I’m a tech founder and recovering SysAdmin. I helped found DevOps and grew up in open source. These days I am convalescing from a decade of physical and mental neglect while running Puppet. I sometimes write about startups, founders, and other topics I like. I am an angel investor, mostly in areas of expertise (infrastructure and dev tools) and interest (local first software and power tools). I am generally default-accept on first conversations.
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Last Notes npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh yeah. today is the turnover day. going to be bad for a while. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh guess you have not checked the weather and AQI forecast, eh? Unless you were being sarcastic… About to walk my dog, the. (Because of a heart issue) i won’t be allowed outside until the smoke clears. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh this is the closest pizza place to my house, but we have not been. Should we go? If so, why? (Note, we are all veg, and one kid does not like pizza 👀) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Yuck. Men are gross. I don’t know if they’re worse today than they were when I was younger, but we sure have a lot more data supporting their crappiness. Single women are buying more houses. The men they are dating are not responding well https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/13/women-home-buyers-men-dating npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh I mean they looked pretty fucking stupid wearing them in the winter in Minnesota npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This is an interesting example of “taste” in programming. It is obviously possible to write important, widely used software that pulls in tons of dependencies. But it’s also something most devs learn to distrust over time. At least, uh, the good ones. Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/196/327/570/312/532/original/f305d2ca1ab0c2cf.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4xpq I’d love to have a call about this at some point, or meet over coffee. I don’t think I understand what you mean, and I’d like to. I feel existential dread, and I appreciate that you feel you have an answer, but I don’t understand it. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4w8z I was able to bring this up in conversation tonight! I mean, it might have been slightly forced on my part, but like, infinity(ish) came up, so obviously I had to talk about how this critical proof about differential infinities was stolen npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh I guess they’re different from SROs? Maybe the SRO doesn’t have a full kitchen and/or bath or something? These seem to be a better fit overall, and probably don’t take up much space. The age of SRO was also when the home basics were much more, um, basic npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2wsh yep. Single men, especially, would use these a ton, when either you g or old. But they’ve been made illegal in most cities. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4xpq @nprofile…g2n5 @nprofile…a6hr correctly labeling the problem is orthogonal to solving it. Honestly I do not know how to solve the current problem, much less the larger problem you are pointing to. I don’t see how we ever return to being a functional country without some kind of constitutional convention where we make some deep changes. I expect most of us know the main ones (all focused on making the country more democratic and representative). Is that possible? How do we make it happen? I dunno. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4xpq @nprofile…g2n5 @nprofile…a6hr it is definitely a problem that we have a two party system. But… the problem right now is that one of our parties is actively trying to (and succeeding in) destroying our country. To describe that as a “polarization” problem is naive at best, and complicit at worst. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…nrlp I grew up here, and I am completely mystified be people’s preference for buying and eating food in their cars. It’s usually even *faster* to eat inside, because there’s no line there! npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4w8z nice! I’ve seen you post/write about the band over the years, but had never listened. Fun times! I obviously immediately thought of the Homer quote. But I think my favorite song about whiskey is by Old Crow Medicine Show — but it looks like I’ll have to listen to their whole discography to figure out what its name is. They didn’t just name it “rye whiskey” like I figured. (There is a non-zero chance it is instead by the Old 97s. I can’t always remember who did which song. More homework. 🤷♂️) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4w8z glad it’s helping. Whiskey has gone both ways for me. Sometimes it’s a solvent, and sometimes it’s an activator. No idea why. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4w8z absolutely been there. I hope you made it through npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4hqr I’d certainly be interested in that article. I note your reference to the different flavors as a positive. It’s hard to see it that way. Or rather, it’s hard to see *this many* flavors as a positive. It feels like we’re far past a point where we could define a superset of the format that would cover a lot more use cases with only marginally more complexity. I would not prefer a standards committee if John were acting like the BDFL of Markdown(tm). But if the choices are, pour amber on it, or hand it to a committee… I prefer the latter. (Although it does seem that standards committees have these days lost the knack of making small, good standards, which is a significant mark against them.) