Tyler Burch

I can’t enjoy things like this anymore without thinking “how is this going to break the model??”

In case anyone is wondering how I’m doing, I came home from a week of like 12 hour days to a leaking roof yesterday.

6:01 pm collapse scheduled.

Garmin body battery, recovered to just 30%

lord beer me strength to get through this deadline day with a brain of mush

half the posts I read about claude code lately are like "if you spend 90 minutes crafting the perfect prompt, claude.md file, generate the right subagents, then you can magically save yourself 20 minutes of work!"

reveal.js slides are the greatest and also having to manage css for a slide deck is insane behavior

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Fun discovery from this week’s CSA share, apparently my toddler’s favorite fruit is now red currants?

Man I’m sorry to democratic leadership, but “vote blue no matter if they’re actually a centrist that doesn’t stand for anything” doesn’t quite have the ring that “vote blue no matter who” does.

that's why I keep my laptop open on my nightstand

This current one is the perfect confluence of low/no pressure and new-to-me methods so it’s all good. If it fails, I’ll just stab again tomorrow.

For high pressure work, yeah, already have sufficient amount of ptsd for that sort of thing.

My taste in lipstick is impeccable, for the record.

As a data professional in my 30s, the closest I get to the feeling of a kid’s Christmas Eve night is when I finish writing an analysis and kick off an overnight run.

Here’s hoping I don’t wake up to a bunch of error messages.

fair point, I might just long for the nostalgia of the late aughts.

Maybe it's because I haven't really listened to coldplay intentionally in about a decade, but I'm mostly just shocked they're still selling out football stadiums.

i guess viva la vida was a good song or whatever

wrestling meme, two guys labelled "My Autoformatter" and "{targets}" as in the R package, slamming down "My Sanity"

it's a niche one, to say the least

whoops back at it again

Me, using an LLM: “haha -no regex, ever again!”

Me, putting together a workflow with an LLM: “oh no only regex all the time”

apropos of nothing in particular, and a bit back of the envelope, if you report significant figures down to one ten-billionth of a foot, that's 3x10^-11 meters, or 30 picometers.

A hydrogen atom is 54 picometers.

Garmin body battery showing a night with a lot of stress while sleeping and a 5 point recovery on a scale of 1-100

Apparently I’ve reached that point of aging where I can’t do wild and crazy stuff like “eat pizza after 9 pm” anymore.

A carrot, approximately 1 inch long

I thought my carrots looked like they were almost ready, so I tried picking one today. Turns out they are very much not ready.

Cedanne Rafaela coming home after hitting a walk off home run, the remainder of the team dressed in City Connect Monster green jerseys there to meet him, July 11, 2025.

it's kind of wild how terrible LLMs are at SQL without a *lot* of nudging, especially considering how structured and well-documented it is.

pretty sure at this point a quarter of the code managing our computing resources are just *special little carveouts* for me, and me only

"what if we did drip coffee but at the right temperature, evenly distributed the water, and also got rid of all the parts of the machine that build up gunk and grime"

honestly with every passing day I get more radicalized that "simpler is better" in every aspect of life.

It feels as close as possible without taking the full time for a pour over. The thermal carafe is also a huge quality-of-life upgrade, no more 10:00 am burnt coffees from hot plates.

Boy oh boy was that fun

The brew method is more analogous to pour over, coarser grind that the coffee slowly steeps through. Moka pot is closer to espresso with the pressure and typically fine ground coffee.

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I’ll also do pour overs and espresso, but my daily routine is still drip coffee so I can stay upright. Got a Moccamaster.

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I just got a coffeemaker I've been thinking about for like a year and legitimately can't wait to sleep so I can wake up and drink coffee