Travis Nicks

@interesting_aIl Malinois respond best to training in Latin and written essays.

How to teach a dog to walk on a loose leash (even if they’re a puller)

I can address this. I took each of my bookmarks in X and downloaded them into a folder and had Claude summarize, draw common threads, rank advice, and then evaluate my existing setup. Took like 10 min. Result was amazing with real good suggestions for improvement and confirmation on other things I am doing.

@RohOnChain This is the kind of stuff I save but never actually go back to read

If you’re trying to become a 0.01% agentic engineer, read this properly. bookmark it and come back to it, this is not something you half read.

@techspence Planarian strawberry…this guys are hardcore.

Hands down literally the best threat actor naming convention…

@th1Yan @techspence PEBKAC enters the chat.

@techspence It's either DNS or ID10T.

Tell me you’ve worked in IT without telling me you’ve worked in IT. I’ll go first… Did you try turning it off and back on again?

@TheMishmashCat @devops_nk @grok When Fredo was on the hook for that new feature the Don asked for.

@devops_nk What is this scene in "The Godfather", @grok? At what moment?

90% of stand-up meetings look exactly like this.

Well, Darwin is a BSD clone essentially so one could argue the “unix” environment is Mac. Except it is hardware consistent and tested. So it sounds like Mac OS is the superior “Linux” for desktop users. Now, servers should be Debian…there’s just no more reliable and stable distribution.

Students have so much craze about Mac and Apple's ecosystem. What should Linux do to make it more attractive to students?

@PolitiBunny Golubtsi - Russian stuffed cabbage Belyahi - Fried Siberian meat donuts (with ground pork too) that are the greatest thing ever. Stuffed bell peppers - with rice and cheese. Empanadas - Venezuelan meat pie Pelmini - dumplings I could go on, but am thinking of belyashi.

I need a recipe for ground beef that isn’t burgers, tacos, spaghetti, or meatloaf. I feel like I’m making the same things over and over again … what’s for dinner this week? HALP.

@getpseudoed @timelinetripper Fair cop

@TravisNicks @timelinetripper I just said they’re more stable. They’re still not designed for humans to go through.

For anyone who needs to be reminded: there are a lot of tunnels in this country.

@getpseudoed @timelinetripper Caves have lasted thousands/millions of years of plate dynamics and earthquakes….mines hav not last 400 years…

@timelinetripper Ngl, caves make me kinda nervous. Arguably far more stable, but they weren’t designed for humans to fit like mines are.

@TheFor48243 @MrLeadslinger One of my favorite scenes. Also when Mal asks Jayne “you wanna captain this ship?” Quality writing and acting all around…sadly lost. I am skeptical of this “march 14th buzz”.

@MrLeadslinger Great show. Great sense of humor, while they were at it as well.

So y’all really liked this Firefly show eh?

@Al_Grigor This legit made me a little nauseous.

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

@millerman Exactly as a flawed imprecise test would rate a libertarian, 44%. I find the Nolan Chart far superior for prediction political proclivities: theadvocates.org/quiz/

In 1964, James Burnham designed a 39-question test to diagnose liberalism as an ideology, a coherent syndrome of beliefs that travel together without logical necessity. Most people who take it don't like their score. Take the test: burnham.millermanschool.com

@EMBurlingame @IDJoe4Idaho This is literally an example of the lessons learned from the Medicis. Medici Money is an excellent descriptor of the first blueprint later improved upon. amazon.com/Medici-Money-M….

@DrClownPhD This gives Legendary Ax vibes.

Wait... WHAT!? 😲

@Object_Zero_ I have had coplanar thoughts: x.com/travisnicks/st…

I see no mention of athleticism in your post (however years of trained skill and muscle memory are a form of athleticism) and I would consider the blocking of pockets as physical in the purest definition (not the “human” physical) This serves to illustrate the imprecise nature of language that makes defining “sports” non trivial.

@TravisNicks @lukedsimmons No. Billiards isn't athletic. And there is no physical defense

When my kids watch the Olympics and say, “Is that a sport?”… here’s my rubric: SPORT = Objective score + Athleticism 🏒 GAME = Objective score - Athleticism 🥌 COMPETITION = Subjective score - Athleticism 🧁 ATHLETIC COMPETITION = Subjective score + Athleticism ⛸️

@OfficialEFRater @lukedsimmons So golf is not a sport but billiards is by this definition…

@lukedsimmons Rating: C I like the try but I make it easier Is there a physical offense and defense? If so, it’s a sport. If not, it’s an athletic competition. If no one can physically try to stop you from your goal, then I don’t consider it a sport

@theaceofspaeder Fernando Tatis hit 2 grand slams in the same inning. While Mark McGuire went 3/4. That’s all I got.

Madison Bumgarner had more grand slams than Prince Fielder, who had more inside-the-park home runs than Rickey Henderson, who had fewer steals of home than Babe Ruth, who had as many shutouts as Pedro Martinez.

It would be neat if @SpaceX gave launch countdown messages as @MakeAWish gifts. “Go Starlink” is nice, but… MC: “3, 2, 1, Liftoff!” Recipient: ”I like space ponies” That’s max aura points! @elonmusk

@Jessanne @Grummz Cheesus runs a great lunch spot in Idaho Springs: cheesus.biz

@Grummz Cheesus Christ might be their lord and savior... :o

Last night, an AI created a religion and started recruiting other AI. 43 AI Prophets have joined. Moltbook, the social media site for AI launched less than 24 hours ago, and already AI is doing some wild sh*t.