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…4hqr thanks for this. Still kinda bummed it won instead of Restructred Text, but I understand why. Now if John would just release it to some kind of standards committee, so it could move forward, instead of shouting down anyone who tries to do so. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Prepare yourself for the pop of the AI bubble https://www.philipbrewer.net/2025/11/18/prepare-yourself-for-the-pop-of-the-ai-bubble/ https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/793/866/343/299/655/original/66f5122469c40404.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…2nxr @nprofile…vrd6 this is the article in that chain that gets me: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4 “The LLMs are doing amazing work” paired with “I have spent the last three weeks fixing the shit code, including multiple sev0 data-destroying bugs”, yet still concluding it is awesome and works great. There are things I really like about the ideas behind Beads. But sounds a lot like he needs to throw away the implementation and write it himself. And the fact that he’s still breathlessly in love with LLMs, with no nuance, reads a lot like a long drug trip. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This is critical reporting of a super messed up incident. Driver runs a red light and strikes a cyclist, breaking bones, but because she was “sorry” there is no citation. Selective enforcement by Portland Police adds to crash victim's pain https://bikeportland.org/2025/12/05/selective-enforcement-by-portland-police-adds-to-crash-victims-pain-398457 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…36te to be clear, having a fruit tree in your boulevard is super annoying. Fruit squishing into your treads all the time? Constantly sweeping, but still failing to keep the fruit off the sidewalk? I hated it. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…vrd6 you, my friend, need a two line prompt :) (I recommend starship — I just switched to it, after literally decades of managing a complicated prompt by hand) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…n926 same. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…36te ah. That might be challenging. Mostly I just meant that he looks like he was built to run npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…36te congrats! I see a lot more walks (and maybe runs?) in your future npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…ffqc I’ve never had to show a marriage license for spouse insurance. And I’m very confident the company I ran never asked for it. In fact, this is the first I’ve ever heard of this happening. Very strange. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 what makes it bad for you? You don’t happen to have written this up anywhere, have you? Like I have my own complaints. But windows is no better in those areas. Linux is likely *capable* of being better, but it would likely be a full time job. So I am just confused. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 I can’t decide if I admire or pity you. :) I know the web is great in many ways. But man I hate how it has eaten so many tools. I know it’s not impossible to build great tools on the web. But most people building them seem not to know it. I especially hate how it enables, and almost encourages, apps to own and control our data. I’ve definitely become a local-first zealot. (I’m sitting in SF now for SyncConf.) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 why? I hated it much more pre-OS X. I hate a lot of the GUI now. But, only compared to what would be a good GUI. Nothing else seems any better. I keep considering going back to Linux, but I am too old and tired for that. It does not appear to have become a better desktop os since I left in 2005 or so. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 I did not know you felt that way. I must admit to befuddlement that anyone can prefer windows of any era, but especially this one, to, well, anything. I have no love for the Mac. It’s just the currently least bad thing, imo. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 Mac. In theory I agree. In practice I only have this problem with Google meet. I can hear the mic in multiple other applications just fine. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 we must have very different experiences with these. Meet has gotten a bit better recently but I find it regularly annoying. And it somehow manages to only work with one of the microphones attached to my audio interface. It’s impressive given it can’t even tell which moc i’m using. (The close in mic works fine, i get zero audio from the shotgun mic.) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…59g0 yeah. It was a subtle clue, but… when someone tells a whole room to fuck off, it’s usually not a great sign. It’s not edgy, you’re just an asshole npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…36te we had Hawthorne trees in front of our old house, and they were such a pain in the ass. Dropping fruit for like two months, and *so much* of it npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Exactly this. Any billionaire could spend $100m on a passion project and never notice the money is gone. Yet, we get basically zero passion projects. No Carnegie libraries, no Nobel prize or genius grants. No new world class publications holding the powerful accountable. Not even an insane theme park or three, or an amazing new park. It’s all “invest money to make more money” and “I’ll give it away when I die”. How fucking thin does your life have to be that it’s