don't cheap out on fitness and nutrition as you get older. in the american healthcare system, the time and money you invest now will pay you back many times over. a gym membership costs less per month than most prescription copays.

just heard about a company called pantio. given that we're apparently living inside a black mirror episode, i can only assume the pig one is next.

if you can get 80% of the way there by prompting, a lot of people will stop at 80% and never develop the intuition that comes from wrestling with hard problems yourself

todays mood

sink or cat bed?

the distribution of what's worth knowing is shifting memorizing low level code syntax matters less when autocomplete handles it or it's generated understanding data structures, system design, security fundamentals, debugging instincts, reading code you didn't write is getting more valuable

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VoidZero@voidzero.dev · 5mo ago

One. More. Thing. youtu.be/Bp86buftbX8

debugging is a persistence game

second week of swimming. Digging Shokz OpenSwim pro for providing the jams

in case you feel the need to deploy @tanstack.com start to aws using cdk. github.com/andrewgillil...

monsters

working with someone who seeks out others’ failures is exhausting correction is necessary, but weaponizing mistakes to boost your own status erodes trust fast strong teams don’t hunt for errors to win points, they fix them together and move forward

saw good luck, have fun, don't die this weekend. if you share the sentiment that social media and generative AI are, on balance, a net negative for society, accelerants for the worst of human nature, you'll thoroughly enjoy this film. if you're a tiktok doom scroller, you'll probably hate it.

been rockin shokz bone conduction headphones for about 3+ years for workouts/runs/walks/swims (yeah they have water proof ones) and wont go back to in ear headphones for exercise. plus, how do people wear over ear headphones to workout. do they not sweat?

this means i can basically speak spanish at the level of a toddler

love this take by @aaronfrancis.com github.com/readme/guide...

Publishing your work increases your luck

In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:

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forgot to bring my headphones to the gym this morning, had rock me amadeus on loop in my head. gonna be a great day

this is the year, reviewing code is gonna be cooler than ever

stranger things finale did a better job than i expected. wrapping up a highly entertaining show is hard. enough loose ends were left open, because let’s face it, spin-offs == 💵’s

2026 is coming, remember…

after a week of many cookies and eggnog (and very few vegetables) i find myself slugging away on the stairmaster. feels like deja vu, or possible insanity

chrimus shopping done, and zero dollars give to amazon. sorry jeff

remember when the mall used to kick ass this time of year, pepperidge farm remembers

loading some random bytes into memory...

dear future self, mixing swift and c++, set this value in build settings in xcode

tastes like purple

some great ideas working with fastapi youtube.com/watch?v=Af6Zr0tNNdE

Anatomy of a Scalable Python Project (FastAPI)

YouTube video by ArjanCodes

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Scroll through from the tiniest organism right up to the largest. All beautifully hand-illustrated by an actual human. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Size of Life

From an amoeba to a blue whale

neal.fun

5 years ago i was bartending on a beach for most of a decade. feels like a lifetime ago. i may forget passwords, but ill never forget how to make a mojito grateful to the people who took a chance on me