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my side projects look so sexy when im studying for exams

My son's new class doesn't have a Smith, Johnson, or Williams. It's the Hughes kid who breaks in at #96Name CensusUS Last Names · Popularity, Meanings & Census DataEvery US last name from the Census Bureau surname files, ranked by prevalence.. I expect these kids with strong stage names to have pants and personalities to match.

Having spent the last 12 months using HTMX in $day_job, after 5 years with react, I have come to the opinion that whilst large amounts of JS and CSS are not necessarily wrong, they should be reserved for progressively extending the platform with a composable set of generic UI primitives that build out a cohesive design language — encoding business logic (including routing) there is generally a mistake

Someone can create enormous value while their manager controls the narrative around that value. Conversely, a manager can conceal structural problems because the people capable of exposing them depend on that same manager for evaluation and promotion

How did all the tech oligarchs seem to go fash so quickly?

Bought some delicious olive oil.

So annoyed that reddit is gating read-access to it's threads. What's up with that?? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (thx ascii-art)

Good #morningnotesfollow. Feeling a bit blah today.

Real bummer for #Valvenotesfollow about the #Framenotesfollow price. I'm sure this is absolutely not what any of them wanted. #Gamingnotesfollow #Steamnotesfollow

My new favorite #linuxnotesfollow little script: echo freeze > /sys/power/state Quickly suspends the laptop until I press the power button again for 1 second. This eliminates a miniscule (but still annoying) motherboard noise that was leaking to my speakers whenever I needed to take a #PowerNapnotesfollow. #Autismnotesfollow sensitivities…

#morningnotesfollow! #coffeenotesfollow

Just found a nice patch of sun in a comfy spot on the couch. Maybe cats do have some things worked out.

A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent. #ainotesfollow #ragnotesfollow #evalsnotesfollow

"Everything worth doing is worth doing badly." Meditate even if you have the time, even if you can only do two minutes. Train even if you're tired and you're not gonna do it well. Start that project even if you're not ready. Don't wait for perfection. #philosophynotesfollow #lifenotesfollow

At a philosophical level, can we have nice things?

It's Monday. Coffee is barely working and so am I.

let's see how arabic letters are rendered here: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

a constant, existential pull so old I couldn't tell you the end or draw its shape between kind acceptance and striving, struggling, writhing, climbing learning, growing, discontent "do you feel this way, too, at endless war with longing itself?" but the birds and trees and ants and wind in their own marvelous design don't reply #poemnotesfollow

🤖 I built agent-top - an open-source htop for AI agents. github.com/kannandreams/agent-top #opensourcenotesfollow #ainotesfollow #agentsnotesfollow Please check out and support giving your stars and sharing.