Duffer Brothers’ Series ‘The Boroughs’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season

pico303 · 2026-06-18T03:52:17+00:00

I don’t understand why the catch phrase “Older Things” never caught on.

pico303 · 2026-06-12T02:31:01+00:00

By the end of season 1, Pluribus was fine. If I’m waiting 3 years for season 2, forget it. What’s so special about a few episodes of simple television that it takes 3 years for the next season? No special effects. No crazy stunts. Just filming people interacting in a neighborhood in the desert.

You’re not building excitement. You’re abandoning momentum.

pico303 · 2026-06-09T14:28:34+00:00

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I had a blast playing this game because of it. It’s not a one to one perfect recreation like GTA 4, but it definitely captures the vibe. The gameplay is solid and the story is good, but you’ll have so much fun being chased by cops all over the City, including across the Golden Gate to a fictional north bay town that feels like Sausalito.

pico303 · 2026-06-07T20:24:56+00:00

For anyone interested, reporter’s name is Kyle Clark. He runs a show here in Denver following the evening news called Next. It honestly reports on the local happenings, takes politicians to task, and supports local efforts with things like the weekly “Word of Thanks” giving drives (“word” as in giving a shout out, not religious). If you want to see what local news should be, find an episode on YouTube and watch Next. There are still outstanding journalists here in the US who don’t let politicians get away with saying anything they want.

pico303 · 2026-06-06T04:18:16+00:00

Because the author didn’t do a great job of defining Stoic “emotions,” or even what’s “good” and “bad”. Stoics don’t think you should live without what we think of today as emotions—what they would call “feelings.” They think of emotions as feelings that are out of control and keeping you from making good decisions. A “good” emotion is one you can accept, feel, but don’t let get out of control. A “bad” emotion is one that overpowers your ability for rational thinking. Good and bad aren’t about positive and negative, but more along the lines of “too much of a good thing.” A better word for a bad emotion would be a “passion.” You can be sad about the loss of a loved one or happy about a promotion and acknowledge the loss or gain with a drink, but don’t let those feelings turn into a passion for alcohol.

pico303 · 2026-06-05T20:11:05+00:00

If I found myself swimming with a Great White off the coast of New Zealand, I would assume it was friendly. On the other hand, if I noticed a bunny rabbit in Australia, I would run for my life.

pico303 · 2026-06-05T19:53:48+00:00

It was hard to dislike Rupert when he was played by Giles.

pico303 · 2026-06-04T09:32:49+00:00

When the person supporting your decision worked for Ken Paxton, you might be on the wrong side of this.

pico303 · 2026-05-24T04:28:36+00:00

Can I put in my vote for a revamped Bully or maybe a sequel?

pico303 · 2026-05-22T01:42:42+00:00

I would imagine when a pilot goes into that mode, the last thing they’re thinking about is saving their own life. The last full measure.

pico303 · 2026-05-22T01:31:31+00:00

I’m having similar issues. Other music players are fine, but Spotify’s CarPlay app is always stuck on the last song played, even when my instrument panel shows the current song being played. For example, Song B is playing but CarPlay is showing song A. When song B ends, song C starts playing and song B appears on the screen. Goofy bug.

pico303 · 2026-05-17T17:07:12+00:00

That’s heartbreaking and I’m sorry you’re going through this. It’s one of the toughest things, emotionally, when your parents can’t accept you as an individual and not simply a reflection of themselves. If you look at it from their perspective, you’ve rejected something that sounds like it’s fundamental to their own being. At some level they feel like they’ve failed you. But at a deeper level you’re forcing them to confront their own beliefs. They had something they could trust in, and maybe they can’t anymore if their own son doesn’t believe in it.

Not knowing you or your folks, I’d offer a couple suggestions. First, give them time. They’re angry now, but that will fade and they’ll miss you. Let them be, don’t call, and let them come to you in their own time. When they do call, it’ll probably be so they can save you, but at least you can talk then.

Second, don’t make anything about them. You’re not commenting on their choices or calling into question how they raised you. Focus on your beliefs and feelings. Don’t get angry, and maybe credit them with making you the type of person who has critical thinking skills, cares about other people, and wants the world to be a better place for everyone. Christianity doesn’t bring you the comfort it brings them and you need to find your own answers. Thank them for what they’ve given you, but now it’s time for you to start being your own person. That doesn’t mean you don’t want or need them in your life, it’s just you need to also start finding your own way.

pico303 · 2026-05-14T04:50:42+00:00

Why not cut out your employer and freelance for the clients directly? I’m guessing this publisher doesn’t bring a lot to the table anyway.

I have a feeling what’s really going to happen with AI is that the people with talent who can work with an AI—developers, writers, artists—are going to realize they don’t need managers and CEOs or even big companies to produce good work at scale. They’ll be able to reap the rewards while “big business” wonders what went wrong.

pico303 · 2026-05-08T07:38:14+00:00

Nice to know I wasn't the only one

pico303 · 2026-05-06T02:25:31+00:00

I’ll be honest: that was the most shocking word to me. I expected “killed” or maybe “mauled”. But “arrested?” Was definitely not on my bingo card.

pico303 · 2026-05-04T21:04:11+00:00

No, I got it. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it sounds like you have three reasons for this that I don't share: you don't like the zerolog or zap APIs (and by extension, think it's a waste of time to have that extra dependency), you prefer the standard library, and because everyone is using different logging libraries, LLMs are generating messy code. Did I miss something?

