Dakota Chambers

My son got a book about secretary birds and we went to YouTube to find a video to watch how they hunted snakes and...my god, it's just AI slop EVERYWHERE. "Educational" content that is completely overrun with fake AI videos. YouTube is cooked.

🤩 The Timberborn 1.0 changelog looks amazing 🦫 store.steampowered.com/news/app/106...

Hire junior employees! chambers.io/blog/2025/12...

You MUST go and read Warren Buffet's final letter to shareholders as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Seriously - take 15 minutes, grab a cup of coffee or tea, print it out, and read it. chambers.io/blog/2025/11...

PUT MORE SOFT LIGHTING IN YOUR HOME. CEILING LIGHTS ARE THE ENEMY.

The Stars are Aligned: 2026 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop. chambers.io/blog/2025/11...

One of the best things about being a homeowner is that you get to fix all kinds of random shit. It's really interesting to understand the engineering behind common things you may have otherwise never thought about. Fixing real, physical things makes our monkey brains feel good.

Enough is enough. After work today I am cancelling all except one streaming service in this house and we are just going to rotate that one service around. I just did the math on what we're paying for all of these things and IT'S ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BANANAS.

Y'all the Final Fantasy Tactics remake is awesome. The voice actors BROUGHT IT for this game. It's like a stage play.

My two year old is already drinkmaxing 🙃

My four-year-old found a sprouting acorn and planted it so he can grow an oak tree.

I guess it's not totally fair to blame the WASM folks. This really is going to take Google/Apple/Microsoft/Mozilla to agree to standardize on a low level DOM API that is abstracted away from javascript.

> WASM 3.0 is out Congrats. Now can someone PLEASE bring some sanity to the WASM project and start pushing for direct manipulation of the DOM API? I would LOVE to be able to update the DOM in a language that isn't Javascript.

Wowee this MacOS Tahoe design is, uh, not great.

Rails World recordings are being uploaded 👀 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Just listened to @jremsikjr.bsky.social on the Remote Ruby podcast with @excid3.com - XO Ruby sounds like it's going to be an incredible time. Small conferences are the best! I hope everyone that made it to Chicago loved it. Starting to recover from my Rails World FOMO and now I've got XO Ruby FOMO

Me: tries to use the cup holder in the stroller. Also me: immediately spills hot coffee everywhere. Every damn time.

Parenting protip: keep a small towel in your stroller for wiping down wet slides or swings at the park. Signed: the guy that just used his shirt to dry off several slides only for his daughter to not go down any of them.

Nothing worse than finding a podcast you love. Learning all kinds of new things. Thinking the hosts are the best. Until suddenly they start confidently talking about a subject you're an expert in and you realize you've been listening to a group of idiots.

Today: Rails World FOMO

GitHub Pages not adopting Jekyll 4+ was a huge blow to the Jekyll ecosystem 🙁 I'm glad they are starting to recommend people use GitHub Actions for building Jekyll sites instead of using the legacy GitHub Pages build system.

You should read more fiction.

Bases in @obsidian.md are sooo good. Time to rip out all of my old dataview queries and random tables and convert. Just need obsidian publish support for bases and then we're really cooking with gas.

The new Containerization Framework on MacOS seems like a massive W from WWDC this year. > create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac 🤩

I am loving Mario Kart World so far, but why is the "Free Roam" gameplay mode just shoved down in the bottom right corner like an afterthought?

The gang's all here! First impressions: the Switch 2 is MUCH more premium feeling than the original Switch. The magnetic joycons are amazing.

It's happening 🥳

Me staring at the freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread on the counter when I get home from my long run (I've already devoured half the loaf)

Writing a book "So you vibe coded your way into an operations nightmare"

If AI kills the leetcode interview I take back everything bad I ever said about it. Leetcode was always a horrible way to figure out who is actually good at building maintainable products. It only rewards those with the free time to study and memorize algorithmic problems.

Trump blatantly and illegally manipulates the market today. Literally says "GREAT DAY TO BUY" hours before calling for a pause on tariffs causing the market to spike. And we're gonna go through this whole thing again in 90 days because no one in congress has the guts to stop him

It's unsustainable to have a mad king that can influence the stock market +/- 10% with a single executive order. What is to prevent him from repeating this ad nauseam so him + his rich friends can buy low and sell high endlessly?

Every company and retailer that is increasing prices due to tariffs needs to make it a line item on the receipt. Make sure customers know exactly why the price has gone up.

Prices of EVERYTHING in your house are about to go up 20-40% Global recession incoming.

The Switch 2 pricing seems right in line with what I expected. Steam Deck is $400-$650. Other high-end handhelds are even higher - ROG Ally X is $800. I am not sure why people are freaking out.

Download play making a return on the Switch 2 is an awesome feature that no one seems to be talking about. I used Download Play on the DS ALL THE TIME!

I am amazed how well my eight year old launch-era Nintendo Switch is holding up. An eight year old phone or tablet feels damn near unusable - slowing way down due to software updates that push it beyond it's original specs and horrible battery life. Just that Nintendo magic.

April Fools used to be a fun day on the internet but now I just despise it. Maybe I'm just old and cranky.

New Notekeeper release: github.com/dcchambers/n...

Love it. Edit predictions, while powerful, can be extremely distracting if you're "in the flow" and just want to keep going. Big change IMO for those of us that just can't vibe with "vibe coding"

Unpopular opinion: esports ruined gaming.

Friendship ended with Solarized, Rosé Pine is my best friend now.

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@kagi.com's best feature is that it doesn't infantilize the user. It doesn't hide the results behind some "magic" obscure algorithm. It tells you exactly how those search results were chosen and gives you the power to tweak your results or change the algorithm on the fly.

I'm worried every tech CEO is watching these "mile wide but inch deep" demos of what Cursor/v0/replit/etc can do and thinking "Why can't my engineers working on a 10 year old product perform this quickly? Just use these tools and it will fix all of our problems!"

Life pro tip: throw a party at least once a month and your house will always stay tidy.

What if, hear me out, we just send each other short messages instead? Normalize cutting out the corporate bullshit.