KC Lemson

this is not fine

Happy fall

Note to self: it’s almost always “stir and recover, cook again for 1 minute and 30 seconds”, I really *don’t* need to pick it out of the recycle pile to check, sigh.

A new pumpkin has entered the dungeon! I ended up using the bobby pins that came with Donut’s tiara to affix part of Samantha’s hair, which somehow seems so fitting (Trick or treaters this year are probably either going to love these, or they’ll be super confused… there’s no in-between)

DCC pumpkin #2 finished, now moving on to #3

First pumpkin for the year finished… you’ll never guess which one’s next.

In case you had any doubt that birds are dinosaurs

My poor boy is so damned cute when he’s miserable

Halloween’s coming up, which means it’s that time of year again: pumpkin painting time. Here are a few of my favorites I’ve made over the years. This year’s theme will be dungeon crawler Carl :-)

I made a UX for browsing book recommendations and it's really freaking gorgeous and I love it so much and I really want other people to see it :-) Here are links to start from a couple of books: Murderbot: linkabook.com?seeds=003339... Thursday Murder Club: linkabook.com?seeds=002282...

I’m going to update my resume to say I’m good at ignoring previous instructions, but it has nothing to do with AI - I’m just good at ignoring instructions in general.

If you read and aren't a fan of Goodreads, I highly recommend checking out Hardcover at hardcover.app - good website + mobile apps + tons of cool features. My fav is seeing which books other users and I have both rated 4+, super handy for finding someone with similar tastes to get ideas for my TBR.

TFW when you are many hours deep in a rabbit hole investigating a nasty bug that you’re afraid you might never figure out (typecheck timing out after 3 minutes no matter what you do)… …but then you - the human - make a breakthrough that results in the AI coding agent replying “HOLY SHIT” 😎

This is a VERY exciting time in my life right now

I am very grateful to the friend who saved our IRC log from the morning of 9/11/2001... it's a powerful time capsule for our friend group.

the brake is a lie

I did Bulgarian split squats this morning, and that’s quite enough adulting for the day

Yesterday I texted this link to my family about certain flavors of outshine bars being recalled due to having *glass* in them, and seconds later my son replies “So it WASNT a new blood orange flavor” and I am still giggling about it a day later www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

Bold cotton strategy www.today.com/popculture/e...

For weeks I've been obsessively working on a book recommendation site aimed at making it easier to say "If you loved <bookA> then you might like <bookB>”. It’s *finally* in a good enough state to share it: www.linkabook.com Here are some examples of it in action, and how you can tune the results:

My glyphs? iconic My tech debt? chronic My innerHTML? dangerously set

I wish I could yeet perimenopause into the sun

So excited to have spotted this gem for my collection today

Writing patterns that make me start twitching uncontrollably: “It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiorno - and no one is talking about it. Let me explain.”

It is literally 106 miles to Chicago

TFW you are a Gen-Xer at the airport and randomly end up meeting the voice actor (Victor Caroli) who was the narrator for the Transformers cartoon (and so much more) in the 80s!! tfwiki.net/wiki/Victor_...

Homophones in the English language drive me nuts - they are pique irritation

“He’s like me, but in a different font” - my kid describing one of her coworkers

At my friend’s house for a bbq yesterday, and the friend said “Anyone want some more?” while grilling, and my bestie and I both immediately shouted out “please sir, some more?” So that’s how you can tell someone was a theater kid

Frog asked the agent to write a spec for the proposed changes. "There," he said, "now I can understand the changes without reading any code." "But you're not reading the spec either" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

I misread this as “bull shirt” at first, which is now going to become my favorite expression because there’s a lot of bullshirt going on these days

The bit at the end of The Usual Suspects where the camera focuses on the feet for just a few seconds is just absolute peak visual storytelling

Factorio’s latest update is a delightful read for any fans of the game, particularly those who work in the software industry - it’s clearly written by humans who love their customers and their craft factorio.com/blog/post/ff...

Petition to rebrand Chuck Norris jokes as Mamdani jokes

eagles can apparently just swim around

I added celery and cashews to my spicy chicken fried rice and I feel like I should win some kind of cooking award

A couple of good geeky finds for my collection this week

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Good thing I got this outdoor dog bed

These are all different types of chicken

Happy new murderbot day to those who celebrate!

I just scrolled past this and the *sound* I made out loud to myself, oh my

Yesterday my goodest boy Baxter started walking in tight circles in an obsessive way - long story short, it’s likely he either had a stroke or he has a brain tumor that crossed a tipping point in his forebrain. He’s only 9.5 years old and I’m not ready for this to be the beginning of the end.