Dan Lyke 02:53:48+0000 (2026-02-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2311,-122.63)
OH at the "AI" meetup discussion: "It's been a bitch to have to execute my own ideas."
Dan Lyke 20:20:43+0000 (2026-02-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2243,-122.655)
Realizing that the heel on my Xero running shoe has worn through too many times for the gasket material I've clumsily glued over some of the tread to solve, I'm wondering if there are any re-sole-able minimalist shoes for less than the $450 that the ultra-fashionable brands start at.
Dan Lyke 20:04:35+0000 (2026-02-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2231,-122.653)
Work has me in a mood, so I went out on a walk looking for some hills, ended up going up Hayes Lane.Dan Lyke 18:20:57+0000 (2026-02-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)
Maybe a good thing that will come out of these "skills" files that the slop vendors are publishing is better documentation for humans.
A lot of useful quickstart guides in those repos, for projects and libraries that aren't as well documented in their own materials.
Dan Lyke 19:17:47+0000 (2026-02-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Thinking about all of the developing nation workers in sweatshops who could have been setting up regular expressions for common idioms and phrases to accomplish tasks, like "play this album" and "navigate to this space", who instead were training LLMs.
Dan Lyke 18:47:11+0000 (2026-02-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
100% on today's Timdle, despite guessing at HIMYM's initial pilot episode, and the relative ordering of 5 events in the last 3 decades.
https://www.timdle.com/daily
Dan Lyke 04:21:45+0000 (2026-02-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Any body have recommendations for a smoke detector that actually lets you cook? This Firex ionization one in the main part of a house goes off if I try to use the air fryer or brown anything. Super annoying.
Dan Lyke 20:10:35+0000 (2026-01-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Called Capital One via their app, and between the accent of the representative and some of the procedures in verification, egads I hope that hasn't been backdoored, because there are totally places in those processes where this could be an account exploit.
Dan Lyke 18:22:33+0000 (2026-01-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
In an effort to extract the most value from our month of Disney+, we watched _The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile_ last night, and really enjoyed that movie.
And if someone wants to give me hours and hours of Brandi Carlile giving studio direction to music icons, I'm all in.
Dan Lyke 16:22:51+0000 (2026-01-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I'm not getting a lot of solace from the headlines these days, but the news that the rumored Nvidia plan to dump $100B into OpenAI is collapsing brightens my day.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidias-plan-invest-100-billion-235951874.html
Dan Lyke 21:37:20+0000 (2026-01-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Thinking about Simon Willison's "Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw." and how many people I know with missing fingers...
https://www.404media.co/silicon-valleys-favorite-new-ai-agent-has-serious-security-flaws/
Dan Lyke 19:41:40+0000 (2026-01-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Reading though the source code for https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw / MoltBot (formerly ClawdBot), and maybe the thing about specifying skills for these monstrosities is that we can actually get some good human-readable command-line tools and documentation.
Dan Lyke 00:49:02+0000 (2026-01-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" seems to be running about 110 BPM, which means it's probably possible to do a 126BPM version for a square dance singing call.
Guessing that's not gonna come from any of the traditional producers, though.
Dan Lyke 23:56:51+0000 (2026-01-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
The problem of the future is gonna be all of the outdated documentation for Google products polluting the information space, making us think that it's still possible to use all of these deprecated features.
Dan Lyke 18:06:06+0000 (2026-01-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Just a reminder that all of the mediocre grant applicants are running their projects through "AI", which will create a bland neutral description of what they plan to do.
If you hope to stand out, avoiding LLMs altogether is the only logical option.
Dan Lyke 04:10:12+0000 (2026-01-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Just a note of appreciation: switching from Firefox to Vivaldi has me using Startpage. It's not perfect, but Google has declined I find myself going back to it less and less.
I bounced off Kagi and a few others, but Startpage has stuck.
