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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I used to think "Let's double-click on that" (where "that" is a topic of discussion) was a cute little phrase, but these days I think it's just kinda weird. How often do you even double-click in a UI?

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@alexanderadam Seems to be very much a US thing. A lot of sites claim to be doing it for age verification or prove you're not a bot or some other thing, but the companies doing the verification are third parties and I think they're doing it to collect data. This way, they know who I am, where I […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'm so tired of all these websites wanting a picture of my driver's license

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

OH "It's already beyond human comprehension, what's happening in production"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@stroughtonsmith I have a beta invite for Forever but I haven't had a chance to log in since we're about to move to another state. If it brings back some of that old feeling, though, I might actually get back to playing more.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@stroughtonsmith Group finder is one thing I thought was amazing at the time, but it definitely ruined the community aspect of pugging. People used to have me on their friends lists specifically because I tanked a dungeon with them. After group finder it just became "gogogogo tank". They just […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Do you need supplemental coverage for things that aren't covered by your medical insurance?" Because medical situations not being covered by medical insurance is such a normal thing in the US that they're selling a la carte services to cover things like hospital stays.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Looking at health insurance in the US is so depressing. With the amount of upselling going on they're making it seem more like buying camping gear.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

This kind of thing reminds me of when my previous employer went on a tear to save infra costs and made thousands of engineers slash their services' capacities with almost no additional guidance. My SRE team was inundated with the resulting deluge of incidents because, as it turned out, that […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

My company's 5-year-old main app has nearly doubled in size in 8 months because LLM-generated code is incredibly verbose. One service's DB is frequently a hair's breadth from complete saturation because the performance is never in their prompts. Their PRs frequently add validations and […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@searls/11727534697… As someone who has to clean up after engineers that do work via AI coding agents from their phone at the golf course, I implore you to sit at a fucking computer at least some of the time and look at what it's doing.

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

I couldn't remember "Dunning-Kruger effect" just now so I called it "Diffie-Hellman key exchange" Close enough

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

It just occurred to me to check on how the OpenStreetMap project is handling the whole Lake Ontario naming debacle. Pretty well, it turns out. Recording all names of geographic features *somewhere* is something the project does. So they're going to put the bullshit name in there to satisfy that […]

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

This company was a beautiful bouquet of red flags: - Comp range on the job description was misleading - On the call I had with the recruiter, I could hear all kinds of office noise - Wanted me to interview on-site in SF but did not offer to fly me to SF - Asked me to send references BEFORE […]

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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 · 28/08/2026

Just pulled off a fully online migration from Azure-managed Redis to a self-hosted Redis cluster during business hours on our highest-traffic service on a Friday with no noticeable impact on error rates. Please clap.

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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 · 24/08/2026

@jaredwhite Indeed, it's one of the autistic traits I have to mask a lot

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For the past almost a year, I’ve been building a fully working, 1:1 scale Tune Thumper Bike from Mario Kart World! :sadok: video: youtu.be/vbM31wagyRg The bike is fully functional. The cassette tape door is also a Nintendo switch 2 dock, so when you put the […] [Original post on myf.one]

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

"the mid-2000s", as a timeframe What they mean: 2005 ± a couple years How I read it: 2500 ± a couple hundred years

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: mas.to/@RikerGoogling/1171472273824… when you try to replace half your company's headcount with AI

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

There've only been two recruiters recently that have pitched a role that's at all palatable. And it was the same role from both. It's wild out there.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Another recruiter, pitching an in-office role in midtown Manhattan that pays less than I'm making working from home in Ohio. Part of this interview process involves spending 4-6 hours on a take-home project. The audacity on display in my LinkedIn DMs is incredible.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@paco Having to pay for things you can't control has always been wild to me. It's like how, until recently (last year, I think?), AWS was billing for unauthenticated requests to S3 buckets. A CDN helps that, but even that's only a partial solution. DigitalOcean doesn't charge for DNS so if you […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Had 2 hilarious conversations with recruiters this week. 1. "We work from the office 5 days a week from 10am-8pm" 2. "The team has standup every day at 8:15" Both of these roles are in SF. Neither would pay me enough to live in SF. let alone work from the office 50 hrs per week or get into the […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Periodic reminder that it's in your cloud provider's best interests to run most of their managed services on outdated hardware so that you'll buy more capacity.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Met with my CTO and VP to discuss infrastructure costs. Our Kafka-based CDC infrastructure is costing more than our total combined infra was costing 6 months ago and over 20x what the data engineers planned for. I was pretty sure their estimate was low, but this even surprised me.

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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

Certainly not the first time. I was just surprised on this one.

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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 · 15/08/2026

"I have created Artificial Intelligence" You fucked up perfectly good math is what you did. Look at it. It's got hallucinations.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

It always reminds me of how I've worked on multiple engineering teams that chose things like Protobuf or whatever fastest serialization tooling they could find "for performance" while running 200+ SQL queries per request in the hot path. You're optimizing for the wrong damn thing.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

The team ends up in the exact same situation as before, but now there are more steps.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Most engineering teams I've been on in the past 10 or so years have had a policy of "every change must come from a ticket". Invariably, what ends up happening is each dev just writes up tickets for what they want to work on and then works the tickets they wrote.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@Migueldeicaza I was about to call them ungrateful bastards, but then it occurred to me that I've never used it, either. You have my sincerest apologies. I will rectify this error as soon as I have any sufficiently sensitive information.

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

I'm only looking into this because I'm working on adding RESP3 support to my Redis client. And now I'm starting to think maybe I don't want to do that. In several cases, it changes how the commands work in a way that is less consistent than with RESP2. I don't understand why negotiating a new […]

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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 · 06/08/2026

accidentally just said "gigglebytes" instead of "gigabytes" in a meeting

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/… Computers used to be useful. Now everything that runs on electricity is nothing but scams and surveillance.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@RonJeffries I had a look at the post this morning. The delusions that these folks are experiencing are unbelievable. It's seriously concerning to see it at this scale.

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

A computer can never be held accountable...

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I'm still working my way through it. There's a surprising amount of subtle fan service in it. I'm an absolute sucker for fan service, especially deep cuts. Things like them referencing a ship called the Yelchin, clearly named for Anton Yelchin who played Chekov in the 2009 reboot. Then another […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I legit lost my mind when the hatch opened up and she appeared. Absolutely fuck yes. Discovery is such a great Trek show.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

[Star Trek: Discovery (possible spoiler S4 finale)] Holy shit, Stacey Abrams is in Star Trek?!

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