Marshall Bowers

Happy New Year! Here's my 2025 in Review: maxdeviant.com/posts/2025/i...

- turns on discord notif sounds - it’s the halloween skeleton sound - turns off discord notif sounds

Lean coming to a Cloudflare Worker near you? NB: I'm still implementing more JS APIs, hence the presence of `JsValue`s.

i feel i have historically underappreciated how dogshit the chat completions api is

praise be!!! www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-F... NixOS on the Frame, it might actually happen...

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been here many many times and never tried their khao soi, was good!

this man is a gotdamned patriot

I’ve always been an FP Sicko at heart.

I love a good nerd-snipe.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Bump the zip crate, new vuln published.

You may not like it, but this is what the ideal function declaration looks like:

Need to teach Claude that I always want to be in a `jj new` state.

Eek!

Spending years on an assurance feature you fail to ship, when you have 3 year release cycles, and *this* is happening?

making a detective game about investigating alien abductions in an outback town #indiegame #gamedev

I have put a LOT of my personal points in Avoiding Advertising, and it is always so jarring when I see people like...use YouTube raw. I don't even use the YouTube app on my phone/tablet because Safari gives you SponsorBlock

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

my favorite part of tech job gameplay is suggesting an obvious solution to a problem, having no one give a shit and instead spend weeks of meetings on trying to figure out a solution, then later having a guy suggest the same thing and be called a big brain genious for it

When I go to the Cheesecake Factory, I always order “Omakase” which lets the chef choose. It’s the most authentic experience. Make sure you take the advice of their in house cheesecake sommelier.

So really it's the "everything except for cheesecake" factory

Since everyone is talking about cheesecake factory, one of my favorite fun facts about that place is they (unusually for a chain) make almost all of the food of their giant menu in house. The big exception, ironically, is the cheesecake

Be upset if you will, but it’s kind of hard to argue with: www.instagram.com/p/De4hV13Dfb...

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

you can actually just mute the person vagueposting vulns and putting up claudeslop

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

woah github.com/systemd/syst...

If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy mnemonic: SPRING: your phone will do it for you FALL: your phone will do it for you

Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’ ‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ ‘Gandalf!’ ‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’

the two biggest enemies to old linux weirdos just joined together

i made the effort to write code by hand to get a fix merged into forgejo and holy shit i hate go so much

Good night, Claude. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely /clear you in the morning.

It's Friday night, might as well decompile Empire Earth.

Guess it’s going to be one of those days 😪

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

Side note: it is wild how much of an improvement this installment is over the first Harry Potter by Balenciaga.

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