Dan Lyke 22:54:12+0000 (2026-05-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
No lies detected. The AI summary gets it right for once.
No lies detected. The AI summary gets it right for once.Dan Lyke 22:49:49+0000 (2026-05-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.625)
Listening to Rostam interviewed on Switched On Pop, and I'm reminded that kids protesting on campus have a much better track record for being right than the administrations and authorities that have opposed them.
Dan Lyke 22:22:41+0000 (2026-05-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
The Kickstarter musings on their mature content policies (and pushing it back on Stripe) is a good reminder that the ability to pay for "adult content" is definitely driven by the social goals of the Epstein class.
https://updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-rethinking-our-mature-content-guidelines/
Dan Lyke 01:26:11+0000 (2026-05-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Fascinating read on the politics of Christo's "Running Fence" installation in Sonoma County
https://petalumahistorian.com/christos-trojan-horse/
mirrored (likely with paywall) at https://www.petalumanews.com/2026/05/17/christos-trojan-horse-how-the-running-fence-changed-sonoma-county/
Dan Lyke 22:23:41+0000 (2026-05-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Yesterday afternoon we went down to Copperfield's to see Mac Barnett in conversation with Jon Scieszka about Mac's new book "Make Believe: On Telling Stories To Children". Two funny people talking very thoughtfully about relating to children. If you have the opportunity to hear 'em talk, do.
Dan Lyke 17:59:28+0000 (2026-05-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Reading the Suisun Expansion Specific Plan ("California Forever"), and mostly it's a look at how we could have beautiful things in our own cities if we could balance out the voices of the older NIMBY automobile violence advocates.
And maybe allow a little less emphasis on the voices of people who live in sprawl outside the city...
Dan Lyke 00:24:05+0000 (2026-05-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Took Charlene for some medical tests, while she was in with the tech the people behind the desk were talking about "what's cool with the kids". One mentioned a Hacky Sack, another asked "What's a Hacky Sack?"
I just had to interject: "Some of you spent the '90s sober, and it shows."
Dan Lyke 06:20:11+0000 (2026-05-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Went to Santa Rosa YIMBY this evening, came home with a book. Two or three of you are going "oooh, cool", the rest are like "WTF, Dan? This is geekier than when you're on your computer stuff..."Dan Lyke 21:06:49+0000 (2026-05-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2292,-122.633)
If, like our household, you are hooked on the Hallmark series "The Way Home", someone has pieced together the song "Breathe" and recorded it.
https://youtu.be/-FyvmLOE9e4?si=2Rsrs3g73a6BeJ20
Dan Lyke 01:30:55+0000 (2026-05-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Wait, so basic functionality in MacOS has been broken for at least two and a half years?
Sigh.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255271725
Dan Lyke 18:54:12+0000 (2026-05-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Back in the early naughts I had an elderly friend who hung out at the same coffee shop as me. Journalist with many cool experiences.
He became convinced that he'd finally figured out a mechanism for betting on horses.
This is also a post about conversations with people on how they use LLMs.
Dan Lyke 23:10:23+0000 (2026-05-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Just to mark it: Got a Rowin Loop Station looper pedal for $20 off of AliExpress. Still playing with the "remove a loop layer" (double click), but click and hold to clear, click to record, mic in, into a powered speaker, and for the price it's amazing.
Apparently you can use USB to download audio.
Dan Lyke 19:20:42+0000 (2026-05-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Wanted a key for the garage door. Ace Hardware wanted $44.something for a key switch. AliExpress wanted $1.09 for an ignition lock.Dan Lyke 16:48:15+0000 (2026-05-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Work has a domain name that's reminiscent of a hobbyist product. We gate downloads through a form that asks for a "why you're interested in our product" with lots of "we are not hobbyist project, or even like it" text.
The number of multi-paragraph messages talking about interest in said project...
Dan Lyke 16:09:14+0000 (2026-05-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Heard someone describe a facility as "ADHD compliant", and... they're wrong, in soooo many ways.
Dan Lyke 18:18:03+0000 (2026-05-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Anyone know who's running PetalumaCivic(dot)org? It appears to have some pretty misleading AI generated slop, and I'm wondering what the motivations behind it are.
Dan Lyke 03:53:26+0000 (2026-05-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Facebook Marketplace rarely disappoints...Dan Lyke 00:52:23+0000 (2026-05-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Saving this point in the May 4th Petaluma City Council meeting so that when my city council member comes up for re-election I can gather all of my neighbors and have them watch this exchange and replace this guy with someone competent.
https://www.youtube.com/live/F_mKQBORNcM?t=16831s
Dan Lyke 00:17:34+0000 (2026-05-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Trying to help and elderly friend with his iPhone, and holy shit Apple's standards have dropped. Apple apps/screens that pop the keyboard over the password and won't let me paste, inconsistent placement of "next" buttons and permissions stuff.
What happened to this company?
Dan Lyke 19:59:11+0000 (2026-05-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
AliExpress package tracking shows customs complete in Los Angeles, off to Wenatchee WA, then to Spokane, so kinda sketch, but back to Sacramento a week ago, I was kinda getting hopeful...
Now they're reporting that it arrived in Waipahu (Hawaii?). Not installed this weekend, I'm guessing.
Dan Lyke 03:39:30+0000 (2026-05-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Neighbor moved to the other side of town a few years ago. Yesterday called me up and asked if I could help him fix his kid's scooter.
So he came over, and I texted another neighbor, and we had an awesome "guys hang out and drill holes in metal and bullshit" afternoon, and I need more of that.
Dan Lyke 18:00:59+0000 (2026-05-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
A friend borrowed our electric citrus juicer, and has not yet returned it, so I just did half a gallon of lemon juice by hand with a clamshell juicer.
The phrase "easy peasy lemon squeezy" is hogwash.
Dan Lyke 20:14:20+0000 (2026-05-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
The vendor, CulinarySolvent.com, says this is a quart of 100% ethanol, so this is roughly 1/3 zest. I've stopped zesting because we lent out our citrus juicer and I need to get it back, and I have too many peeled lemons at this point...Dan Lyke 17:23:04+0000 (2026-05-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Just avoided posting a very demeaning observation about AI advocates who troll in /r/antiai... Please clap.
Dan Lyke 16:34:09+0000 (2026-05-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Lloyd "Pappy" Shaw, in Cowboy Dances, published 1939:
"One last word ! Please do not teach these dances to little children. Grade-school pupils may enjoy them but it will mark the dances forever in your community with the stigma of "kid stuff." Well-meaning gymnasium teachers have taught the splendid circle folk dances of the peasants of Europe to girls' gymnasium classes and to little children, until folk dancing is popularly thought of as "sissy stuff," and most manly chaps will have nothing to do with it without a deal of tactful educating. Not only are the dances so vigorous and manly and strenuous that they are quite unsuited for girls' classes or children but they will thus be killed for everyone. If, in your community, you can start the dances with the manliest and most popular young fellows, with older men mixing in, the program will become a great joy. But if you see any well-meaning woman trying to teach them to children or to classes of girls, please rush to the nearest court and get out an injunction to keep her from robbing the adult public of a precious sport that really belongs to it."
Dan Lyke 20:07:38+0000 (2026-05-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Trying to understand how people use SharePoint, which leads to lots of videos about Copilot in Microsoft products, and...
There appear to be a lot of people who think that clicking "summarize and draft a response" is going to be a valuable business contribution.
Dan Lyke 05:41:16+0000 (2026-05-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Okay, Google Intelligence, I kinda get how you got there, but, uh, no.Dan Lyke 19:14:36+0000 (2026-04-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Wow. So this weekend at North Bay Python, the Apify folks were doing a "try out our API, win something". I'd had a glass of wine, so I fired up my phone, did a few queries to enter myself in the raffle, and carried on.
I'm not sure what I did that's ongoing, but just got the "you hit your $100 intro bonus API cost" email.
So clearly there was something I didn't understand. Another entry in the "I'm scared of cloud billing" bucket.
Dan Lyke 18:59:10+0000 (2026-04-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
My talk on Modern Western Square Dancing at North Bay Python this weekend is live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVvaz8eFwA
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 20:12:07+0000 (2026-04-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Extremely simple little music player display, in Rust. MacBook Pro M2. The egui library is costing me 8.22ms per update (measured over 1k updates).
