Brandon Hornseth

Incubus
Against Me!
Fall Out Boy
Steve Martin
Atmosphere

My plan to stealth work most of the holiday week and catch up on things has been foiled by people discovering that I am, in fact, working.

I'm old enough that I traded computer games at school that were split across a half dozen 3.5" floppies. Simpler times.

I used RCS, CVS, and SVN at different points in college. First professional job used Surround SCM which I see is owned by Perforce but somehow still available

Same, I was referring to the LLM's history size. Every interaction was like starting over again from scratch. Utterly useless unless the point of it is wasting time

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Context window so small, it's impressive it can even complete a sentence

it is 2025. The east wing of the White House is torn down. I sign up for the Digg beta.

A red Viewmaster 3d viewer toy

I think we got this at Universal Studios when I was 6. My 5 year old loves it

An automatic coffee maker

Reunited with the coffee pot that got me through Compilers and Calc II in the same semester

Our local butcher has raised nearly $60k and given away over 1000 pounds of beef, pork, poultry, and eggs to support those impacted by the lapse in SNAP benefits.

❤️ Community in action.

Well, another year without scoring free drugs in the candy haul.

Interesting bug I've been seeing in Instagram:
If someone posts a Reel in a story, trying to click through takes me to a completely random reel at least 50% of the time

A plastic sandwich bag filled with milkweed seeds

Out here like @nwmnbiologist.bsky.social harvesting milkweed seed

A bit surprised to find a semi-recent .pcap file contributing to the clutter in $HOME

The longer I do this, the more I become a fan of runtime assertions.

Fail, fail loudly, young code snippet! Proclaim to all that the impossible hath happened!

Went through my Twitter archive and I'd say 90+% of the people I interacted with on there over the past 5 years all deleted all their posts and moved to Bluesky or a Mastodon instance.

"Get the latest posts by email!"

Ok, but I don't want more email. I want RSS.

Solid work here, United

A screenshot of GitHub's virtual agent asking if the user wants to look up when the enterprise license expires. The user responds no and the boy says it cannot help further

AI for the sake of AI

A screenshot Google Maps showing 240+ places to visit

I've saved so many places in Colorado+Utah that I want to visit that I'm going to have to build a custom GIS application to better manage them

That sudden urge to hurry to Sequoia Nat'l Park before they cut it all down for timber

A photo of the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Been waiting a long time to start reading this with my kids

A vista of Horsetooth Reservoir in Colorado from the summit of Horsetooth Mountain

A photo of a running watch showing a 9.53 mile run with 2297 feet of vertical gain completed in 2:06:39

Two hour trail run this morning

It's so bad. I'm trapped in the ecosystem until they make the hardware obsolete and I'm forced to figure out something else

4am wakeup: my body is stuck on central time

Sadly, this tracks.

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A landscape picture of the Coteau des Prairies with the sun setting in the background

It's not the mountains, but it's nice to come back to my folks and look out at the coteau

Snow capped mountains in the far distance with fir trees in the foreground

A view from the distance of Longs Peak in Colorado with the keyhole formation backlit by the sun

Pine trees with a snowy foreground and orange, sun-basked clouds in the background

Got out of my office after a few long weeks to do some recharging.

Nice views of Longs and the surrounding peaks, and a bonus sunset as we got back to the trailhead

I'm counting UFOs

I signal them with my lighter

and in this moment, I am happy