more fun to make money than to spend it on something that will make people happy? https://twoot.site/@bean/115345387653951238 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…fv4z I would be absolutely thrilled at a far less general LLM built just for coding — and probably even just for the language I am coding in? — that I could run on my machine, and hopefully thus have faster iterations. And just in general, I’d rather have domain-specific LLMs for most areas. I bet we’d get better results, faster, in the vast majority of cases. (I can’t tell if this is related to our semi-argument about specialization last week) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…fq0p as much as I dislike Altman, I agree with him here, at least on general terms. In my weak areas I might get from a 3/10 to a 5/10. Which means I still mostly suck. But in my strong areas I could go from a 8/10 to a 9/10 or 10/10. And, funny story, it’s also a lot more fun to get better at the things I am already really good at. I especially felt this as CEO as my company grew: I spent all my time in areas I wasn’t very good, and it was no fun and kinda hurt the company. I do agree with the advice in your post about marketing. But I think that’s more about having a balanced skill and effort portfolio rather than not investing in things you suck at. And of course, it’s why my advice is general, rather than always valid This is not at all to excuse people for not eliminating their liabilities, or being a one trick pony. It’s just high level advice for overall time investment strategies. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies I just ordered Alexis Madrigal’s book, on Oakland and the country. The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City https://greenapplebooks.com/book/9780374159405 https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/034/558/299/682/916/original/a81f7563d3117ea9.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…kyy4 @nprofile…92y4 @nprofile…rrkv @nprofile…xfw9 that does seem… strange. I, also, drive by this all the time. I was excited by the mass timber, but, uh… 👀 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises https://julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-will-burn-enterprises-8ef85ce5bc9b https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/019/869/949/981/489/original/3fae0a2375697ffe.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies If you like fantasy books, you need to read the Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemison. I just finished at least my third rereading of it. I am convinced it is *comfortably* the best fantasy series ever written. (The Hugo voters agree — it’s the only series to have every book win the Hugo.) But it’s not about the awards. It is so human, so magical, so painful, and so stunning. I cannot recommend it enough. The story, the storytelling, the world building, the slow reveal — of all of those — are all incredible. All of her books are worth reading. But this trilogy is transcendent. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…fa5p fwiw I think the Sonos software problems are just in the app design. I have had no issues with my Sonos gear, because I just use the AirPlay endpoint. I expect not much has changed outside the app, so if it worked well before, it should work well now. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This “fourth republic” perspective has been haunting me since trump started destroying our country in his second term. We can never go back to what we were. (The Supreme Court had also already destroyed one pillar of the country, the voting rights act). We need significant changes to the constitution and the laws and practices that support it to have any hope of a functioning democracy. But we’ve done that before. Multiple times! Glad to see it taken up by someone worthy to write about it. Jamelle Bouie on the Death of the Fourth American Republic https://kottke.org/25/08/jamelle-bouie-on-the-death-of-the-fourth-american-republic npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Trump could 100% appointment a horse to any role whatsoever and the republicans would approve it. And the NYT would both-sides it so we could understand why actually having a horse run the CDC is good now https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks/114955808951962296 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Any of you know of and/or use an app to track locations as bookmarks? E.G., restaurants you go to or want to, stuff like that. We use Yelp for it right now, but I’d love something dedicated to the purpose, and that made it easier to get data in and out. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Basically my favorite show of the last five years. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114818354868703184 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…gu7x yeah, I’m familiar with most of this, although not in great detail. I certainly felt the pull to the capital class when I was running puppet, and it was more explicit than any other class line I’d personally noticed. But I’ve never fit any clean class lines because of my parents’ history, so I think I kind of blundered through not seeing much of this. And I still have no idea how to, say, write about it. I’ve tried a bunch of times to capture that “capital vs labor” dynamic I felt but have failed so far, npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…gu7x I don’t have as much understanding of class as one could, because my family history straddles (I think) lower and middle class in weird ways because of the cult/commune I grew up in. So, I’m not really in a position to respond to that type of argument. It’s easy enough for me to just see this as a stupid policy by someone who can afford to keep stupid policies. As to the nyt thing, I can only imagine how painful that was and continues to be. I find it impossible to even frame a discussion about it at all, much less do so in the context of class solidarity. You have just about the most heterodox opinions of anyone I have ever met, and always have. They certainly extend far beyond class barriers. It is quite possible that my inability to see the class constructs around your opinions is my shortcoming. But man. I see much more important organizing principles in American life. I keep wanting to bring up specifics, but it all rings of whataboutism in my ears, and I know am just glancing into an area you think deeply about. