Regarding Samsung bricking their smart fridges...
I once told a contractor that I explicitly did NOT want a smart appliance. His response was “you must be a software developer, they’re usually the ones who don’t want them.”
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I'm joining the culture war, on the side of culture.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Unless you have aphantasia.
The update of the beast!
I recently got the game "Little Kitty, Big City".
My cat is not a fan.
A few months ago, I decided I needed to understand what the fuck passkeys are and whether or not we should be using them.
I compiled all my research and gave a talk (given at Minnebar). Now I've written it up.
https://blog.danlew.net/2026/05/21/what-the-fuck-are-passkeys-and-why-are-they-everywhere-now/
I've always felt reassured analyzing code because, no matter how gnarly, I knew that at its heart that a human wrote it for some reason. You could figure out its intention.
That assumption has been blasted away in the past few years, and I worry what we've lost due to code written without meaning.
What's the point of offering me the option to login via password (instead of by email) if you're just gonna make me verify my identity with an email anyways?
Stupid bastard falls for it every time
How it feels still writing blog posts about coding in the era of AI.
If you're coming to Minnebar20, check out my talk, "what the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?"
(Yes, that's the real session title; I'm excited for this one!)
I keep fighting the same boss over and over again until I get good enough to beat them, but why don't they get better at beating me at the same time?
It'd be a shitty game experience but it'd be unique if a boss adapted to your style at the same time as you adapted to theirs.
Rumor has it that if GitHub is down for more than 15 minutes, you can leave work.
"Into the Spider-verse" is miles better than every other Spider-man movie.
When you no longer offer free delivery but don't want to pay for a new neon sign.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" also applies to code.
Instead of project post-mortems, my team runs celebration of life ceremonies.
I haven't watched any ANDOR but I'm glad people are so interested in boolean logic these days
I bought a Newton's cradle on Amazon.
Amazon automatically sent me some tips on keeping my sleeping baby safe.
Not that kind of "cradle", Amazon!
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That's not safe at all!
You've got to have at least two straps on the kid.
Re-read the great post "Choose Boring Technology", which advocates for preferring stable tech over innovative (but unproven) software.
Amused that, when it was written in 2015, one example of spending an innovation token was using NodeJS; now it's ubiquitous.
I'm enjoying the game, but I can't tell if Vampire Crawlers' UI is purposefully trolling me or just bad.
There's a screen that shows which cards evolve with each other, but the *only* time you can't view that screen is when you're picking new cards - the *only time* you need a card combo reference.
If you use spreadsheets and don't know what pivot tables are you are missing out my friend.
My bank is always imploring me never to share their one-time codes, but what if it's a really cool one, like 123456? Other people need to know.
@markgritter@mathstodon.xyz Acorn (from Flying Meat) is powerful yet simple. It's what I've used for over a decade so it is de facto my MacOS drawing program.
@gray17@mastodon.social Perhaps Warning Forever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_Forever)?
That's really close to what I am thinking about, but it's not style adaptation so much as "boss gets adaptively beefier each time."