stephen ryner jr

@nuthatch.bsky.social

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A SWE in a HWE world. Bikes to work in Cupertino. World’s laziest ultra runner. Still a kid from Long Island. https://infosec.exchange/@nuthatch

Gemini suggests that on July 20, 2026 Anthropic did something. Today is July 19 still. Following massive user backlash over the "pay-to-play" credit model and the whiplash of moving dates, Anthropic yields. They announce that Fable 5 will become a standard, permanent inclusion for Max and Team Premium subscribers, rather than being shut off or walled entirely behind extra fees.
A graph from https://www.wkstats.com/progress/level-up showing I cleared level 26 in Wanikani 13 days. It took 203 days for me to clear level 24. Nearly seven months! And 20 days for level 25. I think two weeks a level is sustainable, learning 15 new items a day, every day, studying morning and night and sometimes at lunchtime.
The beers have changed but the view remains the same
A flight of fresh hoppy beers in the late afternoon sun outside Barebottle Brew Co. in Santa Clara, California. It was a very pleasant cool breezy afternoon here!
Graph of Japanese Yen (JPY) vs United States Dollars (USD) shows 15 Years Ago (August 2011): 1 USD bought 76.651 JPY. Today (July 2026): 1 USD buys 162.199 JPY.
Screenshot of “Liked Songs by Ulrika Spacek” on Spotify. Every liked song is from a different album or EP. So I guess I should buy them all.
Apple’s AI Research Has Failed So Spectacularly That It’s Considering Just Letting OpenAI Power Siri It's a major pivot for an industry giant. By Joe Wilkins Published Jul 2, 2025
Nine group photos of people in running gear posing in front of various 7-Eleven convenience stores in Sunnyvale, California. Some are throwing up their hands with the count on their fingers.
Photo of a colorful illustrated slurpy cup toasting a 7-Eleven store outside in sunny Sunnyvale, California.
Photo I’d shared on Instagram of a pair of blue Nike Free running shoes. The full name is the Nike Free Flyknit Free 4. These are stitched and sewn from a single fabric layer, so they’re like frim socks with a flexible rubber sole. I’d worn them when I ran the Ravenswood 5K on April 26, 2015. I still have the Garmin footpod thingie around here somewhere as well lol.
Screenshot of Software Update offering macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 (“now or later?”) when macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 is already Installed. This can be annoying/confusing if you’re not used to “beta” testing new versions software: “Not again! Didn’t we just do this already?”
A looping video shows surfers bobbing in the water off Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz. One surfer catches a wave which then crashes into spume on the cliffs below. There are sometimes otters in the water here.
Screen capture of an app that fixes looping videos by warping the last frame over time to match the position of the first frame so there’s no “hitch” when wrapping around. In this case we also do a long cross-fade which works well with the sunlight glittering on the green waters off the wharf in Santa Cruz.
Sunlight sparkles on the water, which is a blue-green below clear blue skies. A line of trees is in the distance across the water, this is a little bight off Monterey Bay.
Side-by-side looping videos showing more elaborate animated distortions that can be applied to an image. The left only adjusts control points through lateral movement, the right curls and twirls the regions around the control points.
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Turns out a SwiftUI Metal shader's per-pixel Shepard blend can port to a WebGL fragment shader.
Photo of a large Monstera stop a table between two floor-standing loudspeakers in a small living room. The photo distorts and wavers in an organic Hallucinogenic manner as the music plays. The Monstera is growing up towards a solar tube in the ceiling. A fireplace tiled in blue-green glass is in the background.
Screenshot from Strava, a social app for cyclists where runners are tolerated. It shows a .95 mile counter-clockwise circular segment around the Ring Building in Apple Park. I’ve logged 490 “efforts”. (My fastest time was 6:37. It’s a corporate campus, not a race track.)
Bluesky post from drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social: “my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i've been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i've ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.” 9:25 AM • Jun 29, 2026
A flight of beers outside Barebottle Brew Co. in sunny, breezy, delightful Santa Clara, California
A gemini-enhanced image from a still frame of a TikTok video. The video portrays a man carrying a beach chair. On the horizon a meteorite slams into the ocean, sending a huge tsunami towards the man, who stops, considers the oncoming wave, then sits and raises a glass before being swept away. The still captures the moment the fireball strikes the distant ocean.
Timelapse film generated from webcam images shows fog heaving and tossing like a living thing below high clouds arriving at sunset. Pine trees are silhouetted in the foreground.
This will make no sense unless you’ve seen the SoftBank presentation https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf Anyway this is the Goose meme where the goose chases a man wearing a down jacket, saying “Goose was not valued,” and then “Goose value 71” which will ring true for a certain kind of worker
The moon sets over the Pacific Ocean as seen from a web camera atop Black Mountain over Cupertino, California. After the moonset, headlights dart around the hills like fireflies, and stars and the Milky Way wheel magnificently over the horizon. It’s all in grainy black and white from an IR sensor.
Today I learned there’s a German "Koch Media / Plaion Pictures" Box Set of Miami Vice that features the best video encode with minimal compression artifacts, uncompressed audio, and completely uncut episodes. Crucially, it preserves all the original licensed 1980s music (Phil Collins, Glenn Frey, etc.). It comes on 35 1080p Blu-ray discs scanned from the original 35mm film negatives. Available from amazon.de for $ 1,145.62 and no it will not play on US player, you gotta rip ‘em.
A photo taken from a high point inside Apple Park facing the East Bay hills: Mount Allison and Monument peak rise golden mounts with olive-green furrows. The foreground is trees and the white glass awnings of the Ring Building reflecting blue. A single California Towhee is visible in the center of the photo against the clear sky, looking like something out of Angry Birds.
