Erin L Ptáček

The Internet Archive just became an official U.S. federal library The new status means archive users gain access to a trove of government documents.

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As much as I dunk on Java... WSDLs were ahead of their time. All web frameworks should be able to dump a spec.

yay my ears just cleared out

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

See you tonight at Twisted Spoke (501 N Ogden). If there is an unreasonable amount of sky water, check the back room. Otherwise, head to the roof.

ChiSec -> Day after tomorrow. Or if you, like me, need numbers: 17th July. As usual, we'll be at Twisted Spoke @ 501 N Ogden Ave some time around 18:30 +/- /n/ minutes.

ChiSec is this THURSDAY.
AKA 17th July (where did the time go?)
Twisted Spoke @ 501 N Ogden Ave
18:30

DO NOT UPDATE CODEX TO 0.6.0. It no longer works and I'm being prompted to send a picture of my "government-issued ID" to some identify veriication service.

And don't ever ask me why I don't update shit again.

I live in a house where we do math for fun.

TIL Vibe coding doesn't do CSS. And to be fair... kinda don't blame it.

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana

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As migraine season draws to a close, I am finding that I have lost all of my ability to pretend to be a normal person and the anxiety that I feel around anticipating punishments for being myself feels like a large, spinning beachball in my gut.

a picture of a pump dispenser in a bar of solid soap with the tag line "legacy software companies adding an ai chatbot to their product"

DOH. bad edit -> bad grammar. my eyeballs might need more caffeine.

At LANL in the early 90s, there was a trope -- 6 admins for every 1 scientist. While it does take a lot to herd a bunch of mathematicians, physicists and chemists, but the overhead there was mostly paperwork. 450 computers x 6 forms each = shelves full of binders of paperwork no one ever looked at.

I sicced Codex on the code that I wrote for a challenge for my previous job. Not the second challenge (the one that turned out to be something they were already building), but the first one that got rejected.

It's found no problems so far. So either that rejection was bullshit or Codex is flawed.

Maybe we should time share a professional chef?

I'm a woman who has survived in "tech" for >30 years. If you have to wonder why I am irascible, you might be the problem.

I have a box of gloves you can have.

OH: "You smell like a coin that was just fished out of a pond."

If Peggy dies, I am -done- with Guilded Age. Even watching Carrie Coon crush it to the moon and back is not enough for me to forgive writing Denee Benton off the show.

We're meeting at Twisted Spoke (501 N Ogden) on Thursday around 18:30-20:30.

I'd add something witty or clever but the heat has cooked my brain.

a screenshot from math academy showing my next lesson: fractions of fractions

why do i do these things to myself

1. Clear your calendar for Thursday.
2. Come to Twisted Spoke after 18:30.
3. 501 N Ogden Ave in case you forgot.

Well done, @anthropic.com. Seriously. <3

Sorry Jim Collins. I couldn't help myself.

I honestly cannot tell if I'm just carrying around a huge bag full of bitter pills from a long career of being discriminated against or if I've always been a covert narcissist.

Defragged zebra where the stripes have been concatenated to the front half of its body.

Fell into metal detecting YouTube for a while. Every time they find a coin, I always feel really sorry for the person who dropped it. Pockets are an under-appreciated invention.

...countless times over history.
Will our brains get smaller? Maybe.
Will we get better at learning how to learn? Probably.
Can we stop fucking bickering about it? Never.