Richard Crowley

eBay is running ads that say “Things. People. Love.” Only one of those is actually legal to buy and sell on eBay.

Slackbot says week's over. Pack it up, folks. Good job. See you Monday.

Temporary tattoos for kids with their parents’ phone numbers. Is this anything?

I think "don't read text in screenshots" might be my new guiding principle.

Happy we-didn’t-do-shit-about-it day to those who celebrate. :/

Me: [sips tea, calmly] Clock: [ticks to 9:00am] Slack: HEY IT'S AFTER THE HOLIDAYS HERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL NOTIFICATION OF EACH OF THE 21464863 THINGS YOU PUNTED UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAYS

Potter had years to think of a reply to “warped, frustrated old man” and the best he could do was “warped, frustrated young man.”

The next trend in billionaire tax evasion (that they’ll call avoidance and which courts will allow) will be somehow claiming to be homeless.

A recipe began “¾ egg yolks” and I stopped reading.

You don't have to say "at [name of bank], my voice is my passport" in an exasperated tone but it helps.

My main rule for AI use is simple: I can’t expect you to read something I couldn’t be bothered to write.

It should not be possible to start a thread from the most recent message in a Slack channel. Just reply in the channel!

Computers taking over writing software would be just as sad as computers taking over making art. (Programming is fun!) Fortunately, the averaging machines can’t write novel programs any more than they can make original art.

Pundits on KQED today were saying Warner Brothers Discovery has so much debt that the only sensible path is to pursue a sale. What about going out of business? They seem to be legendarily bad at it.

Two-part question: 1. Isn't the vote on ACA subsidies Mike Johnson just canceled _exactly_ the vote promised the Democrats in exchange for caving and reopening the government? 2. WHY WON'T THEY EVER FUCKING LEARN?

$50 PlanetScale Metal is live. pscale.link/metal-50

High crimes (and misdemeanors) on the high seas.

It’s that magical time of year when the leaves have fallen, dusk comes early, the air cools, the ground frosts overnight, and the Republicans deny climate change as if they’ve never heard of winter before.

Syntax highlighting in Mergician rcrowley.org/mergician/sy...

My poor-man's monorepo: rcrowley.org/2025/monorepo/

You could never start a business called Piggly Wiggly today.

“Elphaba” but pronounced like Homer pronounces “tuba.” Is this anything?

One of my most deeply held inconsequential beliefs is that you should always plug into the bottom of a pair of outlets first. Then it’s much easier to plug in a second thing.

US citizens: We just want to go to the doctor. US government: Here is a triple-tax-advantaged investment vehicle.

Something I've been wondering about LLMs: The Wolfram article and others mentioned how LLMs don't strictly emit _the most_ likely next token. This apparently makes the output more interesting and read more naturally. Does this technique send it down bad paths and cause the hallucinations?

Don't be alarmed, I won't be blogging daily, but I did just publish a second article in as many days. Everything is lock-in rcrowley.org/2025/everyth...

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Are they called "posts" because you HTTP POST them to the server?

Question about Republicans: Are they stupid or evil? Question about Democrats: Are they stupid?

Tired of hearing about the risk of electing inexperienced politicians when Chuck Schumer

What’s a Republican promise worth?

Is 64.7% yes on Prop 50 enough to just paint the whole state blue?

The short-term solution to gerrymandering is “eat shit, Texas.” I often wonder if the long-term solution is to knock it off with geographically defined districts altogether.

I’m cackling at how many of Cuomo’s wins sound like just the most racist gated communities you can imagine.

Most vibe-coders writing CLAUDE.md files probably don't even know who John Gruber is.

All the IOPS you can eat, now on a smaller plate.

Chat, is purposely starving 40 million people a high crime or misdemeanor?

Who among conditions creates us ? never race

@adamschiff.com why are you voting to seat any judge Trump nominates at all but especially right now?

What in the military propaganda is going on that the Blue Angels are flying around San Francisco during a government shutdown?

Sam Altman is Keenan Feldspar.

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

A Watergate a day keeps the Democrats at bay.

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

Chat is murder a high crime or misdemeanor?

What's another million IOPS between friends?

OH: "You can do anything you want in your last ride in a Waymo."

I am a man of sophisticated tastes. For instance, I switch from Japanese whiskey to Bourbon to go with s’mores. Pairs well.

Just discovered an honest-to-god good use of stunnel(8). Having a great day.

Lazyweb: There’s a statement from a computer science pioneer (Knuth, in my head, but it might not be him) that talked about his preference to “use my own routines” or something like that, making points about libraries, abstraction, and code reuse. I can’t find it. Anybody got a citation?