Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 25/09/2026That puts it in the top 1% of all packages on NuGet Gallery (when rounding to the nearest percentage point). 001
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 25/09/20261.7 million now, with a run rate of 1 download every 13.3 seconds. With this exponential growth, it will surely reach 1 billion downloads by June 2031. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026Let's see Chrome or Firefox crush a Russian military pincer movement or liberate dozens of square miles of occupied Ukrainian territory. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026I have never gained more respect for the manufacturers of a household appliance than when I learned they provided an option to turn off incessant beeps. Thank you, you are one of the good ones. I didn't even have to desolder a piezo or encase it in epoxy. 001
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026"If you drove today, a rare earth magnet helped you steer" No, your overconfident presumption is incorrect. My wonderful power steering pumps are delightfully hydraulic, not electric, so they don't use any magnets. The same goes for most of the vehicles I've driven. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 20/09/2026That's not an axe, that's a hatchet. I've been waiting so long for an opportunity to trot out this pedantic correction trope. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 20/09/2026This was after I tried to play this audio file in my browser and kept getting mysterious (failed)err::NET_INVALID_ARGUMENT error in Chromium. It turns out AdGuard/uBlock URL Tracking Protection was removing a tracking query parameter, but something about the 307 broke, so I had to bypass that rule. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 20/09/2026After Fiddler and Charles couldn't explain it, I had to drag out Wireshark to figure out that Winamp's Error Syncing To Stream problem is caused by it only supporting TLSv1, which has been passé for 5 years. Frustratingly, this build's from 5 years AFTER TLSv1.2 went mainstream, so it was avoidable. 101
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 19/09/2026but then you don't know what kind of crazy chemicals they're putting in it! homemade like this is the way to go, that way you can choose the cocktail of steroids, neutraceuticals, and peptides that go in your backyard hog water still. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Yeah seriously. It may make the runtime way harder to use, BUT ALSO, nobody even wanted a smaller memory/disk footprint or untrusted code isolation in the first place! Surely this had no opportunity cost to improving useful language features. 🙄 110
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Like all the modular allow-opens and allow-native garbage? It does seem like a crazy solution to a fake, nonexistent problem. So far my application server (Tomcat) seems to have automatically added enough args to allow Jackson to just work, but I've by no means tested everything yet. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Nvidia GeForce Driver Installer Watch: currently 991 MB, sizes are accelerating, with the Big Gig now expected in December 2027 instead of 2029 as previously predicted. x.com/Aldaviva/sta... 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Biting the bullet and upgrading 3 webapps from Java 8 to 25, including 9 years of breaking major version updates and numerous package and namespace changes from the Oracle javaxpocalypse. How hard could it be? In the immortally wise words of @spatula75.bsky.social, "It'll be a one-time disaster." 111
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 15/09/2026I wonder how complicated is too complicated • pdw.ex-parrot.com/Mail-RFC822-... • infosec.exchange/@SophosXOps/... 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/09/2026Happy National Video Games Day, when we remember, long ago, how the pilgrims and Native Americans set aside their minor differences and joyfully came together to celebrate the bountiful fall release schedule. 001
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 11/09/2026Unlike the respectful developers at CertifyTheWeb, Telerik doesn't make any effort to ask you if you're a non-commercial user and hide the nag banner if you are, so all the law-abiding users see that orange bullshit all over their screens forever. Luckily, I fixed it: gist.github.com/Aldaviva/6d1... 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 11/09/2026Why is my laptop heating up with just a browser and text editor running? Oh, it's because without asking me, Visual Studio Code automatically enabled dictation and started transcribing speech from a stream I had playing in the background into a script file I had been formatting. 000
Reposted by Ben HutchisonJake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026nobody at my job seems to understand that many compound forms are noun-only, and remain two-word verb phrases. people are always talking about how a user can login, and whether a request will timeout, and how it's time to teardown some infrastructure. like ragged claws on the chalkboard of my soul. 081
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 08/09/2026Thanks to Daniel Mauser for teaching me about this. I'm not sure why this technology is so obscure and underutilized. The article was buried on the third page of web search results for some reason. github.com/dmauser/Priv... 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 08/09/2026I've used DNS to solve a problem in a way no one else figured out. It took me a long time to find, but Windows' Name Resolution Policy Table is my new best friend. Even more flexible than server-side conditional forwarders, and with the latency, availability, roaming, and DNSSEC of public resolvers. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026If you want to also gain the privilege of antagonizing or criticizing me in replies, you must pass the additional "send me the last nine digits of your social security number challenge." 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026To unlock the ability to reply to my posts, you must successfully complete the "send me a selfie with you clearly showing your passport (or birth certificate and driver's license) challenge." 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026Rest assured I will save all the Reedus videos I receive forever in a protected data warehouse operated by a trusted non-liable storage partner with excellent information security practices who won't get hacked or sell the data for identity theft, fraud, surveillance, or GenAI training purposes. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026My terms and conditions have changed. By continuing to show me your Bluesky posts, you agree to verify your age by sending me a video of Norman Reedus moving his head side to side and opening his mouth. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026🚛 American Truck Simulator State Progress Watch: South Dakota comes out Sep 24, 2026, which will be 43–47% of states (based on counting states, population, or Interstate distance). Completion estimated in 12–21 years (2038–2048), including at least 1 Canadian province (BC, est. Feb–Mar 2027). 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 03/09/2026It's one of the central arguments against everything from FrontPage/Dreamweaver/framework-du-jour to QuarkXPress to PowerPoint to FL Studio to Final Cut/Premiere/digital cameras. It's everywhere. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 03/09/2026It's amazing how widespread this phenomenon is, of lowered barriers decreasing average quality. I've haughtily thought this about web design, and others had the same complaint about the desktop publishing revolution decades prior! Also cinematography, music, and probably every other human pursuit. 110
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 02/09/2026The millionth reason to not use 1Password, which pays raging bigot DHH, and instead simply use KeePass, led by normal and nice person Dominik Reichl. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 01/09/2026I think the new Super Star Destroyer set is the 4th-smallest scale Lego set, at 1:11,029 scale. The only three smaller are the Death Star (1:229,062), the Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit (1:4.83e11), and The Milky Way Galaxy (1:1.37e21) if you interpret that set as the galaxy and not a painting. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 26/08/2026A year later Atlassian has, without warning me, deleted all issues for all my Bitbucket repositories, because they want to sell me Jira. No option to export archived data, no email announcement, no alert banners on repo pages. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 23/08/2026I was trying to learn why some posts end with a visible U+FFFC Object Replacement Character glyph (). Consensus seems to be a behavior (bug? feature?) of iOS when using speech-to-text. Sort of baffling to me, why append an attachment at all? Also I always type my posts, dictation is unappealing. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 23/08/2026I can't believe we've all been tricked into posting on the UnitedxJetBlue frequent flyer social network collaboration. 111
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 21/08/2026Finished Need for Speed: ProStreet, which is actually amateur track racing, ironically. The only way to win is to magically know the secret tuning parameters, but luckily people have posted setups online. Surprisingly great music, and speed challenge mode is super fun. Done with 12/22 NFS games now. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 13/08/2026Those who have never experienced the rigors of a 24 hour race like Le Mans, Spa, or Daytona don't appreciate how grueling and demanding it is to sit on the couch and watch that much TV over the course of weeks. It basically requires the physical acumen of a professional athlete. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/08/2026If anyone tries to tell you hamburgers are named after Hamburg Germany instead of ham, make sure to correct them with the truth: hamburgers are named after the Hamburglar. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/08/2026Inventory selected to optimize friend's birthday celebratory operations. Was privileged to discuss important topics like watches and knives with the gourmand, Benchmade ambassador, and horologist-philosopher @werealltubes.bsky.social. #edc #everydaycarry #gear #loadout #minimalist #tactical 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 06/08/2026To whoever I saw today with the license plate ILOVECPP, I hope you're able to escape your abusive Stockholm situation soon. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 06/08/2026I've never understood why Task Manager destroys and recreates its window when you toggle Always On Top. This is unnecessary, just call user32.dll:SetWindowPos(…, HWND_TOPMOST) and don't destroy anything. MS even preserved this behavior when they rewrote the Win8–10 one for Win11 using WinUI2. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 05/08/2026At least the last time Spider-Man was advertised using a car it was cool. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 05/08/2026Redondo Beach and the Portofino Hotel also aren't modeled in the game currently, and the closest locations are all warehouses. Maybe Santa Monica Pier could act as a surrogate destination. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 05/08/2026My rough real-time run duration estimate is about 90 minutes, given the real world record of 25h 39m (Toman et al, 2020) and the 1:20 spatial scale. But I don't know what average speed you can carry because none of the cars have been released yet either. I assume Challenger SRT Hellcat is the pick. 110
