surgery went well. better than I had hoped, even. I can straighten my leg all the way for the first time since August. my body keeps getting choked up about little improvements in function, after so many months of nothing but disability and decline.

tailscale is unbelievably smooth tho, very nice

surgery is in literally six hours and i'm out here setting up github actions runners and tailscale on my homelab so that i can keep working during recovery ... i have become the thing i swore to destroy

ASCII because I'm pretty much Claude only.

the moving staircases in Hogwarts scream "tech debt" to me someone was definitely like "oh this will just be a temporary workaround until we can refactor the west wing"

something that is very exciting and also concerning to me is that i think the current importance of frameworks and tools is going to go away maybe it will just shift, but, like, a lot of frameworks are developed to save devs time and energy, but the tradeoff is usually that they come with opinions but if you can spin... Show more

wabi.ai "Not just another *app for that*... but this time, *an app for you*."

i wonder if the reason i've pretty much stopped listening to music is that the world i'm living in feels so different to anything i've ever been comforted by in the past

bespoke is the new black

currently thinking about how three months ago i asked claude "what does the workflow look like at a real dev shop" and now i'm doing smoke tests and rolling deployments

> be me > DB ingest is on track to take 3 hours > cancel operation > spend 2½ hours optimizing script > run script > it takes 30 minutes

i just spent five solid hours debugging an issue and making literally zero progress on it. and then i switched libraries and it went. the fuck. away.