I don’t understand the weird bloodlust or desire for revenge people have around this. The time to euthanize the tiger was before it could harm the man. What does killing it now accomplish? The tiger didn’t do anything wrong. It was in its enclosure minding its own business when someone broke into it. The tiger reacted the way nature wired it to. It’s sad, but you don’t make this tragedy better with more death.

Nausea, heart palpitations, night sweats, hair loss, erectile dysfunction, anal leakage? Pill issue.

Somebody near me is cooking something that smells really good, and I refuse to entertain the idea that it could possibly be the McDonald's across the street...

Well, not with _that_ attitude they aren’t.

On an unrelated note, what’s the best way to remove a name patch from, say, a #cbj outdoor game jersey?

Today I'm deleting @duolingo after a 1,652-day streak. More than 4½ years. Hundreds of hours. And I still can't speak French. I don't feel like I failed. I feel like I was sold the wrong product. Duolingo is brilliant at getting you to come back tomorrow. Streaks. XP. Leagues. Hearts. It's a masterclass in gamification. What it doesn't seem nearly as good at is teaching people to actually speak a language. Too often, it threw vocabulary or grammar at me that I swear had never been explained, then expected me to figure it out through repetition. And when asked to explain why my answers are wrong, I'm told "you said X, but it should be Y," but never told why it should be Y. After 1,652 straight days, I should be able to have a conversation in French. Instead, I mostly learned how to keep a streak alive. I'm not giving up on French. I'm giving up on a game that, in my experience, was better at keeping me engaged than helping me reach my goal. If you've actually become conversational in another language, what worked for you?

I would be fine with airlines asking the age of all passengers (if they don’t already) and forcing parents to pay to select seats if anyone in the group is younger than (whatever number works) years of age.

The Osmonds were so much better when they were “underground.”

The real lesson from the TanStack incident isn’t just “use lockfiles.” It’s: why the hell does your frontend build process even HAVE access to production secrets? Public/publishable keys in the client are normal. Secret keys belong on the API/server side.

I only see one issue; why are you rolling your own rate limiting? All the major languages and frameworks have libraries that do this, and every cloud provider I’ve used has some kind of mechanism for this as well.

(sigh) 1) Thou shall not give AI access to your production environments. 2) Thou shall not allow AI to make any changes that can’t be isolated to a branch and/or are not reviewed by a person before executing. 3) Thou shall store database backups in a manner where they are secure, isolated, and cannot be deleted or mishandled, either by humans or AI

(sigh) Well, at least I can cancel my Fubo subscription now. #CBJ

Not the end of the world: #CBJ ran into a hot goalie and terrible officiating.

Two ribeyes.

Is it weird that the thought of going on a flight where people behave themselves and act like adults excites me on an almost sexual level?

I don’t know what’s worse; these refs, or the stupid Nationwide commercials with Payton Manning. #CBJ

Severson should have known better but these refs are letting the Flyer get away with murder. #CBJ

I don’t want to jinx it, but Carter Garland is looking like the steal of the century. #cbj

What the hell is going on with @clerk lately? It's been solid for so long, but now it feels like an outage a week.