KC Lemson
@kclemson.bsky.social
Old-ish person who’s been online a long time and likes puns and tech, except when tech pisses me off. Also a mom of 2 adults, ADHD, draws/paints, and recently retired from working at Microsoft. #BlackLivesMatter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
In the last 24h I absolutely devoured what I think will be my favorite book of 2026: Ilona Andrews’ This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1). www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new…
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Writing patterns that make me start twitching uncontrollably: “It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiorno - and no one is talking about it. Let me explain.”
TFW you are a Gen-Xer at the airport and randomly end up meeting the voice actor (Victor Caroli) who was the narrator for the Transformers cartoon (and so much more) in the 80s!! tfwiki.net/wiki/Victor_...
Homophones in the English language drive me nuts - they are pique irritation
“He’s like me, but in a different font” - my kid describing one of her coworkers
At my friend’s house for a bbq yesterday, and the friend said “Anyone want some more?” while grilling, and my bestie and I both immediately shouted out “please sir, some more?” So that’s how you can tell someone was a theater kid
Frog asked the agent to write a spec for the proposed changes. "There," he said, "now I can understand the changes without reading any code." "But you're not reading the spec either" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.
Frog put the agent behind a DNS filtering egress proxy. „There,“ he said. „Now the agent can’t reach any malicious sites.“ „But we can allowlist github.com to fetch and push to our repo.“ said Toad. „That is true.“ said Frog.
I misread this as “bull shirt” at first, which is now going to become my favorite expression because there’s a lot of bullshirt going on these days
The bit at the end of The Usual Suspects where the camera focuses on the feet for just a few seconds is just absolute peak visual storytelling
Factorio’s latest update is a delightful read for any fans of the game, particularly those who work in the software industry - it’s clearly written by humans who love their customers and their craft factorio.com/blog/post/ff...
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I added celery and cashews to my spicy chicken fried rice and I feel like I should win some kind of cooking award
There’s a really fun thread on the Dungeon Crawler Carl subreddit about creating a bingo card leading up to book 8’s release next week, I loved it so much I made a simple site to generate DCC bingo cards with ideas from the thread plus some of my own: dccbingo.lovable.app
I just scrolled past this and the *sound* I made out loud to myself, oh my
Yesterday my goodest boy Baxter started walking in tight circles in an obsessive way - long story short, it’s likely he either had a stroke or he has a brain tumor that crossed a tipping point in his forebrain. He’s only 9.5 years old and I’m not ready for this to be the beginning of the end.
Unfortunately I have to report that making life changes such as eating better and exercising (mostly lifting heavy things) helped my cholesterol get into the normal range for the first time in *decades*. This is bullshit 😆
Reading things on social media is really annoying these days. Here’s why:
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
I am irrationally annoyed that they are gathering data on if I’m interested in a post **from a page I follow**