What’s your plan for tonight? Business as usual? Doom scroll Twitter for latest updates? Watch CNN or MS NOW?

We saw “Oh, Mary!“ tonight in SF and it was hysterical. Highly recommended.

I can best describe it as American sacrilege.

Sincere question for programmers working in tech — are you able to do your job without AI?

I’m not asking if you have the ability to, but rather is usage of AI mandated at your job?

I’ve found that basically every job in tech now mandates it and coworkers all view you as insane if you don’t use it.

Yet on Mastodon every programmer I see acts like they not only don’t use AI, but that they’re seemingly able to keep their job and not mandated to use it.

There’s a Flock camera at the end of my street.

😔

Clarkson’s Farm continues to be the best show. It brings my wife and I so much joy.

Unrelated, looking for more cool people to follow on here. No criteria other than interesting and post interesting stuff. Suggestions welcome.

The wife and I at the Tiger @ Giants game last night. Celebrating my 41st burger. Yes I’m wearing a scarf in August. This is SF after all. Tigers predictably lost.

@beep I’m looking to re-do my personal website. Last time I did it I used Hugo which I loved because it was super simple. But the templating is rigid.

1. I love your website.
2. I was wondering what CMS you use for it (and if you’d recommend it).

For me the lighter weight and lower fuss the better, but at the same time I do want a personal touch and don’t want it to look like I just slapped someone else’s generic template on it.

And before anyone comes at me for calling the cops… like he wouldn’t let me leave and was threatening me. So like… yeah.

While my wife and I were biking a driver just tried to actually run me off the road/hit me. Repeatedly. Road rage. He wouldn’t let me go. We were screaming at each other. My wife was screaming at him. Every time I tried to bike away he’d bump my bike with his car. I eventually had to cave and call the cops because we pulled on to the sidewalk and he trapped us there; parked and was threatening us. Wouldn’t get out of his car to actually fight, but wouldn’t leave either. All because he was idling in the bike lane on Folsom and I biked by his POS Acura too closely for his liking.

I mentally felt okay in the moment. Like I felt like I’d be fine unless he pulled a gun (I carry pepper spray and a knife, but stupidly forgot the pepper spray today and I desperately didn’t want it to escalate to knife.) But now that it’s over my adrenaline comedown is something. Told the cops all the info. They got his license plate. 🤷‍♂️

People often say Mastodon is confusing because they don’t know what server to join. I’ve found it to be the opposite. My server is almost immaterial. My feed is who I chose to follow just like twitter was before they ruined it with algorithms.

But I always feel like I’m missing something when people talk about what server they’re on. It all is essentially the same once I follow that person. 100% of my Mastodon usage is via Ivory.

Am I missing something?

Man… X-Men ‘97 is so good! Just watched S2E2 and got teary-eyed.

If you grew up on the OG cartoon and love the X-Men it’s a must watch.

It’s the rare thing where it pays homage to the series from the 90s while being better than it actually was.

And yes, because it’s X-Men it’s radically topical and political. As always. They’re basically doing a ICE storyline.

@Wilto if you haven’t played this game I think you’d enjoy it quite a bit.

Mina the Hollower. 100%.

I didn’t realize WWDC was today. Such a difference from how things used to be. I used to look forward to them and watch them and even did the website for and attended Layers, an adjacent conference.

Now it’s just… meh. Like “Hey yall make Siri good yet?”

I can’t tell how much is me changing vs Apple.

I need more cool people to follow. Discovery on here is tough. Who is cool that I should follow?

I’ve seen far to many naked men for it only being 7:30am.

My weightloss & fitness journey has been long and grueling and isn’t over. But it’s mostly been rewarding. Yet here I am. Awake at 6am. In a Lyft at 6:50am. Heading downtown to run my first race in 7 or 8 years. Wondering if I should’ve just stayed in bed.

Running Bay to Breakers for the first time. Just signed up solo. No one I know is running it. This is probably a midlife crisis but I don’t care. I’m dressed in normal running clothes.

Wish me luck.

@ttscoff I want to install Marked on my work laptop. I do NOT want to log in to my iCloud stuff on this work Mac. Is there a way to link my App Store license to what `brew install --cask marked-app` installs? Or optionally my beta of Marked 3. If not totally cool.

Whelp. It’s finally out in the open. https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/11/london-breed-michael-bloomberg-job-offer/