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I like old cars

Welp, I guess it's time to start a tag for that! may be too on the nose perhaps.

no tag for me thank you, my thoughts are free range

The TPMS indicator came back on again today; on the same road, can you believe it? I might have to get it checked at Costco this weekend.

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With each passing workday I spend agentsitting, my ability to program in isolation atrophies. This might be dismissed as needless self-serving anxiety, but perhaps irrationally, I can't let it go.

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It's one of the sad ironies of this computer stuff that the simpler solutions take longer to conceive than the complicated ones.

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i love reading blog posts! reply with your blogs so i can subscribe to them

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not my blog but i recently discovered acko.net which i can recommend. awesome personal website

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That site makes me dizzy with all the animations and fly ins/outs.

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When I write I just add html files to the swiley.net folder in public.swiley.net. Sometimes I syndicate elsewhere (I was doing Substack for a while before Notes took over.)

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thechels.uk is mine, thanks :-)

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I recently wrote about why you

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Been sorting packages all evening. I don't work for the post office. I do this for fun, I think. Maybe I just like to automate things and make them perfect.

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Textlog seems pretty cool 😎

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kiss, chainsaw, stitches, lucky

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It's Monday. Coffee is barely working and so am I.

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Watching the UTMB livestream. Any other trail fans out there tuning in?

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Clean Code

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I had so much pointless discussions about this ... but when you say "Clean Code" , do you mean the book or the general idea that such a thing exists?

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The book, but actually ideas, like tiny functions and names. Aposd is much deeper book. Hilarious read

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Hello loggers

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How can I change an organisation with hundreds of frustrated employees, when I can’t change my own life with only one person. Does a different person run a company and a different person live their life? I doubt it.

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I think so, actually. My wife runs my household, I run my engineering org. As I get older I do see the two aspects of my personality start to merge but they are still divergent and were much moreso in my earlier years.

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and to be clear, I don't mean that I offload all the work to her by any stretch. It's just that I'm much more outspoken and opinionated on the specifics of work life versus home life.

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 Error: Provider rejected the request (invalid_request_error, 400): Claude Code 2.1.75 does not support this model; version 2.1.251 or newer is required. Run
 'claude update', or update the Claude desktop app, then try again. [request_id: req_011CedKqBRnC6Qr3m6nKEwNN]

I’m not using Claude Code. This is how you drop the ball.

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Doughnuts are delicious, then belly vicious. Oh multitudes! Why have you forsaken me?

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Returned after a ride on bikes around the lake with the boy. Did stop for workout, 🏋️‍♂️ did pull-ups, push-ups and squats. Love the place we live in.

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Dealing with the my first visible issues with migadu dot com Luckily, most stuff there are secondary and not super important. A bit annoyed but sh*t happens and for whoever is fighting the fires.

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So I found the blog of a Ukrainian Front Line soldier on Bear Blog today. Incredibly grim stuff to read, but I really wanna get in touch with that guy now and send him so cash so he can buy a burger. Hope Herman forwards my message 😪

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I’m using textlog to explore the intersection of and tech, with the goal of building an app that solves a problem in this space. Named , it's word represented as a hex color. Of all the words there, it is a cocoa-ish color and is an appropriate name for this idea.

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I'm obsessed with Cowboy Hunters (the band) right now

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