dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Let my wife choose elevator or stairs in the FF7 remake. She spent the next half hour apologizing. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/10/2026oh so they're the kind who just want the datacenters where the poor people are eh 030
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/10/2026USPS picked a great year to have their "machines" rip a ton of ballots. everyone from the handlers to the dead-eyed delivery people who didn't bat an eye stuffing these into boxes are up for a whoopin. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Both ports lead to the same place. (except maybe proxy mode?) So... if you can connect to both ports, just stay on the non-mTLS port? I'll fix it anyway but HIGH is really pushing it considering the cross section involved here. 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Finally got a report. I'm gonna "leak" it because the gymnastics are intense: - Enable TLS on a port with "bare" TLS (no cert auth) - Add a second port with mTLS - Enable server side ssl session cache - Connect to TLS port - Resume the session on the mTLS port - OMG cert auth bypass! 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I pivoted to science (telescope). it does pay less and submit-to-interview was ~5 months of dead air. the postings are obscure and not as many people apply. risk is gov't financing/etc. they do have frontend work but probably less than infra. they are slow adopters of new tech... 020
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My smoke alarms all simultaneously go off and the system sends a message to my phone for which room it actually detected smoke in. 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 24/09/2026False-alert smoke alarms giving me legitimate PTSD. Does disassembling and dusting them even work? am I going to smash these with a hammer? Just do a low battery beep like your ancestors did, jackass. It's supposed to announce which room verbally but it doesn't do that immediately. That is worse. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this isn't as good as the nunchuck one but it's up there. keeps me comin' back. 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When my midback finally pops it's gonna feel real good and I'll never walk again. 031
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't think you should do more at all. I think your message is (messages are?) important and I hope someone reliable could volunteer to help. 120
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Guessing folks could be looking at an important sounding topic (do I worry about flooding?) that's 1hr+. You posted shorts/clips sometimes; has anyone offered to help with that? It's a weird complaint but could be a useful signal of a need to fulfill in some other form. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fresh supernova in C30 (2026aavi; discovered 3 days ago) (I'm pretty sure). 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Had a short peak of 93F + 70F dew in coastal SF. Doesn't seem like most of the bay area got the humidity somehow? Both slowly dropping but feels like soup out there. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Instagram is older than the kids. They've never known control :P 021
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We had severe RAM constraints so the system would most likely have been "if you hit your TL more than once a day you get cached into this system for 24 hours". Maybe it could keep tail blobs on disks efficiently idk. Anyway fun "could'a been" thought for nobody in particular. 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Since global post rate was "low" frequent refreshing would do much lighter queries. A real system would've had a service instead of BDB's in a MySQL column but it doesn't matter since I didn't finish it. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026LJ's post rate was low compared to SMS-style social media. So I could've done inbox style but I don't think that was it. I think it (tried?) to store MAX(postid) or timestamp in the blob. On a read: Pull the TL blob, then run the TL query constrained to _only globally newer entries_ 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Of course we had the same TL query at LiveJournal. I recall making an awful prototype where I materialized timelines into a BDB blob and shoved it back into MySQL (lol). @bradfitz.com rightly told me to try harder (and I didn't, because I'm a fool). But there was something odd about it? Not like TW. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Guessing they were already planning on it... My prior job had a roughly similar issue: a notif system that told you when a user DM'ed or some thread updated, but we also wanted to light it up for news posts. Did a late merge instead of blasting inboxes. Can't recall whose idea that was. Not me? 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Was at TW office ages ago (some conference thing?) and someone was telling us about how many machines are just for delivering tweets for famous folks. I asked about delivering folks over N follows to a service then late merging with user timeline. "... yeah... we should do that." 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Casually skimming 'Designing Data Intensive App. 2nd ed.` for fun and refresh on stuff I don't use directly. Anyone who worked in social media should recognize the dreaded "timeline query" from an early example in the book. It then talks about an inbox-style TL + merges for famous folks. Rambling: 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If it's raccoons you need a professional and they come set it on fire. they have nuclear waste poopins. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 27/08/2026just go around. they'll only have to wait 20 minutes 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026curious; have you looked through their starter pack system? 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 16/08/2026We passed 30! Turns out if you look for and fix bugs, you have fewer bugs! 030
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Big Walk was the first real social media I've had in a while :P It was such a nice experience. Can't really say much else about it. 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This is all just my working this out for myself though. Don't worry about it. Nobody reads this anyway. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This doesn't mean it can't have _personal value_. I'd say strong parallels to 3D printing: there are no "3D printer user billionaires". I can print a command hook at home and not pay 3m $0.75 for a single hook. I'm never going to make a valuable competitor for command hooks. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have a grander thesis that it's probably impossible to drive consistent _real value_ from these systems beyond accidental / copied products. Hard Value just seems to be a function of how much entropy you put into an idea (+ how much you deliberately leave out) + luck. 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not really needing it + the systemic obnoxiousness means I can happily minimize its use or ignore it. I'm not going to bother anyone else who does; this is just me saying I've done the math for myself. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026At this point if I'm separating ethics from pragmatism I'd say I can get real value as a static analysis tool (I wouldn't call this code review! closer to a turbo linter). but I don't need that all the time. The API cost estimates for a full audit are hundreds of dollars, so... 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Part of this is the nature of my work: I've always done shit everyone else hates (automate things, figure out how things work, maintaining stuff) and AI isn't much of a shortcut there unless you like boomerang work. It's best at generating new junk and charging you for good and bad. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026So I kinda settled into not using AI for much despite what seems like everyone I've ever known going full tilt into it. Every 6mo I "update my skills" since FOMO and "left behind" is the big hype and... it just takes a day to get caught up. Any weird tricks are soon folded into the harness. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My memory's hazy of the event but I remember our whole plane clapping after they landed safely. Such a weird thing to happen? Thank crap it wasn't my plane? 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Not really, but: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue... - This plane took off from LA to JFK at the same time as I took off, from JFK toward SJC. Both JetBlue flights. I think also the same plane? Our plane watched them circle for hours on the seat monitors.en.wikipedia.orgJetBlue Flight 292 - Wikipedia 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Story time: So I'm watching non-stop, because apparently I'd watch Liam Neeson take a shit, and there's a scene where the passengers are watching their own hijacking on the news. My wife says "that seems really weird". Then I'm thinking... wait, that seems really familiar? That kinda happened to me? 110
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Why chinese?" - guessing just luck. if a random english word got spliced into one of its overly verbose outputs I wouldn't have noticed. Though if it was this long I imagine I would have noticed... 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In b4: I don't often use this stuff. I'm positive it's not something weird I did. This is a CC session running in a dedicated container on a host I personally own. The only software installed is CC and various build deps. None of the text or code exists on disk. Happens more in long runs. 100
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Since Opus 5, claude code has been occasionally printing random chinese characters in its output. This morning I got a huge dump: half a line from my stuff then screenfull of someone's javascript UI tasklist in chinese. I imagine someone else must be getting random globs of my session output? No? 121
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 01/08/2026two junk reports; evidence they're still trying! 000
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Papers, please; but it's a line of chuds tossing lines at a streamer in a box and they can't start their day without a response. 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 28/07/202620 days, no security reports. will we make 30? 120
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Any of the platforms take less of a cut than the rest? 101
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 16/07/2026#1 trending media NAS this year is a light box with puppet show kit 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 15/07/2026north american nebula, with some autoprocessing for contrast. I turned the gain probably too low and lost detail, but there was less noise to process out? I kinda like it? 010
dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 15/07/2026comet 10p. stayed up way too late to just barely get it as it went between obstructions 020
