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Anyway at this point if you ask me browsers are just VMs with a layout engine except done in the absolute worst way possible

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Feel like if we ever want to break the browser hegemony we need a reboot of web technology to start clean with a design that's actually feasible to implement from scratch without spending billions of dollars

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how busy you were
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- when you stepped up to help strangers
- the times you destroyed power plants
- your giant sword

I can't describe the feeling of being abroad and watching Israeli airstrikes hit your city over and over again and you're checking on the group chats with people reacting seconds later while also trying to understand what's happening because explaining it is part of your job. #Beirut #Lebanon

YT videos be like "I made an angle grinder jig for rapidly chopping cucumbers using nothing but plywood and CA glue"

Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt by lftkryo
youtube.com/watch?v=ly5BhGOt2v

Another photo from the archive: it felt great to get GenBank DNA sequences out on the table with a bit more room to breathe.

ALL THESE YEARS HEARING ABOUT AUTOMATTIC AND MATT MULLENWEG AND I NEVER REALISED HE WAS VAIN ENOUGH TO NAME THE COMPANY AFTER HIMSELF!!! 😭

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(watching a video about wordpress drama centring on the guy who runs the project, who's called matt) wait hold up hold on a fucking second is the company called autoMATTic because of this aaaaaaa

If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight.

That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

Yeah I use an IDE setup for programming

internal GPU
deticated GPU
external GPU

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