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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Responding to tech recruiters with the same verbiage they use to reject candidates is quite satisfying.

An email to a tech recruiter. It reads:

Hi [recruiter name],

Thank you for the opportunity to meet with the team. Unfortunately, due to the number of interview processes I'm currently involved in, I need to narrow it down to companies that most closely match what I'm looking for, so I will not be moving forward with [company name]. Again, thank you for your time and I wish you luck in finding your next infrastructure engineer.

Jamie

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

More fun with the code-review bot at work

Excerpt of a GitHub comment from me in response to a code review bot:

Back in the day, I had a dog named Peanut. When I would take him for a walk, he would alert on things like plastic shopping bags blowing in the wind in the distance — it was downtown Baltimore, so there was a lot of that. Then when we got closer, he would realize it wasn't another dog and would just go back to walking normally as if he hadn't just been absolutely losing his mind over it.

The issues this bot calls out as "critical" and "important" here are plastic bags blowing in the wind.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The test suite is all just barfed into one huge file and it's not easy to navigate. So when I got a couple PRs on it over the past few days, I was like …

a silhouette of a person thinking "dude i am so sorry. this project is a mess and the test suite is the worst." And the words they say are simply "cool, thanks!"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Just had this realization over the past couple days

The "Mr. Incredible" meme. The lefthand side shows Mr. Incredible looking happy and the caption is "Someone's using an OSS project I made". The righthand side shows Mr. Incredible looking dark and a lot less happy with the same caption.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I haven't been able to get it to produce a null in the array at all. If the JSONPath doesn't match anything, it returns an empty array. Also, a double is neither null nor an integer.

Screenshot from the Redis CLI.

127.0.0.1:6379> json.numincrby order:123 .line_items.*.quantity 1
1) (integer) 3
2) (double) 3.1

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

One of my pet peeves about Redis is that the documentation is often aspirational. And by that I mean it would be great if it worked that way but it doesn't. For example, the `JSON.NUMINCRBY` command says it returns a string or an array containing ints/nulls […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

Screenshot from the Redis documentation. It reads:

Return information. RESP3.

With $-based path argument (default): Array reply of integer replies or null replies, where each element is the new value, or null if the matching value is not a number, or simple error reply on error.

With .-based path argument: Bulk string reply representing the stringified new value, null reply if the matching value is not a number, or simple error reply on error.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

The AI code-review bot my company uses just wasted 2 hours of my time. It reported a bug in cache logic in a PR. I didn't change caching, but it's a Rails app so unexpected invalidations and indeterminate staleness can both happen. Report said it doesn't […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

A modified screenshot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Crow is using a pickaxe to tunnel through the hull of the ship. The caption says "Well, look at that. Temporary staleness is intentional. Even had it underlined!"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

@woe2you @LillyHerself I hate everything about this. It's perfect. This was a really nice touch.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I just remembered this email I got from Reddit. I was living in Australia when signed up on Reddit, so they wanted to let me know that if I'm under 16 I won't be able to use Reddit anymore. The funniest part about it is that, not only have I not even set foot in […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

Screenshot of an email from Reddit:

We're writing to let you know that starting 10 December 2025,
Australian law will require that redditors in Australia must be 16
or older to create and use Reddit accounts.
Users confirmed to be under 16 will have their accounts
suspended under the new Australian minimum age law. While
we disagree with the Government's assessment of Reddit as
being within the scope of the law, we need to take steps to
comply. This means anyone in Australia with a Reddit account
confirmed to be under 16 will be blocked from accessing their
account or creating a new one. Note that as an open platform,
Reddit is still available to browse without an account.
If you have questions, please visit Reddit Help. To request a
copy of your Reddit account data, you can follow the
instructions on this help center article or email
redditdatarequests @reddit.com from the email address you
used to verify your Reddit account. You can also learn more
about Australia’s new social media minimum age ban here.
Thank you.
Reddit

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A chatbot getting co-author credit on a commit but not the person that actually wrote the patch is a bit on-the-nose, isn't it?

Screenshot from the GitHub pull request UI. A review from jgaskins shows a comment with a suggested patch and a blurb explaining the patch. The contents of both are redacted for intellectual-property reasons. There is an "Apply suggestion" button at the bottom of the suggested patch.

Below the review is a commit from the pull request author that applies that exact change. There is a "Co-authored-by" trailer in the commit message that credits the Cursor agent.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Kinda weird for your operating system to prompt you to upgrade to the version it's already running

Screenshot of the macOS update notification. It reads:

Upgrade to macOS Tahoe. Discover new features to unlock your productivity and creativity on Mac.

There are two buttons. One says "Install tonight" and the other says "Remind me later".

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Getting annoyed by the code-review bot's useless suggestions

Screenshot from a GitHub comment:

jgaskins commented now

Meatloaf says 2 out of 3 ain't bad. Well … the bot got 0 out of 3 here.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

This is exciting news for adversaries

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

@elight Oh, my friend, the fact that you think they're spending time squashing their own commits on their branch and updating their commit messages is delightfully optimistic. I truly mean this. I wish I could share in your optimism. What I mean is using […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

* Add external carts, managed native carts

* remove for now

* Fix rubocops

* integration things

* fds

* remove

* remove

* the worst rubocop almost

* Add imported_at default

* drop store from external_cart

* don't forget the fk

* WIP

* wip 2

* back to happy path

* more WIPs

* bring specs up to date and green

* Fix serialization

* more

* WIP

* wip

* specs

* errors

* more errors

* start reading the error

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

@oantolin @Migueldeicaza Regional slang is always so fun because it seems perfectly reasonable when you've been around it but it sounds absolutely unhinged when you haven't. They *technically* speak English in Australia, but when I moved there I was like …

Screenshot of Kel Mitchell's character in Good Burger. He's looking at a piece of paper and says "I know some of these words".

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

I'm only one update behind on macOS, why is the update a 16GB download? Is the liquid glass that heavy?

Screenshot of the macOS Software Update in progress. It shows "Downloading macOS Tahoe 26.4, 8.48GB of 16.42GB — about 4 hours remaining. Installed: macOS Tahoe 26.3.1"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

All day today, us talking about the giant boom heard all over town

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

I don't think I ever saw Safari using so much CPU before macOS 26. None of these tabs are selected. Apple mentioned at WWDC several years ago that Safari aggressively throttles the event loop in background tabs, so they *should* all be using < 1% CPU. No wonder […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

Screenshot from Activity Monitor in macOS. It shows a Notion webpage using 87% CPU, plus 2 GitHub web pages and 2 "Safari Web Content" pages each using anywhere from 13-24% CPU.

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