R. Alex Anderson

I'll add: Annie is right that your concerns and complaints about less-than-ideal Democrat candidates (anti-trans, anti-Palestine, etc). are totally valid. That said, those things are better addressed at the primary election, not the general election. (This is why we need ranked choice voting)

Special birthday edition of Tupo today!* *There is actually nothing special about it. But it IS really my birthday, and Monday is a great day to start, so I'd love it if you played, or just shared it with somebody who might like it. :) playtupo.com

I shaved all but my mustache for my Halloween costume, and now I have a jumpscare every time I look in the mirror.

Occam’s Razor is starting to get reeeeealy dull. (That is to say, there’s so much stuff that is either “stupid” or “evil” that it’s harder to ascribe all of it to “stupid”)

I set this up last night and immediately saw a dramatic increase in intellisense suggestions. It’s a big deal for folks like me who still write code by hand.

It’s chili time

Ironic that a non-deterministic system has a relatively deterministic response to a prompt asking for a non-deterministic response.

Oh so you're a parent? Name all the Sandra Boynton books.

Hey! Did you know you can now sign in to save your Tupo results and sync progress across devices? Monday's the best day to start. :) playtupo.com

Get a library card If you have one already: use it

When it comes to activism, nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something. If staying off X isn’t one of your something’s you can do, I won’t hold it against you. But I have no compelling reason to go back, and like it here just fine.

New profile picture. Wait… what’s the pfp trend supposed to be this time of year? Oh. Oops.

There’s that word again. “Care.” Seems like the biggest difference between using AI and not using it, on a multitude of dimensions. Care about the result, the craft, the environment, intellectual property, your own intellect and joy, etc.

Pineapple upside-down cupcakes. The only downside is not enough pineapple, but still delicious

Same can be said for hyperscalar data centers, which could be built more methodically and thoughtfully with regards to energy and water. 40% of the problems with AI are entirely because of the unscrupulous practices of the AI champions. (Disinformation is another 40%)

I made a hat for Halloween. You’ll never guess what I’m going as.

Siri AI is a bit hit-and-miss. One thing it does well is when I say "Add this to my calendar" and it creates the event for whatever is on my screen. I've done it with a hotel reservation and a JPEG of an event at my library, and it got it right the first time. Just don't have it change the event.😬

I was big into UI interface theming on MacOS 9 and the early versions of OSX. It was thrilling, time consuming, and exhausting. I think that phase smacked the desire to tweak right out of me, hence why agents don’t appeal to me. (I also have the most vanilla smart home. Home Assistant is a pain)

I’m just not convinced that I need an agent to help run my digital life. It’s got such a small interface with my irl life, and I’m not doing that much with my digital life to warrant an agent. It’s just not appealing to me to have a computer telling me what to do and doing things on my behalf.

I've been working on the same spaceship game for the past 6 years (and I was working on its predecessor for 4 years before that). Seeing it finally starting to come together is incredibly gratifying. Doing big things for a long time is great.

Pumpkin roll.

Everything I thought I knew about creating original musical compositions is wrong.

Herb loaves

For me, that means taking more photos, spending time in museums, becoming curious about unfamiliar subjects and genuinely pursuing the things that move me. It also means continuing to treat code as art: choosing what I build and giving it the time and care to become something I’m proud of.

don't be nice.

I just love the disk image background for my spaceship game. Warms my heart every time I see it.

This notion has been noodling in my head for a while. It’s a good one.

“A URL is technical, a link is cultural.“ What a Pitch Perfect sentiment

My child has a onesie with long pants and 11 buttons, which is perfect for teaching her how to count from 0 to 10 as I button them. Except I fear I am cursing her to live with a 0 indexed mindset.

I dunno, I kinda want to be the kind of person with less phone, not more phone.

This was fun to research and write. A nice, thick problem to sink my teeth into.

Today we published the first release candidate for Remix 3! - 350+ commits since beta - Full-stack HMR - Database tooling - Safer routing - Improved assets serving - More components - SPA support - One remix package Try it: npx remix@next new my-app

Sleepytime Tea Ice Cream Heat 1 cup of milk — I used almond milk. Steep 4 sachets of tea for 6 minutes Remove tea bags, add ¾ cup of sugar if you want it really sweet, or adjust to taste. Refrigerate. Mix in 2 cups of cream. Churn for 15 minutes. Freeze. Delicious, floral, botanical.

A trip to the children's indoor playground yielded this new profile picture.

Just made and ate the most amazing roasted pumpkin soup from pumpkins and sage from my garden. Creamy, savory, full of flavor — positively delicious. Having dirt to grow stuff in is a real treat.

It's unnerving how much of physics is just "statistics and probability". Thermodynamics? Statistics and probability. Chemical reactions? Statistics and probability. Quantum mechanics? Believe it or not, statistics and probability!

There's a certain satisfaction that comes from taking three things that are similar, determining the dimensions that define their differences, putting them into a 2x2 grid, and discovering a secret, likely daft, fourth thing that is distinct from the other three.