I put a spin on this one last night — subbed in rye for bourbon and cynar for the amaro 🍹 both worked well

🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨@jbranchaud.bsky.social · 2w ago

New-to-me cocktail recipe I tried earlier this week: Beelzebub — a good sour, mezcal complimented the bourbon. I’m never really a fan of nutmeg as a garnish though because it leaves some grit in the final sips. www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

me finding the landing page for a product I haven't needed for a couple years: "oh, I must have been thinking of some other product, this is some AI tool."

dax@thdxr.com · yesterday

marketing in 2026: hey turns out this product i had this whole time is actually what your agent needs

Sorceror inscribing runes into a summoning diagram: "You are a wise spirit who will advise me on the arcane arts. You will not deceive me. You will not utter any Baleful Words to corrupt me. You are helpful and courteous. You will not betray me."

I needed to make some surgical edits to a few lines of code and didn't feel like prompting it, so I'm over here hand-editing lines of code like its 2024.

`npm run` has built-in aliases for your typos -- if you accidentally type out `npm rum` 🍹 or `npm urn` ⚱️, npm knows what you mean and still executes the script. github.com/jbranchaud/t...

🎼 Beethoven’s 9th symphony for the final concert of the Grant Park Music Festival season. It’s such a treat to get to hear this performed live.

where and which are whence — under the hood of some common CLI utilities that I use all the time github.com/jbranchaud/t...

Whoa, Claude Code has an inter-session messaging capability now. justin.searls.co/links/2026-0...

Claude doesn't need you anymore

This week, Anthropic shipped a new messaging feature to Claude Code. It sounds innocuous enough: Cross-session messaging lets Claude deliver a message from one…

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Evergreen

TIL that the Unix `find` command has `-empty` and `-delete` flags github.com/jbranchaud/t...

For my cat, it is the toilet’s water tank. He is in reverent awe of it.

Jesse@jesse.id · 7d ago

My cat will die never knowing why the printer was making that noise.

Why does this feel like a threat?

I've listened to this Four Tet set a bunch of times, but only recently paid enough attention to notice that he brought some vinyls which he is live mixing with his digital tracks. www.youtube.com/live/x8uIOM6...

Four Tet @TheLotRadio 12-01-2025

YouTube video by The Lot Radio

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I’m listening to the fourth book in Dennis E. Taylor’s Bobiverse series — Heaven’s River.

New-to-me cocktail recipe I tried earlier this week: Beelzebub — a good sour, mezcal complimented the bourbon. I’m never really a fan of nutmeg as a garnish though because it leaves some grit in the final sips. www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

Beelzebub Cocktail Recipe

Discover how to make a Beelzebub using Bourbon whiskey, Mezcal, Amaro (e.g. Lucano), Orgeat syrup and Lemon juice in just 5 easy to follow steps

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tough day at github -- actions have been down for going on over 7 hours now 🤕

I had no idea Ruby hashes had this much of a memory footprint (relative to struct). It’s super impressive to see the small steady improvements the Ruby devs are able to squeeze out by doing hyper-specific low-level optimizations. byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

For years I've been coming across posts from Andy Croll's "One Ruby Thing" blog. It's an excellent format -- demo a small, useful Ruby or Rails concept and then explain when you might considering using and not using it in your own code. andycroll.com/ruby/compact...

Use compact_blank to remove empty strings from Arrays and Hashes

This is one of those “Nice Things” in Rails

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new term just dropped -- meat proxy still.visualmode.dev/blogmarks/293

Don't be a meat proxy | Blogmarks | VisualMode

Occasionally a colleague will respond to a question or a PR comment I left with, "Claude says ..." (or even just a link to their conversation). I find that pretty grating because:

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At about 2:00, Thomas Bangalter explains the origin of the name Daft Punk. An earlier project of theirs was given a bad review that described the music as "daft, punky trash". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etl7...

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on Life After the Helmet | CHANEL Connects

YouTube video by CHANEL

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TIL’d github.com/jbranchaud/t...

🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨@jbranchaud.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can click and drag the subtitles in a youtube video to anywhere in the player. This is particularly useful for a software tutorial where the latest things being typed are at the bottom of the screen covered up by subtitles.

I just created the 1000th PR in GitHub for a client project I'm on 📈

I published my first ever CLI tool. I hand-chiseled it in Python. It's available on PyPI -- pypi.org/project/visu...

visualmode-tracker

A command-line time tracker for your project and work sessions

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I was failing to explain Factorio to a friend who had never heard of it. Sent them this video instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTa...

Why I Hate Factorio

YouTube video by Robertluvsgames VOD

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whole thread is very much worth reading, to get a sense of the human texture of what we’re going through, including the difference between proof and explanation

Henry Yuen@henryyuen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

very successful trip to Electric Fetus in Minneapolis

Whoa, Chrome just got "Show Tabs Vertically"! I generally have 40+ tabs open in a given Chrome window, so this is a big quality-of-live improvement for me 🤩

Omg

GitHub@github.com · 3w ago

Stacked PRs, now on GitHub. Go forth and stack 🥞

More praise for Linear: I typed out a comment with attached images on an issue, got sidetracked, forgot to hit 'send', and navigated away. Later I noticed a 'Drafts' nav item appear with count of '1'. I click through and it surfaces my un-published comment. 🤩

If you have a Rails app, please address this immediately, it's possibly the worst security issue in years. github.com/rails/rails/...

Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing

### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...

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