Anybody else notice that so few people know the difference between "farther" and "further", and "further" is being used way, way too often and incorrectly?

x.com/HillaryClinton/status/… It's actually comical that anybody would think Hillary Clinton is capable of having a conversation about AI. She's just regurgitating left-wing anti-AI talking points.

I need a battery for my Neato D8 - the highest-rated on Amazon is at 3.4. It can't be that difficult to make a compound Li-ion battery that just works in 2026.

I follow people in diverse businesses, not just software. Part of this is simply because “software” exists only to support other businesses, anyway, so it’s good to see what folks are doing out there. I love the energy in this post. I’m going on a trip to my hometown soon, and looking at the accommodations I found that there are no independent options close, which is annoying. But I’m making “independent” a goal when I travel now. Yeah, I’ll be burned at some point. But that’s happened at the big names as well.

x.com/davepl1968/status/2099… I generally agree with Dave, but I'll argue that actual programmers will *always* have an advantage over pure "vibe coders", in the same way that we always have an advantage when new tools come out. I'm one-shotting an entire app right now, but there is no non-programmer on earth who could write the prompt that I wrote.

I asked Grok to make the most linked-in of all linked-in posts. Enjoy. I got fired. Then I got divorced. Then my co-founder stole the pitch deck. Then I slept in my 2006 Honda Civic for 11 nights. Then I cried in a bathroom stall at a WeWork in Austin while a guy named Chad practiced his TEDx talk on the other side of the door. Today I closed a $47 million Series B. I’m not sharing this to brag. I’m sharing this because my 6-year-old looked at me this morning, put her tiny hand on my Patagonia vest, and whispered: “Daddy… why do the other kids’ dads look so tired?” I almost broke. Then I took three back-to-back calls before her pancakes were ready. Here’s what 14 years, 3 failed startups, 2 near-bankruptcies, and one very expensive executive coach taught me: 1. Rejection is just redirection wearing a cheaper suit. 2. Your network is your net worth. (I used to think this was cringe. Then I raised $47M from people I met in comment sections.) 3. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is during your layoff. 4. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Then culture does a cold plunge. Then culture posts about it. 5. Be so good they can’t ignore you. Then be so grateful they can’t unfollow you. 6. The obstacle is the way. Also the obstacle is a Series A that fell through on Christmas Eve. Also the obstacle is you, if we’re being honest. I used to be the intern who refilled the Keurig. Now I am the reason the Keurig has a dedicated Slack channel. I used to ask “Can I grab 15 minutes?” Now people ask me. Humbled. Grateful. Exhausted. Blessed. Building in public. Protecting my peace. Unlocking abundance. Staying curious. Staying dangerous. To every recruiter who passed. To every investor who said “too early.” To every teacher who wrote “talks too much” on my report card. To Chad in the WeWork bathroom: I hope your talk went well. This is not a victory lap. This is a reminder. Your worst day is just the opening scene of your keynote. If this resonated, drop a 🔥. If you’re in a Civic right now: keep going. The vest is waiting. #Grateful #Humbled #Mindset #Leadership #FounderJourney #FromCivicToSeriesB #TheObstacleIsTheWay #BuildInPublic #SundayThoughts #ButItsSaturday #LinkedIn #HireMeButAlsoDontBecauseImTheCEONow

x.com/ClayTravis/status/2091… At some point, you have to understand that the WNBA is basically the WWE. They have actual wrestling matches at the WWE, and they're kind of interesting now and then (I can admire the athleticism), but the wrestling is just an excuse to get all the actors together to play out a soap opera that's geared toward men. WNBA basketball is on par with middle-school boys basketball. A few players - obviously Caitlin Clark - actually play at a higher level. But the entire organization still acts like the WWE. Note that the second most famous player is a gorgeous blonde who's most famous right now not for basketball skills but for trolling another player by pointing at her for a long time. There aren't enough Caitlyn Clarks in the world to make watchable basketball. But there are a lot of Sophie Cunninghams and the other ladies who can bring on the drama. Those of you who watch, hoping that basketball is going to be the central point of watching, are going to continue to be sorely let down. I'm going to leave with this thought. One of the best characters in the WWE was Rowdy Roddy Piper. He was a shrimp in that world - around 200 lbs. if I recall correctly. Hulk Hogan was 300 lbs. The Macho Man Randy Savage was around 250 lbs. if I remember correctly - one of the smaller guys who actually wrestled. But the Roddy Piper character didn't have to wrestle. He was too small to do it against those guys, so he had a "show" called the "Piper's Pit" where he would basically use his mouth. He had his fake broken arm cast if things got physical (often), but that wasn't the main attraction. He was a wrestler who didn't have to wrestle. Because wrestling wasn't the point. No matter how badly you want the WNBA to be about basketball, well, I just don't see it happening.

