Amethyst 🌸

Best part about returning to SJC: seeing the pride and trans flags proudly flying next to the state flag 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Worst part about returning to SJC: seeing all of the gross “AI” ads plastered literally everywhere in the terminal.

Trains!

Brought to you by the History of Western Square Dancing at #NBPy

Well that was neat 🌈 (Description: Video from the airplane above the clouds while on descent into Denver airport. The fluffy clouds below are reflecting/refracting the sunlight into a circular rainbow surrounding the unfocused shadow of the airplane.) https://youtube.com/shorts/VAYfOzS2qF8

Slowly trying to catch up on 650 posts from mastodon like an animal. Seeing #PyBeach in my timeline, I wish it didn’t collide with my racing again this year. Someday…

Flying out of MKE was quite pleasant, with some beautiful views out the window, including flying over the Milwaukee Mile race track (not the track I was racing on).

Flying tome today after an incredibly fun, and incredibly exhausting, run in the Champ Car race in perfect weather. Saturday I started the race strong, up 17 positions from the starting grid, and setting the fastest lap of the weekend for the team. Sadly, some […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

Got my first practice laps in the race car today. Has some gremlins for other people to work out, but it was a wild ride! Scheduled to start the race tomorrow. 🤞

You can’t fire me, I quit

How is it that this *metal bench* is more comfortable than the cushioned #plane seat was?

Second leg of the journey to MKE. This #plane is a very nice E175.

Great day to be traveling, catch up on security news from the past couple days, and thankfully remember that I eradicated PHP from my own servers a decade and a half ago and refused to install/use anything that required PHP since then.

Unexpectedly excellent French toast and strawberry martini mimosa in the Denver Airport.

I feel like I’m in a Star Wars movie. #train

Utah is putting on a good show. Sadly, I’ve been dealing with some very aggressive nausea, and barely got any sleep in the coach seat, so I unfortunately need to abort the train ride when I get to Colorado, and will finish the journey to the race track by […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

There are still five days left but I'm already so excited for @pybeach this Saturday 💖

The Pink Mountain moment came and passed. Likely to be the last of the photos until tomorrow. #train

Not quite the same class of natural beauty, but a stark beauty nonetheless. #train

Officially out of California and into Nevada. Biggest little city, or littlest big city? #train

Infrastructure! #train

Turns out California is kind of beautiful actually. #train

Obligatory “I can see the locomotives” #train toot

Spent an hour in the observation car and get back to find my seat taken and my bag buried under their pile of belongings. #train things

For all the political signs using “Sacramento” as a pejorative, it looks like a normal little city to me. 🤔 #train

Daycare for #trains

I did my part. 💅🏻 And a new sticker design this year!

I find the notion that LLMs writing your code for you are just like having interns or junior engineers to be rather offensive. Interns aren't there to do your menial work, they're there to learn new skills. Junior engineers are hired with the idea that they will become senior engineers, which […]

Bill Watterson: fortsatt like relevant!

Thanks I hate it

I am STILL receiving recruiter spam from copies of my resume from 18 years ago kicking around in random databases being resurrected by companies somehow desperate for engineers in Rochester in a time when there’s more talent available for hire than ever before. nb: I haven’t lived in Rochester […]

What type of person would take you up on this offer? 🤢

Since the US tech companies can't decide if they are going to call it "artificial intelligence" or "super intelligence", I'm just going to call it "large language models" going forward. It's accurate and doesn't mistake LLMs as intelligent or in any way conscious.

Getting ready for my upcoming race in the only way my ADHD brain understands: applying track decals to my new helmet 😹

I wanted to write something wise about the evolution of our understanding of consent and sexual violence but nothing I could put to words does it better than this comic: https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/830022402777956352

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