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Feeling this one hard.
[via my old friend, Martin_FFF]

I usually get the small coffee at Fox & Lion. Today I was feeling extra sluggish and ordered a large, and it's cartoonishly enormous! What have I gotten myself into

Pride parade in #Buffalo yesterday.
Awesome performances in floats. Great community support. It’s nice when people aren’t bigots.
Lots of corporate, political involvement. Branded rainbow swag nobody needed.
This gamelan float is how I discovered there’s an org in Buffalo:

Are you in #Canberra? Fancy rip-roaring, dungeoneering, surrounded by actual, friendly people, verifiably made of meat?(*)
Saturday, 25 July, 1pm.
Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden.
Walter’s Burly Griffins will host the following #DCCRPG scenarios for your gratification:
• Dread Dawning…

Walter’s Burly Griffins July 2026 - Dungeon Crawl Classics
Walter’s Burly Griffins invites you to their monthly open table to meet and play Dungeon Crawl Classics TTRPG with fellow adventurers.

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli, independent journalist extraordinaire.
Russia loses momentum, but even a falling giant can hurt you if it falls on top of you.
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The Corridor Cracks: How Ukraine Is Strangling Russia’s Road to Crimea
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

I had a friend from high school and college pass.. She had been sick for a while.. Fought and won for a while.. Originally sick during the Covid era... I was going to go visit but I had a covid exposure and was too scared to go.. (right and wrong was so unclear then -- still is)
I never figured out how to go home to a later get-together. She finally passed. Now I punctuate it by filling out a form on a website funeral home's website that lets you donate some trees with a …

SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60% of shares have an extended lock-up (Charles Capel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SpaceX Reserves Up to 5% of IPO Stock for Employees and Friends
SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of shares in its upcoming initial public offering for certain employees and friends and family of its executive officers, the company disclosed in an amended filing.

Just pulled a now empty PDU and tidied up a few cables. Main IT rack is looking pretty good now.
Everything below the 1GbaseT switches (except the PoE injector) is pulling a combined total of just under 1 kW; the rest isn't metered yet.

Can you imagine the luck?
My friend David in Aberdeenshire managed to take a photo capturing one of the swallows flying past his window!
#FensterFreitag