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2026-08-17 23:17:48 CEST

https://www.tumblr.com/grayrazor/825216484448092160
#babylon5
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2026-08-16 18:49:27 CEST

OK, I hear your points, but hear me out. Sure, I created a horrible abomination from dead men & stolen brains, which now walks among us & murders as freely as you throw a child in a well, & burns down a forest per day of unlife.
But if I didn't do it, someone else would, maybe the JAPANESE, & you don't want that. There's no way to avoid the coming future of reanimated dead flesh, you don't want to be left behind, so just let my monsters choke you to death now.
#ButlerianJihad #ai
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2026-08-13 01:19:57 CEST

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MORE boning, more coffee.
#coffee

2026-08-12 22:06:53 CEST

#coffee
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2026-08-12 01:48:47 CEST

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You know that "waterfall" is a parody, right? It's the extreme case of specification programming, but nobody ever did that. Everyone since the '90s has at least heard of agile or XP, even though a vast majority don't implement it correctly (I will note, I'm a Certified Scrum Master, & did XP training with Kent.)

2026-08-12 01:46:44 CEST

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No, that's incorrect. There were 50+ years of really serious works on software engineering. Just most assholes these days have never read a single one, never done any of the work.
"there is no ACM Handbook" There absolutely are. Sedgewick's Algorithms, Bentley's Programming Pearls. For higher levels, Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained, Tom DeMarco's Peopleware, Fred Brooks' No Silver Bullet.
Just, YOU haven't read them, or applied anything from them.

2026-08-11 23:44:53 CEST

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Some of us *did* learn Software Engineering & not just hacking on shit until the demo looks OK, or lying & getting someone/something else to do it.
Not everyone, for sure. Standards fell off enormously after the '70s-80s, when programming became "popular".
But not everyone's an incompetent asshole.

2026-08-11 04:47:33 CEST

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Really: Macos.
Ideally: Haiku.
If I was insane: Plan9.

2026-08-07 10:26:20 CEST

Top Four funniest things about Python (language by Guido):
4. IDLE IDE named after Eric.
3. import antigravity
2. import turtle; turtle.reset(); turtle.forward(100); whee!
1. How incredibly irate whitespace indenting makes faux-traditional programmers (knows of Algol but is unaware of/disrespects FORTRAN).
#python

2026-08-01 07:12:35 CEST

My typing is still nearly perfect, 90-120 wpm or higher when caffeinated.
Except in the last decade my transposition of characters or skipping characters has increased a LOT, and probably my vision's not AS good, esp on smaller screeen, so I don't always see them.
At some point I'm gonna be as fallible & slow as a normal Human, and I resent this enormously.
"I could be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line. I'd rather be nothing." as what's left of Bishop said in a bad movie.

2026-07-22 07:13:31 CEST

ENLARGE YOUR GUINEA PIG
/via https://www.tumblr.com/google-searchhistory-official/822794820014768128
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2026-07-14 13:27:23 CEST

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Also one of the greatest documents ever:
https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
Olin's one of the great "Here's how to Scheme" writers, most of his tools are still in active use. I wish he'd get his goddamned "Anatomy of a Loop" macros out, but there's a couple projects to rebuild similar.
There's several videos of his presentations, they're fun.

2026-07-12 02:10:09 CEST

Eh, I've had worse pitches from both Republicans AND Democrats.
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2026-07-11 16:13:24 CEST

This is very useful:
https://opendylan.org/documentation/cheatsheets/scheme.html
But kinda hilarious:
instance?(foo, <string>)
as(<string>, foo)
member(x, ls) just as backwards as Scheme (member x ls)
Oh well prob too late to enforce consistent ordering now. I dream of a lang where biggest to smallest, least to most specific, is followed in functions. Obj-C kinda but it does stupid shit, too.
cond is case, case is select, backspace is delete.
All these commas seem unneeded.
#DylanLang #scheme

2026-07-11 14:11:42 CEST

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The phone has a phone? It's exponentially bad!

