A talented tech writer is worth as much as a talented developer. Good prose is no more or less complex to write than good code.

Goodbye X. I should have done this long ago. Trying out Bluesky for now (same handle, as always).

I'm seeing (sometimes getting) messages like "you voted for genocide, you are a piece of shit go fuck yourself." Fight hatred with hatred and tell me how that works out for you. To those people, I say: It's naive. It's childish. And it's myopic. Grow up. But no one's listening.

Their excuse seems to be, "things aren't happening fast enough, so we have to take it out on other people". Yeah, that's not a winning strategy. It's also regressive.

I don't identify with the Green Party in the US because so many of those who do are just jerks to me and others. Of course there are plenty of good members, I'm sure. But that's just not what I see. Maybe take a lesson.

I've said this before. If you attack people (especially people who are trying to help society), you aren't progressive. You are just a bad person. You can call yourself whatever you want, but it doesn't make it true.

I'll just say this (until I can figure out what else I want to say). The hatred is not just coming from the right. And that just makes me 🤮.

GitHub actually sent a deprecation notice (regarding GitHub Actions) in an email. I'm both shocked and impressed. This is a better path.

RT @ninaturner: We will likely not know who the winner of the 2024 election is on election night, due to the way ballots are counted in man….

It's election day and I already voted days ago and my vote has already been counted. That's how it should be done.

In Colorado, we vote on quite a number of laws. In fact, we are voting on ranked choice voting, ironically. So Colorado operates more like a democracy than perhaps other states.

Currently we have an oligarchy (or duopoly if you want to call it that).

I'd be kind of okay with first election, second election, but I think it's just an unnecessary expense to accomplish what ranked choice voting already provides.

In the meantime, I'm going to vote the way my vote would be counted if we had ranked choice voting. In other words, I know who I want to vote for in my heart, but I have to play this ridiculous system until my vote can be understood properly.

Until we have ranked choice voting, I don't actually consider the US to be a democracy (or republic, if you want to call it that). It's absurd that we have votes thrown away because your vote wasn't understood.

Based on past experience, tomorrow's outcome won't be resolved tomorrow. sadly.

First lacrosse goal today in 28 years. Let's go!!!.

I've learned about another backward incompatibility introduced in Ruby, this time a change in how the to_s method formats a Hash. for seemingly no reason. Ruby is continuing to erode my trust.

I don't think anyone even remotely understands how fucking angry I am about this piece of shit medical system we have in this country. Just think about someone who just ran over your dog. I'm way more upset than that.

I'm strongly considering concierge medicine because, frankly, I don't want to die from having doctors that don't give a shit. It's wrong that I even need it. While it will add financial pressure, I'm fortunate to even be able to consider it. But it could save my life one day.