Rob Allen

sound the fucking alarms the patches came out 20 minutes early www.php.net/archive/2026...

PHP announcement: www.php.net/archive/2026... CERT-EU advisory: cert.europa.eu/publications...

Be extra kind to your security and devops folks. It's been a hellish week and it's only Wednesday, Lemon.

We should respect and hold sacred the old magics.

I'm a fan of Norwegian heavy metal, but it shouldn't be forced on anyone's tap.

Dinner conversation that spans two chapters? A Okay if the conversation is good/meaningful. B. Never okay. C. Fine. Whatever. D. Dude, you're not George R.R. Martin. Chop that shite.

Once again, every good person has to get better at sales, even if you aren't literally selling something for money. Explaining the costs and benefits of different approaches in terms that make sense to the person you're trying to convince is sales.

I saw a car with 2 awesome stickers on it. On the left it said, in pink, "Tailgate me harder, Daddy" then on the right it said "If I crash, please pause my audiobook" Kudos to that driver.

I've been purchasing the "Wandering Inn" books and rereading Cradle for good self-publish karma.

The Weeping Angels are, by far, the scariest Doctor Who "villain." Discuss.

Had a close call visiting a local establishment's website yesterday. A CloudFlare dialogue came up, and after clicking to confirm that 'I was not a robot', it prompted me to: * Press Windows+R (opening a run command window * Paste something from my keyboard and press enter Don't ever do this.

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

All this "maxxing" nonsense is just a ploy by big-Scrabble to sell more x's

Have you walked a mall lately? I can't believe that Lids, a store dedicated to hats, would outlive KB Toys, Borders Books, and Circuit City. At least we still have Hot Topic.

Jimminy Cricket, this is a badass tech demo. jeantimex.github.io/threejs-water/

Listen up. Nicole's full thread here is very important and 100% aligned with what an experienced coach (hi 👋) would tell you, too.

Entrepreneurs, good news! You don't need to waste time telling us your app is 100% AI coded. We'll know.

How much do I need to drink and of what spirit in order to forget the lyrics to Iesha by Another Bad Creation and other select songs of that era?

This prompt should have been a bash script.

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

You obv. have to hide from the corporates, hack inept SecSys and cargo bots along the way. In between learning all you can about proper human behavior form the entertainments you download. Natch.

Chatting in Slack about IP that needs to be a game, I got a fully fleshed-out vision of a Murderbot game: You play as a rogue secunit trying to blend in. You have "memories" from Murderbot that unlock as you stumble from adventure to adventure, saving humans from themselves. MAKE IT HAPPEN. Plz+TY

Very cool report out. Worth a read. Now I'm gonna rant a lil' bit:

Every once in a while, I think, "Maybe I could do that [car] repair myself." Then I watch a professional technician do the repair and break 3 plastic hoses, raising the repair bill & the amount of time the car is unusable. So no. I will not be doing that. You go, professional-technician-person.

introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live… hmm, let’s see Smashing Pumpkins Garbage Bare Naked Ladies Live Metallica Stabbing Westward Weezer Greenday Eve6 Evanescence

I'm apparently funny today, on LinkedIn at least. 6 "funny" emotes. I'm ready for my Netflix special now.

Taxation is the membership dues of living in a functioning society. You want netflix? You pay them. You want rule of law, an educated workforce, interstate commerce, and national security? Great. Pay the dues.

Do you have a name that's super common? I just fell down a rabbit hole of folks with my name. They're copywriters (some good, some great, some grifters), musicians, coders, fiction writers, real estate agents, and Taylor Swift's tour manager.

"Google Sans Flex" is a fantastic font with a terrible name.

This is hilarious and sad in equal measure. Keep on keeping on. Some of us are right there with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...

Reminder: You cannot give what you, yourself, do not possess. That means you cannot calm others unless you can be calm. You cannot heal others unless you are healthy. You cannot excite others if you are not excited. Remember that as you're doomscrolling, ignoring things that don't actually suck.

"Quiet" and "quietly" are the new em dash. You know because nothing is happening now quietly.

Someone who is clearly not enjoying my story is hungrily devouring it and angrily commenting as they do. I love it. #royalroad

When you post gushingly about terrible people on LinkedIn using unedited Claude text... that's an unfollow.

I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings." lithub.com/its-getting-...