2026-07-10 10:14:06 CEST

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Worked on July Zine addition, while only hopped up on Arizona teas, and it didn't go well, but I finally got there.
I *hate* hate HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE [SBCL'S ERROR DIALOG] SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.
Totally useless at finding "(0) is not a NUMBER" yes, where did I use cdr instead of cadr? LINE NUMBER? STACK TRACE? NO SUCH NICETY FROM AM.
Anyway, next one is a neat mini-language parsing/eval thing and hopefully shows some nice Lisp problem solving.
#lisp

2026-07-10 08:36:27 CEST

Well, got up late (after an early wake/read/nap), played with dog, tooted some, played videogaems, had lunch. Time for work!
<is 23:30>
Is time for winding down to bed!
… I dunno, could I get more done? I'm not sure how. All of that seemed reasonable at the time I did it.

2026-07-09 07:48:06 CEST

Nintendo Comics System:
https://archive.org/details/NintendoComicsSystemBookCollection/Captain%20N%20-%20The%20Game%20Master%20-%20Nintendo%20Comics%20System%2001%20%281990%29/
And Captain N!
https://archive.org/details/captain-n-the-game-master-s-02-e-14-when-mother-brain-rules-version-2
#nintendo #videogames #zelda #retrogaming

2026-07-06 01:07:53 CEST

How it feels on July 5.
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2026-06-29 07:23:31 CEST

"Everywherre you go, you see a snake. Or if you got it bad enough, the same snake."
—The Two Snakes
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2026-06-24 06:47:43 CEST

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You have grossly & weirdly misread me (and this is not the first time. It will be the last.)
To be as clear as I can: Anil largely brings his miseries on himself.
Wil got hounded out because fedi's overzealous defenses swarmed him, an unfortunate side effect.
But keeping Nazis out isn't "disagreement", we shouldn't "hear both sides". It is an essential defense against becoming ex-twitter.
@npub12aj…rhcm @npub1sec…l7zj

2026-06-24 00:18:55 CEST

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Anil is also thin-skinned even for a media person, who are not the most robust species to start with. He takes criticism, jokes, or just insufficient fawning as an offense (see his meltdowns over the spike bracelet). So, yeah, don't be that guy here.
Wil Wheaton normally plays well with others, literally wrote the "don't be a dick" thesis, but some people took offense to his friends and chased him out, too.
Oh well. Still beats hanging out at the Nazi bar.

2026-06-22 22:42:00 CEST

#coffee and got my old biz consulting shirt on, so I feel like a real workin dude. Gonna work, ship something today!
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2026-06-09 14:01:53 CEST

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We talk a lot about sportsmanship & The American Game baseball, but the cruelty in our kids games are kinda more accurate.

2026-06-09 14:00:14 CEST

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There's a different letter in front, but as played at recess, it is a ball for throwing at guys' dicks, so either way.

2026-06-09 13:44:39 CEST

https://afieldguidetodoomsday.tumblr.com/post/818901808314564608
30% more hose flavor!
#genx
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2026-06-04 06:59:40 CEST

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For a bit there I was actually convinced Ted Chiang had written a coherent argument. But then, like all his stories, in the middle it collapses in a fit of illogic.
An actual-AGI AI wouldn't need to have a body to have desires & emotions; even if the computer it's in isn't good enough. We can put LLMs in robot frames, but that won't make them experience anything. Converse, slime molds have a body but no emotions, only trophic behaviors, but they're good enough to live in the world.

2026-06-01 02:48:06 CEST

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Caveman Lisp was hard because you had to chisel it into stone monoliths.
#lisp
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2026-06-01 02:42:29 CEST

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Maybe Wizards & Warriors in 1983?
https://www.retroist.com/p/sword-and-sorcery-television-in-1983-wizards-&-warriors

2026-05-31 17:15:34 CEST

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That seems like the right order to me!
(IEEE Scheme is a slightly broken R4RS, prob shouldn't be used, but it's the official spec).