Dan Lyke 00:23:16+0000 (2026-01-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Argh. Same exact CGI::Fast->new() loop. From one form, I get the textarea contents entity encoded, in the other I get something that Perl is not interpreting as utf-8. I'm not seeing any difference in the HTML page meta statements, or the form. Driving me nuts.
Dan Lyke 20:37:12+0000 (2026-01-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Ugh. Two FastCGI Perl scripts. One is inserting UTF-8 characters into the Postgres database correctly, one is biffing it. I cannot bloody well find the difference between the two.
Some days I regret not re-coding the entire thing in C.
Dan Lyke 01:07:58+0000 (2026-01-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Over on Bluesky, the Minnesota Star Tribune has a handy guide to identify which munitions the US Federal government is deploying against its citizens.
https://bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/post/3mde2ejy6o22e
Dan Lyke 20:31:03+0000 (2026-01-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Those lovable whackadoodles at Sonoma County's SOS roads are at it, asking for more subsidies of their lifestyle. I definitely recognize myself here:
"Many who advise the SCTCA are activists or ideologues on climate change. Some oppose any projects that may be “attractive” to motorists. One member advocates degrading our roads to force people to ride bikes, walk, or stay home."
Dan Lyke 17:40:26+0000 (2026-01-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Today's Timdle was foiled by the Battle of Plassey in India vs the First Anglo Burmese War.
https://www.timdle.com/daily
Dan Lyke 20:56:39+0000 (2026-01-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2314,-122.636)
Loving this uneven sidewalk marking.Dan Lyke 03:11:03+0000 (2026-01-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Facebook thinks I'd be interested in multi-tools at the cinema, apparently...Dan Lyke 02:24:02+0000 (2026-01-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Silly thing, but feels like it needs noting somewhere. In Stardew Valley's nightly summary of categories of things sold, it provides spaces for 6 digits, displays 7, doesn't show the high digit if you sell 8 digits worth in a category...
Dan Lyke 20:08:03+0000 (2026-01-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
The "English Football League" question in today's Timdle may have stumped me, but at least I placed the "Crisis of Third Century" correctly...
https://www.timdle.com/daily
Dan Lyke 18:13:45+0000 (2026-01-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Reading about Georgism and coercive economics, and then I see more employer provided housing in the SF Bay Area (this about an SF restaurant, but context included a convenience store owner in Sebastopol), and...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/rich-table-apartment-san-francisco-21291046.php
Dan Lyke 00:16:37+0000 (2026-01-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Looking at replacements for our Ring cameras. Everything else looks like running a bunch of new wire (POE for Ubiquiti), is just cheap (Wyze, already tried them), and the consumery ones are likely to go the "sell out to the cops" direction anyway. Sigh.
Dan Lyke 20:50:07+0000 (2026-01-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
LinkedIn spam subject line: "You’re invited: Learn how AI can give you an edge"
So... "an edge", huh? You're sending this to people you don't think are very sharp, then.
Dan Lyke 18:04:07+0000 (2026-01-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Google AI mode query about "science fiction writer David D Levine's dogs" that says under a section labeled "Current and Former Pets" that "Sparky VanDevender: Levine recently shared that his dog, Sparky, passed away in late 2025."
Sparkman "Sparky" VanDevender was Ann Patchett's dog. https://www.annpatchett.com/sparky
Dan Lyke 17:08:42+0000 (2026-01-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2328,-122.64)
As I left to walk to work, a Petaluma motorcycle police person was setting up to do stop sign enforcement at Mission & Mountain View. I watched two drivers roll through, as I was crossing Mountain View on to 5th I saw him pulling over a bicyclist.
Sigh.
