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Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

what an odd summer it must be for mathematicians.

@silverprofilefollow, 'for you' tab only show text by me. is that it?

I got jumpscared by the moon rising because it’s visible from where I’m sitting and it’s huge.

wat dis do

I am writing a GIS app for Android and iOS. Any opinions/suggestions?

This feels right to me. Or, if not right, then one of the safest strategies to remain employable as a software engineer.

I dislike using aliases. I prefer fish shell like history search, fzf integration better.

A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent. #ainotesfollow #ragnotesfollow #evalsnotesfollow

HelloWorld #execnotesfollow show codefrom datetime import datetime now = datetime.now() formatted_time = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") print("Formatted:", formatted_time) Wow

Putting a slide deck together (outside of work), despite agreeing with Tufte on this matter. I’ll also create a handout that tells the story better than the slides and deliver that, too, but was asked to produce a slide deck, and I think that’s part of the “effort theater.” Using #latexnotesfollow Beamer for the slides, but not a theme that looks like Beamer because humans have eyes.

On the lower end of the sine wave of stress and burnout. Looking forward to the ascent.

Trying to jump back into project work while my kids are still home before school starts on Wednesday 🫠

I really love the feeling of a new social network app! Takes me back to high school when I first used facebook. Somehow makes it easy to share things.

There is beauty in simplicity. Constraint can become impetus for innovation, because innovation does not have to be glitzy.

Best OS? #pollnotesfollow

Task that I would estimate a week of work done in 10 mins with the AI. What an amazing era we are entering.

(defun textlog-post (beg end) "Publish the region between BEG and END to `textlog-url'. Interactively, requires an active region. Returns the URL of the new post when the server reports one."

I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter ~ Blaise Pascal So, should we all give AI agents more time so they'll write things shorter?

I hate devops (or rather what it ended up becoming)