Connor Vance

Connor Vance

@caav.me

Tech Enthusiast. Anti-Social. Generally overthinking every decision. Founder - CAAV Technology Consulting, LLC Co-Founder - NexVolt LLC Greg Wilson Memorial Scholarship: https://give.utexas.edu/?menu=OGPGREGWILSON

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Need some recommendations for Metal music. Spotify has served me AI music one too many times and I don’t trust it anymore.

Starting to believe those that complain about Bluesky are just chronically online. I constantly see posts about problems but never experience them myself.

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Being an adult means trying to eat better, take care of yourself, and plan out meals that make sense for your situation and provide leftovers for future lunches. But also, being an adult means I can decide to throw all that out the window and order some pizza for dinner.

Getting ready to launch a piece of software and after checking legal stuff, quickly realizing that I am not, in fact, getting ready to launch.

I will never understand Bluesky’s algorithm and how it randomly decides I’m super into a specific topic. Right now it’s cats. Before it’s been Birds, Rocks, Mushrooms. I never even interact with these types of posts haha.

Went salmon fishing while vacationing in the Pacific Northwest. I guess I will have to find ways to eat salmon now.

People censoring things like “FOX”, “Trump”, and other things they find icky is so ridiculous. What kind of adult can’t have a conversation about something they dislike?

I wish we could shift our energy from being spent on opposing data centers to being spent on opposing the impending security state. Flock isn’t shit compared to SignalTrace.

Shot in the dark… Why should I switch away from Visual Studio? I heavily use GitHub Copilot, and I have subs to ChatGPT and Claude. I don’t write any code outside of vibecoding unfortunately. #vibecoding #ai #claude #chatgpt

Another day of bullshit in post-democracy America. #FUCKICE #FUCKDHS #FUCKTRUMP go ahead, put me on a list.

To all Chiganoans, for the love of all that is good, look up what a Zipper Merge is. Maybe traffic in your city wouldn’t be absolutely atrocious.

Dave and Busters has an Unlimited Game Card (limited to 90 minutes) and food combo for $59.99. My per diem in Chicago is $78. I’m about to play the fuck out of some games.

Friend just made me realize I’m working two full-time jobs, am a student, husband, and parent to two children. No wonder I’m so stressed all the time. Forgetting to take my meds doesn’t help either.

Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of the brand Tylenol? Sure do. Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of acetaminophen? Sure don’t. Just because a brand hasn’t been around that long doesn’t mean its product hasn’t been either. A brand’s history does not equal the drug’s history. FuckRFK

Determined to get this going. So I’m putting it out there… I’m moving to my own pds tonight! We’ll see how that goes haha

If your vehicle of choice requires you to disobey the rules of the road in order to “safely” ride it, maybe it’s a bad choice of vehicle and one that shouldn’t be legal.

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Charlie Kirk advocated for killing gay people Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist” He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered But this is who he was

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

The difference between Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT 4.1 in Github Copilot is astounding. I will struggle with GPT 4.1 to get a simple change working without multiple iterations, whereas Claude will integrate an entire, unrelated github repo into my existing project without a hiccup.

I guess I need to see how this compares to SmolLM for my AI Cities Skylines mod.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

If there is a god, then by golly I have been blessed by the keyboard god. I acquired an IBM Model M for free. #keyboards #modelm #IBM