“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear I can’t argue that Elizabeth Gilbert knows…

Haus Morgenrot · Firmware Update Edition Opening Scene Day 2 of 6. The suspension paperwork still exists. The lesson remains installed. Standard loadout equipped: 🥣 Oatmeal 🍯 Honey Bun ⚡ Monster…

Haus Morgenrot · Bonus Vacation Edition Opening Scene Day 1 of 6. Another rotation begins. Standard loadout equipped: 🥣 Oatmeal 🍯 Honey Bun ⚡ Monster Energy 📋 Clipboard 🦝 Moderate optimism Mission…

I never do these, but content warning: pet death. Here’s an anchor link to jump past the pet saga to the reading section if you aren’t up for that. Bad week. Had a regular vet appointment…

Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past…

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In a 900 person organization, we still could not answer a simple release question: what exactly are we shipping to the customer? We had one binary to release. My manager thought all features should…

yes, yes, it was a lucky escape when this food waste in bag left late with some trick of space left unexpanded and lay in wait til the fearsome lift unfreed by weight - no, no, no bag split and…

weather: ☀️ perfect critters: cabbage butterfly, sulfurs, monarchs, big swallowtail bitching about inconsequential annoyances is one of my favorite forms of stress relief w/r/t the absolute state of…

This is a guest post by my wife, Holly. In the software industry, some problems don't have Google-able solutions. Just like I can't Google where I left my keys, when I last got an oil change, or why…

Tools over problems I've been thinking this week about how addictive it is with these new tools to be able to build things without so much of the friction. The danger of that is falling in love with…

For a while now, work hasn't felt meaningful. I used to love software engineering, but a lot has changed in the last few years, and somewhere in there the joy went out of it. Maybe I've changed too.…

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 26 2026 - I Was Comic Box on a Hand Truck Guy Download audio On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an…

Hi, I know it's been a while since my last post. Things have been nuts in my personal life and I've also been hella busy at work onboarding someone new. I've just generally had a lot on my plate.…

I almost burnt out recently, but I made it through!

2026/06/27 03:17 There's no one answer for life I love the east coast and the west I need familiar, and I need fresh I need the city and the crowds, I need the wild sacred grounds, I need the…

Microblog Post 2026-06-27 I love the east coast and the west I need familiar, and I need fresh I need the city and the crowds, I need the wild sacred grounds, I need the nightclubs and the raves Then…

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I consumed The RAM shortages really hit hard this week across consumer electronics. That included: The Steam Machine that was fully…

This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.

despite a grammatical error here and there or some paragraph that is better rephrased, i think i can't go further on this last update of Mike's concerns...

This is #55 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk and hike in my local community. For most of my life, I’ve loved doing…

It's been almost exactly a year since I last posted here. A lot has happened in the meantime — I moved to a new place, I'm no longer part of fxhash, I had some gnarly health issues, and I'm slowly…

A story from 2016, when Leicester pulled off a 5,000-1 feat, from DG#23

In schools, what is a grade? Well a grade typically is found either on a scale of F- to A+, F to A, or 0% to 100%, or some other fractional representation such as 33/55(in which would be 33 correct…

Some personal hot takes from AI: Engineer Miami follows...1. Software development is a dead-end profession because anyone can be a software developer now. 2. Anyone can use Cursor or any other tool…

I want to be able to develop and gain some new skills and this may require spending money

Gotta try getting back into writing for this. Habits that are broken are hard to re-form for me. Guh. Let's see, what happened in between the gap of entries, aside from my job? Two friends of mine…

As a recognition of progress

I turn 48 today. At this age, birthdays have become just another day. This morning was similar to yesterday and it will be similar to tomorrow. I woke, had a cup of coffee, got outside for a bit,…

Good morrow Parishioners, A shortage of official Parish Protection Herbs (rosemary sprigs) has been reported. Please do not attempt to substitute with parsley or nettles. Agnes Nettlewood of course…

TL;DR: I spent a good chunk of this week trying to drag a 14-year-old MacBook Pro into the present by way of every Linux distro that would boot, got a screen full of static for my trouble, and…

I am still sick, still watching soccer, reading some more mysteries, and playing Zelda.

The last Wizards home game our family attended back in April was a disaster. We forgot to bring noise canceling earmuffs for the baby and spent most of the night in the dreary concession stand…

The SEO industry lost one of its most important figures. Bruce Clay, widely recognized as the Father of SEO, has passed away. And I lost a friend. I’ve been sitting with this news, trying to…

This post shouldn't need to be written. What I write here should be filed under common sense. The normal response upon reading it should be, "No shit, Sherlock." But my experiences have convinced me…

While I typically write posts as I go, I’ve only managed one this week because there’s been a lot going on. To catch up, I’m going to try to write a summary of the week instead.

The implicit contract — work hard, stay employed, build a life — is broken.

There is a comforting lie at the centre of every serious engagement, and it goes like this. Understanding a business takes time. Lots of time. Time measured in workshops, in stakeholder interviews,…

I don't think about this much anymore, but it came back to me recently while I was thinking back on second grade. It's the only time in my life a dog has truly scared me, and I figured it was worth…

It came back to me recently while I was thinking back on second grade

As a senior leader at a biopharma company, I am often asked to speak to young professionals about careers in healthcare and, specifically, my career journey. I love these opportunities to chat with…

I’m writing this on the day’s fourth slow-moving train, heading back from a university open day at Durham with the boy. It’s been a very full week with little time for…

A piercer uploads a photo of a nostril piercing they did to a forum, asking if they can have help sourcing a matching end, as their client wanted a pair, but they only have one in stock. The first…

As an educator, it is important that I stay up to date with the wants and needs of industry. Apparently, cocaine is used throughout many industries to increase worker's performance, so I came to…

Well done to Wilson for reaching $5k MRR with his AI help docs app, FernDesk. Wilson formerly co-created Senja, a testimonial tool. He is only 22 years old.

Want to know when every Tour de France stage is on, even need to plan daily life around them for the next month? Here’s the calendar to view or download to your phone. The stages of the men’s…