Polo & Pan came to the Salt Shed for our friend Paul’s birthday and brought Tycho along as an opener. We ate and played at bit at Elston Electric beforehand, but soon moved out into the sunset to enjoy the music.| Josh Beckman
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This is my favorite essay on writing, by Joan Didion, read by Parker Posey.| Josh Beckman
the ranking of posts, which determines the first impression of any forum, is not simply based on recency or interaction count but on a very strict set of criteria. New submissions start on the “New” section with one point. Only after four “upvotes” (i.e., five points total) does a post qualify for the front page. Qualified submissions are ranked by the ratio of upvotes to time since submission, and only the top thirty submissions appear on the literal “page one.” (As an exception,...| Josh Beckman
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what Apple Calendar’s search feature doesn’t return events/results with titles that exactly match my query.| Josh Beckman
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Kimmel’s suspension has given us the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration intends to deal with the pesky First Amendment. Put pressure on the massive companies that uphold the American media landscape and assume they’ll fall in line. And install political allies at the companies they can’t directly pressure. Like Oracle’s Larry Ellison, who is currently in position to take over the American version of TikTok. Which is why esports journalist Rod Breslau speculated on X ...| Josh Beckman
if you are selling meme tokens, you do not have to represent that you own the meme, or have any connection to the meme, or can deliver any economic rights connected to the meme, or anything else. All you are doing is pointing at the meme and saying “look at this meme, see, give me money for pointing at it.” It’s so weird, man. Anyway the murder of Charlie Kirk has gotten a lot of public attention. From that fact, meme coins follow inevitably. You don’t have to like it but it’s true:...| Josh Beckman
This was my fourth time seeing Big Wild (previously) and it seemed like the shortest concert; I wanted it to last so much longer.| Josh Beckman
It’s a good thing there’s a stage as big as this to hold Lady Gaga’s drama. She needs (and deserves) a lot of attention.| Josh Beckman
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God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of astounding. This Terry Tao guy - Iblis: Let me stop you right there. I agree humans can, in controlled situations, provide correct answers to math problems. I deny that they truly understand math. I had a conversation with one of your “humans” yesterday, which I’ll bring up here for the viewers … give me one moment … When I give him an easy problem that he’s encountered in school, it looks like he understands. But wh...| Josh Beckman
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This afternoon I leveled up my previous Claude Code notifications. Now I have Claude’s notifications: grouped by project/directory take me directly to the relevant terminal pane if clicked persisted until I act on them| Josh Beckman
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Working in a monorepo and with a merge-queue (as we are now doing inside Shopify - I’m grappling with it), it becomes imperative that pull-requests (proposed changes) are compared and tested against the most up-to-date version of the codebase. To ensure tests and reviews are accurate, they need to cross the smallest gap possible.| Josh Beckman
I’ve spent the last week or so redesigning my personal blog/site to make images/video/code/tables stand out more while remaining readably inline. I recoded a video walkthrough:| Josh Beckman
The story so far:Cell phones were created.This has made a lot of people very sad and been widely regarded as a bad move.| Josh Beckman
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While I appreciated the color palettes and I appreciated Gillian Anderson, I didn’t find the characters likable in their quirkiness and the detective was mostly annoying. Also he was so mean to his coworker!| Josh Beckman
Busy on the pond on a sunny Friday afternoon. I have Darius songs stuck in my head, to the tempo of my steps, from the concert last night. Chicago, Illinois, United States (Halsted to Larabee)| Josh Beckman
Easy 5k then sprints. First time running in Prospect Park! Free hot dogs! New York, NY, United States (Prospect Park Clockwise)| Josh Beckman
I threw this party with Mike Wang, who’s my collaborator at Long Journey. Everyone that came to this dinner party had to try on a pair of spectacles, and the spectacles had a role that they had to play written on the side. Jackson: Cool. C...| Josh Beckman
Hello, friends. I'm [Josh](/about/). I'm a software engineer building gardens, systems, and tools. ## What I Believe ### On Making - **Make things. Not too much. Mostly for others** — Our job is to help others. Be of service. - **Bui...| Josh Beckman
Lessons learned and observations from working in the software engineering industry. {% assign postsByMonth = site.categories['practicing'] | group_by_exp:"post", "post.date | date: '%Y'" %} {% for day in pos...| Josh Beckman
First we built a user interface (UI) when the application was just going to be operated by humans. There’s a whole branch of study around good and bad patterns in that design practice, focusing on how we make things easily operable by humans. T...| Josh Beckman