That sad day when you realize how much your son is into race cars that you’ll have to buy “ The Phantom Menace”.

Strange things you learn as a parent.

There are 14 “The Land Before Time” movies. 🤯

"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."

YES!!! ... *squinty eyes* I am vengeance... but only after I put the kiddo to sleep.

Other day in the car.

Son: What's that noise?

Wife: That's daddy's music... you'll get use to it.

For the curious, we were listening to Swans' "To Be Kind".

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

Toddler: *random, jublient gibber-ish*

Me: Someone’s getting silly!

Toddler: *belch*

Comedic timing milestone: Reached!

Text indicating that the album “Garage” by the band Garage had been released 30 years ago on this day.

Time, why do you hate me?

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Optimism is great to have when facing a difficult task.

Optimism IS NOT great to have when ordering clothes online.

Jason, let’s be honest. You have a dad-bod. Just order the X-Large.

A toddler wearing a silicone bid eating a Pop-Tart.

First Pop-Tart. I will make this kid a GenX, latchkey kid if it kills me!

Congrats on the baby!

I’m currently in my own personal Hell as I keep thinking it’s Friday only to realize it’s only Tuesday.

Heads up: I’ll be looking for a new role soon. I’m frontend to back-of-frontend. I’m people-first. I dig Web APIs & in-browser tests. I love clean, thoughtful web apps.
When necessary, I design APIs to feel like they like came out of the box.

If you hear of anything coming up, I’d love to chat!

Ripperoni's Redacted Resume as a JPEG

Job hunt is still ongoing for a Software Engineer position in either the SF Bay Area or remote. Redacted resume attached

A photo of two cats, Mjolnir - a tortoiseshell, and Gabe - a tabby, cuddled together cheek-to-cheek.

Gabe and Mjolnir need a new home, can you help?

Rowan, their human who has sadly passed, wished for them to remain together.

Will help get them relocated to anywhere within the United States; please read on for more details! 🧵

Signal boosts & sharing are appreciated 💙

A license plate with the text CHEEZHRT

I need to know more. What did cheese do to you!?!?

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

Ugh!

In remembrance, if you're in a dark mood I recommend watching "Blue Velvet". If you're in a lighter mood, "The Straight Story". In either case, have a damn good coffee and some cherry pie.

David, thanks for all the great stories/movies, art, and music. You will be greatly missed.

Today, sixty days after being laid off by JPL, my severance pay and insurance coverage expire.

At JPL, I did engineering ops for the Curiosity Rover 🚀. Before that, I studied entrepreneurship and management at Stanford.

Please reskeet this so I can make new connections and find new opportunities 🤠

Looking for recommendation for a native email client for macOS. Been using Postbox (which is a prettier version of Thunderbird), but they were just bought and will stop supporting it soon.

Don't need anything too fancy. Needs to work with GMail services.

Thanks!!!

Ha! I am forever going to refer to it as "wifi cable" now.

A child with 2 pacifiers in its mouth.

Them: How’s pacifier weaning going?

Me: Well…

Installing Win10 on a laptop from an older install media. It got to a point and Cortana started assisting/narrating the setup process. I just wanted to be like, "Oh, honey. I've got some bad news coming your way..."

I landed on “poor” twice! 😩

Is parenthood just having “Icky Sticky Bubble Gum” stuck in your head all the time?

Me: You have a decision to make here. It’ll affect the rest of your life. Choose wrong and you’ll make things more difficult for yourself.

3 month old son: *grabs rattle with left hand*

Me: *sighs* Difficult it is…

a series of stills from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure where Pee-wee is surrounded by cowboys asking “Can’t you remember anything?”, a close up of him saying “I remember the Alamo” and a wider shot of the cowboys all tossing their hats in the air and yelling

Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer Paul Reubens, the actor best known for portraying Pee-wee Herman, died Sunday night after a private bout of cancer. He was 70.

Ugh! Absolutely gutted. Such big part of my childhood watching Paul's TV show and movies. He will be greatly missed.