Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 11/05/2025I feel like honesty in a relationship is key. So whenever prepping Mother’s Day presents, I feel it’s best to let her know she’s been bamboozled right up front. 050
Reposted by Nick CraverThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/04/2025Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’theonion.comPete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy rel... 188102591225
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 21/04/2025…why in the world would you choose to use the same symbol? 010
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 03/04/2025Considering putting "Manually generated content may be incorrect" in my mail signature 0100
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 29/03/2025Evidently you’re not supposed to describe a string of predictable consequences as a FAFO queue in meetings. 0110
Reposted by Nick CraverAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/03/2025Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life. 1020208162097
Reposted by Nick CraverLaurie Voss @seldo.com · 20/02/2025People who think prompt engineering is just trying stuff at random until you get the results you hoped for: I have bad news for you about how the majority of programmers work. 2228227
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 27/01/2025Plutonic relationship: Where everything is going great and you’re part of the group but then all of the sudden it’s too small and distant to be considered real. 060
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 25/01/2025One of my teammates had to evacuate their house this week due to a gas main break, from a fiber install. Immediate thoughts: 1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay! 2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back. 291
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 25/01/2025"What's your maintenance project called?" "Project Theseus" "Oh that's a coo....wait a minute" 1122
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 06/01/2025Whelp, icy roads and school’s cancelled.media.tenor.coma man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind himAlt: Rorschach in prison: “What none of you seem to understand is I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me” 070
Reposted by Nick CraverPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I’m doing pretty well recently, but not like so well that I have a lot of patience for ignorant people saying stupid things about suicide and depression. www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...cnn.comJeff Baena, writer, director and husband of Aubrey Plaza, dead at 47 | CNNJeff Baena, a writer and director whose credits include “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” has died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. 49138965
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 06/01/2025Quick project since plates came in: I like to use plates and magnets for simple tool storage. First up: drilling and counter-sinking plates, ordered a stack of 6” squash plates for this but if space on garage shelves: 180
Reposted by Nick CraverKirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 29/12/2024Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered. The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko... 824264
Reposted by Nick CraverAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024When I was a young writer, I received a LOT of rejections. Now, after decades of hard work, I am no longer young. 1237434518
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 16/12/2024Awwwwww yeah, my years of taunting how the Office team already did it with .docx has finally paid off. 080
Reposted by Nick CraverEric Capuano @eric.zip · 15/12/2024@whit.zip got me the best Christmas tree ornament It’s Oregon Trail on and old CRT 🤓 6924
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 11/12/2024"Why is there an emergency eye wash station in the team room?" "We do code reviews on Thursdays." 2175
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 11/12/2024In retrospect, it was probably the "If you aren't familiar with WinDbg, it's an older style text adventure game designed by sadists" comment that got me in trouble. 0192
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 04/12/2024Getting in the hot tub at 10pm for the back seemed like a good idea to eventually get some sleep…but as I stare at the door 25ft away, there may be some regrets setting in. 040
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 04/12/2024I’m on a lot of other optimization these days…but only because fast builds let me iterate quickly and CIs give me confidence in the changes. Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority. 3475
Reposted by Nick CraverDavid Kean @keansbox.com · 03/12/2024If there just one one skill or attribute that I think early in career folks should focus on, it would be, "be curious". This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious. 5487
Reposted by Nick CraverSara Hates Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 01/12/2024YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE. 381137172628
Reposted by Nick CraverEricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/11/2024First draft is out Fiddler - Mistakes and Happy Accidents textslashplain.com/2024/11/24/f...textslashplain.comFiddler – My MistakesOn a flight back from Redmond last week, I finally read Linus Torvalds’ 2002 memoir “Just For Fun.” I really enjoyed its picture of Linux (and Torvalds) early in its success, with… 126525
Reposted by Nick CraverRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011. 5194122411262
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 30/11/2024Current status: fixing builds for OSS projects I haven't touched for a little while and wondering what in the heck I was thinking. 0210
Reposted by Nick CraverBarry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 25/11/2024Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Red Team: We replaced it with decaf. 6689
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 22/11/2024I have been in calls for most of the last 6 days with people talking about NICs and have serious doubts about whether we’re discussing real issues or if this is a very elaborate personally tailored psychological warfare experiment. 1130
Reposted by Nick CraverElise Craver @e-craver.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hellooooo! I’ve missed what Twitter used to be so I followed @nickcraver.com over here. Best to start off strong with a pet pic. 2131
Reposted by Nick CraverBrandon Olin - Team Human @devblackops.io · 18/11/2024I spent my sabbatical building a proper woodworking bench :) 241
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 17/11/2024Alrighty, let’s start small. Bathroom has been bothering me with cables, so let’s go USB for a few things and tidy up. First tip: these circuit finder and outlet tester combos are super handy. It’s a bathroom, so I can trip the GFCI instead of going downstairs to the breaker panel. 4180
Nick Craver @nickcraver.com · 15/11/2024It’s been a few years since I had a feed and I miss seeing how so many people I admire are improving the world. Time to catch up. How are y’all doing? 13910