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New comment by regularmother in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

regularmother — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:12:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing this story and congratulations on finding a way back up. So many people never do.

> people willing to judge me by what I could do next instead of only by what I had done before

I think this is a really tragic take so common in the United States. It feels like, at least to me, that societal trust has broken down so much that people are broadly unwilling to take a chance on anyone.

Jail is supposed to mean you paid your debt to society. It's supposed to say 'okay, you've made a mistake, have had time to ruminate on it, now go forth and prosper.' It's not retribution or vengeance, or at least it shouldn't be - especially for non-violent crimes.

I'm truly glad you were fortunate and strong enough to climb out. I wish that this was a more common story.

New comment by regularmother in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

regularmother — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:25:25 +0000

I've been using dagger.io and it's been really nice to work with.

- runs locally

- has a language server: python, typescript, go, java, OR elixer

- has static typing

- the new caching mechanisms introduced in 0.19.4 are chef's kiss

I do not work for dagger and pay for it using the company credit card. A breath of fresh air after the unceasing misery and pain that is Gitlab and GHA.

New comment by regularmother in "Cognition Windsurf acquisition behind the scenes (X)"

regularmother — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:53:49 +0000

I read this as hyperbole, not a literal statement. I interpreted this statement to mean "these people that work at Cognition are excellent and I'm exited to work with them."

New comment by regularmother in "Why Clojure?"

regularmother — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:52:44 +0000

Did you or any of your fellow devs have ADD or ADHD? How did they adapt to dynamic types?

I have ADD and I once heard that devs with ADD/ADHD have an incredibly small heap size for context but compensate for their weakness by being great at solving logical problems in that small heap. Types have been essential for me when functioning in code bases. I really struggle with pure JS and untyped Python.

Clojure was similarly hard for me. What tools and/or techniques do such folks use for comprehending already written Clojure code?

New comment by regularmother in "Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla"

regularmother — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:15:47 +0000

Lawrence Fossi's older substack articles go into great depth about the ought-to-be-illegal level of control that Musk has over the board. Lawrence is a commercial trial lawyer so he views Musk's nonsense in a different, more rigorous light. Link: https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/

New comment by regularmother in "Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats"

regularmother — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:01:31 +0000

Well, they shut down two music services. The first was Songza, which they bought. They then took everything Songza had- namely their awesome mood-based, artisanally curated playlists- and put it into Google Play Music. Then they seemingly let go of everyone who maintained the playlists and never updated them again? Those playlists on Songza were _excellent_ and the Snoop Dog collabs were just delightful.

Not sure how Google internally makes decision but I imagine it works entirely quarter by quarter trying to measure individual Impact with no overarching vision or direction.