Alex 🦅 Eagle

It's probably better than flying west, most of the way around the earth

I'm looking forward to tweets unencumbered by US surveillance

Met some Githubbers at a conference tonight and passed on the suggestion in person 🤭

githubstatus.com do you accept suggestions on what "operational" means?

Dark thought while listening to Battle Hymn of the Republic. If we're renaming gulfs maybe we should also start saying Civil War I

This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)

I would like to order some busts to put on the piano. I'm thinking one Beethoven and one Wes Anderson. Not sure if you're taking "orders" but never hurts to ask?

love my crazy heavy one for that reassuring feeling of being buried alive

Isn't it funny how Isaac Asimov imagined we would understand the logic of the positronic brain, while in reality ML inference does things that we have zero idea why. I think todays 20-something's are already "where the puck went"

If you heard Bazel was too hard to use because of setup (like writing BUILD files) check out this 20min live demo where I run through most dev workflows!

That's fantastic that you're working on this! I will give it another try!

Logical fallacies come in recognizable patterns. I'm always on the lookout for the False Dichotomy - classic examples include, "you're either with us or you're against us" and "it's not the size that matters but how you use it".

Pianist rant:

The instrument was named the Pianoforte because unlike a harpsichord, it can be played both quietly and loudly.

Then some quiet person (I assume) thought to abbreviate the name to "piano" which undermines the whole point! We are back to "only play quietly" UGH.

I am a Forteist.

Yeah the gridders also messing with the descendants of the dinosaurs. Better for them when the humans batteries hit 47v and their inverters cut out!

Delightful for anyone with off-grid solar. Tired of the gridders and their smug electricity confidence.

Free marketing idea for my buddies in the soup industry: what better gift for sending newlyweds off well prepared to consummate their marriage?

(Maybe not beef tho)

I named every star after you. Here's a printed certificate as proof.

Christmas Trees are a compromise when you could wedge three spruces in one stand and have a Christmas Forest

"a myth like sisyphus or a myth like the clitoris"
and a hundred other brilliant bits of nonsense I'll remember always

Pretty sure this site is named to honor the spirit of "Blue Sky Solutioneering" popularized by @hotdogsladies.bsky.social

When I think about pizza, I think about my "4 B's" fave (broccoli, banana peppers, bacon, blue cheese).

That always reminds me of the episode where Shredder opens a pizza joint advertising bizarre toppings because he knows the Turtles can't help but call and order.

I want to have trust in the leaders of this platform, that they have done their diligence and everything has been considered ... but I'm still just wondering: is Elon okay with us being here?

It's so easy to overestimate the probability of an undesirable outcome, like "if I shut the intake vent too much, maybe the fire will go out".
Flip it around and try to estimate if you *wanted* that outcome. "If I was trying to put out this fire, how hard would I have to suffocate it"