My little buddy is mine. I won’t share his name because it’s rather unique, I mostly call him little buddy or gremlin.

He’s a black shorthair cat. We got him as a rescue kitten and I loved him as soon as I saw this uglygoofy kitten run across his cage (over another cat) to get pets.

The first two weeks we had him all he did was have diarrhea in the closet and scream, he was very underweight and looked like a bat. Once he got up to weight he’s been healthy and active since.

He’s got a lot of personality and quirks. He follows me everywhere, he’s a total copilot cat. He’s very loud, he likes to sing the songs of his people. He loves playing and we have all sorts of dumb games (I play Air bud style soccer with him and he’s pretty good, and he really likes being chased into his cat tube or under the bed).

He’s also an anxious cat, which I think resonates with me because I’m rather anxious. But he seems to know when I am and just lays with me and it’s very nice.

He’s a very dumb cat, but weirdly easy to train. He responds to his name and a few commands or words, but he also gets lost easily and cries if he can’t find us in the house.

He sleeps with me every night and doesn’t like when I don’t share bathroom time with him.

I’ve got an old grey lady and she looks so much like your cat, she even does that monkey tail curl

When they didn’t find the KIT gene to be causing the whiteness, the scientists turned to something more dramatic: sequencing the salmiak cats’ entire genome

OMG you can’t just ask a cat why it’s white!

Also pretty neat that the gene responsible for cat colouring is called KIT, science proves we named kitties correctly.

What’s different about the Gemma license?

Do you also get

“You do such great work, and you go so deep on everything. But you need to work on finishing that last 5-10% of a project, it always takes you so long”

My wife had to come check on me I was lauhing so hard, my computer thinks your cat is a hippo!

I’ve never seen a photo of a cat from this angle

I’m laughing out loud at this photo

She looks like such a sweet cat, hopefully a kitten friend will help her!

I can never get to that second part.

Legally I’m not sure if that counts.

I’m calling the internet police to conduct a wellness check.

Is that a book about a Java library?

Good

What a beautiful cat! Your obstacle course is awesome, I’m glad she likes it.

It’s been nice to see your updates as she’s been bonding more with you, she seems like a cat deserving a human as thoughtful as you are

Reminds me of Wendy’s recruiting campaign “A career at Wendy’s serves me right”

That is the law. I’m sorry.

This is how I always handled tests.

Day of was more about managing my stress and getting into a good headspace for me

That joinery is so clean!

Great work!

My current work is going through this

They dropped an open system we used but the team managing the new one is so bureaucratic and disconnected from the people actually doing work it’s ridiculous.

They reject every proposal/change unless it’s 100% perfect. I had a project delayed by four weeks because I didn’t end single line docstrings with periods. They didn’t review the substance of the pr, they just commented on the docstrings and stopped as if the rest had no merit. It was two weeks between review cycles, so it took three cycles to actually fix what could have been one.

That whole team is just clearly a make work program. They nitpick and bike shed on every issue. But they aggressively document all the make work they do so they look super busy and important to the execs.

I just want to get work done, but instead it’s a Sisyphean effort.

Thank you!

My first thought was he wants me to install Linux, I got tux from it