Matt Boyd

Work has been rough. I need to just leave those problems at the door and come back to the real world- ah fuck! I forgot what was happening out here.

Signal is not fucking around with the warning if you try to enable screenshots on the Windows client.

"Disable screen security? If disabled, this may allow Microsoft Windows to capture screenshots of Signal and use them for features that may not be private."

I was so impressed by this that I went to take a screenshot to post here and instantly got got by the same screen security feature I was going to disable in the first place.

Theory: "We can use Large Language Models to speed up process and improve code quality. First, we have an LLM write the tests..."

Practice: "I need to convince the client that unit tests are a worthwhile thing to have."

How am I supposed to get any work done when the world is falling apart AND Slay the Spire 2 is in early access?

Hey do you guys want to see an incredible jacket

Nethack v5.0 is out.

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html

Opal will take your doordash

Oakland, CA.

Shrugging and saying "Well, as long as the person creating a toxic environment is delivering..."? Ha ha, classic tech culture. Love this industry.

One day at an old job, a French engineer announced he had found an English word he really liked: tergiversate.

He thought it perfectly described the phenomenon of someone throwing up a verbal smoke screen to be evasive, sowing doubt and muddying the clarity of the conversation to create cover for themselves. He was disappointed it wasn't in common usage.

I think about that word a lot when someone at work is tergiversating.

In a meeting making the case for having unit tests in the repo, wound up saying "Yeah, it turns out to write software, you have to defeat toxic masculinity."

It's a difficult thing to be vulnerable when all of the various neural networks you've grown over a lifetime are telling you it's not safe.

She's a gamer.

The normies are mad.

I love Big Trouble In Little China because they clearly told Carpenter he needed a white lead and he cast Kurt Russel as a confused guy who is just in the wrong fucking movie.

Thinking about pitching unit tests as "If you break my code then I don't have to yell at you because I have already made a machine to yell at you."

You ever have a morning that makes you think "Huh, maybe I should consider leaving the industry again."

A little embarrassed because someone running an "agile" meeting asked me to rate my effort expended as a number in the Fibonacci sequence and I asked if he was making a joke about "agile."

Rejecting modernity and returning to my hunter-gatherer roots, by which I mean eating nuts and fruits all day while sitting at my office job.

Goodness.

(Trying to sound like I've read books) "Have you ever read Fahrenheit 420 by Ray Bradford?"

Oh, I forgot about THIS son of a bitch. #marathon

Seen at the No Kings rally in Oakland.

Hmm.

This song sure outlasted that movie, huh. https://youtu.be/hDd2G_V1rzc?si=Py0Bu3dFaA4fhmF8

Today is the day to spend some tech money in Oakland.

(Looking at Marathon patch notes) "Oh, the knife got knerfed."

Shout-out to the OG of autism representation.

Sometimes if I know I'm going to need to change someone's mind, I smuggle the idea in first as a joke. The idea is to get them to accept the idea as their own because they laughed, like a bird taking care of a cuckoo hatchling.

They already know, Reese Whitherspoon

Watching an animated movie called Wolfwalkers at the karaoke bar and I'm like "Is that Anime Oliver Cromwell?"

They did Storm dirty with this one.

They say the heart of rock n' roll is the feet 🎵

Found out the other day that Claude Code gets 60 frames per second. https://youtu.be/LvW1HTSLPEk?si=oDpKJrqJBy5sVUdy

Denji gets it.

Where do people look for apartments to rent these days?

Pretty sure City Hall has security guards. I've passed them a bunch. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-mayors-car-stolen-after-office-broken-into/