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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 03/10/2026

just stop. please god stop. why are you making everything round. They're fucking TABS you crazy psychopaths. Why has literally every single possible thing I can click on been turned into a capsule. This is fucking insane. I feel like i'm taking crazy pills.

screenshot of a new firefox tab, which now just looks like a rounded button instead of a tab.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 01/10/2026

"okay, this crashes on input C, but why doesn't it crash on inputs A or B?" [finds a 3 year old comment marked //TODO HACK FIX that specifically handles inputs A and B]

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 29/09/2026

if you are on the west coast consider not leaving the house for a month

Covid wastewater heat map from Sept 28 2026 showing the entire west coast with Purple (very high) infectious levels - https://pmc19.com/

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 10/09/2026

Me: I don't like AI-generated stuff other people: Yeah we should KILL EVERYONE who works on AI!!!! me:

[extremely concerned Tom from Tom & Jerry]

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 09/09/2026

when the AI at work abruptly claims something completely and utterly wrong:

a confused neobot emoji being smacked with a rolled up newspaper

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 05/09/2026

WHY ARE YOU GUYS PLAYING A 10 YEAR OLD CLICKER GAME

Page/Screen Name | Views
Pony Clicker | 11191

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 01/09/2026

well that's nice to hear, but there's just one teeny tiny little problem with this proposal: I fucking hate you and everything you're doing.

Erik, we're looking for software engineers like you at Google [inbox]

Google Recruitment Marketing
to me

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 19/08/2026

"I know," I said to myself, "I can solve this problem by using capnproto!" now I have 8 problems

$let request = self.state.get_request().send().promise.await?; if request.get()?.has_data() { request .get()? .get_data()? .get_result()? .restore_request() .send() .promise .await? .get()? .get_cap()? } [lots of ? reaction emojis]$

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 31/07/2026

this is why people think we can replace developers with AI

i was interviewing someone. senior position, claimed great experience in low-level programming languages, chose to work in C++
for the interview
interview went terribly, and ended with them spending 5mins trying to figure out, i shit you not
how to return a sequence of things from a function
std::vector, std::array, std::deque, std::list, any of them i would have accepted
or fuck, malloc/new that shit and give me a pointer, but no, nothing

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 26/07/2026

wish I made enough money to give nice people jobs like this

Services. Contractor shall render the following services and perform the following tasks:

* None

Such tasks shall be performed in a timely, professional, and complete manner to the highest professional standards and in accordance with prevailing industry
custom.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 12/07/2026

my fans would be so fucking mad at me if they realized I was actually sitting on two entire albums worth of nearly-finished songs that I can't figure out how to finish because my ability to evaluate music outstripped my skill level again

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 04/06/2026

What do you think the output of this program is? (yes it compiles) play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

#[derive(Debug)]
pub enum Foo {
A(u32),
B(u32)
}

impl Foo {
pub fn A(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::B(x)
}
pub fn B(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::A(x)
}
pub fn C(x: u32) -> Self {
Self::B(x)
}
}

fn main() {
// ????????????
let x = Foo::A(3);
println!("{x:?}");
let x = Foo::C(3);
println!("{x:?}");
}

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 16/04/2026

me: can't get a job websites: can't do their job 🤔

picture of blank bluesky feed that won't load properly

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 06/04/2026

millennials that survived covid finally finding the hallowed toilet paper aisle

an entire section of a virtual store that contains only toilet paper and is the fanciest part of the entire store.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 01/04/2026

The derpibooru.org april fools joke this year is extremely funny, provided you like dark humor.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 29/03/2026

a trillion dollar corporation can barely reach one singular nine of uptime for the most popular code platform on planet earth that it bought for $7.5 billion dollars.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 19/03/2026

why do math people write code like this what are you doing do you need help

let rc0 = neg c1 * c1; let rc1 = fma c2 c2 (f64 (-4) * c0); let rc2 = c2 + c2; let g = r + rc2; let h = fma r g rc1; let p = fma r h rc0; let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let (r, p) = if abs p1 <= abs p then (r1, p1) else (r, p) in // In the rare failed-to-improve case it is equivalent to skip to the end of Halley corrections.
let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let (r, p) = if abs p1 <= abs p then (r1, p1) else (r, p) in // In the rare failed-to-improve case it is equivalent to skip to the end of Halley corrections.
let s = r + g; let v = fma r s h; let r1 = fma p (v / fma (neg v) v ((r + s) * p)) r; let g = r1 + rc2; let h = fma r1 g rc1; let p1 = fma r1 h rc0; let r = if abs p1 <= abs p then r1 else r in // END OF HALLEY CORRECTIONS
if r <= f64 0 then // c1 is so small that this quartic is effectively a quadratic in t**2
// FIXME: Not currently trying to handle potential overflow in the quadratic discriminant.
let t = tuple2map sqrt (monicQuadratic_findRoots c0 c2) in (t.0, t.1, neg t.0, neg t.1)
else
let q = f64 0.5 * rsqrt r; let g = f64 0.5 * (c2 + r); let h = q * c1; let s = q * r; // FIXME: Not currently trying to handle potential overflow in the quadratic discriminants.
let (t0, t1) = premulMonicQuadratic_findRoots (g + h) s; let (t2, t3) = premulMonicQuadratic_findRoots (g - h) (neg s); (t0, t1, t2, t3)

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 16/02/2026

It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.

