rewgs
@rewgs.bsky.social
Programmer, musician.
Twitter: @AlexRugerMusic (no longer active)
Mastodon: @rewgs@fosstodon.org
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Twitter: @AlexRugerMusic (no longer active)
Mastodon: @rewgs@fosstodon.org
Banner photo by @flopscomics.bsky.social
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would be having quite the day connecting the dots between the Cloudflare/GitHub outages and the vote to release the Epstein files.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would be having quite the day connecting the dots between the Cloudflare/GitHub outages and the vote to release the Epstein files.
Honestly more than anything I’m just relieved that elections are still free and fair.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Honestly more than anything I’m just relieved that elections are still free and fair.
A Muslim being elected Mayor of NYC on the *day* Dick Cheney dies is just *chef’s kiss*
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A Muslim being elected Mayor of NYC on the *day* Dick Cheney dies is just *chef’s kiss*
Yes I’m as excited as everyone else about Mamdani but can we all please take a moment to think about the fact that I am now older than the mayor of NYC
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Yes I’m as excited as everyone else about Mamdani but can we all please take a moment to think about the fact that I am now older than the mayor of NYC
First unmitigated success using LLMs while programming: updating an extremely out of date nodeJS project to use modern build tools. I was stuck in the weeds for days, dealing with CJS/ESM, various transpiler/build configs, etc. Finally just had Claude take care of it.
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
First unmitigated success using LLMs while programming: updating an extremely out of date nodeJS project to use modern build tools. I was stuck in the weeds for days, dealing with CJS/ESM, various transpiler/build configs, etc. Finally just had Claude take care of it.
I know I probably sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but your average YouTuber's grammar is so fucking bad I literally can't watch them.
I feel like hardly anyone under the age of 35 understands when to use "is" vs "are," let alone "less" vs "fewer."
I feel like hardly anyone under the age of 35 understands when to use "is" vs "are," let alone "less" vs "fewer."
August 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I know I probably sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but your average YouTuber's grammar is so fucking bad I literally can't watch them.
I feel like hardly anyone under the age of 35 understands when to use "is" vs "are," let alone "less" vs "fewer."
I feel like hardly anyone under the age of 35 understands when to use "is" vs "are," let alone "less" vs "fewer."
I love how politicians nowadays are normalizing cursing to show just how super serious they are.
"You better watch out, because I'm gonna say fuck!"
"You better watch out, because I'm gonna say fuck!"
July 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I love how politicians nowadays are normalizing cursing to show just how super serious they are.
"You better watch out, because I'm gonna say fuck!"
"You better watch out, because I'm gonna say fuck!"
"So you know that...Sweeney...Toddy...girl?"
- My gf, referring to Sydney Sweeney
- My gf, referring to Sydney Sweeney
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"So you know that...Sweeney...Toddy...girl?"
- My gf, referring to Sydney Sweeney
- My gf, referring to Sydney Sweeney
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When your friend’s baby needs to understand class struggle early.
No such thing as the ‘middle class’—just a ruling class and a working class. And the sooner we teach that, the better. This is how we raise class conscious children. 👶🏾☭
No such thing as the ‘middle class’—just a ruling class and a working class. And the sooner we teach that, the better. This is how we raise class conscious children. 👶🏾☭
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When your friend’s baby needs to understand class struggle early.
No such thing as the ‘middle class’—just a ruling class and a working class. And the sooner we teach that, the better. This is how we raise class conscious children. 👶🏾☭
No such thing as the ‘middle class’—just a ruling class and a working class. And the sooner we teach that, the better. This is how we raise class conscious children. 👶🏾☭
Schrödinger’s Understanding of Schrödinger’s Cat: every reference of Schrödinger’s Cat is both correctly and incorrectly used until spoken aloud, in which case, yeah, it’s probably incorrectly used.
June 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Schrödinger’s Understanding of Schrödinger’s Cat: every reference of Schrödinger’s Cat is both correctly and incorrectly used until spoken aloud, in which case, yeah, it’s probably incorrectly used.
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One of the biggest banks being called “Gold man sacks” is pretty inexcusable.
June 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
One of the biggest banks being called “Gold man sacks” is pretty inexcusable.
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Today I am feeling really, profoundly sad, that after losing my career as a film composer due to hyperacusis, I found a new love in programming -- just in time for it to be taken away by the worst job market in decades and AI.
May 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Today I am feeling really, profoundly sad, that after losing my career as a film composer due to hyperacusis, I found a new love in programming -- just in time for it to be taken away by the worst job market in decades and AI.
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there's just something cosmically tragic about people developing a new technology that promises to automate tasks for us, except the tasks its creators want it to perform are the only ones that make being human worthwhile
May 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
there's just something cosmically tragic about people developing a new technology that promises to automate tasks for us, except the tasks its creators want it to perform are the only ones that make being human worthwhile
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LLMs are fascinating because I don’t remember Neural Nets being a thing people got so passionate about defending
May 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
LLMs are fascinating because I don’t remember Neural Nets being a thing people got so passionate about defending
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Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
May 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
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The world's oldest person just died again and nobody's asking why this keeps happening
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The world's oldest person just died again and nobody's asking why this keeps happening
The music at the Orlando baggage claim right now can only be described as The Animatrix DVD home screen.
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The music at the Orlando baggage claim right now can only be described as The Animatrix DVD home screen.
This motherfucker wants AI to replace artists and yet he has the balls to call *investing* intangible.
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires "intangible" skills like psychological insight (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
May 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This motherfucker wants AI to replace artists and yet he has the balls to call *investing* intangible.
Tool - Fear Inoculum
here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
May 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Lynyrd Squidward
Someone go make this band
Someone go make this band
April 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Lynyrd Squidward
Someone go make this band
Someone go make this band
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if the hardcore band looks like this you are going to die in the pit
April 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
if the hardcore band looks like this you are going to die in the pit