jmoiron plays the blues

jmoiron/quantum-skies space-rework af28442 update mods; have to keep EMI back because the latest version wont start up due to mixin issues
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I indulged in some "Milo" kitkat recently but sadly they didn't taste malty at all and were a disappointment. At least shrinkflation meant I didn't end up with too many.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I think _why's poignant guide to Ruby sounds about the tone you're looking for. I think programming can be playful, but I spend a lot of time completely outside that context now and I forgot how much most people hate math.
@jmoiron.bsky.social A short history most people don't need but I felt like writing. Incredibly biased by my own experience. Probably inaccurate. Alternate summary: "I miss tech twitter" in all caps repeated 300 times. But, you know, I felt like processing it. jmoiron.net/blog/big-tec...
@jmoiron.bsky.social If you like watching unprecedented sporting excellence now is a good time to pick up tennis. Jannik Sinner has just won his 6th masters tournament in a row, the first male player ever to do so. He's not lost a completed match at 1000 level in an entire year (he's retired twice ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Haha sorry back in ancient history I was a tape jockey at a Solaris shop and this brought up some shit. Lintel was so much better than Sparc/Solaris by 2002, I was just perplexed.. why are we buying these 1ghz ultrasparc 3 sunfires when you can get a 2ghz Northwood and run Linux...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The terminal is black on white and the userland ergonomics are 30 years out of date?
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: X is not open terrain for ideological exchange. It sells influence for money. It consistently tweaks its platform to reinforce its owners' prejudices. It's riddled with influence campaigns and naked nazi propaganda.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is getting dogpiled but the diagnosis itself and the follow up thread aren't that crazy. I don't really agree, though. I just don't think airdropping bksy's liberal population back onto X actually moves the needle much, other than legitimizing its "public square" aspiration...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Really enjoyed Deadloch S2. Feels like a good end for these characters. Glad we got one more season out of it.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The SpaceX "acquisition" of xAI was a pretty big vote of no confidence for grok, too. I didn't even realize that happened, I think I was traveling at the time.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: There aren't a ton of 300MW capacity datacenters w/ a quarter million Nvidia GPUs just lying fallow. Seems very plausible that the recent cuts in service were a result of lack of capacity rather than structural flaws in the business model around inference.
@jmoiron.bsky.social The primary benefit to AI generated code is that it allows a programmer to work alone and still complain about how shit the code is.
by jason moiron, 2026