commit fa5de51427567b7907ae87afef9caa535a4c91db
parent 79d212759b23eed157c7be71201d7dc43593aea1
Author: David Eisinger <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 00:19:48 -0500
finalize
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2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.dictionary b/.dictionary
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ decryptor
defunkt
deromanize
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+dinos
direnv
doomscrolling
duckduckgo
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ iamakey
idigdurham
indieweb
inputrc
+jammies
janky
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jcenter
@@ -131,6 +133,7 @@ sgronblo
shitshow
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+slappin
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specced
diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/index.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ references:
file: kottke-org-l0focf.txt
---
-Happy new year! Big month. My girl turned four, which is somehow both shocklingly old and young. Sometimes I look at her and think, I can't believe you're not still two. Other times she says things and I think, I can't believe you're not, like, twelve. We threw her a party at [Hyper Kidz][1], then my folks took her to Asheville for a few days.
+Happy new year! Big month. My girl turned four, which is somehow both shockingly old and young. Sometimes I look at her and think, I can't believe you're not still two. Other times she says things and I think, I can't believe you're not, like, twelve. We threw her a party at [Hyper Kidz][1], then my folks took her to Asheville for a few days.
[1]: https://durham.hyperkidzplay.com/
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ My lovely wife got me a [Bambu Lab P1S][6] 3D printer for Christmas, and it's ba
{{<dither IMG_2849.jpeg "782x600">}}Bright 3D‑printed toys—pink segmented dragon pieces and a tiny dragon beside a red jeep—on a tabletop in soft window light.{{</dither>}}
{{<dither IMG_9648.jpeg "782x600">}}Two tiny pink, horned dinos stand on a cutting mat, lit warmly like fresh desk-bound creations.{{</dither>}}
-I've started dabbling a bit with [Blender][8] to design and print custom stuff. Here's my first project -- the, ahem, "crap catcher" -- designed to keep Claire's fancy kitch knives free of parrot detritus:
+I've started dabbling a bit with [Blender][8] to design and print custom stuff. Here's my first project -- the, ahem, "crap catcher" -- designed to keep Claire's fancy kitchen knives free of parrot detritus:
[8]: https://www.blender.org/
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ Pairs nicely with [another one of my favorites from 2025][13].
I gave a talk at work about my use of ChatGPT codex over the last six months. The big takeaways:
-* These tools don’t replace thinking (and in fact reward good & clear thinking)
-* Good software development practices still apply (and you need to be able to describe them rather than just having an intuitive sense)
-* Abundance mindset over zero-sum (these tools aren't taking work from software developers, they're letting us do more)
+* **These tools don’t replace thinking** (and in fact reward good & clear thinking)
+* **Good software development practices still apply** (and you need to be able to describe them rather than just having an intuitive sense)
+* **Abundance mindset over zero-sum** (these tools aren't taking work from software developers, they're letting us do more)
Finally, I'd like to take health and exercise a bit more seriously in 2026, and plan to do a separate blog series about it. Look out for that in the next week or so.
