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Reg Braithwaite 🍓
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy
It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book called "JavaScript Allongé" or from my work at companies like PagerDuty […]

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It’s a Swinging Christmas. And it’s 0% AI!
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@briankrebs > Who TF is Todd?
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Rapid Transit.
Rush Hour.
Civil Service.
Civil War.

And yes, Motor Glider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider #gliding
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When you switch your org to vibe coding, the velocity of pull requests generated is going to go way, way up. Which is better, right?
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It has been a little over a year since my mother passed away. She had 15 seconds of fame some years ago when I wrote about her breaking into IT in the 1960s. Today, I celebrate the memory of her being woke before that was a word.

When she discovered that my […]

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November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Everyone is welcome to apply for a marriage licence and get married in Ontario, whether you live here permanently or temporarily. There are no gender, residency, citizenship or medical requirements when applying for a marriage licence. The requirements are […]

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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@justin Thank you!
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@dlakelan Matthew 8:9

“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Row, and he roweth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
@adwright One option is what I suggested: There's an ellipsis menu on every post in my browser:
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ordinary People, 1980
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Three Days of the Condor, 1975
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Perhaps I should ask again? Ah! Now it thinks I wrote “Joy of JavaScript.” ChatGPT seems to think that Luis Atencio is a pen name of mine.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52729898-the-joy-of-javascript
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bonus content: It seems I was young once, and so was my daughter. I'll drink to that.
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@SOSAGlidingClub A recent one-hour solo flight, overlaid with the altitude profile and thermalling performance. Like the flight above, I was much better turning "widdershins." Derek Zoolander would say that "I’m not an ambiturner."
August 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
> “It’s a very simple goal. To finally overcome the curse of Twitter, which is that people will have used Twitter or X for a decade and never bought a single thing.”
—Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0

OMG, what‽
August 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
LLMs have taught us that the Turing Test doesn't determine whether machines are intelligent, it actually determines whether humans are credulous.
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@adwright TESLA has a world-champion P/E ratio in large part because Elon Musk has shown that companies can make an AI product that literally kills their customers when it gets something wrong, and yet customers will pay $8,000 in the hope it gets EVERYTHING […]

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August 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just before taking an instructional #gliding flight with Joerg Stieber. Joerg is @SOSAGlidingClub's past president, an exceptionally fine instructor, and a very proud Bavarian. 🇩🇪
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@josephcox Signage on television is more permissive.
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In July, Musk said that 50 percent of the US population would have access to Tesla’s robotaxis by the end of the year. And he predicted that Tesla customers would be able to update their own vehicles to drive autonomously without supervision by the end of […]

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August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Compare with Dr. Alan J. Perlis’ "Epigrams in Programming," 1982: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
August 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM