2026-07-17T11:45:42.519Z
Udvar-Hazy Center? More like Udvar-Hazy Center!
2026-07-18T18:28:38.553Z
it's such a joke that this still doesn't work in the latest version of Windows 11 in 2026
2026-07-19T03:00:33.727Z
You know most airports aren't silent so I'm curious how they pulled that off
2026-07-20T21:58:26.285Z
... 50 cents, or as I've taken to calling it, 5 decs,...
2026-07-21T01:33:02.107Z
It's funny when you badly mistype something into Google and it tries to come up with results
(I was going for "produce")
2026-07-23T22:50:28.530Z
2026-07-26T16:47:27.927Z
Idea: beat-up 1986 Trans Am with a bumper sticker that says "I bought this before Elon Musk went crazy"
2026-07-31T00:23:39.463Z
looks like an awfully low approach!
2026-08-04T00:49:01.957Z
real "not a bot" bio you've got there
2026-08-04T14:48:36.256Z
I swear nobody at Microsoft uses the "Automatically hide the taskbar" setting or it'd be fixed by now
2026-08-06T02:02:22.394Z
ackshually, it's pronounced "G-I-F"
it's an acronym, after all
2026-08-06T14:38:41.946Z
Thinkblog is blocked on my work Internet for some reason
Not STiBaRC though
It's also the only site I've encountered that's blocked
Anyway this is very funny https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/DevTools/issues/442
Seems to still be broken in 151
2026-08-07T00:35:12.783Z
"Take On Me by A-Ha" has got to be one of the hardest songs to remember how to spell
is it "Take On Me" or "Take Me On"? Is it "A-Ha" or "Ah-Ha" or "Ha-Ha" or "The Ah-Has" or "A-Ha's" or whatA?
2026-08-07T03:03:32.039Z
huh, I didn't know that Bedrock unimplementee block IDs indicate that reinforced deepslate was once intended to have a "slot" variant
(mysterious_frame would end up being reinforced deepslate)
2026-08-08T04:33:42.018Z
I don't know if my comment is actually what spurred some progress to be made here, but I am glad there finally was some https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2037273
2026-08-09T00:33:04.250Z
There's a radio ad for insurance or something that ends with "best switch I ever made!"
I always want that to end with "... and I make custom BDSM dungeon equipment!"
2026-08-09T23:57:39.452Z
It's a big unfortunate that leaderboards.gg has seemingly been in development hell for the past five years
Would be nice to have a competitor to speedrun.com
2026-08-10T23:53:49.390Z
wow Java 28 only has 4 JEPs so far and it's already poised to be the most exciting update in years, as long as you care about stuff that isn't enabled by default
anticipateed for about six years and finally making it to preview, it's JEP 401 Value Objects! https://openjdk.org/jeps/401
custom immutable, value-based objects have been in demand for a long time, and their absence has even blocked a handful of other projects in the JDK
records got part of the way there but it's become clear that value objects are still needed
value objects have gone through a long process of development, getting completely overhauled at least once in the process, but it seems like the team is finally comfortable with where they are
and yet somehow, arguably an even more important and long-anticipated feature is hitting incubator in 28: a native JSON API for Java! https://openjdk.org/jeps/540
at first glance, it looks decent. it has most of the basic functionality that you would need for typical JSON operations
2026-08-10T23:59:51.867Z
the one meaningful miss IMO is not being able to load a JSON document directly from disk via the API. you'll have to do something like `Files.readString(Path.of("path/to/file.json"))`
2026-08-11T00:01:10.130Z
the fact that there's no `Files.readString(String path)` is already a minor annoyance, and they had the opportunity here to do `Json.load(String path)` or something here. I get why they didn't, but I still wish that they did
2026-08-11T00:04:15.665Z
hey Josh you should consider finishing the Thinkblog redesign lol
2026-08-11T00:55:04.982Z
would be nice if Backblaze fixed their software sometime
it's been half an hour, do you really need to take like 15 minutes to re-scan my computer and back stuff up again?
2026-08-11T21:10:28.988Z
playing around with cinnabar bricks
not sure this works, exactly. but it's interesting