Rowan
spurroad.bsky.social
Rowan
@spurroad.bsky.social
Docs and downtime. Boulder-based.
Hoorah!
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I thought this is why they made phones waterproof.
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
What do you mean? I'm posting this from heaven. It's really nice up here, but I guess not too many people actually got raptured.
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They can't get LLMs to reliably write code that even compiles, but somehow parents are expected to trust parental controls implemented on chatbot platforms. Hm.
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"What would you use to communicate if they banned strongly encrypted messaging platforms?"

"A strongly encrypted messaging platform."
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If you're still counting, you're doing it wrong.
September 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Any node_modules folder from 2025 contains enough spaghetti and cruft to kill a dev in 1989.
September 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Good. I know you won't stop at only biometric privacy.
August 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm starting to get what he meant by getting sick of winning.
August 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"You're lucky you didn't get laid off."
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If only someone could do something beyond post about it. Maybe we need to get this in front of legislators. Maybe even a Senator.
August 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
That sounds about right. But don't forget, software development is dead as a career now because of LLMs, right?
August 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How bad does your password manager product have to be that you can get away with killing it?
August 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If I get on a call with an AI interviewer, my only task will immediately become to waste as many of the company's resources as possible and/or see if I can exploit the "reviewer". AI has a place in the recruitment process, but it absolutely isn't conducting the damn interview.
August 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Now do all the companies that use Chinese-made components in their devices next.
August 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Is there a "right" directory to run `rm -rf /` from?
July 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What was so bad about keepass?
July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM