Steven Hicks

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Wrinkly green t shirt with the text "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font, with hearts and a little yacht.

PS I printed my previous carve on money-green shirts. Always remember your "why"!

Very rough black and white digital sketch of a retro propaganda poster design. A dizzy, nervous retro robot, and the text "Deterministic tools for deterministic problems."

Sketching (poorly) my next linocut/shirt print project.

Don't let the bullshitters do your math for you!!

Nice shirt! Capitalism looks good on you.

Also obvs wtf are we doing in Venezuela, gtfo.

One of my card-mates at indoor putting league tonight told me my putt was so nice and floaty and that's already a top candidate for nicest thing anyone said to me in 2026.

If only

GitHub PR diff count -- 3,493 additions, 1,274 subtractions. A big f'ing PR to review.

"Welcome back from your holiday break!"

Can it be like login/log in where we just say "if it's two words it's a verb, if it's one word (hyphenated or not) it's a noun"?

I'm just trying to end 2025 asap.

MVP Trail golf disc dyed with a blue, aqua, and yellow swirl.

Clear Westside Warship golf disc with painted raven stamp and blue and purple spin dyed rim.

I sold my first two dyed discs today!

After a few weeks of no luck, I had just yesterday decided I was going to bring them home from the local shop and try to sell them online instead. As usual everyone was correct that I needed to be more patient.

Black ink linocut print on paper. Reads "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font with a yacht icon and smiley face with dollar signs for eyes.

New print, who dis

Live a life of purpose, amiright

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios Project Hail Mary | Official Trailer 2

amaze amaze amaze but shame on me for not posting the link originally

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYs...

Why tf am I crying after watching the new project hail Mary trailer

It's good.

Dyed golf disc. Gold rim, yellow block mostly behind disc name (aviar), wine & aqua green circular swirls like a vinyl record.

#3: a "factory second" disc that I bought new, used a few times, and decided I hate.

This time I spaced on placing the disc. I had a line marked on the disc so I could center the disc name in the yellow section for good contrast... But forgot to align when placing.

Those colors though 🤤

Dyed Kastaplast golf disc. Blue and purple flower effect over the center, streaks bleeding out toward the edge.

#2: another used play it again find. This brand's plastic is supposed to be stellar at absorbing dye. It had color to begin with, but I wanted to experiment with a floral look and the plastic so I dyed it anyway.

I messed up the timing, badly, and got some nasty streaks all over the edges.

Disc golf disc dyed with a red, orange, and yellow swirl pattern.

Back side of disc, rim spin dyed with a red to orange fade.

Disc 1: an older but good shape play it again find. I considered wiping the stamp, but I thought I could swirl to accentuate it. Unfortunately I didn't realize the swirl direction would be backwards for a righty... Which maybe no one but me cares about.

Looks good though! Wish I'd used more yellow.

Forgot the before again. This was off-white with a gold rim.

Don't tell but I used someone's hair clip to get parallel circular lines. I washed it before putting it back!

The more I look at this one the more I like it, but I hate throwing it and want it gone because it is taking up space.

I was on the fence about wiping this stamp. There's the dumb factory second stamp which I obviously don't want... But the original stamp is pretty cool. Right before I laid the disc I decided I was going to wipe it... But decided nahhh because the layout just didn't make sense without the stamp.

Dyed golf disc. Gold rim, yellow block mostly behind disc name (aviar), wine & aqua green circular swirls like a vinyl record.

#3: a "factory second" disc that I bought new, used a few times, and decided I hate.

This time I spaced on placing the disc. I had a line marked on the disc so I could center the disc name in the yellow section for good contrast... But forgot to align when placing.

Those colors though 🤤

Moral, way less time if I'm also applying heat. I've since settled on 2 hours heat, 1 hour without.

I also forgot a before photo. It was mostly light blue, with that white halo edge.

I still think it looks nice and I'll try to sell it... Just a misfire.

I started it too late in the evening to do my intention of 3 hours with heat, 1 hour without. I got tired and unplugged the heat at 2 hours, then let it sit overnight. Didn't have time in the morning to pull it, and ended up leaving it for 16 hours total. I wasn't expecting such a bad result.

Dyed Kastaplast golf disc. Blue and purple flower effect over the center, streaks bleeding out toward the edge.

#2: another used play it again find. This brand's plastic is supposed to be stellar at absorbing dye. It had color to begin with, but I wanted to experiment with a floral look and the plastic so I dyed it anyway.

I messed up the timing, badly, and got some nasty streaks all over the edges.

I'm very happy with the spin dyed rim on the back. Overall this is a really completed disc. I'll try to sell it, if priced right I think it'll go even though it's used.

Disc golf disc dyed with a red, orange, and yellow swirl pattern.

Back side of disc, rim spin dyed with a red to orange fade.

Disc 1: an older but good shape play it again find. I considered wiping the stamp, but I thought I could swirl to accentuate it. Unfortunately I didn't realize the swirl direction would be backwards for a righty... Which maybe no one but me cares about.

Looks good though! Wish I'd used more yellow.

This manufactured urgency prompted a similar lack of concentration I feel on the course. I had some good ideas for these discs, and pretty good plans, but in the moment I just spaced and forgot the plan.

I went on a little run of discs over the last week. I got a little fire in my belly, because I decided I'm going to try to get about ten or so into my local disc shop for consignment by black Friday. Eek!

*How many* prompts would you rather write than one shell script?

I'm on the verge of finding out my number.

LLMs continue to be FUCKING TERRIBLE at writing bash scripts, yet I continue to ask them to write bash scripts for me because I AM MORE FUCKING TERRIBLE at writing bash scripts.

something something job security?

A snippet of a conversation between Claude Code and myself. Claude: "Run this and share the debug output so we can see what's being extracted from the status table." Me: "Run it yourself"

YOU GUYS THE ROBOTS ARE GOING TO START MAKING US DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM