kida2002.bsky.social

“babe what’s posthog? what’s datadog? What’s firecrawl? what’s what’s gnomefuckr? what’s cuckdb? what’s slutcon?” do you have any idea how humiliating being a software engineer is

Dreaming of shawarma. I miss home so bad sometimes

i actually don't think most people can imagine a better future. i can, but i'm built different.

trying to use dynamically typed languages again

The TTC is finally considering increasing streetcar stop spacing, active gap supervision on subway, and introducing mid-route timing points on surface network. Please consider filling this out to help bring TTC operations into the 21st century.

Feeling incredibly homesick and listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lhk...

Praying for all the poor souls who have not yet accepted shawarma into their hearts.

Fortunately all we need to achieve this is to write a really good essay

Deeply excited about the idea of gold standard science: we should do science where every result is high impact, statistically precise, and never contains mistakes

lol "Build prod, not god" - ok typesafe.ai, you have my attention

Reading about biscuits (the auth thing). Pretty neat, the idea of using a chain of keys to append blocks but with a chain of trust going back to a single root issuer is pretty slick

Just got called a JavaScript programmer by cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-... I think this is a hate crime

Reading about autodiff and it's really quite nuts that this was discovered in the freakin 60s (backwards pass in early 70s). What an absurdly clever technique

Taking a five hour train ride, this is so dope so far. It'd be nice if the train was a real high-speed line but still a very nice experience so far. I'm glad I didn't elect to fly instead this once since I had the extra time to spare.

it is Labor Day, and you know what that means

I saw this paper from an article about the ig nobels but goddamn those are some nice diagrams and amazing experimental design setups academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

two wolves

I find it funny how much Canadian folk music resonates with me as an immigrant over a shared reluctance to say goodbye to our homes and move west for better opportunities. I *also* hate cowboy clothes, Stan

Airtable falling to bending spoons for a price barely clearing their pref stack is not what I would have predicted. Layoffs likely imminent too, damn. :(

the asexual urge for garlic bread.

I find it difficult to keep straight in my mind that agentic tools are both designed and capable of completing tasks only loosely specified in natural language and also that there are huge differences in success rate depending on how the tools are used.

Thinking of quitting my job and going door to door asking people if they've accepted toum into their lives

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Claude code web is really, really close to exactly what I want for 90% of tasks and would almost obviate my custom VPS+tmux+docker session harness, but still feels incomplete - I wish there was a way to better customize the environment (ideally even being able to just give them a docker image)

A lot of Gravity's Rainbow has this detached cynicism, but the Slothrop/Jessica bits, simplistic as they are, never fail to get me. "They're in love. Fuck the war"

I picked up and worked through the little learner recently by Friedman & Mendhekar. It was really fun! I really liked "the little schemer from Friedman and its very much in the same vein. I wonder what a good follow-up text might be. Considering diving into Chollet, but UDL by Prince also looks good

Feels like there's more of a critical mass of professional software and ML folks who talk shop here recently which is quite nice.