Dan Lyke 19:31:29+0000 (2026-01-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
It's a small thing in the overall scheme, but if you needed another reason to leave Facebook: "fewer"Dan Lyke 23:43:19+0000 (2026-01-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Petaluma area folks: nerd gathering at Aqus on Feb 3, 5-7. I'll be the AI curmudgeon.
https://aqus.com/aquscafe/#!event/2026/2/3/alphabet-soup-ai-cahi-geo-seo-beyond-community-dinner
Dan Lyke 21:08:34+0000 (2026-01-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Somewhere I accumulated these big slices of walnut that are a bit too thick to treat as veneer with any equipment I have, and that warped tremendously in drying. For a project Charlene is doing (laying out dried flowers) I'm going to glue them all up, and sand them smooth, but let the warp be.Dan Lyke 18:43:20+0000 (2026-01-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
As Meta lays off thousands of VR workers, I guess the good thing about the AI boom is that with LLMs having replaced all of those workers there'll be no one left to fire...
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-reality-vr-layoffs
Dan Lyke 17:06:54+0000 (2026-01-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Trying to read a description of what something does, realize that we've gotten so into Github farming that we obfuscate such the simplest things in the most bizarre language in order to get the whuffie of the green squares on the calendar.
Dan Lyke 01:09:56+0000 (2026-01-17)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I went to show Charlene the Google AI Overview for "how many g's in birthday" and... it gave me a different answer this time. Awww, G's.Dan Lyke 22:26:21+0000 (2026-01-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Go go Google AI overview!Dan Lyke 18:57:19+0000 (2026-01-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
a lotta yall still dont get it\r\rGas Town Mayors can use multiple Polecats on a single Refinery.
Dan Lyke 06:54:41+0000 (2026-01-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
If Google we're serious about making Gemini useful, they'd give it an "okay, after I spent a few hours dicking about with the CLI and giving up, here's the code that *actually* worked, use this to train the next version" option.
Dan Lyke 06:33:07+0000 (2026-01-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Do I know anyone who knows anyone who works in an administrative capacity for a shipping port? Trying to do some due diligence for someone, pretty sure I know the answer, but an exchange with someone actually in the business would be helpful.
Dan Lyke 18:29:01+0000 (2026-01-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I used to kinda be grateful advertisers for helping to support the podcasts I listen to. But now I hear ads for BetterHelp and Lifelock and seriously side-eye...
Dan Lyke 16:57:33+0000 (2026-01-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
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Dan Lyke 23:49:35+0000 (2026-01-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Went into a Slack channel which is doing the "Start Free Trial" to view messages older than 90 days thing, and realized the Signal group that has replaced this Slack workspace has a message expiration time of 10 days...
Dan Lyke 20:20:41+0000 (2026-01-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
With the realization that all software is great, then becomes crappy as the developers decide to screw with stuff that doesn't need changing...
AntennaPod just pissed me off. Looking for a replacement Android podcast player, hopefully that has folders. Bonus for open source.
Dan Lyke 19:55:14+0000 (2026-01-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Went to a tech meetup last night, had a lot of younger developers there. Was amazed by how many side projects were essentially the same inventory/POS projects people were doing in xBase back in the '80s.
Only this time the tooling is way less suited to task.
Dan Lyke 17:42:43+0000 (2026-01-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Okay, Rule34dle, "Flygon" vs "Shaymin", both Pokemon characters, is really unfair...
https://rule34dle.vercel.app/daily.html
Dan Lyke 02:06:06+0000 (2026-01-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
There are times, especially when dealing with health insurance companies, that I would like to discuss the decisions of UI professionals. With a 3 foot long weighted clue stick.
Dan Lyke 20:22:58+0000 (2026-01-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Must have been Christmas related. Facebook Marketplace and similar were full of free or super cheap monitors, so I promised one of mine to a friend figuring I'd just pick up another one.
Now they're all $75+ for ancient 1080p ones.
Dan Lyke 19:40:13+0000 (2026-01-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Tried to use Google to find an old page on my web site, using the 'site:' qualifier. It returned no hits.
Given the amount of search engine traffic I see in the logs, that isn't Google, maybe they've just given up trying to index the web?
Dan Lyke 18:15:30+0000 (2026-01-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
The advent of contact lenses got me in today's Timdle...
https://www.timdle.com/daily