speen @speen.us · 10hfound 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 · 13hblathers finding out the administration has rugpulled his IMLS grants at least he'd get to liquidate the insect inventory 010
speen @speen.us · 13hif 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 · 26/09/2026the tricky part is trying to suppress my partner's fatherly urge to turn off every light and electronic before she goes to bed. > i know something deep down inside of you cannot rest if you know a light's on in the other room, but if you close that macbook right now i will cry 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 · 17/09/2026the idea that software engineering isn’t writing code, it’s expressing ideas and concepts and structures through which code *happens* to be the medium, is a super reassuring one to me. for whatever reason, though, it gets a pretty hostile response like 1 out of 3 rolls 230
speen @speen.us · 17/09/2026the #1 read I recommend to AI-anxious devs is Programming as Theory Building, which was a direct response to those types of proposals: pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985...pablo.rauzy.name 240
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 · 19/08/2026i suppose it's technically typeface, which does pose the question about how typeface factors into written communication 000
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 · 07/08/2026alternately, I’d gladly pay a $5 fee to disable somebody else’s screen. 000
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 · 06/06/2026it’s a beautiful thing to tell somebody about because you know they’ll never unsee it. it’s a giddy plague 020
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 · 04/06/2026probably not the lower bound -- you could do a sequence of 6 then 1 or 2 to get +three loyalty per iteration, in which case you could get up to 40 loyalty after just 12 iterations of (1/6 * 1/3)^12, (1/9^16 compared to 1/6^35 from before), then go into the sequence of 6 into 4 or 5 for 3 iterations? 000
speen @speen.us · 04/06/2026napkin math, but i think in a 4-player game of commander, you could roll 35 sixes (1/6 ^ 35 chance) and then a sequence of one four/five + one six and one-shot everybody in a single turn off of just this card 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 know very little about secops and could feel how little i know even just typing out the question 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 · 29/04/2026even the most hard-for-LLMs person in the world would have to admit that even if a model was truly human-level intelligent in terms of its success:fuckup ratio, the sheer speed at which they work means you’re getting more fuckups, faster. TL;DR clean up your access controls, have good hygiene. 000
