@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Immigrant, mixologist, engineer. Interested in feedback loops, abstractions, nuance. I move JSON around | ex LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, LinkedIn, Rapportive
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@five-eights.comReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyWhy did nobody tell me you can have tastes at ice cream shops
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy@not2b I've given to some of the umbrella strategy funds like Swing Left that allocate to multiple local campaigns, and I think they just pass on my phone number to every one. As well as several texts a day from James Talarico, I'm hearing from candidates personally addressing me by name in [ā¦]
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy#til Apparently when donating to a campaign via ActBlue, providing a phone number is optional and not part of the payment process? That would have been good to know. (Insight unlocked after responding "stop" to 30 separate text threads.)
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy@kangaroo5383 champions of free speech around the world: "everyone stop saying mean things about us or else"
@five-eights.comReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyCoding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy@b0rk also if there's an LLM involved, e.g. using Claude to resolve merge conflicts, the merge commits can be useful, since it can follow the graph better than I can and it isn't deterred by guitar hero
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy@b0rk I do use `git merge main`, so long as my branch is short lived (i.e. destined to be merged and deleted). The tools (CLI, GitHub) handle it reasonably in comparisons, e.g. PRs show just my branch's changes, not also the drift from main. Merging back to main works well, even for squash [ā¦]
@five-eights.comReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyWhat is the best option right now for a "serverless homelab"? I want a machine I can ssh into, with persistent storage, and that can run cron jobs, but I don't want to have to install OS updates or manage a firewall. Seems like this must be a thing in the Year of Our Agent Lord 2026.
@five-eights.comReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyControl Resonant is frenetic and fun, visually imaginative, but it seems much harder than its predecessor. I've never seen the reload screen so many times in the opening levels of a game.
@mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyFor my friends and followers in the US: Are you registered to vote? If so, have you checked your voter registration to make sure it's still valid? (Your state government probably has a website where you can do it.) Do you have a plan for how you're going to vote (by mail, early, or on Election [ā¦]
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy@flyingsquirrel I was also screaming this at my screen at that moment. also how the "edge" of the black hole was SIX FEET FROM THE FORWARD HULL OF THE SHIP otherwise the least worst episode of this regrettable season.
@five-eights.comReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyExperimentally vibe coding an app to plan out feeding schedules for my cats. So far it is scolding me.
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyYou know that poem about "the widening gyre" / "things fall apart" that is so evocative of ā¦ all this? #til W.B. Yeats, who wrote it, was an enthusiastic (albeit temporary) supporter of fascist movements and disapproved of democracy. Gonna have to think about that next time I quote it.
@perci.metapixl.com.ap.brid.gyReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySo Rude! Sister didn't like me saying she isn't Fluffy.
@perci.metapixl.com.ap.brid.gyReposted by @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMy human left this out for me. I am going on a ADVENTURE. I think it will be like going to a Vet but fun instead of bad and pokey. My sister can't come because she is not Fluffy enough.
Finished a dovetail tray, made in walnut with #HandTools. Really happy with how this one came out. #Woodworking
This was my second attempt at this project, and although I'm happy with the first one too, it's really satisfying to be able to directly compare how [ā¦]
@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy> We cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. "In case you were wondering whether this was personal: it definitely fucking is" [ā¦]