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Very cool piece about (possibly) the oldest house in London: https://livinglondonhistory.com/is-this-the-oldest-house-in-the-city-of-london/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-this-the-oldest-house-in-the-city-of-london

I modified my OSS #ghost theme to take advantage of the Mastodon author feature and fix a few smaller things. Feel free to use it and let me know if something breaks! https://matduggan.com/update-to-the-ghost-theme-that-powers-this-site/

Echo at the park today waiting for dog friends to come. #corgi

RE: @YLee@mastodon.social

Watch this soothing video of Japanese notebooks getting made.

In case you haven’t tried them, LIFE Noble notebooks are among my favorites. They’re adorable and the paper is some of the best.

I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

The horrors are unrelenting. Respect the consistency, honestly. More than I can say for most people.

This #sendgrid phishing campaign is the best I’ve ever seen.

Nice #Warhammer40k match today. Against custodes which is always a super tricky match with tyranids. I basically have to keep them distracted as they slaughter everything in their path and I take the objectives. Got a bit lucky with taking out the jet bikes early so I didn’t have to deal with their speedier elements.

Was shocked to learn that these Custodes were 3D printed. I honestly couldn’t tell. The resin prints really have gotten incredible.

The author is talking about writing economics papers but I actually think this is really good technical writing advice as well. https://jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2024/01/23/get-paper-done/

I actually didn't fully understand why #kafka was a bad job queue until I read this: https://broot.ca/kafka-at-the-low-end.html

I just found positive affirmation passphrase generator and I'm thrilled that someone has made this. https://lik.ai/blog/positive-affirmation-passphrases/

I feel like Teams is giving me stress eye twitches with the cut off notification circle. #ios

I wrote a thing about my complicated relationship with LLMs. https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/
#LLM #AI

There’s something especially depressing about children coloring pages done with AI. One of the cats doesn’t have eyes, some are missing ears, the text in the front cat is gibberish. #AI #aiart

It is wild to me that #github doesn’t support SHA256 for git when both Gitlab and Codeberg do. #git

My impressions of the GitButler CLI: https://matduggan.com/gitbutler-cli-is-really-good/

#git #devops #gitbutler

If you ever doubt yourself, just go read some #cryptocurrency subreddits. If these idiots can believe in their unusable fake investment, you can write that book, ask that person out, etc.

There is something deeply fascinating about the number of incredibly angry #aws former employees who I am encountering who want to actively harm #Amazon.

Like we’ve reached a new level of who gives a shit about NDAs. These people fucking hate their former employer with a passion and want bad things to happen to it, their bosses, etc.

To be clear I love it and encourage it but it’s sorta new for American employees to get on shared Slacks and start spilling very private secrets about AWS and how it works.

A bunch of mostly dads dropping their daughters off for ballet leads to some of the craziest hair styles I’ve ever seen. Like turning a bunch of amateurs loose in a surgical ward. We got too many pins, clips everywhere, elastics flying across the room.

I’ll write a longer thing about it but #clickhouse is the craziest leap forward in observability technology I’ve ever seen. The ability to process queries of billions of logs in 1-2 seconds is unlike anything on the market I have tried. #observability

A book I wish someone would write is a postmortem on the failure of home automation. It is just fascinating to me that everyone I know got some sort of smart home assistant. We all purchased at least one smart thing, be it a lightbulb or blinds or whatever. And even if each component had 99% availability, together the ecosystem with a house full of stuff ended up with something closer to 94% availability.

Like either the protocol the thing used was deprecated or the app stopped working or, most common for me, it just mysteriously stopped functioning. It would be in Apple Home but just never again did the thing. Or if it did the thing, it would be slow.

It’s just such a perfect example of the kind of weird user hostile design that seems to be the dominant design pattern now. #homeassistant

Listening to #trump to see if he's going to declare war on #greenland. It is deeply embarrassing how bad he is at public speaking. It's also so fucking pathetic how he bitches and moans about the 2020 election to an international crowd waiting to see if he will declare war.

Being an American is so deeply shameful. #uspol

These #sendgrid scammers are really getting clever.

I like how tech words read like pure gibberish on first pass