Jordan Running

@jrunn.ing

He/him • Dad, software engineer, karaokeist, recent Minnesota transplant

It still cracks me up that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey found the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states—a spot near Lebanon, Kansas still marked by a monument and picnic area—in 1918 by balancing a large cardboard cutout of the United States on a point.

Dropped Amazon Music in favor of an Apple One subscription today. With the Apple services we already subscribe to it's a savings of like $8/mo. and we get Apple TV too. Apple Music is a very mediocre music streaming service but so was Amazon Music, and my music needs are very basic anyway.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Furry visitor returned last night. Shhh she’s being invisible. (I think it’s a “she.”) At this rate we’re going to have to name her.

Opossum in a chicken run at night being very, very still

I have formed a parasocial relationship with the raccoon with short spine syndrome and which you were probably enjoying as a cute meme Forgive me he is my everything Jimothy I would die for you

@perfecthatgames.com Sort of a bug on Can of Words: “Reveal first letters” doesn’t show letters are part of an already-selected word. (Discovered this today when I couldn’t figure out why my solution with “upper case” and “lower case” wasn’t accepted.)

Screenshot of a Can of Words game. The “word” “MUSTCONTAIN” has been entered and the “C” has been circled as an annotation.

My chihuahua rolled in chicken poop so I won’t let him sit by me until I’ve had a chance to bathe him. He keeps shooting me the most pitiful looks. He’s going to look even more pitiful in the bath. (Pic of clean pup for tax.)

A sleepy tan chihuahua with a white snout and dark ears laying in the sun on a fluffy mint green blanket