Josh Bleecher Snyder

Terminal.app is the IE6 of TUIs.

I tried feeding some Lean to Sketch a month or two ago. It is…not good at it. (To be fair, I don’t understand Lean at all. But I know flailing when I see it.)

Studio Ghibli

Our cat has been leaving notes around the house for us asking for wet food, new catnip plants, etc.

This one reads (with spelling fixed for clarity): “if you will not let me destroy the cat carrier, let me destroy the car. or destroy the vet. -apples”

Significant Bits | Read/Write/Nil with Michael Knyszek and Michael Pratt Please read important erratum at end of these notes!Astute listeners will notice that this is the first episode in over a year. I recorded not one but two awesome interviews...and then failed to ed...

Thanks @commaok.xyz for hosting @michael.express and I to talk about a fun bug in Go’s new Green Tea GC and the tools we used to investigate.

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It was super fun. Thanks so much for agreeing to do it!

YouTube video by Dyson The Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones™ cleaner | Global Premiere

I just watched a nine minute video about a vacuum cleaner product launch and I would do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6J...

Yep—I’ll post them on my blog (commaok.xyz) sometime soonish. Thanks for the reminder.

Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

New short blog post: Backoff-with-retry can be much simpler.

commaok.xyz/post/simple-...

Also, maybe peek at commaok.xyz/post/blog-sc....

Bay Area Gophers: Come to the Go meetup on May 27!

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(I'll be giving a short talk. But you should come anyway.)

Short story brigade: On Hope, by Spencer Holst.

www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/holst_s...

My 7yo, on the way to school this morning: “Do you use the Oxford comma?”

So grateful for these teachable moments and the opportunity to raise my kids right.

There are some people I admire and aspire to emulate. And others I admire and know are beyond my ken. Ian belongs to the latter.

"What a great idea! I'll help you play Russian roulette. Huh, the bullet wasn’t in the first chamber. Wait, maybe I should try again. I’ll help you find out which chamber the bullet is in."

But swallowing all the laughter might just kill you.

YouTube video by Courtney Gibbons So, you think you're bad at math...

Not what you asked for but www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf... is wonderful and just maybe might resonate.

If you are interested in an easy recipe for a merge queue, sans code review, this is my favorite so far: sketch.dev/blog/lightwe...

Share and Enjoy.

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

I find it rather telling that in ai-2027.com the last humans to have irreplaceable skills are...AI researchers.

Size was ever the problem.

But I'd love to hear this spelled out in more detail...

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

(Pride and Prejudice)

As long as they hit 70% of their VPIs.

We keep finding cups of sugar hidden around the house. With straws in them.

We disappear them and move the bag of sugar. Our 7yo never says a word.

Anyone know where to buy a food-grade 5 gallon buckets with padlocks?

Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?

A cheap, bare bones, fully electric truck. I’m in.

www.theverge.com/electric-car...

Rhymes with: the banality of evil

Been mulling this. If he could arrange for T7 to shrink instead of enlarge that’d provide neat market segmentation (wealth buys size), while solving the “how many titans can the world support?” problem. And let him stay massive but not impossibly so.

Oh yeah. Didn’t occur to me to wonder whether heart rate drops with each dose…and if so, why, and if not, how they survive even the first few doses without metabolic failure, overheating, and fluid dynamics issues (“blood hammer”, anyone?).

Yes! When I recommend Titanium Noir, as I do a lot, I tell people it’s an excellent noir, with some SF that’s there only in service of the story.

Bought chili lime crickets on a lark. Opened the bag. Brain says go ahead…but hand is like, yeah nope, can’t fool me, those are bugs, we don’t eat bugs.

(Verdict: not bad, really.)