Getting an email from a stranger who says something nice about a blog post I wrote is just about the biggest dopamine burst I could have on the Internet. I learned so much from technical blogs when I was early in my career (still do) and it makes me so happy to feel I have paid it forward a little.

"As someone who according to 23andMe has 90+% Anglo-Celtic ancestry, when I look at Erling Haaland I feel like I have epigenetic memories of someone like him putting an axe through my skull." x.com/willmenaker/...

WIP Wednesday on my DAO Tide Titan made from the Sturgeon Hardsuit model by @pipermakes.bsky.social with some GW bits. Lots of remaining detail work like panel lining and little bits here and there, but really happy with how it's shaping up! #Nerdlings

Am I doing this customizable Jedi kit right? @atomicmassgames.bsky.social Running as a DAO Union Revamped Eternal unit in my #OnePageRules force #Nerdlings

A big HDF Veteran Walker from #OnePageRules and a little Covenant Grunt from #Halo #Nerdlings

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

A tiny bit more work to do on the base. but the model is essentially done! Running as a DAO Tide Titan in #OnePageRules tomorrow! #Nerdlings #Tau #WarhammerCommunity

Now that's a nice set of legs! WIP on my R'Varna model #Nerdlings #Tau #WarhammerCommunity

Had to laugh while watching the #Adepticon 40k stream and they drummed up the big reveal for the new models only to show a Space Marine that I genuinely could not tell if it was new or not. Is the stance maybe 5 degrees wider? Or maybe it's new because it's red instead of blue?

Just finished reading Neuromancer and was surprised at how 'meh' the book left me. It didn't seem good or bad. I can see the cyberpunk ambiance it created, but the story itself told in that setting was pretty mediocre along with the characters.

Taking some steps into the #3DS hacking scene and my first frustration is the virtual console injector being Windows only! I booted a VM and decompiled NSUI with ILSpy and what do you know, it bundles a bunch of other open source tools inside it which is why the browser alerts for viruses.

I'm now convinced that they discontinued the R'Varna battlesuit because of how fiddly it was (and how fragile I assume this model will be) #Warhammer #Tau #40k #Nerdlings

Difficult to photograph, but painted up this Garchomp Kaijumon to go into my friend's #OPR Saurian collection #Nerdlings #minipainting #Pokemon Took some small license as the official scheme was just too much blue.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 9mo ago

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

Productive week of painting between 10 flesh hounds, 5 reapers, 2 more stealth suits, 11 Tau Pathfinders, and Darkstrider! #Nerdlings #minipainting Everything was painted up for 4 player game of #OPR tomorrow.

What's going on in MPLS makes clear that pretty much all of US immigration and anti-terrorism policy needs to be rolled back, and DHS needs to be deconstructed starting with ICE. Everyone in the organization needs to be investigated and face charges, with no exceptions for "just following orders."

Painted up my desert rock terrain from @corvusgamesterrain.bsky.social in prep for a game of #OnePageRules tomorrow. Did my best to match the tones of the rock I saw in Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park! #wargaming #Nerdlings

Recently saw using LLMs for development compared to eating meat and, in an attempt to shutdown discussion, shaming LLM use being likened to a vegetarian shaming meat eaters. I have a better analogy: using #LLM #AI agents for software dev is like smoking in public. 1/🧵

Test model for my next set of Tau stealth suits. Ghost shrimp from Pipermakes. Really prefer this to the standard model, probably helps that I have a year of painting experience in between! #Nerdlings #Warhammer #OPR #Tau #minipainting

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Hosted a fun game of #OPR Grimdark Future yesterday! Matched up Galactic Empire + Fantasy Saurians against Tau + Chaos Daemons #Nerdlings #OnePageRules #Wargaming

Finally ready to call these bloodletters done after having some fun getting their swords painted up! #OPR #Nerdlings #Warhammer #minipainting

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11mo ago

See also: debates about speed cameras. There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad." I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.

A squad of 10 Imperial Scout Troopers painted up for stealth in the Endor jungle from #StarWarsLegion. I'll be running them in my #OPR army as Human Defense Force Veterans like my Stormtroopers #Nerdlings #minipainting

Death Guard #Mandalorians I'm adding to my #OPR Dark Brothers army as Veteran Assault Brothers #StarWars #Legion #Nerdlings

I stayed up waaayy too late finishing Isles of the Emberdark last night so today is going to be a slow quiet day of painting and listening to Crying in H Mart #booksky #cosmere

It's that time of year in #Denver where everyone forgets to shovel their sidewalk. If only we could just make this another function of the city to maintain its infrastructure like we do our roads.

Big news! We’re excited to announce that @wesmars.bsky.social, author of “Killed By a Traffic Engineer,” will be joining us for our live show in Denver on Friday, December 12th. Get tickets: www.yimbydenver.org/events/war-o...

Been dipping my toe into writing initial startup code for an nRF51 and wow is this header file barebones. You get register structs and macros for casting from the base address, but no fields or masking. STMicro sure has spoiled me! I ended up writing my own vector table struct even 😬