speen @speen.us · 1hfound out awhile back that an engineer i worked with at a previous job referred to me as "that kid that doodle a lot". thinking of him tonight 000
speen @speen.us · 4hblathers finding out the administration has rugpulled his IMLS grants at least he'd get to liquidate the insect inventory 010
speen @speen.us · 4hif a real museum had the ratio of square footage to foot traffic that an Animal Crossing museum does, it'd be defunded fast enough to make that owl's head spin straight off his body 011
speen @speen.us · 28/09/2026after being in a weird post-move purgatory where all i’ve been doing for 3 months is knocking things off my to-do list, we’re nearing the point where the next item is “learn Unity” and i am scared 000
speen @speen.us · 27/09/2026i am concerned that a systemic backlash against "vibecoding" has undermined the actual, legitimate pragmatism of prototyping 000
speen @speen.us · 26/09/2026i have to imagine that network admins and speedtest websites are mortal enemies 000
speen @speen.us · 26/09/2026i'm back to developing directly on my macbook while i sort out some iOS bullshit for the first time since moving to a dedicated dev server in April, and i forgot how "gotta keep my MacBook from sleeping" feels like walking on eggshells 110
speen @speen.us · 24/09/2026words cannot describe the childlike joy i feel in the deepest parts of my soul when Mother Earth's Plantasia starts playing 000
speen @speen.us · 20/09/2026boston seems to’ve definitively solved the problem of promoting transit use in suburban areas with a knockout punch: making driving anywhere a fucking terror my options are either $2 for the train to Cambridge or $30 to sit in the back of a rideshare and beg for death? one ticket, please 000
speen @speen.us · 05/09/2026living in MA is the first time in my life I haven’t lived in a right-to-work state, and stumbling across the Encore casino strike on Labor Day weekend certainly hit different 000
speen @speen.us · 25/08/2026my most unpopular opinion is that the US Seventh Circuit's decision in 2005 to uphold Chicago's ban on competitive homing pigeon racing was a mistake. pigeons should be allowed to race, and also be allowed to rail as much performance-enhancing cocaine through their weird beak nostrils as necessary 000
speen @speen.us · 21/08/2026i’ve been using git for a decade now and the act of interactively rebasing still scares the shit out of me 100
speen @speen.us · 19/08/2026linguists, chime in -- have we gotten far enough in digital culture that a hyperlink could technically be considered punctuation? 111
speen @speen.us · 12/08/2026very fun to learn a brutal amount about Linux Bluetooth stack to diagnose connection issues before coming to the firm and correct conclusion that my problem was “oops i didn’t attach the antenna” 130
speen @speen.us · 07/08/2026red-eye flights on airlines with seatback displays should have a tournament-style ban phase from their media list. phase 1 ban; super mario galaxy at full brightness. none for you, have a good flight. 110
speen @speen.us · 24/07/2026for the first time in two years my network ad blocker is down, and i legitimately forgot that the internet is a clickbait-driven hellscape of deception and fearmongering 021
speen @speen.us · 18/07/2026my main line of defense against picking up a gambling habit — to sports, electoral outcomes, individual stocks — is a profound internalized understanding, deep in the core of my psyche, that i am a fucking moron 010
speen @speen.us · 15/07/2026my hot take on being engaged is that you shouldn’t do it until having a wedding to marry the person you love most in the world is as exciting as being able to jointly file your taxes 010
speen @speen.us · 10/07/2026i feel like the utility of LLMs has somehow ended up in the same quadrant as a bidet. i understand that it can be incredibly helpful for your personal use and general cleaning up, but if you send me any evidence that you used one i will be incredibly grossed out 000
speen @speen.us · 09/06/2026very startling that a massive development ecosystem learned all at once over the weekend that the `gh` CLI was storing no-TTL OAuth tokens in plaintext that persisted even after `gh auth logout`. even more startling that GitHub seemed to learn about it at the same time the rest of us did 110
speen @speen.us · 05/06/2026"for this security demonstration, i will show you the most effective solution for verifying that a compromised machine is secure after an attack" *types `rm -rf /` into the console* 100
speen @speen.us · 04/06/2026MTG is proof that you can build an entire game out of weird edge cases if you try hard and believe in yourself "there are no 1-card infinite combos" into "what about..." 100
speen @speen.us · 03/06/2026vibecoding aint shit compared to how life-changing developer containers can be 000
speen @speen.us · 25/05/2026preparing myself emotionally for “did the pope write magnifica humanitas with AI” discourse 000
speen @speen.us · 25/05/2026i’d be genuinely curious if there’s any research into the effectiveness of a security breach and what day of the week the breach occurs on. like, if you run an attack at 4:59pm on a Friday and the engineers on the other side have to take the weekend to fix it, is the attack more effective? 100
speen @speen.us · 05/05/2026meta: you can use our dataset so long as you only publish 10 samples publicly also meta: you can download them in batches of no less than 331 and each one is going to be 60GB. 000
speen @speen.us · 04/05/2026my sickest occupational satisfaction is coming up with new and creative ways to ensure everybody on the stack wants to kill themselves 000
Reposted by speenvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026if pikmin were real our government would kill them 12827151
speen @speen.us · 29/04/2026i often think about permissions for people (including myself) in terms of “Clicks Away from Apocalypse” (CAPs) and this is why. agents can be cool but why in the hot hell would you use them that close 110
speen @speen.us · 28/04/2026the 2020s is the era of discovering that everybody over the age of 50 committing crimes loves to talk about those crimes, in writing, over email 000
speen @speen.us · 26/04/2026amanda's been out of town for a week and the lesson i've learned is that the cats see her as Earth Mother Gaia, Provider of All Life and Love and they see me as "some fucking guy who also sleeps here" 011
speen @speen.us · 22/04/2026none of this is to defend the honor of the Pope, which is definitely not how I intended to spend my lunch break. the Pope doesn't need an internet rando in his defense. my concern is that an unreliable methodology would be used to mark peoples' work as low-effort through no fault of their own. 032
speen @speen.us · 22/04/2026a bit concerning that the accuracy of the detection tool's peer review: a) does not confirm any accuracy against tweets, specifically; and b) notes that false positive rate is higher among stubs (<50) words: worth noting that each tweet here is close to, if not a stub. The first one is exactly 50. 141
speen @speen.us · 14/04/2026i know a couple people who’d be more open to believing climate change exists if it could be blamed on a beef between a massive volcano lizard and his space whale nemesis 100
speen @speen.us · 14/04/2026the last 48 hours of my life have been MySQL kicking the shit out of me. i know that the ellisons are a horrible family who want to buy the freedom of the press out from under us — which gives a bit more weight when i say that MySQL may be the worst thing they've ever done 000
speen @speen.us · 10/04/2026i appreciate how my package of 4 pairs of underwear from REI is referred to in all of my shipping updates as my "gear" 010
speen @speen.us · 05/04/2026if i were to describe the most horrid periods of my career, about 98% of those moments would involve the phrase "GitHub Actions". it's heartwarming to see CI/CD on GitHub also makes LLMs want to kill themselves. 010
speen @speen.us · 01/04/2026also relevant: it's a library for data pipelines, which already invites the pipeline->plumbing->sharded->sharted chain of thought 020
speen @speen.us · 01/04/2026ugh — a feature in my library for "running identical things in parallel" lends itself very well to using the term "sharded", but i don't want to actually *use* that term because when i say it out loud it sounds too much like "sharted" 120
