Will Gorman

i've sure tried but every time on day 6 i find myself in columbus georgia unexpectedly and against my will

LEGO Chrono Trigger - End of Time edition

Source:
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech.

AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

Grapefruit owes an apology to grapes specifically and fruit in general

Last time we won gold in men’s hockey we did it by beating a team from a corrupt failing authoritarian hegemon. This time, uh…

Sometimes I think how lucky we are that dogs are super cool AND can be trained not to shit in the house. Talk about hitting the jackpot

Tried to order the Grimace shake in the drive thru at McDonalds when they were trying out automated ordering. It kept asking if I meant chocolate or vanilla so I started saying “purple! I want purple!” until a human took over

I hadn't realized until now how little of the movie I can recall. It's just "somehow palpatine has returned" and then a blank void until suddenly there's horseback riding on a star destroyer.

thanks, this helped me remember that I too have forgotten all my potential tasks

MicroCenter price history for 16GiB raspberry pi showing an increase from $140 to $200 in one day

Oof

A tea bag in English and French reading “pomegranate raspberry / grenade framboise”

🎵She threw a raspberry grenade

The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. At best, near-zero.

The cost of integrating services and libraries, the plumbing of the code world, has dropped to zero. At best, near-zero.

What does that mean for the future?

New blog post: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02...

I assume that overnight now just means that they guarantee it won’t get there the same day. Gotta be at least one night in there.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

If everyone just lets this go, that's the ballgame. Anytime they want to kill someone they'll just say the FBI is handling it.

Gave exe.dev a spin today. I used it to turn a pdf of a half-marathon training plan into a calendar view for tracking workouts between specific start and race dates, all while I was putting away Christmas decorations. I think I could get used to this

Tetris has nothing on trying to fit all the ornament boxes back into a storage tub after Christmas

Bag of bird seed called “Birders’ Paradise”

Keep spending most our lives living in a

hello all! if you’ve been tracking your plays, we made you a year-end thing.

we’re not data scientists, but we tried crunching your numbers anyway. your top tracks, listening patterns, and all the stats you (probably?) didn’t know you wanted.

happy new year from all of us!

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The idea of a controlled LLM-free environment for assignments is interesting, but once students are aware that copy/pasting LLM code will be detected then what's to stop them from typing the LLM code by hand?

Suddenly very concerned that I may have been pronouncing Fountains of Wayne wrong all this time

That was what I immediately wondered too. According to tangled.org/evan.jarrett..., the manifests are stored in the PDS and the blobs are stored in S3 by default but it's possible to host your own storage backend service to store blobs elsewhere

2 upsides to the Chiefs loss today:

- This won’t be the year that Buffalo finally beats us in the playoffs
- The Broncos don’t get the chance to eliminate us on Christmas

The Chiefs needed to stop losing one score games this year but not like this

I guess not even the Chiefs can win a game with one good quarter and 3 absolute disasters

I've got some questions about "Any" too

I'm going to spend the rest of my day thinking about what that could be a typo or a phonetic mistake for. The best I've got is Benedict but that's a stretch and it's also already on there.

1. You can't prevent incidents by expecting people to just pay more attention.
2. Creating a process for people to follow is just a formal way of saying "pay more attention".

Design systems to prevent problems from happening even when people aren't paying attention.

TIL that the 1Password cli can be completely unusable during a cloud outage. I'd just assumed it'd be able to use data from the 1Password desktop app on the same machine even when offline but nope.