Nic Lake
@niclake.me
🙋♂️he/him/his
🌎 Iowa resident.
🔨 Full stack software engineer
🎮 Bulbasaur stan
📚 Bibliophile
⌨️ Keyboard enthusiast
⚾️ Red Sox 🏀 Celtics ⚽️ Liverpool 🏎️ F1
👨👩👧🐈 Partner of B, father of V, cat dad of 2.
💻 https://niclake.me
🌎 Iowa resident.
🔨 Full stack software engineer
🎮 Bulbasaur stan
📚 Bibliophile
⌨️ Keyboard enthusiast
⚾️ Red Sox 🏀 Celtics ⚽️ Liverpool 🏎️ F1
👨👩👧🐈 Partner of B, father of V, cat dad of 2.
💻 https://niclake.me
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Nic Lake
@niclake.me
· Nov 16
Time to re-do my introduction.
Hi! I'm Nic. I'm a software dev (mostly Ruby) living in the Quad Cities. I have a wife, a 2 year old daughter, and 2 cats. I enjoy video games, reading, sports, music, spreadsheets, and mechanical keyboards.
Nice to meet you!
Hi! I'm Nic. I'm a software dev (mostly Ruby) living in the Quad Cities. I have a wife, a 2 year old daughter, and 2 cats. I enjoy video games, reading, sports, music, spreadsheets, and mechanical keyboards.
Nice to meet you!
I tore a tendon in my wrist, couldn’t play percussion for a year, and was “good with computers” growing up.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I tore a tendon in my wrist, couldn’t play percussion for a year, and was “good with computers” growing up.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Y’all check on your Saturday Night Live writers, because they are tearing up everything they’ve already written for this weekend’s show and they are NOT okay
Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Y’all check on your Saturday Night Live writers, because they are tearing up everything they’ve already written for this weekend’s show and they are NOT okay
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DOD "accidentally" invaded Mexico and this somehow isn't front page news in every paper...
DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico
U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
DOD "accidentally" invaded Mexico and this somehow isn't front page news in every paper...
Sometimes it's hard to read our own character sheets.
📝 Character Sheets https://niclake.me/character-sheets/
📝 Character Sheets https://niclake.me/character-sheets/
Character Sheets
Sometimes it's hard to read our own character sheets.
niclake.me
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sometimes it's hard to read our own character sheets.
📝 Character Sheets https://niclake.me/character-sheets/
📝 Character Sheets https://niclake.me/character-sheets/
Let's go check and see what Elmo is up to on his blog today.
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Let's go check and see what Elmo is up to on his blog today.
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Fun fact! If you turn off "Smart features" to prevent AI from scraping your stuff, it also turns off the inbox categories.
Fuck all the way off, Google.
Fuck all the way off, Google.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fun fact! If you turn off "Smart features" to prevent AI from scraping your stuff, it also turns off the inbox categories.
Fuck all the way off, Google.
Fuck all the way off, Google.
Fries (tots are better)
Cake (be honest, how often do you have cake) (also this doesn’t say anything about cupcakes so)
Cake (be honest, how often do you have cake) (also this doesn’t say anything about cupcakes so)
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Fries (tots are better)
Cake (be honest, how often do you have cake) (also this doesn’t say anything about cupcakes so)
Cake (be honest, how often do you have cake) (also this doesn’t say anything about cupcakes so)
Great featured ad there (not that I expected anything less)
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Great featured ad there (not that I expected anything less)
Here's the #1 thing, and the only compliment that I can pay to Donald Trump:
He's not a liar.
Every single thing he says, I truly believe he means with his whole fucking chest.
So when he says "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!", believe him. Believe that this is what he means.
He's not a liar.
Every single thing he says, I truly believe he means with his whole fucking chest.
So when he says "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!", believe him. Believe that this is what he means.
