Email subject line: "Chevrolet is teaming up with Electrify America for you".
Given the compatibility issues I've had with Electrify America chargers and our 2022 Bolt EUV, I think "against" is a more apt word than "for".
Apropos of nothing at all, I think https://ghostty.org is my new favorite thing this morning.
If you had told me in 2026 that a terminal could be snappier, I'd have laughed at you in "modern software sucks", but damn this is cool.
An Atlas Shrugged rewrite where the "I'm more of an ideas person" people fuck off to Galt's Gulch and the rest of us just take care of the backlog of shit that needs to get taken care of.
Crap. Somewhere recently (past month) I read about a personal search engine that used browser plug-ins and history. I cannot find that link now.
I'm thinking that this would be really really useful. And I'd rather build on someone else's code. Any hints?
Time Magazine article titled "‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI" offering a chatbot with "ask me anything" placeholder text...
:are_we_the_baddies_dot_gif:
Hmmm... when the grant application is deferred "if Dan doesn't have the bandwidth for [that]".
I mean, I'm loving helping various groups move forward, but I need to make sure that where I'm in the critical path it's about capacity building...
One of the hardest parts about growing up rural and suburban is getting to late middle age and realizing just how much I've missed because of the anti-city prejudices of my youth.
Feeling like I now live in a place where old people cosplay as having culture, rather than actually having a culture.
Charlene is frustrated with phone addiction and would like to either get a dumb phone, or find some tools to help her manage screen time better. WisePhone seems like a $400 configuration of a Samsung. Carrier is T-Mobile. Current phone is a Pixel 7. Input and suggestions gratefully received.
Kinda tired of paying Sonic rental fees on this Eero system. Picked up a free TP-Link Archer A7 router, but throughput on the far side of the house is double digit mbps. Anyone have experience with a wired repeater that can just use the same SSID? Any random TP-Link one do?
Just playing with analogies: If the personal computer is the bicycle for the mind, GenAI is, perhaps, the automobile for the mind?
With all of the negative externalities and social implications that that implies.
Work thinking about the nature of tools has me thinking on tools which augment human intelligence, which help us conceptualize and think better, and tools which supplant human ability.
It's a continuum, but there's only so much information that can be put in and gotten out via a chat...
I mean, yes, Open AI has two and a half times the revenue of OnlyFans, and projects that it will have similar numbers of paying subscribers by... Checks notes... 2030...
Unlike reports from ChatGPT, Google's "AI" seems smart enough to know that I'd have to drive my car to the car wash. Unless, of course, I was going to use a self-service bay.
First of all, what did Oregon do to the person who named the "Oregon Grape" after it. Second, I now have Opinions about the landscape designer who recommended it.
It finally sprawled enough that Charlene said she wanted it out, and I suspect I'll be following runners all summer...
We had a Cuisinart electric tea kettle that we loved. It died. We replaced it with the same one, and that started making weird annoying noises(!).
Replaced that with a used Veken off of Facebook Marketplace, but various interface elements of that suck. So we're still looking.
Are there differences in reliability between a $50 kettle and a $200 one, or are they all just bling?
Saw someone talk about how AI lets them do things that would take their IT department $500k to implement, and maybe it's time to concede that Agile has been a total disaster?
We know how to build good software. We choose not to.
This is a lot, but it's important: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
Prosecute ICE is the centrist position.
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/
With the Super Bowl, and with The Olympics, there have been a number of comments trying to separate dunking on the politics of the games from dunking on sport.
And I have some dark dark news for you about what sport is and how the rules are created to support particular social structures.
So say you have an old power wheelchair chassis that you wanna hack into some sort of set of vehicles, that probably aren't gonna get used all that much. What's the best technology for 24v of battery to play with? Probably just a pair of deep cycle lead acid batteries, huh?
Spent the morning fighting with Gemini CLI to get it to do what I asked. As I see people talk about how productive they are with LLM code generation, I'm mostly struck by how overly complex we've made software development, and how it's been made inaccessible to people that should be finding it easy.
While I'm being annoyingly prescriptivist about language, if we can stop referring to "updating the language in the prompt" to "training", that too would help me take AI proponents more seriously.
"Inspiration without technique - if it exists at all - is merely flair. If inspiration is all you have it will abandon you when you need it most." -- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"
Wishlisting cameras to replace our Ring system, and holy shit marketing departments are failing. Looks like Reolink is the leader, but digging through each product description and trying to figure out how these things fit together is a total pain in the ass.
User stories, folks. Use them.
A few thoughts on Assaad Abousleiman on LinkedIn's suggestion that "The last decade of software was built to capture attention. The next decade will be built to give it back."
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/35465.html
Thinking about those videos that came out of the occupation of Iraqi cities of US forces shooting up commuters and people just trying to get around and live their daily lives, and how somehow our political process decided that it was a good idea to bring that chaos domestic policing.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/11/ninas-coffee-ice-car-crash-st-paul
Those of us of a certain age remember the covers to Byte Magazine very fondly: "Robert Frank Tinney, of Washington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully at River Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78."
https://tinney.net/in-memoriam
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We've just had a complete reversal. So far as I can tell from the headlines of takes on Bad Bunny and libertarians, the New York Times has gone completely into absurdist satire, and The Onion has become the reporter of record of serious news.
Clearing out things I don't have room for things that are artifacts of activities of times gone by, a banner from the Vallejo Pioneers Square Dance Club.
Actually putting the parts together to figure out whether knees actually fit and under and how much height there is for the train and so forth...
Current thought is to maybe do veneer mountains on the interior sides, need the hatch to access the power supply and figure cable routing.
I mean, yes, you should go to Bandcamp and buy Megan Lynch's Songs The Warner Brothers Taught Me, but no, Chrome Gemini Assistant thing, FiddleStar is Megan Lynch Chowning, a completely different person.
(I'm trying to have informed conversations at work about these stupid things, I'm constantly amazed at how wrong they are.)
Oh, look, another data breach notification. How many decades of "free credit monitoring" are we up to now?
(Second prize is *two* years of credit monitor... Oh, who are we kidding, permission for yet another entity to mine my personal data for marketing.)
I was wrong. AI isn't like seeing a rabbit pulled out of a hat and thinking you can feed the world on hasenpfeffer, it's like seeing a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat and demanding that everybody put meat grinders in their kitchen because they think soon we'll be able to pull live steer out of refrigerators.
It's like all of those people who went ahead and bought drugs using cryptocurrencies without thinking through what an immutable universal public record of their transactions actually meant, but now it's applied to millions spent using predictive word generators to do spatial "reasoning"...
Conversation this morning that, if I understood the details right, and my own understanding of how LLMs process data (reinforced by experience) is correct... epistemia is gonna bite a bunch of projects and companies so so hard in the the near future. It's gonna hurt, bad.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Time Magazine article titled "‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI" offering a chatbot with "ask me anything" placeholder text...
:are_we_the_baddies_dot_gif:
Unlike reports from ChatGPT, Google's "AI" seems smart enough to know that I'd have to drive my car to the car wash. Unless, of course, I was going to use a self-service bay.
Clearing out things I don't have room for things that are artifacts of activities of times gone by, a banner from the Vallejo Pioneers Square Dance Club.
Actually putting the parts together to figure out whether knees actually fit and under and how much height there is for the train and so forth...
Current thought is to maybe do veneer mountains on the interior sides, need the hatch to access the power supply and figure cable routing.
Perfection
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/in-response-to-trumps-tasteless-meme-we-put-his-face-on-the-body-of-a-known-rapist-and-pedophile/
I mean, yes, you should go to Bandcamp and buy Megan Lynch's Songs The Warner Brothers Taught Me, but no, Chrome Gemini Assistant thing, FiddleStar is Megan Lynch Chowning, a completely different person.
(I'm trying to have informed conversations at work about these stupid things, I'm constantly amazed at how wrong they are.)
Work has me in a mood, so I went out on a walk looking for some hills, ended up going up Hayes Lane.