ti zhang

ti zhang

@solarizedtitanium.gg

any | staff site reliability engineer|roots in SWE | Daoist,artist,writer,musician,complex systems thinker | soft,like the ocean is soft.gentle,like the sun could be gentle | www.nombiezinja.com | married, not poly | parent | formerly @zerochilltea

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new pinned post:i observe & analyze the intersection of tech,world news,gender,history,and media consumption. u will see a lot of thoughts,some art & music,cat photos,and occasional selfies. also re: my writing style: bsky.app/profile/zero... oh & i love videogames,fountain pens,loud music

ti zhang@solarizedtitanium.gg

i need to restate this periodically: i dont capitalize & often mess up my grammar bc it is part of my personal activism:w/ my words i challenge the subconscious idea we all have that associates perfect grammar & lang presentation w valuable ideas and content, bc that association is classist & racist

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me going to work this morning: 😀🎶🎶🎶 me seeing a go patch release for security: eh, probably not a big deal me opening up the patch release email: crypto/x509, eh, probably not a feature we use, no rush me opening up bsky morning digest from LLM: 😡😡😡😡😡 current state: 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

turns out the whole idea of “let’s be stringent with computing resource allocation” thing is more profitable, turns out u can just throw horizontal scaling at the problem and expect the cumulated unsolved issues and unreviewed code to not blow up in some form of waste or disaster eh

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

me and frd andariel in t10: everything fine until phase 3 andarial 1/3 hp, we insta wipe me:i know u r a souls gamer but we middle aged we dont need to do this to ourselves b4 bedtime, lets dial it to t9 t9 andariel, we instawipe phase 3 cuz of positioning issues me: do we suck frd: ya we r bad

content in being bad gamers cuz we not gonna let games ruin our lives now look at us who'dve thought lol (still not gonna play WoW Forever without talking to my therapists first tho)

day 2 of not having ken sim as mayor SERIOUSLY how do you botch the skytrain to UBC?everyone was on board we went through all this bs in the city w the constructions and the congestion yet it only ends at Arbutus?guy singlehandedly ruined so many things its incredible

suddenly remembered i worked retail while in university at a high end ish fashion label selling $600 dresses and i was top sales in our store of like 25-30 staff consistently but instead of reward they just raised the new daily sales goals i had to hit so i got pissed and quit after a year or so

it’s kind of funny how capital employs the same mechanism to squeeze ppl for they are worth across diff verticals and roles that story of “u r good at this so now u must do more” repeats itself in diff industries w diff titles lol

thank ffff i like to code just realizing i totally could've gone into software sales instead i would've been good at that BUT AT WHAT COST

i was literally felling so against social activities and self isolating until ken sim is GONE lmaooooo byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee TI IS BACK LETS GOOOOOOOOOO sorry for this quarter tho it's neckbeard ti taking the wheels lmao

ti zhang@solarizedtitanium.gg

ken sim is gone, my acne is cleared, my nose is decongested, my appetite is better, byeeeeee

#dialblo4 i got a ton of dungeon keys and lair keys i need ppl around paragon lvl 230+ to farm crux together im trying to power level so i can carry my busy friends to t12 and we can do cow level shit ok who want farm crux together

i gotta say the air feels fresher without ken sim and the ABC jerk wads hogging up decision making positions. vibes are good, sky is blue, everyone is chill, i even feel safer as a resident what a big difference can’t imagine being some guy that just ruins the vibe for an entire city for years

GOODBYE KEN SIM GOOD RIDDANCE U PIECE OF BOOTLICKING SHIT THANKS FOR THE DAMAGE U'VE DONE TO THE CITY HOPE U HAVE A NOT GOOD LIFE

first mayor to be endorsed by the police union and first mayor to be the shame of town, shame on u ken sim for the bad vibes in the last few years, shame shame shame, may dishonour rain upon your ancestry

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RIP to the first software engineer, and one of the very best.

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

me, skipping down steps to hand my spouse a thing: this looks like a job for me now everybody just follow me *street dance moves* spouse, deadpan expression: eminem is making a christian rock album w kid rock me, devastated: NOW HOW AM I GONNA SAY SHADY’S BACK? HOW AM I GONNA TELL A FRIEND??

partying hard tonight i’m making an inventory list of our twenty something air purifiers to facilitate seasonal filter change and share ownership lmao work skills applied to life put to best use tbh

i stopped reading Nana 20 years ago when i realized Ai Yazawa was never gonna let Osaki and Komatsu be a lesbian couple 😤

if u r 6 foot tall u should use ur 6 foot tall powers to make me look 6 foot too but instead here we are i am the height of a 40L trash bin in all my spouse’s photos >:(

the worst 2 days of shitting i’ve ever had was from noro virus i prob caught it from a seafood platter i ate in a bad area in paris.i didnt realize it was noro until reading about it a yr later my point is these texts mean absolutely nothing & ppl who think it does are worth less than noro shit

ppl r coming forward w stories of how they didn’t know it was r*pe until much after the fact and that’s incredible and brave. i could tell u some stories too but i’ve long decided survivors don’t own any bearing of wounds to convince shitty ppl so im just telling these ppl a story of my shit instead

Mario is the perfect picture of healing from trauma he’s like sure u kidnapped my girlfriend but now that that’s all done we can play some golf and driving games together buddy Mario emerged from conflict and trauma and truly learned to move on in this essay i will

i haven’t said anything about the cornell thing cuz like, nothing to add to the convo everything i’m thinking has already been said but i could add to the discourse with this lovely interpretive dance

i was practicing throat singing in my room and spouse thought i was having my actual Joker moment so that’s how it’s going around here if u ever wonder

u see me not writing for a while, it’s because i’m removing the extrinsic reward mechanism. i have written and made and did so many things in the last while they are all stacked up to post, but i dont. i will post them when i feel like the intent is fully “this will help ppl” .

i feel bad for the ppl that went to cornell that did not do shitty things cuz for me and prob a lot of others cornell is forever associated with this event, i think it was awesome of the victim to litigate. i saw some photos of group chats, pure vileness.

when i was 20 i almost got a tattoo that says “when the going gets tough the tough gets going” now in my middle age im like when the going gets tough brush ur teeth drink some water and take a nap, that tough going isn’t going anywhere and u r not gonna be tough for being tired