2026-02-18 02:24:31
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me, by Scott Shambaugh
This is both funny and incredibly infuriating. A PR was declined on GitHub for an open-source project because it was made by an AI agent and… the AI agent (or the anonymous person behind it) wrote up a defamatory blog post targeted specifically at the project’s maintainer.
If being an open-source maintainer was already a thankless job, now there’s one more hell to endure.
2026-02-14 20:00:00
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
2025, Mary Bronstein
My rating: Decent
One more for the “it’s good but I’ll never watch it again” group. The movie is great at portraying negative emotions and Rose’s acting is top notch. What it chooses not to show is just as important as what it does.
2026-02-10 18:21:50
Stop generating, start thinking, by Sophie Koonin
Fantastic piece wielding the power of common sense and highlighting all the struggles that software engineers have with using generative AI on our jobs.
I also use LLMs as a spicy autocomplete (or even a spicy search) and they can be very useful at times. But I can’t replace my thinking with machines, because machines don’t think.
2026-02-10 08:00:00
Last week I came across a post on Mastodon mentioning Maple Mono, a monospaced font. We don’t really have a shortage of fonts, there’s a lot out there (MonoLisa and Monaspace being my other favorites), but I’d never found one that manages to be so easy to read while also being incredibly cute.
Its main appeal is how rounded the characters are — monospaced fonts are usually blocky due to the constraint of all characters having to have the same width. It also has amazing italics-specific styles and some custom glyphs for commonly-used characters in programming. Seriously, just look at those:
I already swapped my code editor and terminal fonts to Maple Mono, and even changed the monospace font on this website to it already! It pairs greatly with the Catppuccin colors.
Unless you’re reading on an RSS reader, here’s two examples of the font being used. On the heading above ☝️ and on the code block below 👇
<script>
$('#example').on('click', (e) => {
alert('clicked!');
});
</script>
<div class="pixel-flux">
<button id="example">Click @ me</button>
</div>
<style>
/* Look at those sweet, sweet italics */
.pixel-flux {
background: peachpuff;
/* And this gorgeous ampersand */
& #example {
color: goldenrod;
}
}
</style>2026-02-08 20:00:00
Sinners
2025, Ryan Coogler
My rating: Loved it!
While the movie takes its time to get going, it is so well worth it. It keeps reinventing itself every few minutes and just keeps getting better and better.
The soundtrack, though, is just on another level. It is so good. One particular scene is gonna stick in my mind for a while, it was freaking amazing. If you watched it, you know which one it is.
2026-02-08 00:31:35
Snow Day
A very cool way to spend the afternoon, just 30min away from home. Lots of kids and dogs playing in the snow!
Taken in Piani Resinelli, Lecco, Italy.
Photos taken on Saturday, 07 Feb 2026
