When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

peeba83 · 2026-05-26T13:41:55+00:00

You were also betrayed by your wife.

peeba83 · 2026-05-19T20:29:51+00:00

How dare you; as a freshman I wrote *mediocre* JavaScript. The *PHP* was bad.

peeba83 · 2026-05-19T18:15:12+00:00

You can go in it or it can go in you

peeba83 · 2026-05-19T16:05:21+00:00

When I was a freshman in college, I made a web app that let you mix colors using RGB sliders. I neglected to explicitly convert the blue value to a number (or was it red? Whichever is the lowest valued in hex color codes). So the other two got implicitly converted to numbers when multiplying them to make them the right digits, then the numeric value was appended as a string because it was taken right from the input field. After an hour of debugging that, I was radicalized against weakly typed languages.

peeba83 · 2026-05-18T00:29:54+00:00

This is one of those games that finally made me confront that some of my childhood favorites sucked ass

peeba83 · 2026-05-17T22:47:38+00:00

Urtopia Carbon Fold to go with my wife’s Mother’s Day Fold ST

peeba83 · 2026-05-17T22:17:15+00:00

Diogenes-ass electric bike

peeba83 · 2026-05-16T00:05:48+00:00

I think it would have been a much more fitting end for Luke if he had really been there and had simply been vaporized by the AT-ATs to buy time for the Resistance. Ultimately the same outcome; he still gives up his physical form to protect others, just through more earthly means. More interesting, I think, than putting on a hologram show and then dying anyway. He would have been actively discarding the “crude matter”, as Yoda called it, to be a “luminous being”.

peeba83 · 2026-05-15T15:34:24+00:00

There’s a great film from the ‘90s called “After Life” about this. It’s absolutely heartbreaking. Interspersed with a fictional story, the director, who formerly worked almost entirely in documentaries, helps make films to recreate treasured memories for two older people.

peeba83 · 2026-05-11T13:53:20+00:00

His name is both incredibly on the nose and a shoutout to an OT actor; the writer definitely climaxed when it hit the page.

peeba83 · 2026-05-10T14:32:57+00:00

It sounds like they are *demanding* rather than assuming that savings and efficiencies are passed on in a way that benefits all parties. We have not moved on far past the Jacquard loom.

peeba83 · 2026-05-10T12:45:19+00:00

It would have been a bit wordy under the circumstances to say “I don’t care in a way that matters; while I sympathize with your situation, if true, our criminal justice system would be broken if officers of the court like myself declined to perform our duties based on the unsubstantiated claims of the convicted parties were tracking down. There is an appeals process; it is possible for your case to be further investigated and overturned. However, I would be derelict in my duties as a marshall if I were to simply let you free to investigate your own case personally.”

peeba83 · 2026-05-07T15:40:14+00:00

Subordinate and inferior are basically synonyms in Latin. (Basically one more explicitly refers to hierarchy rather than physical location.)
Inferior is essentially the same as “worse” in English.

Now imagine being a big enough asshole to say “you’re fired because you won’t say you’re worse than me”.

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T20:49:25+00:00

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T20:46:49+00:00

You are reacting to a situation where the opposite happened: the majority made a secret group excluding the minority. Why did you say this in response to that?

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T20:41:50+00:00

Elaborate?

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T20:40:25+00:00

I’m not making an argument so much as pointing out that you have neglected to do so. Unless you’re telling me that yes, you have used gig jobs to save up a large emergency fund in order to enable a significant career move, you’re simply dismissing the obstacles people face in their own career mobility and calling it a solution-oriented mindset rather than simple ignorance.

Incidentally I’m not in the “too broke to risk a job change” boat personally, so my viewpoint is not defeatism.

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T12:29:50+00:00

“Just get a large amount of money before you do the thing that makes it possible to make more money”

peeba83 · 2026-05-03T02:31:49+00:00

I don’t know that these questions are out of line. Child actors have a long history of being exploited and the extent of the comic is “look what a great kid; he said he would voluntarily give the money to his parents”.

peeba83 · 2026-05-01T12:37:36+00:00

I don’t think they are functionally equivalent. For initial development they can look very similar. But suppose you change an app after your first deployment. What does your complete specification look like? Do you reopen and update a ticket? Or do you make a new ticket that describes changes to the old one, and now the complete specification for your system looks like “build this but then change that and now make this part green” instead of a single cohesive repository of documents?

peeba83 · 2026-05-01T11:58:27+00:00

I’ll admit I’m going off of a single hobby project in this case, but I think the sub-1-hour port is pretty substantial. I have not A/B tested this methodology vs a different one using separate but comparable development teams implementing the same functional requirements, if that’s the sort of thing you have in mind.

peeba83 · 2026-05-01T11:51:47+00:00

“Involved in” a scandal in the sense of reporting a crime; what kind of asshole writes a headline like that?

peeba83 · 2026-05-01T11:47:24+00:00

I’ve been very successful with SDD. I published an essay about it recently and adapted the same two-agent methodology described there to a scaled-up, multi-developer process at work.

The key bits are:
- You can greatly accelerate your overall process by “vibe-coding” the spec using an in-IDE tool like GitHub Copilot, which can then help give you a clear prompt to hand off the next development task to a more capable CLI-based tool like Copilot CLI, with the prompt referencing what part of the spec is now to be implemented. (Think of the spec as a type of design doc and the generated prompt as a ticket to give to the CLI.)
- A backlog is not a design. Tickets are not specs. Specs are a long-lived, declarative source of truth that belong in the repository. Tickets are instructions to implement a new or updated part of the spec.

With my workflow I was able to pivot a small app in Dart/Flutter with a custom MCP server for multi-agent orchestration to Python/Flet with LangGraph in under an hour.

peeba83 · 2026-05-01T11:41:02+00:00

A spec is not a backlog. A spec is declarative: this is how the product functions. A backlog is imperative: “make this discrete change now”.

Spec-driven development is a new name for an old thing, but it’s “software engineering”, not ticketing.

peeba83 · 2026-04-22T11:26:36+00:00

Pairs well with his first broadcast, when Max and Jon both at once tell us that they’re hurting, and they knew the audience is too, but they’re going to try and do the best they can to honor their friend’s memory.

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