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Cake day: January 8th, 2026

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  • This isn’t a hack, but I try to do one thing at a time now.

    If I’m cleaning the house and I’m tempted to deep clean a drawer or do some side quest that isn’t actually the thing I should be going, I’ll take note, say out loud “damnit focus, that isn’t going to help right now” and regroup.

    It’s frustrating, but giving into my impulses is usually what makes shit take forever and never get done.

    Also lots of caffeine and THC seems to help (?).

    One of these days I’m going to try getting diagnosed for ADHD and get medicated, but making phone calls to do that and talking to someone sounds like a nightmare. That would be a truly unhinged solution for me.








  • It really depends on who defines what hate speech is.

    Is questioning the Zionist genocide hate speech? Is being an outspoken socialist hate speech against capitalists? Is stating you want to separate church and state hateful against Christians? Is supporting Palestine hate speech in the UK?

    I’m a fan of free speech. Unless it is literally inciting violence or panic.

    It’s fucked up innocent people holding Palestine action signs are being arrested in the UK. Attacking free speech is what leads to situations like that.


  • It feels like relying on GPS while driving around. If you know the roads well and just want some help with live traffic or somewhere you haven’t been before, it’s a decent tool.

    If you rely on it because you don’t want to think and just want to press the easy button, you’re going to have a bad time sooner or later.

    Back to software, I think there are a lot of people introducing concepts they don’t understand or can’t maintain (either from poor quality slop or it is just too advanced for their current level of understanding). You can do a few turns like this, until you’re stuck burning tokens in a loop without moving forward in a meaningful way.

    I try to avoid taking the easy route myself unless I’ve burnt too much time stuck on some small detail. Ultimately I feel it is super important to understand what you are delivering. Whether it is writing it yourself, copying a stack overflow post, or using an LLM. Once you commit and push to prod you’ve got to deal with that crap.