2026-05-15 06:13:36 CEST

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This is a treasure in double-speak.
Java is not portable! It just compiles to the JVM, which is portable.
OH NO programmers want to enjoy their work & not feel like it's a chore? Doesn't understand that programmers often learn languages for fun, then apply that at work, not the other way around.
All programmers know now is design fancy user interface, eat hot chip, & lie.
Quotes Larry Ellison, war criminal. Ugh.
#ada #programming
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2026-05-12 01:54:49 CEST

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It's like "walking simulator", a derogatory term that got accepted by the community. Starbucks sells a *LOT* of Americanos.
People who do have cast-iron stomachs can treat espresso as "drip but better".
Note espresso machines didn't really catch on in the US until late '80s, early '90s. A friend got his early, & made over half a thermos. Drank it at the pool, went into shock & had to get his stomach pumped.

2026-05-12 01:48:55 CEST

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Cold brew coffee: Very good, much too slow a process for my junkie ass.
We don't say "long black" that's just a double Americano. I'm not a fan of the Americano type, straight-up espresso without milk bothers my stomach. I either have a strong drip, French press/pour-over, or if I'm out I'll get a latte or cappucino.
#coffee

2026-05-08 23:54:05 CEST

CAN YOU FUCKING OLD NERDS STOP BELIEVING LLM SHIT‽
http://scripting.com/2026/05/04/204207.html
Goddamn it, Dave.
#butlerianJihad

2026-05-07 21:47:29 CEST

#coffee #godzilla #kaiju
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2026-05-03 02:33:29 CEST

Being ripped off for years by fucking Wells Fargo finally got me a prepaid card with just enough balance to buy credit on Nintendo's eshop. Who's been ripping me off for years but eh, at least the games are fun.

2026-04-23 20:49:32 CEST

Game design is weird. I've decided that electricity is the opposite of undead. So if you "bless" someone, you're electrocuting them. Throw batteries at zombies to reunalive them.

2026-04-20 23:12:03 CEST

Oh, sunny Spring days, my face is full of pollen. I feel like bukkake girl at Shriner's convention, except it's fucking trees & flowers.
I've got drugs, & wore a mask for a bit, but it's got in my EYES, & now they make a grinding noise when I roll them.
Blegh.

2026-04-20 04:13:22 CEST

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Everyone's homes in cramped rat central New York are WAY too damn nice. Shrink has vast tracts of floorspace.
Anne, Lindsay Crouse, is an *exceptionally* awful actress at this regression scene. It's like the Andy McDowell torture scene in Hudson Hawk, but that was funny. This is just… awkward.
Fog machines! "I am the dreamer, you are the dream!" Weird toys flying around. Yeah, man, David Lynch loves this.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 04:05:02 CEST

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Nice hypnosis fugue as a bottle ep, repeat everything from 40 minutes earlier in the film.
Hallucinating everyone a bus as a bug: TOTALLY NORMAL. I had that all the time.
<Tubi ad: Rock star climbs up stairs & falls, ad for bananas>
G'Kar: KOBOLDS!!! PEOPLE OF THE LOWER DEPTHS! "They have haunted the world forever."
Shrink has a DOZEN abductee patients. But nobody believes, it must be brain damage.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:55:45 CEST

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Is God real? Is God little dark space dwarfs? This week's new Christian theology!
Hey, the lady shrink is the Doc from Outland, Frances Sternhagen!!! They found a great cast. Script's kind of a mess, between the contact scenes.
Hypnosis! Oh, this is hitting all the crazy stuff. She's claiming it's accepted in court? It sure is not, & was fraud every time it was used.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:50:50 CEST

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Anne's taking the news of her husband's psychotic break reasonably well. But again has no defense skills, treats it as a joke.
They rode the elevator down, got out, got back in, came back up.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:42:55 CEST

