TIL the US has an extradition treaty with Brazil.

Router upgrade time. Wooo!

I blame so much on the "reality TV" craze popularized by Jeff Probst as a way to blunt the 2000 writers' strike.

Turns out that picking scabs causes long-term bleeding.

Really love the framing on this. </sarcasm> What they really mean is Apple is ethically honoring the wishes of sites to not scrape their data.

It's amazing that ethical behavior is somehow a negative.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/29/big-name-publishers-are-refusing-to-let-apple-intelligence-train-on-data

Here’s an idea. How about we make all social media sites provide and open public API for legitimated researchers who can view all ads, and public posts from participants provided the data is analyzed directly on that site’s own secure servers or, if downloaded, the names and other PII must be anonymized and held in encrypted stores only for a short duration to run the analysis then discarded.

<snicker> mildly political but damn funny.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_hsjW9_wAqo?si=CTogH6G3QbeBK4S-

You know you're dealing with automation when the instructions for your medication include what to do if you miss a dose, and you literally are taking 1 single dose. 🤣

@charlotteclymer has a great ad she posted on LinkedIn if you're there:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cmclymer_a-few-months-ago-substack-invited-about-activity-7234650195903307776-a8fz

P.S. There was a time in ye olden days when code didn't run 24x7 and you could run the program and be done. Those days are long past, much like discrete transistors.

One of the hardest things to learn as a developer is that the hard part of the job isn't writing the code. The hard part is learning to manage the code through its life stages and make it operate at scale in production without incident.

If you think your job is done when the code is merged, you're fooling yourself and harming your customers.

#leetheism

Is it wrong that I assumed Randy's "I'm So Indicted" song wasn't set to the tune of the Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited?"

Superseding is that like... <nevermind>

Who will be the last CoSoNaut to get COVID? Who is still in the running?

He’s a self parody. #politics