Notices by Justin Michael (violetpixel@mastodon.social)

I've been writing PHP code for years and my skin is not in good shape.

I haven't been mentioning my new blog much on here, but this one's important. I just added a link post about @violetblue's Threat Model, an incredible resource I recommend to everyone: https://violetpixel.com/blog/2025-08-07-threat-model/

@thomasfuchs Wow, the timing! My wife sent me this just minutes ago: https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-voice-box-finally-reveals-how-dinosaurs-may-have-sounded

This is fine.

This is how we're punished when we type before all the JavaScript loads.

This is not how the web should work.

Really, Best Buy?

I went to their home page, typed something in the search field, and then naively hit return thinking it would perform my search. Instead: a new line was added inside the search field.

Splendid.

Maybe I should write a little haiku in there:

Is this gen AI?
Is that the smell of code slop?
Hell of a timeline

I know I'm about to get a text from @aleen when she's on the phone and I hear her say something like, "yep, one sec, let me pull up a note to write that down."

Husband: Notepad Edition™

Let it be heard that on this day in the year of our (vengeful) lords twenty-twenty-five that I, Justin Michael, here do proclaim that my blissfully wedded spouse, @aleen, shall be allowed to buy one (1) "tea robot" after we move from the wretched hellscape of the Arizona desert to the moist and peaceful tranquility of the Pacific Northwest. She has requested this in writing, thus I commit these words to this timeline and all the databases populated by the scraping bots, be they for good or ill.

I need to figure out where to find or create joy in tech again so I don't need to make memes like this one.

Well, _now_ I pronounce it b-log.
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