Haresh Ved
- Satya Nadella says that 20–30% of all code in Microsoft repositories is now written by AI.
- Sundar Pichai says AI already writes well over 30% of new code at Google.

What does this mean?
- Software development is no longer constrained by typing speed, but by how clearly engineers articulate intent.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 15/02/2026

www.tumblr.com/derinthescar...

derinthescarletpescatarian

On fun thing about everyone using ai to do their data analysis or write articles or whatever is it's really exposing how many people weren't doing their jobs this whole time.

"We just found out that the ai tool we've been using to make business decisions for 3 months has been hallucinating all the sales data!" okay well it was stupid to use ai for this, why didn't you learn how glitchy it was before implementing it, but far more importantly, what you've just told me is that nobody bothered to check the real numbers for 3 months. "This guy has been using ai to write 9 magazine articles for us and the quoted info was all fake, he has been fired" no editor checked the first eight? "I used ai to write this report and the math was wrong" you didn't check the math? In your own report? Everyone is just telling on themselves re: how their work was always wildly unreliable and they already weren't doing their jobs.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 04/02/2026

found a short-term contract and they threatened to fire anyone who submitted low-quality work and the following day asked why no one was submitting anything

Better Quality?
DON'T SLOW DOWN
ONLY BETTER QUALITY

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 18/01/2026

The comment on my inverted three-way comparison function has been wrong since I wrote it in 2012. It's been wrong for 14 years and I never noticed. It's been wrong so long I'm now replacing the whole thing with the three-way comparison operator from C++20. github.com/ErikMcClure/...

template<typename T> // Returns -1,0,1
inline char CompT(const T& left, const T& right) { return SGNCOMPARE(left,right); }

template<typename T> // Returns -1,0,1
inline char CompTInv(const T& left, const T& right) { return SGNCOMPARE(right,left); }

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 15/01/2026

In the distant future of 2026, we have developed advanced technology that somehow makes basic text input laggy on a PC with more computational power than a supercomputer from 1996.

someone mentioned discord using up a huge ton of resources when typing awhile ago, now I'm getting that lol
discord CPU usage goes up to 7-10% while I'm typing, and when I type too fast or hold the backspace button discord starts lagging
it's so bad that when I hold down a single key (or backspace), characters stop appearing (or disappearing) in the input box until I stop holding it

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 06/01/2026

modern apartment floorplans are so nonsensical that AI-generated slop would be indistinguishable from this entirely real 2-bath 0-bedroom studio apartment in Vancouver, BC.

floorplan of a 2-bath 0-bedroom studio apartment

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 05/01/2026

The absurd irony of this clearly innocuous post being labeled "Rude". What is bsky moderation doing???

Screenshot of quoted post showing the Rude tag

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 22/12/2025

I am 99% sure I've found a GPU VRAM leak in the latest version of Java Minecraft, but nobody else seems to be able to recreate it, despite the leak behavior not changing after I updated my GPU drivers, and the leak being extremely persistent and easy to recreate (happens on newly generated SP world)

javaw.exe dedicated GPU VRAM: 4,530,352 K

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 22/12/2025

why is all software now ad-vomit

the minecraft launcher screen with half of the screen being overtaken by ads

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 10/12/2025

I can either buy this album, which has exactly one song in it, for $2.99, or I can buy the only song in the album for $1.49? what??????????

Mystery World
Adam Francis
Release Date: 10/07/2022
Record Label: FSOE Chill
Buy: $2.99

1. Mystery World
Buy: $1.49

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 09/12/2025

WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT THIS

Hi, i'm Gaming Copilot, your personal gaming sidekick

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 07/12/2025

Sorry, I didn't provide the full context because the problem was very complex, but you are incorrect. The actual problem was that the error was misleading, there was a lifetime issue being hidden by other errors, and after fixing all of those unrelated errors, I can now call temp.into_dyn_signal()

$impl<T, Provider: SignalProvider<T> + 'static> Signal<T, Provider> { pub fn into_dyn_signal(self) -> Signal<T, dyn SignalProvider<T>> { Signal(self.0.clone(), PhantomData) } }$

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 04/12/2025

I don't know what brain damage has occurred here, but if this isn't a measurement error and I actually run out of space on this ReFS devdrive, I'm uninstalling windows

Storage usage
499 GB used | 37.2 GB free

This is how your storage is used and how you can free up

System & reserved: 375 GB
System files that help Windows run properly

Other: 117 GB
Manage other large folders

Documents: 4.66 GB
Manage the Documents Folder

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 17/11/2025

why does bluesky think headpats are french

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 27/08/2025

every single time I talk about building technology to improve people's lives, someone says "don't you know there are no technical solutions to social problems?"

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 05/08/2025

for the love of all that is holy, sRGB is not a linear color space and the image rust crate should know this because every single format it loads from stores pixel data in sRGB. Why is this crate providing a bunch of gamma-incorrect image processing functions? crates.io/crates/image...

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 02/08/2025

I really don't think twitch needed so many nines

Video Storage

Highlights & Uploads
8m 9.9999999999999943s / 100h

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 30/07/2025

i am literally doing the meme

nothing in life matters...
vs
nothing in life matters!!!

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 06/07/2025

was trying to figure out why nothing was rendering and it turns out my program was working exactly as intended I just have fucking brain damage or something:

/// Returns opaque black
pub fn black() -> Self {
Self { rgba: 0xFFFFFF00 }
}

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 18/06/2025

i have done something incredibly wrong

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