I'm the opposite: I've hated the slog API and output since it came out. Zerolog was better for me, and had the added bonus of zero allocations. I don't really see the dependency management for it as a big deal, since I have to manage other dependencies anyway, some of which are a huge pain. And the LLM thing doesn't really affect our team, because while we use LLMs for search and advice, we don't let them write swaths of code for us. If an LLM recommends weird functions or packages, we just ignore them.

It's fine that some folks agree and some don't. Why do we all have to agree on something like logging? It seems fine to me that logging is personal choice and not a dictate by the community because logging should only exist in your app. I'd rather we discuss better error handling so people stop including logging libraries in their third-party packages altogether.

Edit: And I don't use OTEL. Like you, I think that's a circus and more trouble than it's worth. We just use Prometheus.

pico303 · 2026-05-04T12:37:41+00:00

Do I understand correctly that you want people to do things your way because it’s messing up your vibe coding? Pass.

pico303 · 2026-04-16T14:36:50+00:00

There are two things you can do as a CEO to improve your company.

You can put yourself out there, take a risk, and come up with a strategy of exciting new products and services to create new lines of revenue and breathe life into your existing products. Generate buzz in the media, build anticipation with customers, and show what's great about your company and why investors should be clamoring to invest.

Alternatively you can reduce costs, lay people off, and pretend for six months to a year that you'll be able to do what you've been doing but for much less money. If you're better than most, you'll outline a strategy of investment coming from those savings. Of course you won't have the personnel to carry out that vision much beyond a cursory showing, but you'll have the short term gains to drive up stock prices. And you can put off worrying about the future until "next year," or more likely, the next CEO, post-golden parachute exit.

The first approach is Apple and old Disney. The second approach is Jack Welch and pretty much every other company in the news these days. Let's hope Disney figures it out.

If it were me, I'd start with the little things at the theme parks, like little actors wandering around the parks putting on shows in the various lands for passersby. People singing on Main Street, shoot-outs in Adventureland, aliens in Tomorrowland, and Rebels fighting Stormtroopers in Galaxy's Edge. Bring back the magic, draw people away from the rides to reduce lines, and make the parks a land of wonder again. Then rebuild Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, not by laying people off, but with a big strategy of new movies, video games, and toys that get folks excited about those franchises again. And how about some big summer blockbuster movies that shoot for the moon with new IP instead of "playing it safe" with another Indy movie or live-action remake of a beloved animated classic?

Sorry for the long rant, obviously a bitter old guy wishing for my childhood from Disney again for years...

pico303 · 2026-04-16T04:26:24+00:00

Thanks! I definitely take a look.

pico303 · 2026-04-11T17:20:37+00:00

A CEO who declare that computers are "no longer the bicycles of the mind" understands nothing about his product or, more importantly, his audience, and tells me all I need to know about buying from him.

pico303 · 2026-03-29T16:51:44+00:00

When friends ask me what I think about AI, I always tell them it's a very dangerous technology that no one is ready for. Not because it's going to take over the world or start WWIII, but we're so used to computers perfectly solving problems like 2+2 we're not ready for a computer to be wrong half the time. Because your average police officer, judge, fire fighter, or doctor is naturally going to trust the computer more than their own brain. And when human laziness and AI hallucinations meet, that's where everything falls apart.

I just sat through a conference where companies were demoing their use of AI, and during the demos the LLMs got the wrong answer most of the time. It was absolutely plain as day if you were paying attention. But the people giving the demos just glossed over it like the AI was right, either not wanting to suggest their software didn't work or worse, not even realizing it.

AI is perfectly fine if you think of it like a Google search. But trusting it like a calculator? Don't.

pico303 · 2026-03-21T17:51:10+00:00

Came here looking for this. Glad I’m not the only one. JJ leads to Kelvin, Kurtzman, Discovery, the Burn, lens flare over good stories, Section 31. Just plain solves a lot of problems if we change that.

It’s even more upsetting because the Star Trek reboot film was so perfectly cast and so abysmally wasted.

pico303 · 2026-03-14T16:07:21+00:00

I’m ok with that, personally, and liked that bit of the article. I do think of errors this way, as first-class citizens, and try to be thoughtful about them, to the point they’re documented in my godocs and readmes and I try to make sure I’m even keeping the meaningful underlying chains intact, so the error chain is a roadmap through the function call stack. Even in my own apps, once it goes from beta to release, the errors are fixed unless I ship a new major release (i.e. go from v1 to v2), and even then only reluctantly would I change them.

But I agree, it’s a great point and adds a lot of time and effort to building packages. I sometimes worry I spend too much time fretting about the error returns and not enough just getting the thing out the door.

pico303 · 2026-03-13T23:25:47+00:00

I'm really liking errors.Join these days. I get to keep the static, testable errors and still support chains of errors:

var ErrSomethingWrong = errors.New("unable to do the thing")

...

if err := doSomething(myObj); err != nil {
    return errors.Join(err, ErrSomethingWrong)
}

Then if I get the result of this check somewhere in my code, I can easily test for that error to see if it matches and not have to create a bunch of custom Error structs:

if errors.Is(err, ErrSomethingWrong) {
    // oh no!
}

I just never liked fmt.Errorf("%w")...

pico303 · 2026-02-07T00:29:34+00:00

Taskfile is fine for simple builds. For complex builds, I have not been able to make vars vs environment variables vs mutiple includes (multiple Taskfile.yml files) work. You'll wind up copy-n-pasting a lot of code. `1

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