From reliability engineering to wrestling with LLMs, my fourth year at incident.io pushed me harder than I'd expected. We launched On-call, weathered some tough times as a team, and I ended the year diving fully into AI.

#SophieFromRomania taking my bookmark won’t make a walk happen any sooner

Everyone has bad days. Some just hide it better or choose not to share. Hell, I haven't told you the worst things that happened to me in the past few months, but that doesn't mean they didn't occur.

Today, tomorrow, and throughout this week, you'll see many people posting highlights of their 2024 as if it's been the best year ever. Please, remember it's just a highlight reel. Don't let it bring you down. Avoid comparing yourself to their best moments.

Even if you're going through a rough patch, don't give up. And once more, don't compare yourself to others celebrating their best moments. Maybe they are doing that to try and lift themselves up - so cheer with them! - and they are actually feeling worse than you. Don't give up

💻 I’ve written a guide on API Design for Speakeasy which is almost everything I know about designing an API from scratch. Basic theory of everything, pros and cons of various standards, pitfalls to watch out for, and best practices to stick to. Give me feedback and I’ll improve it. What’s missing. What could I add. Not done yet! #ApiDesign https://www.speakeasy.com/api-design

hey guys i found the cure for pedophilia! it’s a bullet

🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish. - folke/tokyonight.nvim

Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite

Stripe’s API got a new major version, and no one noticed.

Only a few remember the legend that is Dr. Ján Ïtor

Complaining about Lincolnshire and then it gifted me one of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen

I've spent the majority of the Christmas break with my phone on "Do Not Disturb" mode I'm already very strict about what apps and people can notify me, and this steps it up to an even higher level It's been... really nice

Given that for @oggcamp@mastodon.social I'd booked the second that I heard it was running again, and I'm not doing the sae for #Fosdem, I think it's going to have to be a pass. If it ain't a hard yes, it's a no.

Kingussie

in the new year I think I’m going to try dry January but with sweets. I have a pretty bad relationship with the anything sugary, and I’d really like to work to reset that if I can

It seems the [Zed editor](https://zed.dev/) has finally started working on Arch Lunix, so I sat down and gave it a go. It asks you to log in using your Github account. Log in to what? I thought it would obviously be settings sync, but it's not - they don't even have any immediate plans to implement it. I think it might be for Copilot. They implemented very elaborate tooling for chatting with an LLM as a top priority, but they don't consider syncing your settings between computers a priority at all. This is not an editor developed for people like me.

I want a "Send Later" feature in all messaging apps. It's incredibly convenient.

One surprising aspect of my time off this year has been how much I've needed to sleep. This last year has been stressful for various reasons, and I suspect my body is trying to tell me to slow down and recover. I definitely need to take more time for myself in 2025, and honestly giving less of a fuck about making others happy over my own self-interest.

🤠 who is that [REDACTED]? @b---hb---h.bsky.social in the making.

I've suddenly made tremendous progress this morning on updating my website: a few warnings to clean up, a smidge of tweaking headers, footers, etc. Then I'll roll it out! I strongly recommend the Hugo PaperMod theme. A massive shoutout to Aditya Telange for making such a great theme. #hugo #papermod

I'm not particularly surprised gooning is on that list, but findom? in Britain? In this economy?? Like I'd understand findom in Britain if it centered on London, but the rest of Britain doesn't really have finances to be dominated https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/113736036387038368

who decided to call it X Premium and not KKKlout

I just had a discussion about this a few months ago. They were under the impression that y2k was a ‘flop’. I explained that it was a flop because we spent ten months changing lines of code to accommodate the 2000’s. Had we done the covid lockdowns correctly, that could have been a flop too.

not promoting hustle culture or commit obsession; simply embodying: “start as you mean to go on” for myself 🫡

@Edent@mastodon.social and the most annoying part is that I'd rather go to these events to meet people such as yourself! It's just that they tend to take place in crowded rooms full of people with poor social skills. :(

Attached: 1 image If any event you're going to has a terrible Covid-19 policy, I invite you to shame them by pointing out an EROTIC HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE does a better job than them. #CovidIsNotOver #Hypnosis

Attached: 1 image # :blobcatyandere: #TheExpanse

Coming out on LinkedIn is so weird. Inevitable though, given the name change. Seems to be going over OK 😂

Attached: 1 image Proposal for a new emoji to represent Generative AI

make your holiday travel less stressful by pronouncing luggage like bukkake, give it a try

I guess this is something of another TODO list, to keep myself accountable. Home Finish organizing the office (waiting for some rack shelves to arrive for the server rack that I repurposed as office …

I'm having the yearly "I should start my blog from scratch" ideas