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I'm thinking today of one of my favorite quotes: "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" - Douglas Adams

The pros and cons of putting your robot vacuum status on atproto ... in this essay I will ...

Was just contacted and asked to help an alumni network group build their own sorta social media / private thing to break out of their current use of facebook groups / slack etc. Can’t tell if it’s a good idea / project or one of those cursed kind of everyone tries this things.

Tried setting up my @sifa.id account in hopes that one day linkedin in it's current form can be dead. sifa.id/p/keenanjohn...

I just watched a huge talk on the history of OOP (object oriented programming) where they went back and basically did a bunch of anthropology through papers letters to figure out the origin / why of it. Very cool and I feel like I could really get into that type of thing.

Just found out there is a conference called better software conference which is just dedicated to people discussing software engineering as a craft and how to be better. That just fills me with hope as most of the discourse I'm exposed to goes the other way.

My conspiracy theory is that most small websites that have ads don't actually make money. They just can't figure out a better way to incentivize people to pay to upgrade other than to remove ads.

Heard from two different people at biggish companies that slide presentations are dead. Everyone just asks LLMs to make bespoke websites for meetings etc that people click around in.

A friend sent me this and it truly describes the human condition in modern society

The irony of picking latex to not deal with layout annoyances, but then spending 97% of the time fighting layout / overlap annoyances

Enjoy my first bluesky contribution yarr: piratesky.app

Sharks, may I present my new idea: bluesky, but pirates

them: what's booty" me: wut? them: booty, like pirates? me: looks at computer. has boot.py open in text editor

One of my new pet peeves in engineering is people sending ascii block diagrams that are most likely generated by LLMs that "almost" make sense, but will have one crucial confusing bit. Like a hardware component connected into a philosophical idea. Just connect USB to existential dread

Getting back into PCBA design after a break for a bit this week.

If you haven’t tried a liquid band aid before, it will change your life

Still working on my little sub game. Starting to dig into the sound design which is one of the parts I'm most excited to do.

One time at an old job, we had this thing where you could send someone "kudos" for being good or nice or helpful or whatever you wanted. I kinda always wanted that in a social media. Maybe it could be my first little contribution to the at proto universe.

For the life of me I can't remember who said it, but I love this quote: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

I got this small heat pump to try and survive the summer heat wave in the bedroom. Seems to work great but extremely stupid control electronics. Should I open up and attempt an upgrade?