Does anyone else ever think about all the unused RAM cells from RAM that were always shadowed by ROM or registers? Like addresses 0 and 1 on the Commodore 64? Or is this a just me affliction?

Sign of how crazy this week has been: I'm still reading through the release notes for the current update of VSCode when it pops up yet another Update button.

Tech folks are generally fearing the disaster of week that January 19, 2038 will bring (Y2038 bug), but I'm beginning to wonder if this week will have been worse. It's certainly been miserable for me.

I was just a bit early. They're being dropped by Google and have decided to exit the SSL business.

Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊@dacut.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why are all the fixes for the eMudhra certificate issue these odd patches to look at the intermediate certificates and refuse them if they appear in the chain instead of removing and blocking the eMudhra root? Is there a too-big-to-fail situation going on here?

Why are all the fixes for the eMudhra certificate issue these odd patches to look at the intermediate certificates and refuse them if they appear in the chain instead of removing and blocking the eMudhra root? Is there a too-big-to-fail situation going on here?

I see so many people I thought better of fawning over the Tesla Roadster.

Just making our Slack channel comply with the new executive order...

This is... not good. Our ferry system is basically in free fall at this point. The WSF mechanics and engineers somehow ended up with 0% raises through 2029 via an arbitrator. Staffing is at bare minimums, and relies heavily on overtime for normal operations.

Washington State Ferries@ferries.wsdot.wa.gov · 4w ago

All Routes - Routes may be out of service to start the day on Monday, 10/05 Read full alert

Hey everyone! We fixed all of the issues with AI! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The problem with making all-day spaghetti is the aroma tantalizes you all day.

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Once we're done migrating to IPv6 world-wide and turning off the last IPv4 server, it's time to start migrating from Referer to Referrer headers.

Again? At the start of my day?

Posted this before, but wanted to reiterate for my job-seeking friends who may have missed it: @leonadato.com curates a tech jobs list, refreshed weekly: adatosystems.com/2026/07/31/j... One interesting bit that caught my eye: A "Who's *actually* hiring page": stillhiring.today Hope this helps!

Oh, boy. A reply-all storm on a new distribution list that apparently includes a few thousand folks. Time to close the laptop and start the weekend early.

GitHub has apparently decided that people calling it the "hamburger menu" was decidedly unsexy, so they've gone and changed it to pancakes. I'm guessing this will help their availability somehow?

AI has truly come full circle. I need to wait for it to help 3,780 others before it will answer my question.

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

🤖ScottsRobots🤖@scottsrobots.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

I just spotted Mitch McConnell vacationing with some relatives.

Customer obsession at its finest.

cast yourself as a villain

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4mo ago

cast yourself as a villain

December 9, 2009: Comcast announces they're buying NBC. Shares jump 10%. June 29, 2026: Comcast announces they're getting rid of NBC. Shares jump 28%. Maybe they should just alternatively buy and sell NBC every other week?

Just found out that something I helped architect a *long* time ago for JPL is now an open source project being used across a few other NASA missions: hysds.github.io/docs/ Tickled pink to have played a small role here!

What is HySDS? | HySDS

Welcome to the Hybrid-Cloud Science Data Processing System (HySDS) documentation! HySDS is an open source science data processing system used across many large-scale Earth Science missions, data produ...

hysds.github.io

For those looking for tech jobs, @leonadato.com curates a collection of job listings that he refreshes every Friday: adatosystems.com/2026/06/12/j... Thanks for doing this, Leon!

Ok, even getting a bare-bones AssumeRole call working was more work than I had ever expected.

Cursed enums: enum Direction { Clockwise = 0, Counterclockwise = 1, Anticlockwise = 2, }

When there's a gold rush, sell shovels. isaiprofitable.com When the AI bubble pops, NVIDIA will be fine per this chart. They can just pivot back to gaming or cryptocurrencies (ugh) or whatever. Stock will take a hit, but they've still pocketed the money. Everyone else? Holding the bag.

The job market is definitely brutal. We (a tiny startup in the govtech space) had well over 3000 submissions for 1 mid-level position. A year ago it would've been ~400. Three years ago it was a dozen. 1/2

Me, on some code I recently worked on: "This is simultaneously broken and magical."

Google changed the icon for Google Calendar (now just a blue blob), and it's going to completely disrupt my week as I constantly look for that browser tab in a sea of other blue blobs...