@hopkinsth.bsky.social
these clothes aren’t going to fold themselves
“engineer,” musician
“engineer,” musician
“The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. […] there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. […] there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”
New spear phishing campaign just dropped
April 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New spear phishing campaign just dropped
@jeffgerstmann.com Really enjoying the bonus podcasts. Related: identifying strongly with multiple kids awake in the middle of the night with a shocking complaint.
April 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@jeffgerstmann.com Really enjoying the bonus podcasts. Related: identifying strongly with multiple kids awake in the middle of the night with a shocking complaint.
“Serverless” is one of the big oxymorons of the recent age of computing. “Serverless” as in “more servers than ever before”
April 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Serverless” is one of the big oxymorons of the recent age of computing. “Serverless” as in “more servers than ever before”
Reiterating: this is feeling more and more like Cookie Clicker: Tariff Edition. Look out for those sweet tariff multipliers.
Sure what the hell. After 100% it really doesn’t matter anymore. Can’t wait for US tariffs to go to infinity plus one percent tomorrow.
CHINA TO INCREASE TARIFFS ON US GOODS TO 125%
April 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reiterating: this is feeling more and more like Cookie Clicker: Tariff Edition. Look out for those sweet tariff multipliers.
“This is the worst the AI will ever be,” lectures the Government Reeducation Agent as they shove you and your neighbors into an unmarked van
they're literally letting chatgpt run government
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“This is the worst the AI will ever be,” lectures the Government Reeducation Agent as they shove you and your neighbors into an unmarked van
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how quickly your flesh bod can be a vessel for another billionaire’s consciousness
it's so funny to say shit like this but then also like, your car company's sales are down
Elon Musk is reaching new levels of unhinged.
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how quickly your flesh bod can be a vessel for another billionaire’s consciousness
Looking all over this webpage for the corollary: where is the "insecure login" button?!
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Looking all over this webpage for the corollary: where is the "insecure login" button?!
xkcd’s “Bobby Tables” but with the Department of Treasury
New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
February 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
xkcd’s “Bobby Tables” but with the Department of Treasury
@jeffgerstmann.com Listened to the Wednesday bonus podcast in the car with my 15-month-old, who was holding the same toy (probably) you were fixing for your daughter. He was stoked, like “holy shit I can hear my toy on the car stereo too!!”
February 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@jeffgerstmann.com Listened to the Wednesday bonus podcast in the car with my 15-month-old, who was holding the same toy (probably) you were fixing for your daughter. He was stoked, like “holy shit I can hear my toy on the car stereo too!!”
Never knew I would learn about the merge box today.
Behold... the merge box!
Behold... the merge box!
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Never knew I would learn about the merge box today.
Behold... the merge box!
Behold... the merge box!
Not sure I will be in the position of needing cellular internet service at home again, but in my specific location USCellular is one of two available providers. Wow have their plans improved in the past 5 years.
January 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Not sure I will be in the position of needing cellular internet service at home again, but in my specific location USCellular is one of two available providers. Wow have their plans improved in the past 5 years.
Big fan of commit squashing in Git for making all my commit messages like "fix yaml" or "should I consider a different line of work?" lost in the sands of time.
January 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Big fan of commit squashing in Git for making all my commit messages like "fix yaml" or "should I consider a different line of work?" lost in the sands of time.
The release we’ve all been waiting for. Honestly in practice it’s… a little odd aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
aws.amazon.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The release we’ve all been waiting for. Honestly in practice it’s… a little odd aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Reminds of a “technology for musicians” course where we made personal sites. You could call mine a sort of single-page app in the era before that was in vogue?
Delighted to report that 89-year-old minimalist composer Terry Riley still has his charmingly janky personal website up
January 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reminds of a “technology for musicians” course where we made personal sites. You could call mine a sort of single-page app in the era before that was in vogue?
January 1st 2025: rapidly becoming an expert in foods to serve your kids for easy clean up when they puke 4-6 hours later
January 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
January 1st 2025: rapidly becoming an expert in foods to serve your kids for easy clean up when they puke 4-6 hours later
I seem to forget about this every year until something makes it pop into my head, and then as today I spend like an hour reading through the accompaniment. That opening (and closing) theme is good!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGC...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas - University of Utah Combined Choirs
YouTube video by UofUtahSingers
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I seem to forget about this every year until something makes it pop into my head, and then as today I spend like an hour reading through the accompaniment. That opening (and closing) theme is good!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGC...
Today, to the tune of “still, still, still,” “trash, trash, trash, we need to take out the trash”
December 5, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Today, to the tune of “still, still, still,” “trash, trash, trash, we need to take out the trash”
Problems in software: naming things, off by one errors, and “I didn’t have time to figure out what permissions my program needs so I granted all of them”
December 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Problems in software: naming things, off by one errors, and “I didn’t have time to figure out what permissions my program needs so I granted all of them”
Infra engineers: "This IAM policy evaluation logic seems pretty complicated. No way could it get more difficult to follow or troubleshoot."
AWS: "Hold my beer."
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
AWS: "Hold my beer."
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
Introducing resource control policies (RCPs), a new type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations | Amazon Web Services
New Resource Control Policies let you centrally restrict AWS service access across accounts, bolstering security with preventative controls that supersede permissive policies - even for external users...
aws.amazon.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Infra engineers: "This IAM policy evaluation logic seems pretty complicated. No way could it get more difficult to follow or troubleshoot."
AWS: "Hold my beer."
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
AWS: "Hold my beer."
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
WNC recovery is slow but signs of healing are out there.
November 16, 2024 at 11:23 AM
WNC recovery is slow but signs of healing are out there.
Dads are always talking about iPhone 14 Pro in the Space Black color option. As a dad, I
June 8, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Dads are always talking about iPhone 14 Pro in the Space Black color option. As a dad, I