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Anne has really poor survival instincts. She has no fear, no desire to check the cabin, no curiousity about the dreams. Just completely oblivious & mocking.
New Yorkers with guns are weird. It just doesn't make sense if they're not gangsters. This is just my own bias against disarmed populations, tho.
& we see he has very poor fire control skills.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:37:31 CEST

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I love how Tubi just insta-cuts to the ad, so we have a scene in the cabin, then
"It's like, everything's an app nowadays" & I'm confused about how he has an app in 1989? ALIENS.
So are the dwarfs in black robes servants to the greys?
He's got an implant! Hard evidence, Scully! We just gotta run his head thru an NFC scanner.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:29:22 CEST

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Anne: "You're frightened of a Halloween mask?"
Walken: "What is there an echo, yes."
Are grown people, ostensibly horror writers, not allowed to be scared? Is she just bitchy because he embarassed her? OH NO SOCIAL FAUX PAS.
Hey, dude, there are drugs that treat depression. It's not always aliens.
♫ dance dance wherever you may be ♫
Is that allowed? Isn't dancing a sin?
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:18:48 CEST

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OK, first contact is pretty good but simple. Just dumb lights, & one weird little guy around the doorjam.
… ah, this "Indian hunting song" is kinda racist. I mean, it's Bork Bork Bork.
IT WASN'T A DREAM! IT WASN'T THE MOON! But we like tha moon.
Ruins a weekend trip for some bad dreams. Dramatic much?
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:12:39 CEST

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"We got us a goddamned mansion!" —Tucker & Dale.
Walken is literally on drugs at all times. Normal people do not behave like him.
Andreas asks the important question: "Ghosts of the wolves that used to be here?" Yes.
Aliens like to push alarm code buttons, it seems.
I kinda dig the art deco arrows clock. More weird art, please.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-20 03:02:57 CEST

All right, Communion time. I've read the book long ago, it's kind of a mess of other abduction stories, who knows if Strieber was serious. Hadn't seen the movie, watching on Tubi.
Christopher "I'm Walken Here!"
ANDREAS KATSULAS! G'KAR HISSELF!
ERIC CLAPTON!
WORDSTAR! He's cooking.
#monsterdon #communion

2026-04-16 10:36:38 CEST

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I have complaints about his lack of useful work this millennium, but Chris Crawford's "De Re Atari" was an *amazing* work in the '80s. It advocates a "tunnel thru rock" design theory, where there is no choice but moving forward to success. A good program isn't "maybe you can just wander around & fiddle with things", instead all the standard tasks are addressed & solved consistently.

2026-04-16 10:32:04 CEST

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Consider ed, the standard text editor. It has two configuration options, p to set prompt (pure vanity), H to toggle "helpful" error messages (in the implausible case you don't know what you did wrong). It's as close to perfect as any interactive program has ever been.
emacs doesn't know what it is, it's a bad editor wrapped in an interpreter that doesn't support standard OS features. It fails the secretaries & the programmers who would be better served with ed & CL.

2026-04-16 10:08:31 CEST

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Yes in general. In particular I'm mad at irssi.

2026-04-16 08:12:04 CEST

An ideal program has no settings. It does the one task it's supposed to do, nothing more or less.
Every setting is a compromise, you SHOULD be composing several programs to get a result, instead you're jamming them together in one box.
A config file is an admission of defeat.
A *LANGUAGE* means you have failed utterly as a programmer.
"A [program] has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!"
—Howard Roark

2026-04-05 01:25:58 CEST

#coffee
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2026-03-29 11:13:58 CEST

Surprisingly good article in TIME about BASIC:
https://time.com/69316/basic/
#basic #retrocomputing
Look at these NERDS!
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2026-03-24 19:32:36 CET

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But it's simply not true. Linux kernel's accepting slop & rust. Wayland is still & likely forever to be worse than X11 (at the job to be done: building & running applications, sometimes remotely). Systemd is slop & spyware now. Even aside from Linux's traditional incompetences, it's worse than a year ago.
Like, maybe BSD is getting better, tho I have Complaints but much less so. Or Haiku. Slow to the point of stasis.

