Peter Tripp

@notpeter.bsky.social

Builder of Open Source things @oxide.computer.

I’m calling it now. LLMs will cause cursive to return. How it’ll go: As we demand students show they’re not cheating with AI, hand-written tests and assignments will make a comeback. Because print is slower than cursive, we will start teaching it to kids again.

Glass bottle Fruitopia (1994-1997) Strawberry Passion Awareness Raspberry Psychic Lemonade Cranberry Lemonade Vision Pink Lemonade Euphoria Lemonade Love & Hope Citrus Consciousness The Grape Beyond Fruit Integration Gone but not forgotten.

Eight original flavors of glass bottle Fruitopia. A Coca Cola Minute Maid product.
Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · last mo.

On this special 4th of July I want to remind everyone that the ambrosial 90's era beverage Fruitopia was around for nine years, thats five years longer than the Confederate States of America.

I've been using LOL in conversation for 30 odd years (ytalk, IRC, ICQ, AIM, etc) but more recently my brain is no longer processing it "Laughs Out Loud". Instead I see a man drowning. Won't someone please help him? lol

Does anyone else experience a splotchy mess when transitioning from dark to light on their Macbook? This is a two week old 14inch M5 Macbook Pro Nano-Texture with default settings. None of the display options (Preset, True Tone, Refresh Rate, Brightness etc) seem to help.

Have you ever wondered why if you save an empty Rust file your editor might add a newline? I thought it was a @zed.dev bug, but turns out it's cause Zed by-default enables format_on_save and rust-analyzer. When rust-analyzer invokes rustfmt and that actually adds the newline. But why?

It took me far too long to realize Indeed was merging with GlassDoor and not NextDoor. For the life of me I couldn’t grasp the private equity AI fever dream where combining profiles of racist NextDoor comments and resumes of unemployed folks led to a profitable synergy.

One of my favorite parts of coding agents is that I can just say "fix my merge conflict". I will happily pay some number of pennies to outsource the first pass to a machine.

At a bar with "Mango Cart" on tap. It's amazing how fast this has fallen out of the lexicon. Juul mango pods (along with Creme, Fruit, Cucumber) were discontinued (US in 2019, Canada 2020) but before that were **super** popular with kids. The beer is a about a literal food cart that sells mango.

Goldren Road - Mango Cart (beer can)Juul Mango Pods / Mango Carts

I’ve hit a bug for years (5?) where my iPhone gets in a state where video refuses to play. Once it’s triggered no app can play video (YouTube, Hulu, TV, etc) until I restart the device.

Not a single streaming service has “random” or “I’m feeling lucky” button for television episodes. When watching Friends, no one wants to choose amongst 236 episodes — pick one and I’ll say yes/no.

We all deserve snow days. ⛄️ Any administrator pushing for 7hrs of zoom meetings for kids should be fired. Requiring employees to work during a state of emergency (especially w/o childcare) should be illegal for non-emergency jobs. It’s not hard: don’t expect work when things close for snow. ❄️

Sigh. Neither of these programs should exist. Citizens should be treated equally. Full stop. Airline security is not an Amazon Prime or Costco membership. While we’re at it, abolish the security theater around liquids, shoe removal, pocket knives and scale back the budget accordingly.

DHS reverses course on suspending TSA PreCheck after outcry

The reversal came after discussions with the White House and TSA, an official said. DHS will still suspend the Global Entry program as the partial shutdown continues.

washingtonpost.com

#hugops to GitHub SREs. In addition to the Actions/Issues outage `/sessions/sudo` took me more than a dozen attempts to succeed so things are still obviously not going great. Also, achievement unlocked: non-unicorn error message.

GitHub 500 error message saying "Ooops!!!"
Octcat, holding a wooden sign with 500.
Falling down a canyon Wiley coyote style.

Would love it if the BlueSky iOS app had a “Save Video” feature like they do for images. I understand why Twitter/Facebook don’t want this (they would prefer you to share so they can measure/increase engagement) but would love it if BlueSky went a different way. Cc: @pfrazee.com