Matt Nunogawa

Is there a consensus replacement phrasing for googling something now that we use chat whatever LLMs?

I'm leaning towards "just FROL it" as in future robot overlords.

"I'm frolling for when the machines will take over humanity."

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive' Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness

I did not know that the Dark Ages were literally dark:

"A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months."

www.science.org/content/arti...

Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

This kind of internet rabbit hole is my jam:

acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...

Clearly a sign you need a break, a walk and probably a drink!

So even a four day weekend only gives you maybe a day of rest without intrusive work-thoughts.

The Myth of the three day weekend:

All the research indicated it takes about 72 hours for your brain to “detox” from work.

A three day weekend means you spend the whole 3 days with work thoughts still in your brain.

I get affect vs effect correct every time and I even plug in the USB-A cables the right way up most of the time, but ask me to spell gaurantee and I get that red underline taunting me like a toddler who found their first ever noisemaker.

haha hard mode is right! love it

co-worker: are you free?
me: MY SPIRIT IS UNBOUND AND MY SOUL IS NOT SUBJECT TO RITUAL CONTRACT!
co-worker: ...
co-worker: whatever, I'm sending you a zoom link

You also need some stage-awareness here. Long sales cycles are killers for bootstrapped and even seed funded startups. You need cash flow or runway to support them. And you need high enough pricing and strong enough market fit so that you can justify those long cycles. Both are rare early.

I feel like there should be a middle point that's is catchier than "I believe in kindness, helpfulness and paying it forward but not at the expense of my mental, physical or spiritual well being, and that line is blurry and it's hard for me and others to tell when I cross it"

The Best Programmers I Know | Matthias Endler I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…

exceptionally good writeup on what makes a good developer: endler.dev/2025/best-pr...

I think my secret superpower is plugging in USB cables the right way up four out of five times on average.

Also, my internet rabbit-hole of the day:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childho...

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I just discovered wipr2, a safari-only ad blocker and it is amazing. insta-buy, insta-install on every apple device I own.

kaylees.site/wipr2.html

If you use safari even a little, I really can't recommend this enough.

(ht to matanabudy.com/achieving-gr...)

are you in the bay and did not tell me????

I get this weird dysmorphic feeling. As if I kinda how where stuff is but not really. The last time used windows with any regularity was prob windows XP...

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home "A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…

Apparently the way computers think about numbers and the way humans think about numbers are dramatically different.

This was interesting to me and touches on the Venn diagram of normal human math, deep academia math and computer science:

chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

I spent some time this morning writing up a technical retro. blameless style of course. some thoughts:

- this is only my second in the past year. Phoenix/liveview is awesome.
- it was not DNS
- I prob should not be writing defect retros on a Saturday morning.

I will tell you to your face that you are a genius any day of the week!

except not really to your face cause you are v far away.

whatever, you're a genius.

Things are super busy. more so than ever.

And I posit that our tech stack based on #ElixirLang is a massive competitive advantage.

I think of the economics of SaaS as socializing the development (which you touch on with maintenance/updates) cost. There are exceptions such as anything high bandwidth (video and what not), but a calendar scheduler or uptime monitor isn't going to move the needle on incremental hosting costs.

"...rapid unscheduled disassembly."

🤣

www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

Hard Disagree. If an app that used to have verified correct signature suddenly has bad file signing, I def don't want to run it.

There are four hard problems in Computer Science:

- Naming
- Caching
- Off by one errors

I consider myself unreasonably fortunate that I have a profession that allows me to move away from companies or roles that cause too much of any of those.

I once worked for a startup that was obsessive about running experiments so they could be “data driven”. What ended up happening was they would abandon everything cause one quick market or product test would fail. Some ideas need to simmer before they pop.

In case anyone is curious, Hula Girl 100% Kona coffee is the the best Kona coffee I’ve come across. Amazing aromatics. Farmer’s Choice takes second place.

If there’s anything remote work has taught me it’s that pajamas are actually the best work outfit.

Well that sounds awesome and fun.