Two hours of surfing r/Teachers later I think I might want to seriously
consider moving out of the United States if the quality of education is as bad
as people on Reddit are making it sound.
I somehow stumbled upon r/Teachers and it ruined my day.
Man am I glad I get to teach a specialized group of students.
Whoa, Python 3.14 argparse has colors in help by default. That's nice!
You can tell how much I'm enjoying any given month by how many diary entries I have for that month.
Things always feel unnatural to me once there is enough money involved.
Oh I just saw the updated Christmas Clawd too, with asterisks for snowflakes. That's cute.
I think it's really cute how in Claude Code, the Clawd mascot makes > < eyes
and runs away from the mouse cursor. Like petting a cat or something.
I swear my postegresql always needs a major version upgrade.
olypack#7 is the stuff of my nightmares. worst code outcome in a while.
Okay, to get this in writing, my New Year's resolution is to make my task management system actually say what I mean to do. That means:
task next should show immediate next tasks, not a laundry list of
things-to-do-at-some-point.
Tasks that won't happen until tomorrow or later
should be scheduled for future or someday.dijo,
or marked with X if I need to skip a day.If both things are done correctly, then as a corollary,
my Google Calendar should show a schedule of things to be done in
task ready and dijo (this is one of the daily routines in Dijo).
I feel a bit apprehensive because I never paid much
heed to task management before, cf XKCD 874.
But I also feel like my to-do lists have gotten so long
I can no longer have them in my head.
So I want to see if this helps me focus on a single task at a time
while not having to spend headspace thinking about the other $n-1$.
(Well, even if it doesn't, if it increases my dijo success rate
it's still a win.)
imagine being so bad at code that you write unit tests that only fail at certain times of day. couldn't be me 😵💫
The stepmania packages on AUR are such a mess hahahaha. Anyway, starting out
2026 by pulling out the old dance mat (after a year of not playing due to
breaking my ankle at the start of 2025). I've missed this game.
I feel like there's more and more of a tendency to do installations into
~/.local or Docker containers or similar, instead of /usr. I guess I can
understand the rationale, but I do miss the times I felt like my package
manager took care of everything.
I really don't have a concept of holiday. Woke up on New Year's Eve and went straight into a 3-hour work meeting.
oh yeah, I get to update my Common App profile to say "Dr. Evan Chen" instead of "Mr. Evan Chen". One of the few places that might actually make a difference...
I think a lot of people who write to me asking for advice actually are asking for therapy. And it's like, I do want to help, but I don't actually know how.
What happens if I wake up one day and my computer won't turn on? It's not like I know anything about hardware or kernels.
the horrors of realizing that random columns in my database are still on
utfmb3 no wonder emoji never worked sigh
Super enjoyed the boss fight with Gerson Boom in Chapter 4 of Deltarune. I think I just really like this character. Glad to see him getting so much new screen time since Undertale.
how do you beat the hammer of justice jesus