Senior Oops Engineer

I have started the story that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for a sprint forgive me it was delicious so actionable

tired: putting typos in your writing so people know chatgpt didn't write it wired: instructing chatgpt to put typos in its writing

It's funny that the r word has become taboo but people keep saying m*r*n. The r word was originally a euphemism for m*r*n. Make it make sense.

I've heard Mel Robbins's "5 Second Rule", which is that you should only take 5 seconds between a though and an action to avoid second guessing, etc. I'm adopting a modified version I like to call the "5 Day Rule".

There are natural languages where creaky voice (vocal fry) and breathy voice are contrastive (Mazatec has both). If I was making a conlang I would make creaky voice, breathy voice, and horny voice all be contrastive.

I would like to play a dnd campaign where I am a software engineer in a tech company so I can live out unrealistic power fantasies like "getting an executive to listen to me, once". You know, fantasy!

apparently deadmau5 releases less than 1% of his songs, which is one thing we have in common

Beetlejuice bootlegs continue to live in my head rent free every day

hilarious that this tweet is still relevant

this lives rent free in my head 24/7/365 youtu.be/8hnI7yhIWGY

Trust, verify, and also a secret third thing.

Modern beatboxing is 50% yodeling and 50% blowing raspberries and I love it.

what loser called it ancient egyptian burial practices and not a pyramid scheme

One neat trick for better technical communication: do not use the words "better" or "worse". You know, like I just did. What I could have said is "more nuanced and informative". (You can ofc break this rule and still communicate effectively, but the learning is in the doing.)

trying to imagine something I want to watch less than a jordan peterson richard dawkins debate but apparently that happened

a new frontier in pretending to care about diversity