Chris Smith

New intro time, I think! Depending on where I am in my hobby-hopping cycle, I'll be posting about: • Programming • Video games • Board games • Baking • DIY • 3D Printing • Electronics • Films • Books Assorted favs/genres/etc: Go, FFXIV, Warframe, Cakes, Obsession, Sci-fi, Horror, LitRPG #promosky

opening firefox today

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

This may still be my favorite meme/life advice:

See ya!

Man why are all these well-loved tech companies so desperate to give their money to Mr Kill All Immigrants in exchange for his dotfiles

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

Astra has successfully beat all 48 levels of the “I’m Not a Robot” game #ai #artificialintelligence #gpt6 #astra #openai #gamedev

8 year old me, after a trip to the park

is your friend having a stroke or doing devops? if they say things like: "does flux understand sops?" "the kms doesn't need replicas" or: "worth looking at lego for acme" then yes.

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

So we’re just blatantly copying Artifactory features now?

i am still totally incapable of parsing RLHF as anything besides "real life, have fun"

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

Well I would walk 0.1 miles And I would walk 0.2 more Just to be the man who walked 0.30000000000000004 Miles to fall down at your door

*Kurt Cobain voice*

Google had perfected something to the point that its brand name became a common verb and then they decided, wait, let's fuck that up completely.

packet loss

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Every three minutes on Bluesky today: oh that's a delightful name for a town! Dudly-on-Friendton. I see they have voted for the Murdering Orphans party.

I didn't remember @xkcd.com 303 being like this

Reposting the sign for my own benefit

friends don't send friends links with unnecessary query parameters

I'm usually a fan of 0-based counting, but not like this. Never like this.

I also cannot ship my work today because it’s too powerful to release publicly

My brother's name is Claude. At first, when people talked about the AI, my mind went to a picture of my brother. Now, with all the content about it, when Mum says "Claude", I have the AI in mind. Is there a support group for "I know an actual human named Claude and the AI is messing with me" ?

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github

Felt cute, might Application error: a client-side exception has occurred later.

Happy March 31st to everyone who celebrates!

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I'll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it's already getting bumped.

in linux you can use the evil bird emoticon (:>) to destroy files, eg `:> important_document.txt` the bird will eat the file and leave it completely empty!

Not sure how we went from plain, straightforward words to LinkedIn speak but now you can use Kagi Translate to fit right into that crowd: translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=L...

i am here in the nix store

loss function f(| |) = | _

love a bit of continvouclous morging

Age verification? My first programming language was mIRC script.