Steve Canon

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ยง 512. STATE PIE
The state pie shall be apple pie.

Sec. 2. SERVING APPLE PIE
When serving apple pie in Vermont, a "good faith" effort shall be made to meet one or more of the following conditions:
(a) with a glass of cold milk,
(b) with a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce,
(c) with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Our stairs have a cameo in the new Build Show episode ๐Ÿ˜‚: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTo_TOxS3k (nice-but-boring straight stairs @ 12:40, the curved thing @ 13:40).

All the shop footage showing how the wall panels get built is pretty fascinating, too.

Build Across America | Episode 3 - Panelization in the Northeast and Beyond

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Aside: I really appreciate that this neurosurgery conference normalizes bringing partners/kids and plans activities for them. Maybe 100 kids* of all ages running around the reception.

Forces people out of all-work-all-the-time mindset.

(*) actually more than that, but a lot are teens / early-20s, and they're less obviously visible.

I will never be a beach person, but I am forced to admit that this is pretty OK for a conference location.
Biguana.
Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines - with intro

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A belated international horseshoe crab day to all who celebrate.

https://vimeo.com/86838871

"Just flip 'em!"ยฎ Music Video

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It's international horseshoe crab day and everyone's invited! Except crabs, because these are not even crustaceans (they are more like spiders and scorpions) ๐Ÿฆ‘๐Ÿงช
Iguana.
Watching pelicans fish and writing SIMD code, A+ vacation so far

Some updates, now at 8.3x performance boost since I started using the new tips and tricks from the Apple performance talk.

Started to use third party benchmarks to compare notes.

On VteBench, comparing MacOS Terminal, main, perf branch and Ghostty yields some amazing results, I couldn't believe my own eyes:

When I first tried, "termbench small", it was a worthless experiment, it would never end. Now, it does better than both MacOS Tahoe and Ghostty:

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@macst Here is a very tall door in London, off Denmark Street. The building is a theatrical set design store.