What do I say to my 17 year old daughter? I’m sorry girl, America is driven by hatred and intolerance? So damn disgusting. 4 more years of his lunacy and damage. JFK and Musk.

I will take a break and then climb back on my horse named resistance. It’s all I can do.

Setting up a multi-platform mobile dev environment in preparation for a class? No errors, all went smooth.

Having the students do the same on the first day of class? Complete wipeout, errors abound, nothing but a disaster. Lost over two hours to troubleshooting.

Always happens.

Lost the Cybertruck challenge yesterday when I saw my first one. As I approached I noticed the side panels were wavy and wrinkled, which happens with big flat sheets of metal. If I paid that much for a truck I would be furious at the apparent build quality. Tragedy on wheels.

Been up since 3am with ADHD overdrive brain. Yet he sleeps like a baby. And snores. Just rubbing it in, I guess…

Dr. Who producers: 9 episodes is not enough. The characters were just starting to “gel” and click, and my emotional attachment still had a way to go. Instead of real connection I get a disposable character in Ruby. Too soon to say goodbye. Not happy with that, but otherwise happy with the show.

Just tired of the tech bros issuing “my tech will change the world” along with the “look at me, I’m so cool” headshot. So frickin’ tired of all the messiah complexes out there. Looking at you, openAI CTO. Go to hell…

Goodbye Ginger my sweet princess. My heart is empty, not seeing you chase butterflies. I hope you can chase all you want now. 15 years was just not enough…

Just saw a neighbor go by walking their dog, a giant golden retriever, who was so proud of himself for having found a stick that was longer than he was and walking along with it in his mouth trying to keep a grip on it as the edges dragged on the ground. Enjoy your stick, my doggy friend.

I have half a dozen clocks in the house between alarm clocks, wall clock, and appliances. WHY in the age of stable oscillators and GPS sync can they not stay on time? The worst are the Sony alarm clocks. Only job is to tell the time and they suck.

Engineering to the lowest price point, that’s why.

RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/n...

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89

<- by me on @theregister.bsky.social

So, I watched Alien with my daughter, a movie that scared the heck out of me at her age.

Her: meh, mistakes were made…
Me: yeah, I guess that sums it up…

Sadly, the state of the world today is more frightening than any movie, so I should not be surprised when she reacts that way.