“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Artist,
Linux user,
programmer,
lifelong learner.
/notes
Notes. Random thoughts, ideas, links, musings, short and unstructured.
Adults with ADHD may pay high price to mask traits and fit in, SFU study finds
A new SFU study found more than 91 per cent of adult participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported hiding, suppressing or compensating for their ADHD traits to navigate social situations.
While masking may help people get through day-to-day interactions, the study found it often leads to exhaustion, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Many participants also reported feelings of inauthenticity, impostor syndrome and uncertainty about their identity.
yeah pretty much.
The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources — money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. — into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine.
https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/
Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn’t shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go.
oh yeah, this is speaking my language.
Dependencies that don’t ruin your weekend
go mod init. Done. Your dependencies live in go.mod and go.sum. The sum file is a cryptographic record of what you actually got, so you can tell when somebody pulls a left-pad on you. There is no node_modules directory. There is no lockfile drift between dev and CI. There are no peer dependencies, no optional dependencies, no devDependencies, no peerDependenciesMeta. There is one file that lists what you use, and one file that proves you got what you expected.
Oh yeah buddy this is the good stuff!
for the shits and gigs
Observability is not for debugging your code logic. Observability is for figuring out where in your systems to find the code you need to debug.
Should I have tacos in 2026?
Last week I was at a work retreat in San Diego, California. We were given four options as to which non-work activity we would like to join. There was a “Tacos and Tequila” walk, a katamaran trip, an ocean kayaking trip, and a slot canyon hike. I chose the slot canyon hike because first of all it would be fewer people and I knew a week of socializing would be quite exhausting for my poor nervous system, and secondly, I looked up the wrong fucking hike and thought I was getting into a chill, easy-going, nature hike.
Long story short. I was very wrong. I had to sign a waver. Our guide gave us gear. It was definitely on the very challenging side. Had I known, I would not have done it, but I am so glad I did. Feeling quite chuffed.
Our guide took some pictures for us (as we were a bit focused on not falling 70 feet into the canyon slots).
Watching Director’s Label, Volume 3: The Work of Director Michel Gondry. Lots of memories of watching MTV, of dancing around the living room with friends, and just having so much fun. Music videos are just so fucking cool. This song in particular has a soft spot for me, so many friday night dance parties at friends houses and this song would just be the jam.