adaptive cruise control feels like something that should have a reference implementation and test suite that automakers can get certified against, like the css acid test or something

@caseyliss did you ever end up doing your home ethernet run? did you run that in-home fiber?

if ai agents are as good as they're promised to be, i'm looking forward to using one to dynamically block ads on sites i already pay to view without having to specify arcane rules or use ublock style lists. i'm sure this will be easy. trivial even.

cartoon supervillain that dispatches people saying "wake up and smell the coffee" his name is technivorm send tweet

it sounds very Conspiracy Theory, but every time i see a bunch of adjacent confounding business decisions that happen at the end of q1/q2/q3/q4 or h1/h2, it makes me wonder if there's a whole cohort of doomer/prepper execs that have some pathological need to cash out in order to retreat to their death cult's bunkers.

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

the dude ranting about passkeys mentions twice that apple keychain on multiple occasions nuked a bunch of passkeys and presumably the entire keychain while i don't doubt this happened, it seems like a separate issue from "passkeys are bad." if 1p or anything else did this, you'd complain about 1p, the problem with keychain is that it's deeply embedded in the os, but apple's sync'd passkey implementation is objectively the most polished of the bunch. it's telling that everyone yes-and'ing the post is running android or using chrome (which has inconsistent sync'd passkey support)

finally restocked my diamond crystal kosher salt supply after a long dry spell of it being out of stock everywhere

big fan of the kuhl items i own but jfc their names are extremely awkward to actually say aloud "oh these pants, they're kuhl deceptrs, the jacket—a kollusion!"

gonna have to wait for some other year for totality but even this was pretty cool

i'm totally confounded by how swiftui focus works with things like List or NavigationSplitView which handles/owns kb/mouse list item selection (but, weirdly, not focus) and won't report it to descendants in any meaningful way.

got back into the rhythm of returnal again...

i understand that this is a recurring trope for computer folks that came up in the basic->dos->win era, but there's a definite analog to me between the era of cuisine where people stopped making their own mayo or bought tv dinners and the current era of computing where making your own exe is prohibitive and inconvenient

fun seeing favicons changing overnight

are you looking to implement passkeys in a small hobby project in node/js, learn small gotchas that you might run into via this hilariously documented gist i wrote up last year that will answer questions you may have like "how do i import an spki key in nodejs" https://gist.github.com/nsfmc/d74993d49126fdfc5f8c51a012126675

this is the most michael claytonish thing i've read recently https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE0.WyME.LTftu29E0-x-&smid=url-share

i don't usually talk about tech gripes, but i think occasionally about the time somebody told me a few years ago it would take upwards of five hours for a job to process a million database entities and i responded, without thinking, "on what, a pentium?"

did enough with electron to sour on it (good) but also i appreciate that i have a reference implementation that is quite easy to iterate on that i can use to validate my swiftui implementation (surprisingly less troublesome than i expected)

my name is kublai khan and i'm here to say
i'm decreeing pleasure domes in a major way

So, @rek drew a flying Potato, in the style of Afterdark, that wipes the screen for Potato OS.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/potato