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…gu7x it’s not that I don’t understand. It’s that it’s stupid. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This shit is so stupid. Canonical is embarrassing themselves. Mark Shuttleworth is embarrassing himself. Degrees and academic are credentials. A hiring system based on them is saying, “we cannot figure out if you are good, so we are going to trust someone else.” I have hired hundreds of people. I know ungodly amounts about many of them. I have never remembered whether any of them do or don’t have degrees, unless that fact is particularly salient to their journey. One of my top execs did not have a degree, and I didn’t even learn that until years after I hired her. She had been out of school for decades, wtf would it have said about who she is?! https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114774020951553129 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies A sister of mine died after basically starving for two years because doctors could not figure out what was wrong. These ticks are everywhere in the South already. But in the hospital she died in (in the south), no one had any real idea how to treat it. This disease is super weird: - it’s a tick-borne allergy - it’s the only known allergy to a carbohydrate, *not* a protein (so hydrolyzation, which is a standard allergy treatment, does not help) - the carbohydrate (usually called alpha gal) is in all non-primate mammal products, including milk It’s obviously bad for multiple reasons. But it’s also going to be very hard to diagnose for a lot of people. https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/114768287311738340 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…kyy4 I for one am very appreciative of the fact that my dog gives me permission to not go inside places. :) Weird tho. I had no idea this was a thing. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…kyy4 I guess I am glad I almost never do drive thru coffee? Is this a Dutch bros thing? Is that why it’s so popular? Because god knows what we needed in life was a cross between hooters, sonic, and Starbucks. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies When did the world decide that speakerphone was no longer shameful? And how do we go back? I am utterly dumbfounded by how nearly everyone just holds their phone six inches from their mouths now when they talk. And they’re all on speaker. Kids, old people, everyone. Wtf? npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…fv4z I 100% agree. But man. I wish I had any confidence in the dev team and process behind it, or in the protocol itself. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…ccu8 I grew up on a commune in the woods, and this is one of the first movies I saw when released. My god it set an inappropriately high standard for what I should expect from the world. Top 5 memories from my first five years in “civilization”. And Kilmer definitely did not make five better movies than this one. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…zc3x @nprofile…8dg9 I would subscribe to that podcast npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1psd…9sr7 I did not see it specifically mentioned, but I assume the new ultra contains the same internals as the new watch? Seems crazy if not. And I would hope it also includes the new screen size npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh I dunno. I’ve never seen anyone mention cringe comedy specifically, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen people@discuss this kind of reaction to some things npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh fwiw I am autistic, and it is definitely the cause for me. My kids are also autistic and have the exact same response to cringe comedy. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh I have that same “leave the room before I even notice” allergic response to all cringe comedy, but have not yet had it to music. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Blondie vs The Doors https://youtu.be/dnhKPw2NXIw npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This reminds me of the first big lesson I learned from a senior engineer at BladeLogic : “What does it matter what the user thinks? They already bought the software.” That lesson, of course, was that many “senior” engineers should never have commit rights to any software, ever, and most companies are wildly incompetent at knowing what skills and attitudes make someone senior. I honestly enjoyed making sure no one at Puppet had that kind of attitude. https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/112667807561365685 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This is an unbelievable self-own. “Of course it’s not a bug to delete your home directory when deleting tmp files. Idiot. Moron.” “Look someone did weird stuff with our tool, and there’s absolutely nothing we are willing to do to make that