Mark Fletcher

Look, I don't like anger posting and I try not to do it. But, seriously, fuck this and everyone involved with it.

I hope this passes. Call this selfish jerk’s bluff.

Someone is trying to hack my Apple account again. Password change requests, phone calls spoofed as coming from my phone. This is your reminder to turn on two factor authentication. And don’t trust unsolicited phone calls.

Rush concert in San Jose cancelled tonight because Anika’s got the flu. Rescheduled for Dec 6th.

This is becoming a habit.

Did we ever find out the real reason why drugstores are locking everything up? Like, why are they intentionally killing their businesses? What’s the grift?

New fren.

Firm believer that you can (and maybe should) have multiple midlife crises. And that they don't all have to happen in midlife.

Some days it seems the machines are especially persnickety. Today seems like one of those days. Main database machine froze up this morning and wouldn't come back up without help. Now, one of the email servers is doing the same. Be careful out there.

Fuck the Supreme Court and do whatever it fucking takes to vote in this election. Have a plan and a back up plan because the GOP plan is to keep you from voting.

A little hard to see, but we saw a sun dog while driving this afternoon on 280.

Highly recommended viewing for nerds and spooks of all generations: To have Cliff's utter joy for building, learning, and teaching is something to aspire to <3 @DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll www.youtube.com/watch?v=6560...

New toy!

Haven't posted about Trellis in a while, but I've never stopped working on it - it's what I live in all day, every day, developing/running Groups.io. New since I last posted: Claude & Codex sessions, two agents pair-reviewing each other, a session inbox, cost tracking, and improved docs. trellis.dev

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.

What a coincidence. Maybe I should check out this show.

Seeing reports that @johncdvorak.bsky.social, longtime computer columnist & podcaster, has died. Have not seen a confirmation, but apparently he died after bypass surgery. He and I were co-panelists on @twit.tv over the years. His early writing helped inspire me to get into tech journalism. RIP.

Still working on my latte art. This morning's pour.

Your works are your legacy

I would kill or die for Larry

Our paths only crossed a couple of times, but I always enjoyed Om’s writings. A smart, thoughtful man. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

I always thought that 3d printers were just for people who got excited about brackets, and that wasn’t me. Well, I just printed a bracket for a thing, and let me tell you, it was indeed exciting.

Back for night two.

Didn’t think this day would ever happen.

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

WE ARE ASK JEEVES WE CARRY THE SEARCH

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...

Where is the Democratic Party, speaking out loudly and with one voice, against this? Why aren’t they all together, right now, leading a protest?

Earthquake

Evergreen

How thoughtful of someone to stress test the Groups.io web infra by tripling our normal web traffic today. The internet is just full of good people.

I was in a New York Times article once about single guys who have cats. (Not single for a long time now, still have cats).

Once again trying to trap the stray cat. It went in the trap all the way, but somehow didn’t trigger it! Is the cat too small/too light? Maybe. Feral cat trapping is hard.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Sitting here looking at 3D printers. Talk me into or out of getting one.

Evergreen, I know, but fuck this drunken asshole.

Hyperion was a great book. RIP.

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