Ten days ago I caulked my kitchen countertop. It’s black and white marble so I picked black silicone caulk, and thought I did a good job. Even designed and 3D printed a custom edger to get a consistent line behind the sink.

But it’s glossy. Really glossy. I was hoping it would dull as it cured over a week, but that didn’t happen. It doesn’t look bad per se, but I chose black because I thought it would be inconspicuous. No, it’s glossy.

If you type Reno into Google Maps, the second result is for the Renault Group, which I GUESS...

Famously, SoCal likes putting the article "the" in front of highway numbers. "The 5" for Interstate 5, "the 101" for US 101, etc. When I moved down here 5 years ago, I was talking with a native of over 50 years, and mentioned that, for example, Reno was the crossroads of I-80 and US-395 -- though for "long" numbers like 395, we would often just say "395", and "short" numbers like 80 would usually be called "I-80".

She genuinely didn't notice until that point that there were different types of highways. "So, like, you memorize if the highway is an I or a US or an SR?" and ... yeah? We did? Though I will admit "the 134" is a lot more homogeneous and easier to apply.

US 395 is interesting that it goes north/south, all the way from the Canadian border, through Washington, Oregon, Nevada and terminates in Hesperia, California, though Historic 395 continues on sporadically to San Diego. The highway was a prominent part of both my and @nprofile1q... 's life, and he once proposed a theory which lives rent-free in my head: It's actually two highways. US-395 runs from the Canadian border to Bishop, California, and The 395 continues from Bishop to Hesperia.

For years, I've used the filename "NOTES" to save snippets for myself. I should switch to calling it RYAN.md as a way of training the squishy agentic software.

I've been coding for 48 hours straight, minus sleep. I'm physically wrecked: eyes can't focus, headache after waking up, and my body is sore from spending most the last two days sitting down.

Classic software development is for the young. Ironically, I feel bad because I've been sedentary; I should change to Extreme Programming, which is like regular programming but with more skateboard kick flips.

Something I just realized is incredibly messed up but I learned it early on so my brain formed around it:

"continue" in a shell / Python loop means "don't continue on; go back to the beginning of the loop".

Literally, something I use nearly every time I need to write a script, and it just hit me like a repressed memory suddenly surfacing.

Huh, the Logitech C270 USB webcam is still being manufactured new. The Little Brother Controller of the webcam world. Beloved by @nprofile1q... users for being An Webcam. Statistical Mean Webcam.

Fun fact: When I first got a 3D printer (2017?) and set up OctoPrint, the official documentation recommended the C270 for being cheap and compatible. I was like "what, am I just going to pull a C270 out of my junk bin?"... then checked my computer junk bin and found a C270. No idea where it came from; I'm pretty sure they just come into existence if you've ever owned a computer.

Whenever I see "AGI", I keep confusing it with "KPI" and wonder why AI bros are forming a religion around Jira targets.

If you get gas from Walmart and use the app to pay, it doesn't allow you to print a receipt at the pump. Instead, it's available on the web site but stylized to look as if it were scanned on a flatbed scanner at a high resolution but 1bpp (though this is an illusion; the text is anti-aliased). This only appears to be the case for gas, not groceries bought online.

(Edit: Mastodon smoothed out the text a bit so the 1bpp illusion isn't as prominent)

If the GPL is so great, why didn't they make GPL 2?

It's a shame "vibe coding" was coined to describe asking the plagiarism machine to produce something you couldn't be bothered doing yourself.

In an alternate universe, that would be a beautiful term for coding to achieve a functional end goal while enjoying the ride. Not hobby coding, not factory coding; somewhere in the middle is vibe coding.