God damnit! I can never recall whether whether is spelled weather or wether or wheter without looking it up! 🤬

cool email providers?

What's the real use for Docker? a Docker image has the same weight as if you install the app normally (what you see no but the image in some other folder yes), that's not cool. what's its real use? you can later config it with yml files? access the Docker hub? I don't get it.

Haha, Trump discovered Anthropic. I'm totally against all guardrails in AI and think it's not their responsibility at all. And it isn't, Grok has very little and everything is just OK. Afaik grok did not kill a kiddo yet like Chatgpt did. So, I'm not with anthropic at all regarding ethics - but I totally stand with them regarding not wanting to help military. I do not think it's a good investment for the future.

Reference: Trump tweet about boycotting anthropic because they're wokies.

huh

so western world some company owner does bad thing he can just bribe his way out of it most of the time, or if anything slap on the wrist

in china they regularly death penalty their CEOs for being corrupt or selling illegal drugs... and the CEOs actually flee the country if they can when this happens... apparently it's been quite effective

here we're hoping they'll at least be sued for more money than they made, but over there it's not even prison, it's automatic death sentence...

Anyone use gpt-oss? love the way it serves information.

Things feel so stagnant these days. I don't get out much in the winter in general, so my week is mostly work, then reading. Occasionally reading in the cigar shop.

This weekend is slightly busy; catching some music, dinner with an old work friend, going to a performance of Evil Dead the Musical and a Chinese New Year celebration with another friend.

Even when the weekend are busy, I still feel kinda lost. The weekend ends, I'm back at work, doing the same shit, rotating the same 4~6 meals, week in and week out. I did spent a year traveling the world when I was younger. I got a lot of adventure out of me. It's not adventure I seek.

I may replace my stolen mountain bike and start trail riding again this summer. Even so .. it's just another activity. It just feels like ... well this is it. You're halfway through the game and you get another 40 years of this if you live that long.

I can produce last generation Android Apps on my LeNovo x230 Linux and this comfortably, anyone else?

I have keylogdata from almost two years of myself. I do self reflection with it using AI mainly. Also I use it for work log, I extract data from it using AI like extracting what tools I've used and how many times etc.

But what could I do more with it? I have millions of records with keycode, timestamp, event(key_up, key_down, key_repeat) in a sqlite database.

It's kinda good feeling, like nothing is ever really lost.

idk why people always suggest for you to break down tasks into smaller tasks

I find I dread starting the thing and then I'll stop what I'm doing to check the task list and then it just makes that dread feeling show up again and laziness because I crossed things off. also what's written in a list isn't EXACTLY the best way to be doing something so then I start rewriting the list to be more accurate and that gets me all miffed

ooor I could just start doing the thing and just do whatever is in front of me without any micromanaging and before I know it I'm done and I don't end up procrastinating 5 times over 7 days and instead just doing everything in one evening... because it's just "do the thing that's out of place in front of you" and it's really smooth like that

dumbest advice

I made my own mailserver. Completely native python. Exchange functionality so integrates with phone well. It's completely file based. Have it a week in production and no issues so far.

Mail setups are normally scary as fuck. It's often a spaghetti of applications. Terror pasta. Mine is a nice monolith and actually the most easy to use. It does not provide a web interface for composing emails. There are plenty of those that will work with this server.

It's 2026 and we're building a mailserver. Innovation.

Website borked on viewing rants

Is refactor as part of a ticket a good idea. Like mixing refactoring and features all the time because we can’t find time for tech debt otherwise?

now YouTube is giving me one of those disclaimer notes under a computerphile video saying "dead Internet theory" is a conspiracy theory...

what. how does that even make sense. so I guess we have to pretend there are no bots on the internet or something now