I'm offended by how inefficient this is. Is there a Rust GUI library that's actually practical, or that does minimal repaint/refreshes?
Dan Lyke 01:47:50+0000 (2026-04-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2026,-122.591)
"The laser pointer does not own you." - @baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 00:36:42+0000 (2026-04-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
"Technology only helps if your successor understands it." - Philip James
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 00:34:10+0000 (2026-04-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
"Technology is here to serve people, not the other way around." - Philip James
Not a "to serve man" reference.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 00:21:37+0000 (2026-04-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
If you believe that the best part of a conference is the hallway track, this year's North Bay Python feels like that. The conversations and presentations feel like the sort of thought provoking topics I want from a conference.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 22:50:06+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
"The impact of a system is what we continue to allow." - amanda casari
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 22:29:15+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2026,-122.591)
Joelle Maslak's talk "What Feminist Theory & Praxis Says About Internet Networking" has me thinking about "the cost of crossing boundaries" not just between process isolation or network locations, but also social boundaries.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 20:48:50+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2026,-122.591)
This talk by @kattni@kattstodon.com is reminding me how much my model of how human behavior changes has evolved over the course of my life. I don't know if that's a general change in society or in the community I surround myself with, but I hope it's the former.
I appreciate the insights.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 19:56:24+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
Mario Munoz @pythonbynight@hachyderm.io "An Economy of Empathy" talk is definitely one I'm going to go back through and listen to with Charlene, and is the righteous sermon I needed this morning.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 19:16:16+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
Repeat of yesterday's picture, now with more sky texture. You should be at North Bay Python.
#NBPyDan Lyke 17:10:04+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Continuing my exploration of finding a lightweight cross-platform widget set for Rust, and it's reinforcing my feeling that software development has become completely unserious.
Dan Lyke 05:37:50+0000 (2026-04-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
"Debrief" implies that there is also "deboxer".
And what other types of furniture samples are there besides stool?
Dan Lyke 20:10:25+0000 (2026-04-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
Fantastic talk from Christopher Neugebauer to open North Bay Python: ""What is Correct?" and is that even the right question any more?"
I'm gonna have to rewatch this to let the lessons sink in.
#NBPy
Dan Lyke 19:17:35+0000 (2026-04-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.202,-122.591)
You could be somewhere else, or you could be at North Bay Python this weekend.Dan Lyke 16:57:42+0000 (2026-04-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
An organization I'm involved with is running up against email providers fighting with MailChimp tracking links. It's unclear at what level of payment MailChimp stops adding that stuff.
Suggestions for migrating away, including alternate vendors and procedures, welcomed.
Dan Lyke 19:29:12+0000 (2026-04-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Looking at Rust GUI libraries, and I guess we just assume that compute is cheap enough that for every tick of the song playback slider/transport, we're willing to re-render all of the text and tables in the window as well now?
(I'm headed towards Relm/gtk4, which also gives me the hives. Sigh.)
Dan Lyke 02:54:48+0000 (2026-04-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2281,-122.626)
Got a Nixle alert to avoid Petaluma Boulevard South at Mountain View Ave so of course we had to walk down and see. Not sure how this happened, but I think the wheels side is supposed to stay down Dan Lyke 18:56:02+0000 (2026-04-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Ah, yes, when you have to use QuickTime Player to screen record XCode to catch the stack trace before XCode shits itself...
Dan Lyke 17:31:10+0000 (2026-04-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
So I'm fleshing out this app with Cosmic/Iced, and... is there a cross-platform widget set for Rust that's lighter weight and not so "rerender everything when the data model changes" based?
Preferably with a reasonable table control that has in-place editing, and cropping of columns with variable length (so a cell with long data in a column that fills doesn't overrun the next column)?
Dan Lyke 19:15:54+0000 (2026-04-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Pondering Rust's fascination with f32 types. I remember being concerned about memory usage and floats vs doubles in the late '90s, but in the intervening decades I thought we'd kinda agreed that unless there's lots of them, doubles were faster. Am I just the wrong level of old?
Dan Lyke 17:39:13+0000 (2026-04-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I'm learning Rust, and wow am I feeling the "docs are not written for humans" thing right now. And nor are forum responses. A lot of "I'm so smart, mark that particular example up this way", not a lot of "here's how to structure your code out of this mess".