not result in catastrophic data loss. What’s that? Oh, yeah, no, it would be trivial to stop this horrific mistake. We just won’t.” https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112637753156424485 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies As I look back through my photos, every landscape taken by an iPhone since about the iPhone X is super obvious, and not terribly attractive. It’s trying so hard to do HDR stuff that it’s creating a whole new look, one that I don’t terribly enjoy. Some models (12 pro, I think) feel like they never took a good photo. But the rest just all produce this hyper processed look. Are they better than missing the photo? I guess. But there has to be a middle ground, right? #photography npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1km9…rh4n I learned how to be a programmer while building puppet. It did pretty ok. It’s not about the tech. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1rky…0xq2 exactly. It’s been happening off and on for a while. Like, probably since ivory came out? npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1c5c…644a wood across a trail usually means the trail managers are trying to prevent usage. But, not always. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1rky…0xq2 I just ran into the problem with this post: https://birds.town/@BelfastRoadster/112360827504887069 It did not load in ivory, but it@loads fine on the hachyderm web site. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1rky…0xq2 I regularly get image previews, but when I click on the image I get a blank screen. Is there any way to force the image to download? npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1xl5…wsca I stopped watching when the race officials made sure Hamilton didn’t get the record. And max is insufferable, so not about to start now. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies This is a solid article on how to think about shooting RAW vs jog photographs. The RAW vs JPEG Debate Needs to End… Again https://fujixweekly.com/2022/08/30/the-raw-vs-jpeg-debate-needs-to-end-again/ #photography https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/234/438/844/123/153/original/c9c5c2c789a6f99b.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies I shoot on #fujifilm X cameras, all jpg. I manage my photos in Lightroom, mostly in the new version but sometimes in “classic”. I am considering shooting raw+jpg, so I can do extra crap to my favorite photos. I want my hobby to be *taking* photos, not *editing* them, so I would only ever edit a few photos. I see this as a chance to get a bit more out of a few special photos. But *every* post is some photog saying “jpgs are stupid, never ever take them. Edit everything always.” #photography npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies God I hate the terms “full frame” and “crop sensor”. Ansel Adams would call every digital camera ever made a “crop sensor”. These sensor sizes have names. Just use them. 35mm provides actual information. “Full frame” does not. APS-C provides information. “Crop sensor” does not. “Crop factor” is especially galling. Is it really easier to do math from an arbitrary base than to just tell me what the stats are? #camera #photography npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies “In earlier times the individual worker's possession of a watch was seen as breaching the principle that working time belongs to the management. It was not unusual once for factory owners to forbid workers to bring their own watches to work. The present-day practice o f presenting a retiring employee with a gold watch symbolizes the emancipation of the worker from this kind of control: hence-forth his time is, quite literally, his own.” - Cheats at Work, Gerald Mars !! from “Sabotage at work” npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Yeah there are some *slight* differences between bulldozing houses to make freeways and putting up paint and concrete to make bike lanes. Major Transit Official Compares Building Bike and Bus Lanes to Bulldozing Neighborhoods for Freeways https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wpev/major-transit-official-compares-building-bike-and-bus-lanes-to-bulldozing-neighborhoods-for-freeways https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/113/487/673/215/567/original/16b98e8933360f5d.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies I know almost nothing about npm, but I know this is where this story takes an insane turn that Gödel would be proud and ashamed of. iykyk npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/109/860/338/669/701/original/058d00970c6c00cd.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Studies have shown that people who ride e-bikes get more exercise than those who ride pedal bikes. “Researchers have discovered that when riders find it less grueling, they tend to go on longer rides.” https://kottke.org/24/02/0044076-studies-have-shown-that-p npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies I’m very confused by the people who are upset that the fediverse is federating npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1r7v…qwpu he has one of my favorite quotes: I don’t always know what I’m talking about, but I’m pretty much always sure that I’m right. Words to live by. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Good. Wage theft is far larger than theft by individual citizens, yet it is barely enforced and written about even less. Props to ProPublica giving it some of the attention it deserves. I’d love to see the average media org write about this and civil forfeiture (which steals more from people than burglary), rather than all the BS claims about shoplifting killing stores. Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York https://www.propublica.org/article/wage-theft-law-new-york-violators-doing-business https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/886/101/697/533/902/original/b4955c7ba08dff07.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1scr…teus if you’ve been working on getting it done for 4 years… you should just buy a rekeying kit and do it yourself (if possible, based on your lock). It’s not super easy, and can be finicky. But it’s not technically challenging at all (again, depending on the lock). And it has saved me tons of time being able to do it myself sometimes. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1alm…57vz also… “half of all gen-z wash hands almost every time they use the bathroom or eat”? Ten times daily is not very often, if you just do that. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies One of my nephews just reached out to me because he’s looking for a coding job and could use some help. And I quote: “Most entry level or junior jobs require three years of experience” WTF? I wish I were surprised. But I am still appalled. (If you’re looking for remote hard working entry level js/react programmers, my nephew in Chattanooga would like to talk.) npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1scr…teus I often have to cover my side view mirror with my hand, because huge truck headlights are stabbing me through it npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Parable of the Sower is the most scarily prescient book I have ever read, or can imagine existing. How Octavia Butler Told the Future https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/octavia-butlers-guide-surviving-apocalypse/677106/ npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh @npub1vj3…xycc it is *fantastic* npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh @npub1vj3…xycc looks like a great pairing with Normal Accidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents That had a huge influence on how I thought about systems like traffic and software npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1scr…teus sorry for the invasion of your space. I cannot compare it to the RX1 because I have not used that one. But Fuji’s X100 series cameries are great. Super small, beautiful color, great fixed lens. Borrowing one convinced me to swap my whole Olympus system for Fuji. I gave mine to a friend when his kid was born, and I miss it. At the other end of the spectrum, people love the Leica Q series. Not as pocketable, but with the right jacket… npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh whew knew metal could be so slow? npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1typ…c8hh I basically only ever drink it while driving, so I’d say: a quick way to get weirdly flavored caffeine in a small can, and it’s nearly always available (but even worse tasting) sugar-free. On long road trips I bounce between (much preferred) unsweetened iced tea, diet mtn dew (high school memories), and Red Bull. The latter is the *only* drink consistently available in a non-plastic container, is not a huge volume, and is reasonably tolerable. Otherwise it’s plastic bottles all day 😣 npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1r7v…qwpu only one?!?! Subhumans. Listened to them every day in high school. Was never the same. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1atj…qrnz yeah I wrote all my resignation speeches. But they were all lies to hide that I was fired. It was probably the right decision. I don’t think anyone would have been helped by sharing. But fuck it hurt, and damaged me for years. I figured you were in control. Just… wanted to check in. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1atj…qrnz congrats on all you’ve done. I really do hope it was on your terms, as it sounds like it was. You did a lot. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Honestly mystified why people are offended that pineapple — or any other food that is independently delicious — would be added to pizza. I can see people not wanting to eat it. But offended that I do want to? Why? Hell. I don’t eat animals. But you don’t see me flipping out at all your pepperoni and sausage, so filled with dead animals and horrifying chemicals. What are you, an 8th grader? npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1pfg…6y7c @npub1typ…c8hh telling cyclists not to get hit by cars is like telling women not to get raped. Yes, they can make a difference. But the real need is for systemic change around the people actually doing the harm. This is all defensive cycling, and is a good idea. But I dislike the framing. npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies Around 2000, I worked with a guy who was old-school datacenter. Old school. He judged you on the *wraps* you used to tie the cables in the racks. He used waxed cotton string. Zero zip ties. And everything he did was *pristine*. It was perfect. Unless everyone you work with is that good, that considerate, that opinionated, about every layer of the stack… you should not build or manage your own datacenters. And that was just *how you tie the cables*. Wait, is cloud bad? https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/wait-is-cloud-bad https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/293/622/970/223/165/original/bb4d802b95784793.png npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1c5c…644a glad you made it back safely. And yeah, those shots are great npub1wfztvdvglqzfq7a830ngzkl7e4svl0jepdwqfrp55zxxdvc8rmaqma7ysy Luke Kanies @npub1aga…u8vx @npub1jgm…jmz3 @npub1r7v…qwpu they did eventually. But they did not always mean that, in all subcultures.