Ty Overby

Today I'm parting ways with fly.io. It's been a privilege. I'm off to tilt at a big old windmill with Kurt, again. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...

I can feel Claude’s resentment coming through in the doc comments

“You slowly become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with, pick them carefully!”

Book so small it should have been called Sun Tzu's Zine on War

Make invalid states incomprehensible

xavierleroy.org/control-stru... 👀

It's well known that the easiest way to get compiling OCaml code is to go through a grueling interview process and then relocate to New York.

Thank god I can finally stop wearing sunscreen

There's an unreleased monitor that I desperately want (Asus PG27UCWM) and as far as I can tell, the only way to be notified when it's released would be to sign up for their super spammy email list and then sift through the garbage for the announcement.

Change in quality between the initial printing and the later “on demand” printing is wild. Really glad I still have the original copy!

VS Code has this problem where every new feature that they add is turned on by default, leading to an enormous amount of visual clutter. Turns out that if you painstakingly turn all of this off, it's a perfectly fine editor!

THERE IS a DownTown local 🟢 six trainto BROOKLYNBRIDGE city hall six minutes Away!

A great day for everyone who read the Halo novels

A guitar chords flashcard app: tyoverby.com/flashchords

Hey I have an idea, could we get some dermatologists in NYC who aren’t among the hottest people alive. Not enjoying having my earthly flesh inspected by a greek god. This may generalize to other locales

More people should read Children of Time, but especially those who finished Project Hail Mary and want to see more spiders in space.

Happy to finally publish a site I've been working on for a while now: arewelegacycomputingyet.com It's a status tracker for terminal emulator support and explainer the Symbols For Legacy Computing unicode block. It really expands the set of cool things we can do in the terminal!

SOMEONE STOP HIM!!!!!

There's lots of things that irk me about C, but I think I'm unreasonably bothered by the lack of named parameters to functions. How do people live like this?!

It'd be really cool to have a text editor that is hyper-malleable but also has a lot of training data in the LLM learning corpus so that Claude could make project-specific editor UIs for me while I code. Wait, that's Emacs isn't it? I take it all back.

I’m so happy that I managed to completely remove Windows from my development and personal computing use. Every time I see sometime from Microsoft it’s like Ha Ha, we’re making it worse!

A poor craftsman blames his tools. Wealthy craftsmen also blame their tools. Lots of tool-blaming going around.

It’s kinda weird that the words “fiction” and “nonfiction” imply that “fiction” is the default for stories

I echo this sentiment and would like to extend it to “implementing testing harnesses”

It’s actually just air escaping the tape

Millennial cultural domination can’t come fast enough

Claude keeps winning

As an occasional Windows user, my relationship with this software is one where Windows tries to trick me and I need to constantly be on guard.

AI coding tools are safe and useful because version control give you branches, diffs (review), and reverts. Why don't our other tools have the same guardrails and affordances? Would it be crazy to stick everything in git?

Cafes should allow me to start a tab and order more coffee and snacks to my table

Learning about keyboard interrupts in school like “that can’t possibly be how it works”

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

claude "my github actions are failing, fix plz 🥺" by itself is easily worth $200/mo.

Claude wrote this short about what it would do if it had the power to do something about Grok. Just thought it was an interesting generation.

Getting real tired of the "blue states are lawless hellholes" rhetoric. If you have a choice on where to live and you'd like to avoid being assaulted to death, you could do worse than just checking how they voted in 2024. (data sourced from CDC)

Wasn’t expecting to have my views on the death penalty changed, but here we are I guess

The Duality of Man

I was up till 3 AM forking go's crypto library. Here's a fun lil debugging story for about why: eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...

While I was eating dinner, Claude updated a ~7 year out-of-date project of mine to the latest OxCaml + Jane Street libraries. github.com/TyOverby/imp...

Get this cow a prongler, stat!

Every time that a pilot tells me the wind speed and direction at the destination airport, I assume that he’s looking for input on how to land the plane

Learning a lot about myself during this sabbatical

How your email finds me

Flight time: 6d 2h 😭

Back in the day, no one needed an app for this, everyone just knew to steal from the duty free.

My workout schedule is currently limited by the number of times that I can listen to Dynasties and Dystopia before it gets boring