Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊

Does anyone else ever think about all the unused RAM cells from RAM that were always shadowed by ROM or registers? Like addresses 0 and 1 on the Commodore 64? Or is this a just me affliction?

Sign of how crazy this week has been: I'm still reading through the release notes for the current update of VSCode when it pops up yet another Update button.

Tech folks are generally fearing the disaster of week that January 19, 2038 will bring (Y2038 bug), but I'm beginning to wonder if this week will have been worse. It's certainly been miserable for me.

I was just a bit early. They're being dropped by Google and have decided to exit the SSL business.

Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊@dacut.bsky.social

Why are all the fixes for the eMudhra certificate issue these odd patches to look at the intermediate certificates and refuse them if they appear in the chain instead of removing and blocking the eMudhra root? Is there a too-big-to-fail situation going on here?

I see so many people I thought better of fawning over the Tesla Roadster.

Just making our Slack channel comply with the new executive order...

This is... not good. Our ferry system is basically in free fall at this point. The WSF mechanics and engineers somehow ended up with 0% raises through 2029 via an arbitrator. Staffing is at bare minimums, and relies heavily on overtime for normal operations.

Washington State Ferries@ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

All Routes - Routes may be out of service to start the day on Monday, 10/05 Read full alert

Hey everyone! We fixed all of the issues with AI! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The problem with making all-day spaghetti is the aroma tantalizes you all day.

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Elle Cordova

@ellecordova.bsky.social

8 Sept

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

24 Aug

Once we're done migrating to IPv6 world-wide and turning off the last IPv4 server, it's time to start migrating from Referer to Referrer headers.

6 Aug

Again? At the start of my day?

adatosystems.comJob listings for week ending 7/31 - Leon AdatoJob postings that came across my desk, slack, email, discord, etc this week.

31 July

Posted this before, but wanted to reiterate for my job-seeking friends who may have missed it: @leonadato.com curates a tech jobs list, refreshed weekly: adatosystems.com/2026/07/31/j... One interesting bit that caught my eye: A "Who's *actually* hiring page": stillhiring.today Hope this helps!

31 July

Oh, boy. A reply-all storm on a new distribution list that apparently includes a few thousand folks. Time to close the laptop and start the weekend early.

30 July

GitHub has apparently decided that people calling it the "hamburger menu" was decidedly unsexy, so they've gone and changed it to pancakes. I'm guessing this will help their availability somehow?

27 July

AI has truly come full circle. I need to wait for it to help 3,780 others before it will answer my question.

21 July

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

🤖ScottsRobots🤖@scottsrobots.bsky.social

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

9 July

I just spotted Mitch McConnell vacationing with some relatives.

5 July

Customer obsession at its finest.

3 July

cast yourself as a villain

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com

cast yourself as a villain

29 June

December 9, 2009: Comcast announces they're buying NBC. Shares jump 10%. June 29, 2026: Comcast announces they're getting rid of NBC. Shares jump 28%. Maybe they should just alternatively buy and sell NBC every other week?

hysds.github.ioWhat is HySDS? | HySDSWelcome to the Hybrid-Cloud Science Data Processing System (HySDS) documentation! HySDS is an open source science data processing system used across many large-scale Earth Science missions, data produ...

20 June

Just found out that something I helped architect a *long* time ago for JPL is now an open source project being used across a few other NASA missions: hysds.github.io/docs/ Tickled pink to have played a small role here!

adatosystems.comJob listings for week ending 6/12 - Leon AdatoJob postings that came across my desk, slack, email, discord, etc this week.

19 June

For those looking for tech jobs, @leonadato.com curates a collection of job listings that he refreshes every Friday: adatosystems.com/2026/06/12/j... Thanks for doing this, Leon!

12 June

Ok, even getting a bare-bones AssumeRole call working was more work than I had ever expected.

11 June

Cursed enums: enum Direction { Clockwise = 0, Counterclockwise = 1, Anticlockwise = 2, }

isaiprofitable.comIs AI Profitable Yet?

11 June

When there's a gold rush, sell shovels. isaiprofitable.com When the AI bubble pops, NVIDIA will be fine per this chart. They can just pivot back to gaming or cryptocurrencies (ugh) or whatever. Stock will take a hit, but they've still pocketed the money. Everyone else? Holding the bag.

