Today I learned that "AAAA" records (for IPv6) are named that way because IPv6 address are four times longer than IPv4 addresses. And that you're supposed to say quad-A.
"rapid life syndrome" is actually such a strong song title
Today I installed a website I knew nothing about onto a server I knew nothing about, and it was fine because it was all inside a Docker container. I think I better understand the point of Docker now.
"You don't have to be crazy to be my friend, but it helps."
I wanted to visit my Korean teacher in January again when I stopped by Boston for Mystery Hunt, but now my Korean is so atrophied I think I'd be too embarrassed.
I made a folder called ~/Freezer to dump all my old stuff I never look at in
and now my ~/Sync folder feels so much lighter
I miss the time when my workload was light enough that I didn't need to prioritize or triage. (Back then I just used a greedy algorithm: pick whichever task I felt like doing next off a list, without planning ahead.)
All the time spent planning is time not spent working on anything.
Latest song on repeat: number one rockstar
Okay the following testimonial for shellcheck is actually great:
At first you're like "shellcheck is awesome" but then you're like "wtf are we still using bash"
You know, if I could have a full-time job teaching, like, 18.02 or 18.06 (and nothing else), I like to think I'd do a pretty good job, and I think it'd be pretty fun and rewarding for me. In the shower I keep having these ideas for things I could do if that was actually my job.
I wonder how different writing Lean code is from writing assembly code.
every time i read something on twitter i'm glad i'm not on twitter
I feel at this point I have three different versions of every linter: a system version, a mason version, and a prek version. Feels kind of wasteful.
Just discovered ln-hunt exists:
Puzzlehunting in another world with my absurd skills
So I was going to catch up on work this week, but maybe...
claire suggested naming this blog to wall-e(van) which i have to admit is super cute
I don't know why I didn't make mango earlier this is so much better than wrapping lines by hand
I've decided to take revenge on all the scrapers poking /wp-admin on my
websites by redirecting them to a cool music video.
https://github.com/vEnhance/django-bot-rickroll
Back when I was still a teenager, Rusczyk showed me the sentence "The internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter". I'm starting to feel the same about AI.
Spotted today in OTIS server logs:
⚠️ Not Found: /robots.txt
Freaking /wp-admin 404 errors polluting my server logs.