diff --git a/.dictionary b/.dictionary index 9308ff1..e75f1b6 100644 --- a/.dictionary +++ b/.dictionary @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ decryptor defunkt deromanize derp +dinos direnv doomscrolling duckduckgo @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ iamakey idigdurham indieweb inputrc +jammies janky javac jcenter @@ -131,6 +133,7 @@ sgronblo shitshow shoulda signup +slappin smalllikeart somesuch specced diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/index.md index 9fc41d0..5202746 100644 --- 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 {{}}Bright 3D‑printed toys—pink segmented dragon pieces and a tiny dragon beside a red jeep—on a tabletop in soft window light.{{}} {{}}Two tiny pink, horned dinos stand on a cutting mat, lit warmly like fresh desk-bound creations.{{}} -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.