9 June

The job market is definitely brutal. We (a tiny startup in the govtech space) had well over 3000 submissions for 1 mid-level position. A year ago it would've been ~400. Three years ago it was a dozen. 1/2

9 June

I refuse to use AI to make decisions—that just seems cold and inhumane. However, I did end up using it to score resumes so we could prioritize the interview process. This helped; we had fewer AI generated and ghost candidates that we interviewed. But it feels like an endless arms race. 🙁 2/2

4 June

Me, on some code I recently worked on: "This is simultaneously broken and magical."

1 June

Google changed the icon for Google Calendar (now just a blue blob), and it's going to completely disrupt my week as I constantly look for that browser tab in a sea of other blue blobs...

30 May

@jamesmunns.com I'm fairly certain the answer is "NO!", but thought I'd ask: Is it safe to deserialize a postcard datagram from an untrusted source (into a struct that has a payload that will be AEAD decrypted with tags and the like)?

12 May

I was wondering if you could GOTO between FOR loops in C64 BASIC. The answer is... sorta? The results aren't what I'd expect though.

3 May

Slightly diminish a book Gourd of the Rings

Lli Wilburn@lliwilburn.bsky.social

Slightly diminish a book Sweat Meridian

@withenoughcoffee.bsky.social

27 Apr

We are altering the deal. Pray we do not alter it any further.

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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤

2 Apr

An amazing engineer used AI to write health insurance appeals. This is one of the best uses of AI and I love that it is being given for free to help others. SO RAD! this is the stuff that give me hope. tag line: " MAKE YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY CRY TOO" fighthealthinsurance.com

fighthealthinsurance.comFight Your Health Insurance Denial -- Use AI to Generate Your Health Insurance AppealFight Health Insurance is a generative AI tool to help you fight your health insurance denial. Just take a picture of your denial and it will generate an appeal for you to submit as the first part of ...

2 Apr

@mara.bsky.social is quite committed to contribution artwork. (Pun wasn't originally intended, but, eh, what the hell...)

30 Mar

"What AI coding assistant do you use? ChatGPT? Claude? Cursor?" "Rufus." "Rufus? I've not heard of that one..."

15 Mar

Video conferences over Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc, would be much cooler if each participant had a health bar over their feed.

13 Mar

@lyndie.bsky.social Just saw this in my Apple News feed today!

9 Mar

this is how I access bluesky

🏳️‍🌈Real🛠️Time🧙💛🤍💜🖤@realtime.crt.video

this is how i access bluesky

6 Mar

Maybe Anthropic will hire me as head of marketing?

sw.kovidgoyal.netTerminal graphics protocolThe goal of this specification is to create a flexible and performant protocol that allows the program running in the terminal, hereafter called the client, to render arbitrary pixel (raster) graph...

5 Mar

TIL there is a protocol, kitty, for displaying full color images in the Terminal. Next I need someone to implement a graphical web browser in the terminal so I can run a terminal emulator in a browser in a terminal. sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphi...

bloomberg.comTrump Orders US Government to Drop Anthropic After Pentagon FeudThe Pentagon declared Anthropic PBC a supply-chain risk after President Donald Trump directed US government agencies to stop using its products, capping a feud between the artificial intelligence gian...

27 Feb

Hrm... the one AI model approved for use in the agency I work for is now banned. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

21 Feb

I’ve been touring SoCal colleges all week with my eldest kid (BArch programs specifically). This was a refreshing take from my usual job in govtech, where everything is gloom and doom. There’s a genuine brightness to their outlook on life. 1/2

21 Feb

Yes, they are very aware of what’s going on (and are perhaps more vocal about it than us olds). But they are able to look at things anew, too, and are less willing to accept things as they are. There is hope in the next generation. 2/2

For the last few weeks, I've been staring off and on at feature request on a personal open source project. I've been toying with both Claude Code and Antigravity, which are great when refactoring. Also great when I need a utility function in a library I've used but can't remember. But...

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I finally solved it in my own weird way: * Take my previous attempts and move them to the side; don't nuke them, but use them as references. * Start over again from a fresh clone of main. * Stare. Literally stare and think about what could/should be moved out.

Once I got the result, it just felt so right: a clean, abstract, but useful interface and underlying implementation. This will be the challenge, I think, for code assistants. Being able to reason out abstractions beyond just the code itself. (Fin.)