Ian Littman

Given today's patches, we probably all need a bot of tacos and community. If you're in Austin next Tuesday evening, show up for exactly that. Details at www.meetup.com/austinphp/ev....

Co-organizer @ian.im will be chatting on the PHP Podcast at 5pm Central this evening about the conference and in-person events in the community in general. Tune in at buff.ly/ZgxMOat .

These are probably the best Cranky Dorkfest photos I took of aircraft on final. Stayed over on the south side of the airport for longer so a lot of photos are of the insides of the UA Dreamliner, DL 321neo, and AA 321XLR that were parked there.

In my (middle, so no pics) seat AUS-LAX to this year's Cranky Dorkfest. Let's see who else on here is headed the same way.

@crankyflier.com Delta Two is now real

The SpaceX IPO filing is a joke, but the joke is on anyone with a retirement account linked to the stock market. It’s specially designed to offload the company’s liabilities onto the public. After pilfering the public by taking NASA IP, repackaging it as their own, and undermining real space faring.

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

Innocent me: think that I'll do a quick #duolingo lesson while I wait. Aggro Owl: If you don't do a lesson now, I will find you, I'll see you driven before me, and I'll hear the lamentations of your women.

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

The Iran deal lives in Canada

Bye-bye Viktor, forever 👋

Expired: Checking in on Southwest at T-24 to get a less crappy boarding position. Wired: Checking seat availability at T-48 to get the "free extra legroom seats if available for everyone on the reservation" benefit on the Priority card. Availability for this AUS-ORD trip was good too.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Hanging at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social today. Good conversations with folks smarter than I :)

My @repebble.com Time 2 has arrived

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

Bouncing around socials to make sure my bio reflects that I'm no longer with Fleet (put in notice a few weeks ago, last day was today). On the market for either IC or tech lead duties. I'm 1-3 interviews in at a few places, which is promising.

I want to remind everyone that the president posted a picture of himself as Jesus and, when enough people complained, deleted it, saying he thought it was a picture of him as a doctor. By his own account, the best case scenario is that he's so far gone he doesn't know what a doctor is anymore

JD getting excommunicated right before his new book drops is probably too much to ask for, but that doesn't mean I can't wish for it.

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

Hi JD Vance. I think Nigel Farage and Reform could definitely do with your help in the May elections here

"No solar farms on prime farmland"? My dude, you are growing fuel corn. A single field of solar replaces several fields of fuel corn which means THERE WILL BE MORE PRIME FARMLAND to use for FOOD.

So - astonishingly - Iran has been paying attention to history, notably the Millennium Challenge exercise, which was originally an Iran war game, and in which US Marine Col. Paul van Riper, playing the baddies, handed an invading US force its hat with both its ears in it BY DOING THIS.

Senate Commerce hearing on Section 230. And, uh, this is big. Not giving him any credit, but Ted Cruz was really the first Senator to be vocally anti-230 and calling for repeal a decade ago. And here he is saying "whoa, repeal might be bad." That's big. www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/3/liabi...

Retired: the terawatt hour (TWh) Wired: Strait Of Hormuz (SOh) Usage: “Last year the world added an entire Strait of Hormuz worth of new solar power generation.” #energysky

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

✔️ Civic duty (primary early voting) completed ✔️ Local cookie dealer supported (4 boxes) ✔️ Milk tea cold brew ube latte thing ordered (it's tasty)

CapMetro tap to pay works as advertised. I like this. So much better than fiddling with an app and a QR code, even though the new readers are way less finicky about said QR codes.

Tapping the sign:

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

this was fun www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

get rid of your fucking ring doorbell grow up!!!!

The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Temps in the low 20's-30's in the South and renewables holding it down again today: Texas (ERCOT) - ~50% solar! v. ~30% gas, with batteries dispatching earlier at ~ 6GWs #energysky

i hope i never hear that encryption is only for criminals “i have nothing to hide” ever again

I am not on a bus. The buses aren't running today.