2026-03-23 17:01:53 CET

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Also the "holy" Anglican Church which only exists so a "king" could get a divorce.

2026-03-12 00:31:19 CET

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Great word for pneumatic tube & machine systems, which are all over in old SF (and Futurama).
A lot of pulp crime & SF stories also used it for pulchritudinous, which could be a lot worse if they'd been more direct? I wouldn't use it for that this century, but I try to only judge things by the time they were written.

2026-03-07 22:45:19 CET

I really like how EVERY SINGLE DAY brings fresh new Hells for me to deal with. None of that stale torment nexus, this is the primo new stuff, fresh from the slop factory. Fresh from Project 2025. From Russia with, uh, "love".

2026-03-07 22:10:14 CET

Well fucking shit motherfuckers. Vim & Neovim are both contaminated with LLM slop.
I mean, I can just use ed. Or roll back Vim to an old version and never let it update? Fuck.
I do have a new Mac coming, so I could just commit to BBEdit, tho that's less optimal for code editor. Assuming siegel hasn't done something stupid?
Ha ha I could finally switch to emacs with vile binds and then NOTHING will work.
Fucking fuck darkest fucking timeline.
https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825
#vim #butlerianJihad

2026-03-04 00:17:17 CET

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Well, this is why I don't work for anyone, and just fart around. Nobody can demand my KPI or burndown charts or whatever now. So when I need code a second time, I put it in a library.
For a while, the write-less-code people were winning, we had "4GL" and nice scripting languages over rigorous libraries.

2026-03-03 20:27:23 CET

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That's called a library. Like this place that burned, Alexandria?
You debug the code that does stuff, and give it a name, and then it's easy to call from other code. LIBRARIES ARE MAGIC!
#software #programming #library #itsInABook #ButlerianJihad

2026-02-27 21:26:51 CET

Alas, Dan Simmons, called away to the time war. Hyperion cantos, Summer of Night, Song of Kali (it's a horror story, not a travelogue), The Terror (I haven't seen the series, but I can guess it's 10% as cruel as the book), read them all. I bounced on Ilium, but that was probably just me at that time, I know some like it a lot.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/
#scienceFiction #horror #bookstodon

2026-02-22 09:47:09 CET

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Substitute your native language for "English" there (this being a post in English, I tend to assume either native or hard-won skill in that language), tho my least bad non-English language training started in grade school & was on Sesame Street before that.
And yeah, lifelong practice at any language is valid. I just don't think outsourcing that to a person or machine is particularly good for you.

2026-02-22 08:27:25 CET

> One knock-on of this is that now we have these odd artifacts that are called models which are demonic soul shards that broke off from when the wealthy stole everything in the world. If you get one of these demonic soul shards, your personal computer can run a spell checker using it.
<
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/demonic-soul-shards-and-winogradian-knowledge-crystal-software-artifacts/
The alternative, which I practice, was passing grade school English so I can spell & grammar good. Obvs not the done thing anymore.

2026-02-20 01:46:12 CET

Back when these were good times:
https://opendirectories.tumblr.com/post/809001595572486145
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2026-02-18 10:41:15 CET

Job email, for a company I would rather burn down than work for:
> Note: Hacker Rank test report is mandatory. <
What.
> The future is human plus AI.
We’ve entered a new era of software development where human and AI build together. This changes the skills you need as a developer, and the way companies engage, hire, and upskill technical talent. In short, this changes everything.
<
WTF!
It literally tells you what to type?
#butlerianJihad
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2026-02-18 10:14:28 CET

https://foone.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#scheme
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2026-02-15 06:21:20 CET

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It all depends on how much you want to implement.
Emacs is a *gigantic* tower of stuff added for specific environments, many of which are now extinct, over 40-some years. You can think a lot smaller (Unix & Scheme philosophy) and get somewhere faster.
If you want the giant tower, yeah, you're committing to a lot.

