Pete Cartwright

“Come home / the kettle’s whistling” continues to hit like a freight train.

Screenshot, white background, black text saying “You paid $25.75 USD to the Python Software Foundation”

I sadly haven’t touched Python in years but to money-where-my-mouth-is it, I’m delighted to throw them a little money.

This rules and I would love to see more of it.

The Chair Company feels like a live-action Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. (Mostly complimentary)

Truly disheartening to finally beat a Silksong boss, then see it in a guide as “incredibly simple early-game boss for babies only”.

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

This is fun lil journey by @samwho.dev through some of the... "interesting choices" in JS's Date class. Temporal can't arrive soon enough.

jsdate.wtf

In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…

Loved loved this essay from @charity.wtf. The more I do this job, the more I realize that 90% of the real hard problems to solve are at the process/team/org level.

charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...

the progressively larger dominos meme, but both sides are javascript

A brief history of computer science

Thank you!! I haven’t bought a bike in a long long time so it was admittedly kind of a “how much could a one banana cost?” situation. 😬

It's so charming that the Death Stranding games are about human connection, brutality, family, how the systems we live in shape all of those, and ALSO how fun it is to put your best buds into a videogame 😊.

Hi one recommendation please.

Budget: $1000-1300ish?
Intended use: big dude wanting to ride around my neighborhood mostly (midsizedish American city). Maybe some riding on flat trails / unpaved roads. Not mountain biking.
Weather: hot and humid all summer, mild winters

YouTube video by Caroline Polachek Caroline Polachek - On The Beach (from DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH)

Caroline Polachek doing a song for Death Stranding 2 is an almost cartoonish intersection of my interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilm...

YouTube reccomendarkons blessed me today with two of the most @bransonreese.bsky.social names I’ve ever seen in my life.

This game is going to cause me deep deep emotional pain and I can’t wait to play it.

I feel the same way any time I see [object Object] in the wild. Sure helps keep the ol’ impostor syndrome at bay for a minute.

Hot take incoming: Thunderbolts was pretty good!

phantom class fighter, inspired by N1 star fighter, commissioned by Stu1701

White Dwarf class reconnaissance vessel, inspired by U-wing

Class Y courier, inspired by Y-wing starfighter, commissioned by Stu1701

sw inspired trek ships so far!

iPhone call alert from PagerDuty, labeled by iOS as “potential spam”

iPhone gets it.

Thank goodness Andor is still good. I don’t know if I could have handled that right now.

Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.

I’ve been doing a lot of C# at work for the last year or so and I’m slowly coming around to it, but man does it really make me appreciate how pleasant it is to use TypeScript.

Looking forward to Cuckoo 2: The Rise Of Artie

There is almost nothing I want less in this life than to stay tuned after the show for a look inside the episode.

Making a to-do list for today and said “ooh that’s going to be my treat” after writing down “break down boxes in the attic”. Being in my 40s is weird.

YouTube video by Sillum B. Scream Queens 1x01 - Pete meets Grace

This one from Scream Queens?

youtu.be/t_igUBVgEXw

I beat the Shark Fight a couple months ago and haven’t been able to bring myself to go any further! I just don’t want this one to end.

Speaking of - can you tell me where you got the bluish/grayish sweater you wore at the DC Aimee Mann/Ted Leo show? I loved it.

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials It's easier than you think to write an exceptional software tutorial. You can stand out in a sea of mediocre guides by following a few simple rules.

I really enjoyed this article from @mtlynch.io on writing better software tutorials. Lots of specifics and a great general vibe of “remove all the obstacles and annoying stuff in advance” that applies to a LOT of software writing.

refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...

My top podcasts of 2024 list generated from the Overcast podcast app. In order: Cerebrocast: 136 hours The Sloppy Boys: 86 hours Hollywood Handbook: 74 hours The Always Sunny Podcast: 55 hours The Sloppy Boys Blowout: 48 hours Hollywood Handbook (again?): 34 hours Syntax: 27 hours Rude Tales of Magic: 26 hours Election Profit Makers: 14 hours

Very few surprises in my year-end podcast summary. That’s the entire run of the Sunny podcast and almost full 6 episodes of @cerebrocast.bsky.social.

Late followup - it was this! Lil chrome extension that adds your current Spotify song to the PR description you're writing on GitHub with album art and a preview link.

(My main lessons were that the Spotify Web API is surprisingly nice and Chrome Extensions are unsurprisingly painful to develop.)