Sam Stokes

OH "this restaurant looks AI generated"

"The snails, which actually grow to about eight inches in length, but can stretch—if nothing else, for headline-writing purposes—to nine inches, have worried Florida authorities since 1969." www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Why did nobody tell me you can have tastes at ice cream shops

#til Apparently when donating to a campaign via ActBlue, providing a phone number is optional and not part of the payment process? That would have been good to know. (Insight unlocked after responding "stop" to 30 separate text threads.)

DEFAULT You didn’t choose me. You just didn’t uncheck the box.

I also continue to believe that my mental model is the best one, which does not conceptualize the “agents” as discrete entities, but rather as the protagonists in a story that the LLM has been trained to write about a cool little guy who goes on hacker adventures.

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

What is the best option right now for a "serverless homelab"? I want a machine I can ssh into, with persistent storage, and that can run cron jobs, but I don't want to have to install OS updates or manage a firewall. Seems like this must be a thing in the Year of Our Agent Lord 2026.

Control Resonant is frenetic and fun, visually imaginative, but it seems much harder than its predecessor. I've never seen the reload screen so many times in the opening levels of a game.

Experimentally vibe coding an app to plan out feeding schedules for my cats. So far it is scolding me.

You know that poem about "the widening gyre" / "things fall apart" that is so evocative of … all this? #til W.B. Yeats, who wrote it, was an enthusiastic (albeit temporary) supporter of fascist movements and disapproved of democracy. Gonna have to think about that next time I quote it.

this seems neat: hyperwood.org

So Rude! Sister didn't like me saying she isn't Fluffy.

My human left this out for me. I am going on a ADVENTURE. I think it will be like going to a Vet but fun instead of bad and pokey. My sister can't come because she is not Fluffy enough.

Yeah, a thing I am trying to educate folks on within the industry is that tbe early Internet technologies (the tech itself, not companies or apps) were not advertised at *all*, and in fact big companies fought them and were overtly skeptical? And they succeeded anyway. It’s the opposite of AI.

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

It's 0.5° out of square 😭 Sawing straight is hard. #HandTools #Woodworking