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“Schmeep-schmop” is my new favorite phrase.

Whatever dude, we’re done here. Schmeep-schmop I’m over it. 🐑🧹

“Google’s product strategy is a Monkey knife fight” is the most honest description I’ve heard all day.

So I’m sitting there blasting rebasing a branch when I see Zed throw a nice little “Resolve Merge Conflicts with Agent” button on the bottom of my screen. Whaaat!

Man, that’s such a nice polished little convenience helper detail and a perfect task to offload! Zed consistently impresses me.

Working with LLM agents right now feels very much like when the Steam Deck hit. It turns an activity that could only be a “stop the world, block time to find a focus flow state” into a quick stop-start-switch-restart activity interleaved throughout the day.

Except instead of gaming, that activity is working on personal projects. Which is awesome because, like the Deck, it has helped time-slice something I enjoy back into my life.

Damn, “Oh The Places You Will Go” really is a banger of a story.

The cadence and flow sets you up to sound like an awesome orator (def better than I actually am) when you’re reading it out loud to your kids.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.

Aka “Perfect is the enemy of good” Aka “Just go do the fucking thing even if you think it’s trash”

I’m an idiot and only just now realized that Zed’s command palette is accessible via the : vim command-mode keybinding.🤦

And a git-graph interface!!

Wow, I love Zed even more.

Both Know No Fear and Fear To Tread are excellent must-read books if you’re a fan of either the Ultramarines or Blood Angels respectively.

But man does the overtone of betrayal and repeating undercurrent of opportunity loss for individual characters, each Legion, and the Imperium as a whole make them a slog to read once the action really gets going.

Because you get a sense of this great, grand scale… where everyone and everything gets summarily fucked.

Yeah yeah I get it, ”In the Grim Darkness of the far future there is only war”.

But I can only take so much pointless death and betrayal at a time, man.

PSA to conference vendors: I don’t want your socks, a bag, or even that fancy vest.

I am a simple man.

Bring back those sweet, sweet logo shirts. My closet yearns for them.

PS: Stickers are still cool though

Not enough dakka, but getting there. More air + More Red = MOAR FASTAH YA GIT!

100% Orky approved.

In retrospect, climbing up a slick ladder in slippers and PJs to clean out the gutter in the rain was not a wise decision.

1/10 would not recommend.

I’m not big into the hustle or productivity-maxing culture, but i still like to throw a tongue in cheek “Always Be Closing, bro” every once in a while.

Mostly I’m joking because it’s a funny junk phrase, but there’s a nugget of value in there. Basically “Don’t quit, be hard when life gets hard.”

Which i think aligns with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s core principle: “Always Be Useful”.

If you’re feeling lost, use the AB’s to find your way.

Like a lot of people I drink a metric gigaliter of coffee on the daily.

Apparently “not liking coffee” is my main bellwether for how sick or healthy I am feeling.

Coffee sounds gross? I’m sick. Coffee sounds good? I’m feeling better.

Weird.

The Gogeta-Broly fight scene in “Dragonball Super: Broly” is the most visually stunning animation sequence I’ve ever seen. It’s a masterpiece that I always get hyped to re-watch.

Broly: Exists

Gogeta: Absolutely fucking not

Seriously, the whole thing was up, right, a hard left, a sudden drop, and then BOOM all over.

It was not what I was expecting but it was a goddamn delight.

Bases are a rad Obsidian feature that lets you create an arbitrary view of your obsidian notes. It uses note properties and other file metadata to create a materialized view which you can use as a quick-nav dashboard.

I use it to find and group RFCs by status and category, and to sort clipped web pages by recency.

Cool story bro.

It turns out that sadly I am not as big of a fan of huitlacoche as I thought I would be. Maybe I would like it better if it was fresh and not canned.

Sadness strikes.

Finally found a restaurant that serves something with huitlacoche! I’m not that hungry but ordering it anyways :)

Two things will live in my head rent-free forever:

1. The mad hype sequence of Goku, 17, and Frieza tag-teaming Jiren at the end of TOP in DB Super
2. My boy Mika piloting Gundam Barbatos to throw hands against literally anyone and everyone on sight

With the recent Zed pricing change to token based billing of both edit and hosted LLM usage I’m 100% into it and am down to support the product.

Zed edit prediction is some high quality shit; I am unexpectedly and pleasantly shocked at how good it is.

While I was washing the dishes I realized that there is an actual functional difference between the Scrub Daddy and the Scrub Mommy sponges that plays into the product naming. More than just a bow and pink color on the “Mommy”.

Both have a rough scrubbing side, but the Daddy is rough all around and only the Mommy has a “soft side”. Absolutely ridiculous. 🤣

FFS the term “gives me the ick” makes me irrationally upset. And when I hear it I immediately discount the speaker or author and whatever it is they are trying to say.

FYI: Any app enabling “Secure Keyboard Entry” on your Mac (confirmed at least for macOS 14.7) will prevent the iTerm2 global hotkey shortcut from working unless the iTerm2 app is foregrounded.

Details are in this iTerm GitHub issue. Fortunately for me, for some reason BetterTouchTool happens to tell you which app has enabled secure keyboard entry. So you can search and destroy it and get your global iTerm hotkey working again.

Sleep is annoying. You need it and you’re fkd if you don’t get it, regardless of what you tell yourself.

Waking up after adequate and consistent deep sleep feels like a toothbrush deep cleaned your brain. That feeling is like a week-long vacation compressed into the first 15 seconds of the day.

Incredible, there’s nothing like it.

“People tend to vastly overestimate what will happen in fifty years and massively underestimate what will happen in the next two.”

Huh, yeah that definitely tracks.

6 GHz WiFi and gigabit fiber internet together are, unsurprisingly, pretty fkn rad!

Holy crap, Obsidian has a web clipper browser plugin! This looks like a perfect Pocket replacement since Pocket is being (update: has been fully) decommissioned.

https://dashdash.io/ is an awesome resource for searching and reading through Linux manpages. And the design is just chef’s kiss.

Trying and failing to use snyk container scans with colima on macOS instead of docker desktop.

sudo ln -s ~/.colima/default/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock stops the pain.

Got an nvme ssd to use for portable external storage, but it was missing a partition table so macOS wouldn’t recognize it when I plugged it in. Steam Deck to the rescue!

Linux gaming FTW.

Dude, I cannot wait for the upcoming M4 MacBook Air release. While I enjoy having a personal space heater, this old Intel Mac is basically a desktop because of its battery life.

Whoa I forgot that systemd has its own container system support built in(systemd-nspawn)! I wonder if that kitchen sink has a garbage disposal?

The Zed editor uses cmd-shift-P on macOS to access its command palette. If you have the Keeper password manager installed then it’s squatting on that shortcut, which blocks major Zed usability.

Do yourself a favor and re-set that shortcut to something else in Keeper.