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If I Were Fired

Note on Cloud Rats and Software Roaches via Idle Words

Agentic Monitoring via Ben Congdon

Afternoon Hike 🥾

Coffee and crashing waves 🥾

Armstrong redwoods 🥾

Afternoon Hike 🥾

A Billionaire’s Squirrel-Feeding Operation Is Driving Lincoln Park Neighbors Nuts via Patrick Filbin

Pushtober Day 🏋️

I Don’t Stack

Arms Weight Training 🏋️

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Swarm Scaling via Toby_Ord

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Mitchell Hashimoto on X: ‘I Can’t Stress Enough How Little an Idea Matters Compared to the Agency of the People Executing the Idea. I Have Had the Privilege of Knowing and Sometimes Even Working With Some of the Most Successful People (By Various Metrics). The Difference Between Mediocre and Excellent’ / X via Mitchell Hashimoto

Push Weight Training 🏋️

You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.

Back Weight Training 🏋️

Leg Weight Training 🏋️

Push weights 🏋️

Pull Weights 🏋️

Labor Day Run 🏃

Coyote vs. Acme

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Legs Weight Training 🏋️

Push weights 🏋️

Flow generation through natural language: An agentic modeling approach via Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering

Pull Weights 🏋️

Lower Body Day 🏋️

Push Day 🏋️

Pull Day 🏋️

Morning Run 🏃

Lower Body Day 🏋️

Pull Weight Training 🏋️

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Run 🏃

Leg day 🏋️

Note on Hacker News via energy123

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Chest day 🏋️

Advanced AI sycophancy via seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Pull Day 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Leg Day 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Push Day 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Simplified Technical English via wikipedia.org

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Pull Day 🏋️

Push Day 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Lifestyle by Dux Content

Leg day 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Drumless Mix by Caribou, Floating Points, & Fred Again..

Morning Run 🏃

First Summit Run 🏃

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Breathe Well+ by Air Credits

Orange Smoke Day in Chicago: A Breath of Controversy

Orange Smoke Day in Chicago

Pull Weights 🏋️

Chest push 🏋️

Roast Notes: Colombia Inga Red Honey by La Colombe

Pulling 🏋️

I’m pretty sure isRecord is our fault via Steve Ruiz

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Halfway Run 🏃

Please by DJ Plead

Note on Money Stuff: Untruth Machines via Matt Levine

After Work Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Run 🏃

Easing run 🏃

Note on Better Models: Worse Tools via Simon Willison’s Weblog

WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA by Slayyyter

Slayyying Chest 🏋️

TON UP by Gold Panda

Afternoon Row 🚣

Note on No Slop Grenade. via noslopgrenade.com

Lunch Legs Weights 🏋️

Quick Chest 🏋️

Arms Weight Training 🏋️

Morning Hike 🥾

Morning Hike 🥾

Afternoon Hike 🥾

Morning Hike 🥾

Afternoon Hike 🥾

Morning Hike 🥾

Afternoon Hike 🥾

Morning Weight Training 🏋️

Enemy of the State

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Body Weight Training 🏋️

Open-Source as Corporate Canary

Cross-posting From Record Club to Jekyll

This is Why I Like Working at Shopify

Pulling weights 🏋️

Loud Bloom by Olof Dreijer

Tears of Injustice by Mdou Moctar

Inferno by Boards of Canada

Nine Inch Noize by Nine Inch Noize

Exit Boot Weights 🏋️

My Split-Flap Display Now Shows the Weather

Stop ruining it via Seth’s Blog

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Achilles Boot Bodyweight 🏋️

Note on Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model via The Cloudflare Blog

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Afternoon Body Weight Training 🏋️

Note on If You Let AI Do Your Writing, I Will Come to Your House and Kill You via Sam Kriss

Roast Notes: Bubbe’s Blend by Metropolis and Schneider Deli

Note on My Year of Liveness via Todepond dot com

Every giant leap is actually a series of small steps.

Body weight 🏋️

Project Hail Mary

Note on Something Deeper Than Hantavirus via Your Local Epidemiologist

4x4 Calisthenics 🏋️

One Leg Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Note On: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper via Ex Libris Kirkland: Recently Added Notes

@[email protected] via Terence Tao

Good Pull 🏋️

The Scene Inside and Outside The House

Roast Notes: Sun Catcher by Peet’s

Push Day 🏋️

Note on Contributor Poker and Zig’s AI Ban via kristoff.it

Short legs 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

big Sis and Gelli Haha at Schubas Tavern

Morning Row 🚣

Forgetful Chest 🏋️

Fast Leg Lifting 🏋️

Roast Notes: Brazil Cerrado from Printer’s Row

Pulling Weights 🏋️

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Automating My Apple Music Library Export

Tortuga Hike 🥾

Note on Record Number of Bills and Nominations Passed With Senators Representing a Population Minority via Jesse Rifkin

Arms and Back Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Flying With Kids and the Future of Mankind via Hallie Haglund

I’m Kenyan. I Don’t Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. via Marcus Olang’

PG: Psycho Goreman

Cléo from 5 to 7

Chest Weight Training 🏋️

Chest Weight Training 🏋️

Evening Treadmill Run 🏃

Evening Treadmill Run 🏃

Roast Notes: Tanzania from Printer’s Row

One Spoon of Chocolate

Leg Training 🏋️

Leg Training 🏋️

Roast Notes: Fishtown by La Colombe

Note on The Ghost Effect via Paul Ford

Passing Weight Training 🏋️

Passing Weight Training 🏋️

Moving the Critic Into My Editor

Hurting Heel Run 🏃

Hurting Heel Run 🏃

Chest Weight Training 🏋️

Chest Weight Training 🏋️

Three LLM Agents for My Knowledge Garden

Easy Breezy 🏃

Easy Breezy 🏃

Note on The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer via Anna Shipman

Easy Arms 🏋️

Easy Arms 🏋️

Sunset Boulevard

Weak Chest 🏋️

Weak Chest 🏋️

Reformed via Mandy Brown

Treadmill Run 🏃

Treadmill Run 🏃

I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try by Joshua Idehen

Long Legs 🏋️

Note on Stop Sloppypasta via stopsloppypasta.ai

Note on Learnings From a No-Code Library: Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync via Drew Breunig

Lazy Sunday Weight Training 🏋️

Morning Run 🏃

README, Don’t AGENTS.md Me

Quick Treadmill Run 🏃

Post to Bluesky

Post to Mastodon

Post to Bluesky

Post to Mastodon

Post to Bluesky

Post to Mastodon

By going slower, you will learn faster.

Note on Knot Tying Tutorial via Tom Sachs

The Dark Factory Is a .dot file via 2389 Research, Inc.

Note on Give Your Agent a Laboratory, Pt. II via Writing

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Clawed via Dean W. Ball

Note on Clawed via Dean W. Ball

Voting Run 🏃

LCD Soundsystem at Aragon in 2026

Pop a Squat 🏋️

You’ll regret it via Sam Kriss

Trust But Verify

Pull Through 🏋️

160spm on the Treadmill 🏃

Twenty-third and Final Physical Therapy (for now) 🏋️

160 Steps per Minute is Fast 🏃

ComEd Hourly Pricing as Calendar Events

Enrolling in Hourly Pricing for ComEd Electricity

Note on The Giddy Nothingness of Automatic Creation via Ben Sigelman

Sad War Weight Training 🏋️

Twenty-second Physical Therapy 🏋️

Getting Legs Stronger 🏋️

Note on “It’s Not So Simple to Celebrate a Phrase.” via Marcin Wichary

Twenty-first Physical Therapy 🏋️

Lifting in the Kitchen 🏋️

In Arms 🏋️

Thin Snow Shovel

Music Frozen Dancing 2026

Meditation: Navigating Change

Quick Push Lifts 🏋️

Twentieth Physical Therapy 🏋️

I wanted to run 160spm 🏃

Divvy 2025 in Review

Trying Currents

Nineteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

My Entire Blog History as Calendar Events

More Legs 🏋️

Short Circuit 🏋️

The Conversation

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. via Technology Connections

Note on Mist: Share and Edit Markdown Together, Quickly via Interconnected

Note on Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back Into Superstition & Darkness” via OC

Note on New Comment by Perfmode in ‘AI Agent Opens a PR Write a Blogpost to Shames the Maintainer Who Closes It’ via perfmode

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Why the Economy Hasn’t Crashed Yet via Hank Green

Weval at Outset

Eighteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Note on How Social Media Shapes Our Identity via Nausicaa Renner

Search Engine Tooling

Seventeenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

New comment by bckmn in ‘GitHub is down again’

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Pull Weight Training 🏋️

It’s Still Very Cold Here

Bright Eucalyptus Ikebana

Two Miles on Treadmill 🏃

All The Food is On The Lawn

Description is more valuable than metaphor

Building a User Preferences Page for My Static Site

Sixteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Weak Weight Training 🏋️

Why GovTrack.us Should Be Your Go-To For Congressional Updates

Encrypted Intimacy: Jekyll’s Client-Side Solution

GovTrack.us is a Good Source of Congressional Updates

The Suffering of Light via Magnum Photos

The Great Unwind via occupywallst.com

Fifteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

The STREET PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY techniques of Joel Sternfeld via Jamie Windsor

Note on Yet Why Not Say What Happened | Joel Sternfeld via Joel Sternfeld

Encrypted Example Post

Client-Side Encrypted Posts in Jekyll

Woodway Run 🏃

Website Carbon Calculator

Displaying Letterboxd Like Counts on My Movie Reviews

Appreciating Small Seasons: A Quick Reply

RE: Small Seasons

Reply to @[email protected]

I make clocks via vasilis.nl

Note on Perfume Shop in Swedish Forest Asks People to Pay With Their Time Instead of Their Kronor via Liesbeth den Toom

A Different Man

Tired Leg Day 🏋️

Trying New Photography Printers

Light Fluffy Shovel

The French Connection

Afternoon Shivel

Fourteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials

Thirteenth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Evening Weight Training 🏋️

Chasm Lake, Again via Naz Hamid

Another three inches

Shoveling with my dad

Everything in Threes 🏃

Twelfth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Links That Survive the Printer

Treadmill Runs are Easy 🏃

Note on Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents via Dan Shipper and Kieran Klaassen

Eleventh Physical Therapy 🏋️

Push Weight Training 🏋️

Reality has a surprising amount of detail.

Bitterly Cold Blustery Shovel

Running on the Treadmill Between Baby Naps 🏃

Note on The Dilbert Afterlife via Scott Alexander

Note on The Dilbert Afterlife via Scott Alexander

Blustery Light Shovel

Note on Where Are the Democrats??? via Garbage Day

Baby Weight Training 🏋️

Light Weight Assignments 🏋️

Note on TheJeffDeanFacts/README.md at Main · LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts via https://github.com/LRitzdorf/

Biking Home From Ned’s House 🚴

Pierogi Run 🏃

My Starting Point for Jekyll Themes

Note on Quote: Knuth on Theory vs Practice via CAUSEweb

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Fela Kuti Legs Weight Training 🏋️

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

On time is late, early is on time.

Afternoon Run 🏃

No Other Choice

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Site Traffic in 2025

My Letterboxd 2025 in Film

Timepieces Unboxed: A Dive Into Watches

Deep Dive on Watches

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

Bringing Back Webmentions

Evening Physical Therapy Assigned Training 🏋️

Double Indemnity

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Don’t Sell Stock to Donate via Jeff Kaufman’s Writing

EFFORTOCRACY via Non-Zero Sum Games Blog

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Perfect Imperfection. via Gawx Art

Note on Artist Tom Sachs on Creating His Style Uniform via jacob gallagher

Teeny Tiny Shovel

Note on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment via ploum.net

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Keeping it Running 🏃

Weight Training and Sixth Physical Therapy 🏋️

YouTube Recap 2025

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Fifth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Strava Year in Sport 2025

Note on Does Software Piracy Exist? via matthewbutterick.com

My GitHub Wrapped 2025

WalletWallet via alen.ro

Morning Weight Training 🏋️

gh-nvim-username-keywords: GitHub @-mention Autocomplete in Your Neovim Editor

gh-wrapped is Your GitHub Wrapped Year in Review, On Demand

Mastodon and Bluesky Wrapped 2025

Fourth Physical Therapy 🏋️

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Run 🏃

My Raycast Wrapped 2025 (and Prior Years)

Note on Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to Watch - Wikipedia via wikipedia.org

Back Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Blurred World via admin

Desk, December 14, 2025

Newsletter Issue #8: Images of Fall 2025

Zeds Dead with Apashe at Wintrust Arena

Biceps and glutes lifting 🏋️

How to bury your father via Mike Monteiro’s Good News

Second Physical Therapy 🏋️

Note on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages - Wikipedia via wikipedia.org

Note on How Google Maps Quietly Allocates Survival Across London’s Restaurants - And How I Built a Dashboard to See Through It via Lauren Leek

First Physical Therapy 🏋️

Apple Music Replay 2025

Shopify Editions Winter ‘26

Afternoon Run 🏃

Happy weights 🏋️

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Run Out to Photos 🏃

Evening Weight Training 🏋️

The ‘Mad Men’ in 4K on HBO Max Debacle via Todd Vaziri

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani via Literary Hub

Note on [RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk via Craig Mod

Note on [RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk via Craig Mod

My Studio Stool

Wake Up Dead Man

Shoveling The First 5” of Snow

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

Witness for the Prosecution

Note on Inside Baltimore’s Safest Year in History via Channel 5 Patreon Cuts

Oops All Arms 🏋️

Note on Republicans Astroturfed Themselves via Garbage Day

Sickly Weight Training 🏋️

Forty News via Forty News

Lunch Ride 🚴

Morning Workout

Morning Ride 🚴

Getting Killed by Geese

Note on One of CDC’s Final Blows. And What It Means for You. via Katelyn Jetelina