I haven't been using Grok for coding yet, which is kind of dumb since I am paying the $40/month or whatever and get a ton of usage credit. So, what to do with credits that disappear each week? I noticed that @obviousplant_ had a really good game idea in Barn Harmer, which was posted on Facebook: facebook.com/photo/?fbid=159… I took the two photos from that FB post and put them in a directory. Then I told Grok to make the game, using the prompt from Claude-of-Duty with obvious modifications. I had to do two follow-up prompts to fix some obvious issues in the game. The game isn't actually CoD quality. At the same time, I created this with a couple of pictures and around 200 words of text. I present to you, Barn Harmer: github.com/mdchaney/barn_har…

nypost.com/2026/08/12/lifest… This is the issue with modern American industry. If you read this story, everything that Burger King is doing would elicit a "well, duh" response from anybody with an IQ over 90. I'm serious. Yet, somehow, the company was taken over by people who thought if you just cut a few cents here and a few cents there you'd magically make way more money. And, I get it. If you're a dimwit you look at the numbers and say "our profit margins are 2%, average order is $10, so if we can cut just another 20 cents from the average order we'll double our profits!" And it might work for a month, maybe a year. But people quickly decide that they'd rather spend the $10 elsewhere for a slightly better experience. And now your profit margins are worse than before because you're paying the same per-store overhead on declining sales. None of this is difficult, and for an established brand like Burger King it should be trivial. Put out your best product. That's it. That's the entire secret. Go through every single aspect of your business - from recipes to cooking equipment to packaging to your operations. Make every part of that the best that it can possibly be. It's amazing to me that they don't ditch the entire upper management and start over with people who love the company and the products, and aren't trying to pinch pennies.

x.com/NewEmergingKing/status… This guy does the work that needs to be done at this moment. Please donate if you can.

The LLVM of databases. I like where this is going.

cbs12.com/news/local/should-… One of the most important ways to fight corruption is to always name the perpetrators. In that spirit, I'm pleased to announce that I have identification for Deputy "Hand to God". To quickly remind you, he pulled over a woman and falsely claimed that he'd seen her with a phone in her right hand. She has no right hand. Now, if he were an honest person he would have apologized and admitted that he lied to pull her over and give her a fraudulent ticket (unfortunately, citations aren't considered sworn documents in Florida). Instead, he actually doubled down and wrote the citation. When the whole thing was publicized, he wisely pulled the ticket before it went to court. The deputy's name is Yosvani Quesada, employee ID 17135. The piece of garbage is still employed, but more phone calls might help the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office to reconsider the value of keeping employed a guy who would now be considered a criminal in most states. Florida probably should also consider making traffic citations a sworn document, and also criminalize the act of performing a traffic stop based on a false reason.

Our new house is now a home. The Berol Giant is cleaned, lubricated, and mounted on a sturdy piece of wood screwed into the studs. I’ll also say that it’s only by the grace of God that we never found out how easy it was to dismantle the pencil sharpener when I was a school kid.

Bought a digital photo frame with 64GB of memory. 7.06GB is being used by the "system". 7GB of memory to run a photo frame. Software bloat is a thing. If you buy a 16GB version of this, half your memory is gone before you add a photo.

github.com/mdchaney/waveform I don't think anybody uses my awesome waveform program, but, if you do, I have a couple of bug fixes and a little code cleanup. Just more of Claude taking a look at everything.

I posted a bug report on the recent DOS 1.0 code that Microsoft uploaded to Github. Turns out, the bug was already known and fixed in an update. github.com/DOS-History/Pater…

Claude and I are marching through all production code that I have running right now. I get more excited with this every single day. We are truly in the golden age of computing.

I ran across something years ago that encoded a number using UTF8 encoding. This is a great way of encoding if you want to be able to get up to 30 bits but usually are dealing with really small numbers that can be encoded in a byte or two. I wrote the code, but couldn't remember where I'd ran across it and could no longer find the code after much searching. Google didn't help, either. Anyway, just found it while working on other stuff. It's in the FLAC specification. Very interesting way to store a number, and I don't know of any other file format that makes use of this. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc…

Claude is just knocking it out of the park. Again. I have a piece of code called "AudioTime" (historic name) that basically gathers information about AIFF, WAV, MP3, and Flac files. It's basic stuff - "is the file perfectly valid?", "what's the duration?", and other items specific to each format such as bitrates, number of channels, etc. I've also refactored the code slightly into the AudioFileInfo gem. Every music-related website that I operate uses this code. I sometimes pass audio from the web to other code, such as "lame", so I have to make sure the file is properly formatted to minimize chances of compromise. I finally got around to having Claude do a deep dive on this piece of code. Right off the bat: 1. valid_audio_file? regex has a hole for files where the length field contains 0x0A. Lines 874-878: elsif raw_header =~ /\AFORM....AIF[FC]/ elsif raw_header =~ /\ARIFF....WAVE/ elsif raw_header =~ /\AfLaC/ . in Ruby doesn't match \n (0x0A) without the /m flag. The 4-byte length field is binary and any of those bytes can be 0x0A. A WAV whose RIFF size has an 0x0A byte falls through to mp3_lint, which scans for an MP3 sync, fails, and the file is reported invalid. Probability is ~1.5% per file — small but nonzero and really annoying when it hits. Same hole in determine_file_type at lines 893-898. Fix: /\ARIFF.{4}WAVE/m (or [\s\S]). Worth checking in production whether audio_file_encoding.rb has ever rejected legit WAVs. And, yes, it absolutely has rejected legit WAVs. Ugh.