David Grant
@zub2.bsky.social
Computer guy in Seattle. [trademark symbol]
the hardest and most bleak home duty of mine is attempting to keep my children from screaming and barging into my wife’s napping quarters.
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
the hardest and most bleak home duty of mine is attempting to keep my children from screaming and barging into my wife’s napping quarters.
Using Cursor or a similar LLM-in-editor tool to rapidly understand a large foreign codebase is just an amazing thing. Today I read the @influxdb.com source and had it generate diagrams of the write path. Far more productive than the old way.
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Using Cursor or a similar LLM-in-editor tool to rapidly understand a large foreign codebase is just an amazing thing. Today I read the @influxdb.com source and had it generate diagrams of the write path. Far more productive than the old way.
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These are neighborhoods with 17K–22K residents per square mile. Aside from being a disproportionate response, they are intentionally terrorizing people who aren’t involved.
Video of the tear gassing at Roscoe and Harding in Avondale via source.
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
These are neighborhoods with 17K–22K residents per square mile. Aside from being a disproportionate response, they are intentionally terrorizing people who aren’t involved.
stopping all physical activity when I had a child probably wasn’t the optimal move.
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
stopping all physical activity when I had a child probably wasn’t the optimal move.
Rate my day-off shopping purchases.
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Rate my day-off shopping purchases.
Like an extreme dumbass, I remained on an overcast beach for hours with no sun protection. 🍳
August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Like an extreme dumbass, I remained on an overcast beach for hours with no sun protection. 🍳
I took the day off for a North Cascades hangout/camp with my friend. When I got there he immediately had to bail because his daughter got injured back at home. So instead I went on an all-day joy drive and fished creeks, Skagit and Sauk rivers and ate Dairy Queen. it was a very good solo day.
August 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I took the day off for a North Cascades hangout/camp with my friend. When I got there he immediately had to bail because his daughter got injured back at home. So instead I went on an all-day joy drive and fished creeks, Skagit and Sauk rivers and ate Dairy Queen. it was a very good solo day.
day off driving around on the Eastside. bushwhacking around various urban ponds and lakes.
July 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
day off driving around on the Eastside. bushwhacking around various urban ponds and lakes.
we have a puppy. i have been cleaning up so much poop. there’s work going on in the yard where he normally goes. so now he’s only comfortable, apparently, going in the living room. the vile odor is burned into my subconscious memory and i can’t tell if i’m currently smelling it.
that’s all for now!
that’s all for now!
July 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
we have a puppy. i have been cleaning up so much poop. there’s work going on in the yard where he normally goes. so now he’s only comfortable, apparently, going in the living room. the vile odor is burned into my subconscious memory and i can’t tell if i’m currently smelling it.
that’s all for now!
that’s all for now!
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"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts
Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding.
The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it
Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding.
The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it
July 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts
Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding.
The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it
Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding.
The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it
I somehow missed that libbpf-tools was a thing. This package is so minimal and lightweight that I would not be worried about installing it on a busy production system, compared to the massive dependency bloat of bcc-tools.
July 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I somehow missed that libbpf-tools was a thing. This package is so minimal and lightweight that I would not be worried about installing it on a busy production system, compared to the massive dependency bloat of bcc-tools.
If Amazon had a regex search we’d be able to filter out brands like JOMRTS and DAVBIR. (Of course, it would just be a moved goalpost.)
June 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If Amazon had a regex search we’d be able to filter out brands like JOMRTS and DAVBIR. (Of course, it would just be a moved goalpost.)
UI copy that tries to sound down-home and friendly but was negotiated and strategized into existence by a team of 20 highly paid designers … is a pet peeve of mine.
June 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UI copy that tries to sound down-home and friendly but was negotiated and strategized into existence by a team of 20 highly paid designers … is a pet peeve of mine.
Is this Google Sheets stock theme inspired by John Fahey Voice of the Turtle?
June 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Is this Google Sheets stock theme inspired by John Fahey Voice of the Turtle?
The FoundationDB paper from 5 years ago was a long-game marketing psy-op for Antithesis.
June 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The FoundationDB paper from 5 years ago was a long-game marketing psy-op for Antithesis.
when I was 13 in boy scouts I discovered a 1-gallon zip lock of white powder in my fellow scouts backpack and I brought it to the scoutmaster as potential drug dealing evidence
April 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
when I was 13 in boy scouts I discovered a 1-gallon zip lock of white powder in my fellow scouts backpack and I brought it to the scoutmaster as potential drug dealing evidence
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Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings
NEW: DOGE is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration codebase to a new programming language.
This would normally take years. DOGE wants it done in months. That could put benefits for millions of Americans at risk.
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
This would normally take years. DOGE wants it done in months. That could put benefits for millions of Americans at risk.
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings
1970s musicians would have been well advised to not name a track by the same name as the album for search engine/YouTube disambiguation reasons
March 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
1970s musicians would have been well advised to not name a track by the same name as the album for search engine/YouTube disambiguation reasons
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we used to respect the computer
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
we used to respect the computer
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Questions you can always ask in an incident review:
What made this particular incident hard to deal with?
What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?
What made this particular incident hard to deal with?
What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?
January 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Questions you can always ask in an incident review:
What made this particular incident hard to deal with?
What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?
What made this particular incident hard to deal with?
What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?
Glad to finally be awake. So much of the last 8 hours was spent… just… asleep. 🙄
February 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Glad to finally be awake. So much of the last 8 hours was spent… just… asleep. 🙄
important stuff open.spotify.com/playlist/5YY...
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February 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
important stuff open.spotify.com/playlist/5YY...