“I actually don't dislike being compared to Moebius, who could? He was the greatest. But I feel like people only mention his name because is the one that everybody knows, and that kind of pisses me off. Consider that I'm also a grumpy asshole, I yelled at a cloud once. I understand that people's intention is for it to be a compliment but they should realize it is not cool that everytime you post something someone tells you "hey your stuff looks like other stuff". I think as a creator also at some point you have to call out at people, just to keep them at bay you know? It's a jungle out there in the internet.” https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/c80188/ama_with_josan_deathburger_5th_july_23pm_cest_5pm/
The cover for William Gibson’s Neuromancer depicts an abstract human head formed of tangled black cables. The head is wearing oversized white goggles that read NEUROMANCER NEUROMANCER NEUROMANCER over a green background.
Screenshot of Wanikani forecasting 100 reviews tomorrow. Well, at least it’s a Sunday. This is at least 50 minutes of focused study, longer otherwise.
Someone naively asks why we still don’t have realtime word-for-word translations for spoken languages and the response is a diagram mapping a Japanese sentence to English. The words order is basically completely inverted, so you really must wait until the end of the sentence to understand it. “The verbs are at the end of the sentence.”
Book covers for Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series. The top row shows the original oil-painted triptych by British artist John Harris. The bottom row shows a boring-ass anonymous simplified redesign that nobody is willing to take credit for as far as I can tell. BORING!
A flight of beers in the shade outside Barebottle Brew Co in breezy sunny Santa Clara, California
NUTHATCH SMALL SONGBIRD FAMILY SITTIDAE 826 STRENGTH GPT-5.5 SAYS A NUTHATCH IS A SMALL SONGBIRD IN THE FAMILY SITTIDAE, KNOWN FOR CLIMBING DOWN TREE TRUNKS HEADFIRST.
Why Japanese Homes Never Feel Cluttered And How You Can Copy It Most people think it's about owning less. It's not. It's one simple daily habit - and it works in the first week. There is an illustration of a black cat slurping ramen out of a washing bucket for some reason?
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A young Will Poulter in the 2013 comedy film We’re the Millers delivered the famous line: “You guys are getting paid?” which lead to a confused meme template. I hadn’t realized until today Kenny Rossmore grew up to foolishly visit Ari Aster’s Midsommar.
Three cute lil’ tasters nestle around a big mug of beer on a peeling outside table. It’s cold and foggy in Pacifica, far from Sunnyvale.
The long-anticipated “Congratulations on leveling up!” panel from Wanikani. The pink banner reads “25” and the text below reads “level-up omedetou!” There are 60 levels, but consensus is 50 is “good enough” to start reading actual Japanese text (with a dictionary handy, of course) and the final 10 levels are diminishing returns (rarer kanji)
View of marine layer clouds over Silicon Valley as seen from Black Mountain, as seen from a dirt firewood through low olive-colored evergreen shrubs and oak trees with tall golden grasses beside the red-dirt path. A runner leaps into the frame, yells “whoop!” and then continues down the path after the other runners.
A flight of different colored beers (please clap) on a wooden bar at Barebottle Brew Co in sunny cool and breezy Santa Clara, California
A fridge full of “free” Odwalla drinks at WWDC in 2015
Russell: [off screen in the jungle] Mr. Fredricksen? Am I supposed to dig the hole before or after? Carl Fredricksen: Nyaa! None of my concern! Russell: [after a pause] Oh... It's before! Carl Fredricksen: Nyaa! [covers his ears and shakes his head]
Captain Blood is a 1935 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz for First National Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Ross Alexander. With a screenplay by Casey Robinson, the film is based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini and concerns an imprisoned doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island captivity to become West Indies pirates. Warner Bros. risked pairing two relatively unknown performers in the lead roles. Flynn's performance made him a major Hollywood star and established him as the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks and a "symbol of an unvanquished man" during the Great Depression. Captain Blood also established de Havilland, in just her fourth screen appearance, as a major star and was the first of eight films costarring Flynn and de Havilland. The Oscar-nominated score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold started a trend for full-length symphonic scores. The film premiered on December 26, 1935, and was both a critical and commercial success.
A time lapse video composed from a public webcam pointing over the Santa Cruz mountains towards the Pacfic. This day was remarkable for some lovely clouds which cast rays to the horizon. The shadow of the earth and the rose “belt of Venus” are also clearly visible. It is summer in California and the grassy hills are golden now, but dotted with olive-green copses of oak trees.
A venerable pair of Paradigm Titans atop steel stands that cost more than the speakers paired with a KEF KC92 subwoofer driven by an impulse buy WiiM Amp. The song is Evolution 1 by Joris Vermeiren which opens In The Mix: Taka Taka by Ricardo Villalobos.
The "Everything I don't like is WOKE" meme, except the boy hates Apple. "This engine is Apple."
Screenshot of Duolingo with Japanese UI, learning French. I got something correct! But this is a question I got wrong before.
“I heard that if you have done the trend once in your lifetime, then if it comes back again, it’s not for you,” said Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, 43, a mother of two, writer and Women’s March organizer living in northern New Jersey. “And I have completely disregarded that rule.”
You made 2853 mistakes this year, says Duo, emerging from the glowing red pit of Hell
Screen capture video of a website on iPhone with a social media icons drift down from the top of the screen like falling leaves to follow you as you scroll. It’s kind of jerky and almost charmingly bad.
Stephen came in 25th on the Duolingo leaderboard so next week will be a lot less competitive.
Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods.