Talks at #monktoberfest reminding me that not everything has to suck and there are good things and good people out there still.

@circlejtp.me we all miss you here!

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

That feel when you can’t breathe very well due to all the wildfire smoke but glad it dropped the temp down from inferno to tolerable.

Today in #apple2 #retrocomputing, I filled up a brand new box of empty floppies with some goodies after punching notches to 2-side them. Then hacked/patched the Conan game to work around the fact that my joystick x-axis pot doesn’t go full range and thus I could run to the right.

New retro toy. Restored apple ][+, with a bunch of add-ons: mockingboard, fujinet etc. + color and green screen monitors. Now to relearn 6502 assembly. #apple2

Leaf That Came Out Too Early Cold As Shit

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

I want to help make a government that isn’t evil and works so well that you don’t really think about it

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for in a politician but not having every day be a nightmare of horrors would be pretty high up so someone should run on that

evergreen

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Didn't Tuesday's election results show that it actually WAS working???

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo ago

Sen. Angus King on why Democrats caved: "It wasn't working."

This right here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo ago

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Not now, carnivorous death ball

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Assuming there aren't other fees or splits I'm not aware of, I will be paid $7500 for my life's work being fed into The Machine, and also they won't be removing my work from The Machine

Computer Anonymous Portland has been meeting up for more than 12 years and it was still nice to see people tonight, people who have been coming the whole time and new faces

I’m old enough to remember when these fuckers were telling us masks were emasculating, that you couldn’t breathe in them, and that laws needed to be passed to forbid wearing them for personal protection.

It occurs to me that Geordi La Forge was the OG vibes coder.

speaking of @monktoberfest.com content, we've got a ton of incredible proposals as usual, but we're still looking for better diversity amongst our speakers. if you're from a group under-represented in tech, and have thought about talking, do apply within. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So You Want to Speak at the Monktoberfest

When JJ Abrams asked the TED organizers what he should talk about, the entirety of their advice to him was "Be Profound." For would be speakers at the Monktoberfest, our advice is similarly straightfo...

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?

Today we witnessed two opposite ends of the spectrum of class, quality of character, leadership, diplomacy, intelligence, eloquence, and every other human characteristic.

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

Oh hey we get to talk about our secret project now. grafana.com/blog/2025/02...

The next generation of Grafana Mimir: Inside Mimir's redesigned architecture for increased reliability | Grafana Labs

Here’s a deep dive into the architectural changes we’re making to Grafana Mimir and Grafana Cloud Metrics to support future growth and new use cases at an even larger scale.

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Picard management tip: Take vacations.