CtrlSpice (they/them)

Aaaaand now the children have learned to balance binary search trees.

Omfg apparently one of the cats can open doors now. 🤦

A view of a bike path going into a lush wooded area. Somewhat far away from the photographer, potentially so far that one would need to zoom in, is a juvenile black bear eating berries by the side of the path.

Saw a small bear this morning while biking back from kiddo’s camp drop off.

I’m so stupidly excited!!!

I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”

Hey! Hey y’all!

Who’s got 1.95 thumbs and just got admitted to the fall batch at @recursecenter.bsky.social?

👍 This weirdo! 👍

(Except the thumbs are still slightly uneven from the chainsaw-hand crafting incident)

Disapproving Geordi La Forge: Coming around to using Mx because you've grown more comfortable and confident in your gender identity Approving Geordi La Forge: Coming around to using Mx because you've thought up some truly awful mutex/multiplexer jokes, and are about to make them everyone else's problem

Update: While she is a human, she shall henceforth be known as Riverbank.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

My hiking hat is no longer for hiking. It is for baby.

Observability by design (n.)
1 : the practice of integrating observability into design and development phases of the software development life cycle
2 :#OpenTelemetry Weaver

Don't let observability be an afterthought. Learn to leverage semantic conventions with #OTel Weaver.

buff.ly/cKgzvlt

I’m a little jealous tbh.

The smaller (human) child has informed us that while she is a cat, she will no longer respond to her name, the Miss, or the Boo.

She is now known as Paddleflake.
🤷

I accidentally made a Mad Max joke in front of the children, and now the 6 year old is hanging off the bed screaming “Witness me!” and laughing her head off

I asked Claude to roast Ganoes Paran book by book. The robot prefaced a frankly decent summary with:

“Oh this is going to be therapeutic! Let me take Paran through his decade-long whine tour."

I feel strangely validated by autocomplete.

The Blacktongue Thief Audiobook on Libro.fm "This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman. Along with his firsthand knowledge of the text and how he means it to be conveyed, Buehlman uses nuance, inflection, and a...

I’ve been listening to The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman and… this shit is Black Company good, except with more lady knights and significantly less misogyny. I wish is was a 13 book epic instead of a duology, but I’ll take what I can get!

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Today in “Jeremy levels up on modern web primitives” we have dialog, scroll-snap, view transitions, and intersection observer

Still lots of cases to handle but this gallery feels so smooth

Working on the metrics back-end for otel-desktop-viewer (I should really rename it at some point). My brain is "helping" by singing my code like it's a System of the Down song, because of course it is.

🎵 Aaah...ggregation Temp-orality...
🎵 Aaah...ggregation Temp-orality...
📢 BUCKETS!!!!!

Anil gets it. A lot of critics are still in their "put the toothpaste back in the tube" phase with AI. We are well past that. We have to address what it is today.

But I also know that telling people this doesn't actually help them get past that phase.

@jeremymorrell.dev was in a meeting and said he needed yarn (the package manager) so I quietly brought down a ball of yarn 🧶 and put it on his desk and he was not amused but my autism and I are still giggling about it. 🤭

From what I gathered:
- butthole beats rock, paper, and scissors, and must be selected by both players every turn
- players then debate the merits of their buttholes to decide which butthole would win in a fight
- the player with the losing butthole may summon a new, more powerful butthole next turn

Everything, apparently. They just invent more powerful buttholes until the escalation of threat surpasses language, and then it's all butt pointing and fart noises.

The game then devolved into them making gross slurping noises and fart-powered spaceship noises, respectively, while pointing their butts aggressively at each other.

Heh. Still better than YouTube. 🤷
#parenting

8-year-old: I choose Einstein’s butthole. Everything gets sucked in with gravity. [gross slurping noises]

6-year-old: Yeah well I’m gonna eat beans so my butthole blasts outa there!

You know rock paper scissors butthole goes hard when they get orbital mechanics involved.

We don’t do electronics in the morning on weekdays so my offspring are playing rock paper scissors butthole. 🤦

Two grey and white kittens, stretched out luxuriously on pink bedsheets, among ballerina themed blankets.

I don’t think I have ever been or will ever be as cozy as these two when they take over my kid’s bed for the day.

Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

A JSON print-out of some test logs (details irrelevant and boring) on the front end of otel-desktop-viewer, showing that logs are getting from point A to point B.

Made some progress on logs in otel-desktop-viewer. Just super roughly prototyping the front end for now, but the back-end is doing its thing and ready for review!

I’m going to treat myself to a pastry, then move on to metrics.