Note on One of CDC’s Final Blows. And What It Means for You. via Katelyn Jetelina

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

First Treadmill Run 🏃

Why Movies Just Don’t Feel ‘Real’ Anymore via Like Stories of Old

Note on Thingness via Mandy Brown

Reply to @[email protected]

A Digital Two-Sentence Journal

Note on Hacker News via eastdakota

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Upper Weight Training 🏋️

The Flop House Live at Sleeping Village

Note on In Praise of DHH via okayfail.com

Note on Slavery Was Racist via Hank Green

Riding home from basketball 🚴

Morning Workout

Morning Ride 🚴

Note on ‘Wherever He Goes, He Wants to Leave’– That’s Because When… via Joyce Carol Oates

Taking Care of Business

Week’s End Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Run 🏃

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Contributing to Open-Source Should be Required, Like Jury Duty

Word Count Bookmarklet

Mulka Lakefront Marathon 2025

Note on Numb at Burning Man via Sam Kriss

Axillary Nerve Glide via MTN STRNG

Note on Grow Down via Mandy Brown

Evening Weight Training 🏋️

New comment by bckmn in ‘I Want You to Understand Chicago’

Morning Run 🏃

Morning Ride 🚴

Evil Under the Sun

Note on 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties via Uri

Note on You’re Overspending Because You Lack Values via Sherry Ning

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Making MCP Tool Calls Scriptable with mcp_cli

KAYTRANADA and Justice at The United Center

Note on Dragoncatcher: Ungrounded Thought via Robin Sloan

Note on Indivisible ❌👑 via Mastodon

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Tame Impala at The United Center

Afternoon Run 🏃

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

Lunch Ride 🚴

Morning Workout

Morning Ride 🚴

Note on What Job Is a Guy With a Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? via defector.com

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY EXECUTING USER-GENERATED LOGIC

Note on The Democrat Tea Party Is Here via Garbage Day

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

2 Vaccines, 3 Miles 🏃

Note on Advice for New Principal Tech ICs via Eugene Yan

Note on Advice for New Principal Tech ICs via Eugene Yan

Note on Corrosion via Peter Cai

Note on Beyond the Machine Extras via Frank Chimero

Falling into Frick Park 🏃

Vibe Check №40 via daverupert.com

Light Upper Weight Training 🏋️

Note on Ritzy Dinners and a Dog’s Birthday Party: Life’s Pretty Normal for Congress and Trump Despite Shutdown via Monica Alba

Sunday Training 🏋️

No Kings Protest, Chicago, 2025-10-18

Reply to @[email protected]

Bedmounds in Montreal

Morning Weight Training 🏋️

Earning the Right to Be Illegible

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature via Mitchell Hashimoto

New comment by bckmn in ‘Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at’

Light Weight Training 🏋️

Zoo Lights Setup 🏃

ICE on Chicago’s Lips

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors Complete Video – Take 2 via James Lee

Note on Terence Tao via Terence Tao

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose via defector.com

Morning Run 🏃

Advice on Being a First-Time Parent

Lunch Ride 🚴

Morning Workout

Morning Ride 🚴

Note on Beyond Credibility via Mandy Brown

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Afternoon Run 🏃

One Battle After Another

Note on Postgres 18 via brandur.org

Afternoon Run 🏃

September 28th, 2025 via Mose Kane

S.G. Lewis at Radius

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

Re-Investing in Local CI

Congratulations Run 🏃

Note on Informed Poll via pigweed.dev

Beautiful Run 🏃

New comment by bckmn in ‘Ask HN: What programming podcasts or newsletters do you follow?’

The Box Model: A Framework for Role Clarity

Note on @[email protected] via Mathstodon

Note on Sources Say Bay Area House Party via Scott Alexander

Afternoon Weight Training 🏋️

Note on > I Think It Can Be Misunderstood and It Can Be Very Damaging When Taken to an Extreme via alansammarone

Somber Run 🏃

Polo & Pan at The Salt Shed

Afternoon Run 🏃

On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion, Read by Parker Posey

Note on Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News via neverland

Apple Calendar’s Search Just Doesn’t