2026-02-02 17:19:47 CET

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Hitler aspired to higher class, jealous of the aristocracy, and hired qualified people to make art. Hugo Boss, Albert Speer, and Leni Riefenstahl were *excellent* at their craft, just moral voids.
But Trump's a slumlord who maybe aspires to 3rd-world dictator shit, like Saddam Hussein, so gilt and awards and idiots wearing MAGA hats are all he can even imagine. No class.

2026-01-30 01:23:39 CET

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Just read the breathless hype for tech that would make your entire desktop ALIVE with the World Wide Web!
https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1997-03_OCR/mode/2up
(and it coulda worked. But ad money said no.)
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2026-01-29 23:53:43 CET

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Browsers were supposed to become "Agents", in the Push Software/WIRED magazine promoted sense, going out to get info for you.
But then Google paid everyone to kill their RSS, page editing, and other integrations, and they're just dumb pipes to servers run by Google now.

2026-01-29 14:51:24 CET

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I'm going with C, because I don't think Object.assign works there. It might after object creation.
<test>
Yes, that's correct.
class syntax is cute but it's very misleading, only classic function, prototype syntax is "true".

2026-01-28 16:37:58 CET

Oh nice all the big tech "leaders" have memo-leaked to say "the situation" or "events" are "distressing" or "sad" and need "deescalation", but they love "strong" Presidents with so many trophies:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/anthropic-and-openai-ceos-condemn-ice-violence-praise-trump/
None of them say the names out loud:
ICE executed Good and Pretti, in cold blood. Everyone involved in their chain of command, to the top, should be tried for murder and hung like Gestapo.

2026-01-27 22:57:25 CET

There's a list of dramatic "44 D&D Rules" from a GM who was being harassed by a shitty player.
https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/44-rules-of-d-d.10839/
Read/commented by Bob:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg5Hc6KFpw
And, like, this guy is a hero, even starting at rule 1.
When I run RoleMaster, I'm generous with time initially, but I expect players to learn. I've timed it, with a competent group a dozen-ish sessions in, a round's actions take 45-60 seconds. IN RM. In baby-mode games like D&D, a round should be <15 seconds.
#ttrpg #dnd #osr

2026-01-24 23:59:01 CET

If there's anyone left who can write, future historians are going to write that the 21st Century people* were the dumbest motherfuckers who ever fucked their mothers for want of a hole in the ground. We made Idiocracy look optimistic in just 20 years!
I literally can't think of anyone who fucked up this hard. Aztecs are the closest, worshipping Cortez as a god and letting him destroy their civilization. But some people survived that!
* (yes, your group, too.)
#history

2026-01-24 00:43:54 CET

#coffee
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2026-01-22 22:21:31 CET

> it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows
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https://www.tumblr.com/google-searchhistory-official/806395065471729664
#startrek
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/940/842/329/086/822/original/8ae72b3bf95d8dfb.mp4

2026-01-21 06:50:01 CET

Wow, this is an incredible cover to Citizen of the Galaxy. Compare to the Ace one I almost certainly read:
https://www.tumblr.com/retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art/805638235528314880/cover-artist-darrell-k-sweet-american
#scienceFiction #heinlein #bookstodon
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/931/484/000/066/420/original/d706055036ddf13f.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/931/484/128/388/900/original/af1140256be0c45d.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/931/506/048/027/840/original/6bff76dcc6288f77.jpg

2026-01-20 01:42:35 CET

https://www.tumblr.com/grayrazor/806191037905256448
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/924/646/932/843/446/original/c65fdd83a9c7523c.jpg

2026-01-17 16:36:41 CET

<avoiding paperwork and lawyer shit until Monday, so I may as well focus hard on dumb old games and Sumo>
Funniest bout yesterday. Kazunofuji v Dewanojo:
https://kewey.furvect.com/sumo/clips/202511d08_kazunofuji_dewanojo.mp4
GODDAMN, Dew.
#sumo

2026-01-03 12:46:31 CET

Good news, everyone! If you can abduct someone from Mar-a-Lago, you can keep them!

