The world is a strange and wonderful place. Scott McCloud, of Understanding Comics fame, made a comic about… Kubernetes for Google.

I had a dough ball remaining from last night so I made a carbonara pizza for breakfast. Bake crust with pecorino, bacon, mozzarella, lots of pepper for 4 minutes, then add the two eggs and broil for ~2 min.

Main staircase. Blanton museum, Austin, TX.

From Cloudflare: Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness.

Yes please. One more reason to get a YubiKey.

Austin, TX

My partner and I love food. On a 0-to-10 scale, all foods have a chance of reaching the highest mark. Pizza? Definitely. Gelato? For sure. Duck? Of course. A simple loaf of bread? Hell yeah. But a meatloaf? Nope. Meatloaf maxes out at 6. Six decades of combined eating made this opinion into a fact.

A few days ago, my partner was talking about her work and how she felt it was impossible for her to do a good job. She could work hard, over communicate, do her best work, and she’d still have, at best, an impact of 6.

And there was born the meatloaf job: a job where it’s impossible to do a great job.

This reminded of David Graeber’s observation in Bullshit Jobs that people want to be the cause of events. He called it “the pleasure of being the cause.” In bullshit jobs, either people’s actions have no effect, or the effects are too far removed to be known.

Currently reading: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

What an odd Big Sur bug. VS Code’s dock icon is minuscule and impossible to click on. It reminds me of when your Badland’s little flappy furry balls becomes tiny.

Tom7 creates the uppestcase and lowestcase letters by training two deep learning models: one to create uppercase letters from lowercase ones, and the other to create lowercase letters from uppercase ones. Then he pushes things (beyond) their logical conclusions, such as creating lowercase versions of lowercase letters, and uppercase versions of uppercase letters. The results are fonts you can download and “use.” In the process, he builds a lot of really neat custom UIs to visualize what the models are doing. It’s entertaining and interesting.

Via Macdrifter.

Two loaves of Ken Forkish’s Overnight Country Blonde. After a 15h bulk rise at 23ºC, the dough had almost quadrupled in volume. Much more than usual. The final bread is a tad flat. I think it’s because it ran out of energy, but maybe I could have made deeper cuts.