Brian Curtin
@briancurtin.com
principal software engineer, tech lead, long time Python guy // trail maintainer // photographer
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
Love getting constant logistics updates. Oh it’s almost been shipped? Cool. You handed it to the FedEx guy? Nice. It’ll be here on Wednesday? Fantastic. Actually Thursday? Great. This is for a sprinkler controller and it’s 17° outside. I might die before I even get to use it.
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Love getting constant logistics updates. Oh it’s almost been shipped? Cool. You handed it to the FedEx guy? Nice. It’ll be here on Wednesday? Fantastic. Actually Thursday? Great. This is for a sprinkler controller and it’s 17° outside. I might die before I even get to use it.
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Imagine if JC Penny was hired by Dick Cheney in 2003 to torture you
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Imagine if JC Penny was hired by Dick Cheney in 2003 to torture you
“Two bedrooms, no rugs” is better than this. youtu.be/cd4-UnU8lWY?...
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Two bedrooms, no rugs” is better than this. youtu.be/cd4-UnU8lWY?...
I tweeted like 15 years ago that Hulu was hiring for their UX team based on my experience as a user. They still need help. If you have even a passing interest in the field you can probably email jobs at hulu, hr at hulu, something like that.
is there a reason why every single paid streaming service UI has only gotten incredibly worse and less usable over time
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I tweeted like 15 years ago that Hulu was hiring for their UX team based on my experience as a user. They still need help. If you have even a passing interest in the field you can probably email jobs at hulu, hr at hulu, something like that.
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one thing i love about college football is that you can locate the least consequential game of the day, between two schools you barely knew existed, and there will be grown men on television in the stands ready to kill themselves if it goes the wrong way
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
one thing i love about college football is that you can locate the least consequential game of the day, between two schools you barely knew existed, and there will be grown men on television in the stands ready to kill themselves if it goes the wrong way
I’m glad I stopped umpiring when I did. Most of what I worked up to—NCAA Div III and smaller Div I—didn’t and likely won’t have replay. They had between zero and two cameras at any game. I worked non-conference Big10 at the end and would have worked into conf crews, where replay would come up.
Sports are at their most thrilling when you have to pause for 3-5 minutes after an exciting play while a bunch of lawyers debate whether the play counted before deciding it didn't.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I’m glad I stopped umpiring when I did. Most of what I worked up to—NCAA Div III and smaller Div I—didn’t and likely won’t have replay. They had between zero and two cameras at any game. I worked non-conference Big10 at the end and would have worked into conf crews, where replay would come up.
“Gail the Snail joins DHS” as the opener in the next season of Always Sunny. The gang successfully takes down the entire organization via her.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“Gail the Snail joins DHS” as the opener in the next season of Always Sunny. The gang successfully takes down the entire organization via her.
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Also, Carville is an 81 year old decrepit man who has been a loser politically for decades. No one should listen to him at all.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Also, Carville is an 81 year old decrepit man who has been a loser politically for decades. No one should listen to him at all.
As a budding “single issue voter whose issue is vengeance,” my negotiation starting point would be digging a tunnel under the prisons and they can go in there. ID badges????
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
As a budding “single issue voter whose issue is vengeance,” my negotiation starting point would be digging a tunnel under the prisons and they can go in there. ID badges????
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Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgq... is one of my favorite PyCon talks about the topic. "Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes"
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgq... is one of my favorite PyCon talks about the topic. "Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes"
I'm glad this decision was made, but I'm not surprised. On any of the boards I was a part of 2012–2015, or through any of my involvement in the foundation before or after that, we would have reached the same conclusion. People are core to this community and the foundation knows this.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm glad this decision was made, but I'm not surprised. On any of the boards I was a part of 2012–2015, or through any of my involvement in the foundation before or after that, we would have reached the same conclusion. People are core to this community and the foundation knows this.
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Unless he's budd dwyering I'm not interested in anything related to bill maher
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Unless he's budd dwyering I'm not interested in anything related to bill maher
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I have complete faith in my health secretary, Robert Fungus Kennedy
August 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I have complete faith in my health secretary, Robert Fungus Kennedy
Me looking up what this means
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Me looking up what this means
Someone please ask him when we can cash in on the bullet taking.
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Someone please ask him when we can cash in on the bullet taking.
“Ok 🔄 …me too” a very normal, original response
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“Ok 🔄 …me too” a very normal, original response
Does Nelly still want Bill Gates and Donald Trump to let him in now?
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Does Nelly still want Bill Gates and Donald Trump to let him in now?
Mike Johnson: I don’t know what email is. Haven’t seen it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Mike Johnson: I don’t know what email is. Haven’t seen it.
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this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
I log in to Aetna Negotiator Bot by OpenAI. It immediately tells me $7246/mo. Panicked, but in control of my own negotiation, I take a common tactic—I pause. Moments later it tells me $8732/mo. I close the window, but not before it set me up with a direct deposit that is 118% of my net paycheck.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I log in to Aetna Negotiator Bot by OpenAI. It immediately tells me $7246/mo. Panicked, but in control of my own negotiation, I take a common tactic—I pause. Moments later it tells me $8732/mo. I close the window, but not before it set me up with a direct deposit that is 118% of my net paycheck.
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Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol
I’ve seen someone else post before about “becoming a single issue voter, and the issue is vengeance.” I think we’ll need some other things, but if you’re a future candidate, a plan for what to do with the bodies tells me your head is in the right place.
I have absolute raging hatred for these people, like nothing else in my 50+ years. If we get out of this, I don't just want justice, I want vengeance and a reckoning like the world has never seen.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’ve seen someone else post before about “becoming a single issue voter, and the issue is vengeance.” I think we’ll need some other things, but if you’re a future candidate, a plan for what to do with the bodies tells me your head is in the right place.
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ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water