David E. Weekly
@dweekly
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Founder. @RWCSchools Trustee. Ex-FB/GOOG/COF. @HackerDojo Director. Heli & Cirrus pilot. Snowboarder. Dad. @rebeccalipon's +1
Redwood City, CA
Joined January 2007
October Challenge: Reach out to someone who did something for which you are grateful where they had no idea it meant something to you. Reply "did it". Don't have to say what or to whom.
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Today's findings: - Terraform is a lot less magical than one could hope. - GCP is really painfully slow to spin up new resources; a new load balancer took an hour to provision (are interns being summoned to haul servers up from the basement??)
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At what temperature Celsius does pure water freeze? (You may be surprised that pilots will give a *very* different answer than the general public, and for good reason.)
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Waymo can offer aging adults a safe, accessible mobility option that provides independence without needing to drive.
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I know the AI tools are getting pretty good because they've learned to invoke Perl for textual replacement tasks without being asked 😂
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Today's fun home networking find - for a WiFi router 6' away, macOS Tahoe showed 2ms RTT surging to 200ms RTT roughly every 12 seconds. It was AWDL! Disabling Handoff & AirPlay Receiver wasn't enough - I had to "sudo ifconfig awdl0 down" to get reliable 2ms RTT...
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Introducing the @geoffreywoo protocol: 1. Eat only animals and fish. If you want carbs (noodles and gummy bears equally valid), then exercise afterwards. 2. Don’t lift weights. Do a lot of pull ups, push up, planks, and runs. Target minimum 100 pull ups, 300 push ups, lots of
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Cub Scout: So you're my teacher's boss? Me: No that's the superintendent. I'm one of five people who oversees the superintendent. Cub: Who's your boss? Me: Voters! If they don't like what's happening they can kick me out and put someone else in. Cub: Who's the voters' boss?
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Oh dear. Gonna have to add "bad monitor cable" to the list of reasons your Wi-Fi might be having issues...!
I just solved the strangest tech problem I've ever come across. My wifi kept dropping packets, confirmed by ping. It would look something like the first image (packets dropping, then it comes back to life). After a while the connection would just stop working completely and drop
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Gmail is doing a bad enough job on spam filtering that it is creating a meaningful market opportunity for a new entrant.
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How long has CO2 Coalition Chairman Dr. William Happer been suspicious of the climate alarmists? A long time... Watch this clip from his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience:
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It was so delightful to get to share the stage at Stanford with some incredible Class of 2000 alums yesterday to talk about resilience and adapting to curveballs and challenges in a career. ♥️
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Waymo's freaking out my security camera in the middle of the night 😂
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Gosh, Google. Inflation's hitting Fall hard. (it's 370 calories, not $370!)
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You're worried about terrorists but you should be scared of stairs. You're reading about gang violence but should be reading up on statins, HIIT, and GLP-1.
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When the AI is gaslighting you. (Or does it really not see the context for the command you cancelled?)
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The low profile dev behind Ink, the tech used to make beautiful CLIs used by all of the AI majors: Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI: @vadimdemedes
https://t.co/HoyDTl99wZ
github.com
💄 Ink-redible command-line interfaces made easy. Contribute to vadimdemedes/ink-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
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