Saddest thought of the day: I genuinely can't tell if Trump turned up the crazy dictator knob today because he's feeling cornered or if it's a planned misdirection from Bondi trying to shove 24 TB of Epstein files data into a box with "ongoing investigation" frantically scrawled on it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here's the #1 thing, and the only compliment that I can pay to Donald Trump:
He's not a liar.
Every single thing he says, I truly believe he means with his whole fucking chest.
So when he says "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!", believe him. Believe that this is what he means.
He's not a liar.
Every single thing he says, I truly believe he means with his whole fucking chest.
So when he says "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!", believe him. Believe that this is what he means.
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Struggling to come up with a meaningful list of jobs this from which WOULDN’T get you fired and put on a security watchlist. Great stuff
The President is self-soothing by sharing his followers’ calls for the violent deaths of members of the opposition party on his blog.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Struggling to come up with a meaningful list of jobs this from which WOULDN’T get you fired and put on a security watchlist. Great stuff
QOTD
Think about your favorite coworker(s) you've ever had.
Without using names, what's one thing that set that coworker apart and made them someone you enjoyed working with?
Think about your favorite coworker(s) you've ever had.
Without using names, what's one thing that set that coworker apart and made them someone you enjoyed working with?
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
QOTD
Think about your favorite coworker(s) you've ever had.
Without using names, what's one thing that set that coworker apart and made them someone you enjoyed working with?
Think about your favorite coworker(s) you've ever had.
Without using names, what's one thing that set that coworker apart and made them someone you enjoyed working with?
Ew. Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew. Ew.
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ew. Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew. Ew.
I'm at the point of #Silksong where I feel beyond properly challenged. Nothing itself is super hard, but having to chain a bunch of moderately difficult things together for 3-5 minutes straight is pushing me to my limits.
(Yesterday: upper Cogwork Core. Today: The Forum)
(Yesterday: upper Cogwork Core. Today: The Forum)
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I'm at the point of #Silksong where I feel beyond properly challenged. Nothing itself is super hard, but having to chain a bunch of moderately difficult things together for 3-5 minutes straight is pushing me to my limits.
(Yesterday: upper Cogwork Core. Today: The Forum)
(Yesterday: upper Cogwork Core. Today: The Forum)
It’s 2025 and I’m judging the shit out of the kids from 1995 episodes of Legends of the Hidden Temple
If you’re one of those kids and you’re reading this, I’m sorry
If you’re one of those kids and you’re reading this, I’m sorry
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It’s 2025 and I’m judging the shit out of the kids from 1995 episodes of Legends of the Hidden Temple
If you’re one of those kids and you’re reading this, I’m sorry
If you’re one of those kids and you’re reading this, I’m sorry
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I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
QOTD: in your opinion, what is the "best" fast food restaurant?
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
QOTD: in your opinion, what is the "best" fast food restaurant?
My friend @rknight.me has some extra stickers for sale - y'all should go check them out. rknight.me/blog/2025-st...
2025 Stickers Redux
I'm putting the leftover stickers from this year's batches up for sale
rknight.me
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My friend @rknight.me has some extra stickers for sale - y'all should go check them out. rknight.me/blog/2025-st...
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Me at Cloudflare making sure OpenAI stays down:
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Me at Cloudflare making sure OpenAI stays down:
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“Actually, it isn’t a ‘house fire’ until at least 51% of the floor plan is in flames. Ideally half the rooms or more. Before that it’s only ‘architectural burning with house fire architectural characteristics.’”
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Actually, it isn’t a ‘house fire’ until at least 51% of the floor plan is in flames. Ideally half the rooms or more. Before that it’s only ‘architectural burning with house fire architectural characteristics.’”
“Yo, hold up, time to lock in” I exclaim, as I punch a Studio Ghibli image prompt into my AI slop generator
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Yo, hold up, time to lock in” I exclaim, as I punch a Studio Ghibli image prompt into my AI slop generator
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Copilot AI image generation ads are all over the NFL broadcast today. 🤮
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Copilot AI image generation ads are all over the NFL broadcast today. 🤮