in Michigan. I have an incredible wife and two adorable/terrible cats.
I was debating whether or not to post it here, but I settled on posting it here.
After 7mo sabbatical and 3.5 months of job hunting I started as a Staff Software Engineer at Gusto on Monday. Pretty happy the job hunt is over. Excited about the new work place. Seems positive overall. Onboarding is pretty top knotch.
This is so good. Diane is doing the Lord’s work. https://youtu.be/VfLRjw8jggI?si=Rbjon0wIgjb3Vq_Q
@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social Ep. 622 “Intentionally Embarassing” may be my favorite time in which you were exasperated with John and his password situation. I was screaming in the car when he was talking about his solutions. And then when he started just reading all the password entries in alphabetical order. I could feel your restraint through the speakers. 😂
My PS5 has been overheating. I searched the internet and it said a few things:
1. Vertically standing it up is known to cause issues because the liquid metal drips down due to gravity leaving exposed spots.
2. It doesn’t use thermal paste, it uses liquid metal which is a new type of thermal dispersement… goo. It looks like mercury and it is unlike any liquid/solid I’ve evrer worked with.
3. The liquid metal, just like thermal paste, can need replacing.
Because I’m me I decided to buy a tube of liquid metal ($9) and replace it. Followed a YouTube guide today despite having taken a PS5 apart before. It didn’t turn back on when I reassembled it and I panicked a bit. I thought it was the suspect ribbon cable and after taking it apart again it indeed was. Terrible clip/clamp thingy.
All in all working with liquid metal was cool, I feel rad for having fixed my own PS5 (again), and the iFixIt electronics/computer kit thingy I have has seen a lot of use at this point. Well worth the $60 or whatever I paid.
Same experience and thoughts here.
I never thought I’d live long enough to “program” by writing instructions to a computer in plain English in Markdown and then hoping the computer understood English well enough and that I wrote the English clear enough to do what I want it to do.
But here we are. This is what I do now I guess.
61 candidates for governor alone. This is violence.
If you spent 10m researching each candidate (which many you can dismiss instantly but many deserve more than 10m so let’s say 10m average) that’s 10hr & 10m of research *just* for the governor. And then remember there’s four more pages of candidates for other positions.
I’m gonna try to add a ballot prop next election called The Wu-Tang Limit. You cannot have more than nine people. If someone had a strong case they can be a 10th. We’ll call that the Cappadonna clause.
This is insanity.
This list is impossible. No one will be happy with it. I’m not. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/magazine/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
I’ll say this though that my personal list would add (extremely off the top of my head):
* Neil Young
* John Roderick
* Jason Isbell
* Ryan Adams
* Jeff Tweedy
* Matt Pryor
* Jack White
I mean… this list, while broad and branching, predictably focuses on hit makers and people who’ve sold 1M plus albums.
AI has made its way to the vet.
This is a lovely explainer breaking down how nuts breaking 2hrs for a marathon is. https://youtu.be/ah4ZwACPVxE?si=4bMZaGM9Gdisd0lF
@paul@tapbots.social I read through this several times and still feel dumb. I don’t fully understand it beyond that through a very specific series of events you can use a 732 bit python script to change su in memory and somehow gain full root access. Still feels like this is a pretty fringe thing. I wonder if there’s any known cases of the exploit being used.
The new Strokes album is meh. The new Modest Mouse album is fantastic. Best since “We Were Dead…”.
If you’re choosing to attempt to publicly cancel a man the day after his tragic death for a consensual age-gap relationship you truly know nothing about it says a lot more about you than him. If you actually cared you’d have spoken up back in 06.
There are much easier and less shitty ways to get attention online.
This is rad as hell. https://youtu.be/KhypDhI7kU0?si=sl0fFJSztkmF-ZYL