I was genuinely confused when so many people were excited for the Rabbit R1 device, because they said that it worked by hostile screen-scraping of Android apps in the cloud to order Uber, Door Dash, etc.

Had anyone who preordered this thing ever tried automating even a basic web site with Selenium?

Just booked our ferry tickets for the overnight, 27-hour boat ride from Kyushu to Okinawa for RubyKaigi. Can't wait to see everyone Tuesday night! aline-ferry.com

I get that Apple needed to switch to the cheaper TSMC process and that's the real reason they're launching the M4 now, but as someone who just paid $5000 for an M2 Vision Pro and an M3 MacBook Air, it feels pretty shitty that a thousand dollar iPad is so much faster.

The onsen hotel we're staying at is equipped with four of these bad boys and as long as I've got this chair in my life I'm not sure I'll have need for human touch ever again panasonic.jp/massage/p-db/EP-MA88M.html

Currently reading my 6th book in Japanese and I finally made the leap to using a full Japanese dictionary (as opposed to a Japanese-English one).

Finding that my mind is staying in flow longer, retaining more, and a lot of nuanced/overloaded terms (like さらに) are much more clearly described in a full dictionary than JMDICT. 💫

Build the thing right: LLMs are mediocre-but-useful tools

Build the right thing: LLMs are spectacularly bad, because they are so over-indexed on positive affirmation that they'll never tell you your idea is stupid, much less suggest a better one.

Was talking to someone who thought he was an expert in prestige television, but dude didn't even understand why Battlestar Galactica and The Young Pope are in the same cinematic universe.

It felt extremely wrong writing this recursive validation-checker this morning,
but for the life of me I couldn't find a better way to ensure deeply-nested
associations hadn't somehow become invalid after they'd last been saved gist.github.com/searls/ee2a2aab1d4bdbeeca3345991c1a8d97

I don't understand how so many people could attend stand-up meetings every day and still not be remotely funny.

v0.0.3 of the searls package is out. If you need my latest contact info you can npm install me github.com/searls/searls

Wow, they've got a lofi music for everything now. Just found a YouTube video of ARM chips being fabricated called "ASML ASMR"

How should I have known I wasn't supposed to put down my masseuse's phone number as "current therapist" on the patient intake form?

Saw a family out to dinner the other day and the kid ordered milk. The waiter responded, "regular or chocolate"?

The mom got very mad at the waiter's mention of chocolate milk. It's a little shocking how far the Ovaltine window has shifted in recent years.

I've written more tests than just about anybody. Spent years comparing dynamic and static type systems. My life's work is to maximize correctness and minimize maintenance.

All it's taught me: the single most important thing programmers can do to improve their code is to minimize branching (e.g. if statements). Code that executes the same set of instructions every time behaves the same way every time.

TFW you can't work up the motivation to program all day and then when you finally get into the zone, you run out of time and have to go be somewhere.

Before buying Apple Vision Pro, my biggest worry about the ergonomics was that I would ABSOLUTELY HATE touching my forefinger and thumb together to "click" things.

200 hours later: I was right! Still not used to it. Just supremely off-putting and uncomfortable compared to clicking a mouse, tapping a screen. Gross.

If anyone out there wants to win some number of Searls Tokens*, I'd love some help figuring this VS Code issue out.

*Redeemable for good vibes. Searls Tokens have a cash value of 1/100th of 1 cent in jurisdictions that require it stackoverflow.com/questions/78298197/visual-studio-code-frequently-truncates-files-when-files-autosave-is-set-to-onf

If I were a citrus grower, I'd absolutely have a behind-the-scenes blog about my business called Navel Gazing.

Shout-out to Jesse van der Pluijm (jessevdp.nl) for reminding me I should be using the Rails 7 attributes API for setting defaults 🤦‍♂️ api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Attributes/ClassMethods.html

Am I right to use Rails 7's normalizes feature as a way to set an app-layer default value for a model attribute?

class Basket < ApplicationRecord
  normalizes :fruits_array, with: ->(fruits) { fruits || [] }
end