2025-12-29 07:02:19 CET

After coffee, I had a "CELCIUS" energy drink. Just 270mg caffeine. Says "*WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED (1) SERVING PER DAY".
Pfft. I could have a second. Once time starts moving again.
#coffee
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2025-12-25 09:06:44 CET

10 ?"HO HO HO! ";
20 GOTO 10
#xmas
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2025-12-19 23:16:37 CET

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I don't trust any editor written after 1990, and preferably 1970.

2025-12-19 07:05:19 CET

I prefer Gryphon, but ydy.
https://evilwizard.tumblr.com/post/803031736615337984
#gryphon #griffin #regexp
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2025-12-15 12:40:19 CET

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Altho, Apple has a very good point that bash should be dead dead dead, use zsh or a dead badger or literally anything except bash post Shellshock.
dash should work safely on anything from MacOS, BSD, Linux in the last 25 years, but may be difficult to clean out the bash-isms in your scripts, I know I had to start fresh with zsh.

2025-12-11 12:32:08 CET

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Oh, he admitted to it, and it was popular (well, sorta; translations beyond OG Russian, Czech, & French were hard to get for a while) in socialist circles. Orwell accused Aldous Huxley of also copying bits from him, but Huxley denied it; I *kinda* don't believe him, BNW is very much more a capitalist dystopia than socialist.
All of them have bits from earlier utopian/dystopian books, but Zamyatin put it all together in one machine state.

2025-12-11 11:54:15 CET

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I much prefer Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which Orwell at least openly ripped off. Zamyatin was "allowed" by Stalin to leave instead of going into a gulag for writing it, but it destroyed him.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregory-zilboorg
The book is fucking horrific, and D's so cheerful most of the time, right up until that's no longer possible or necessary.
He had glass walls in his apartments. We've put them in our phones & computers!

2025-12-11 09:57:54 CET

I go to search my blog for something. The search box isn't visible!
Go into admin, got updates. Do those. Check page, no search box.
Widgets, add, turns out fucking Jetpack's deteriorating "services" no longer include a working search box.
Finally find a regular Search box and put it back.
Now what the fuck was I going to search for?

2025-12-09 03:50:23 CET

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Same way you do with cheese, war, or rumors, since they're about the only words that still use the Old English monger (promoter/trafficker) suffix.

2025-12-07 15:56:24 CET

[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) @npub1fp0…54p5 Re LOGO, one of the neat things is that it's just LISP (not CL) with default function arity: + 2 3 is (+ 2 3) but you can also do [+ 2 3 4]. And then it has a weird string/list library.
There's a fun but weird Scheme book, Simply Scheme, which rebuilds the LOGO strings/lists in Scheme, then teaches with those.
And I used the same string/list thing in my Aspic mini-language, tho it's a little more traditional LISP (but again, not CL).
#logo #lisp #scheme

2025-12-05 08:53:23 CET

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See you at the arcade.
#arcade #80s #genx
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/665/864/638/508/656/original/794295cebb6ea5ed.mp4

2025-12-05 03:34:50 CET

Man I could go for an Orange Julius & hot dog right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPHuka1HzU
#genx
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2025-12-03 04:20:32 CET

#coffee
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/653/477/430/721/455/original/650fff761e1b2af5.jpg

2025-12-02 11:55:44 CET

♫ Red hot mama, velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch ♫
https://music.apple.com/us/album/hair-of-the-dog/1440632331?i=1440632332
#music

2025-09-15 04:27:33 CEST

KurtJMac is almost at the Far Lands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChrWLgaekw
I've been watching Kurt walk mostly west, since early into the run. Was there for the first FLOBathon, still watch it sometimes.
#minecraft #farlands #flob

2025-07-21 04:51:40 CEST

People who watched Maximum Overdrive, good job surviving the first Machine Apocalypse. You won't survive the second, and the soundtrack won't be as awesome.
I really love this film, it's just every obsession of King's in one place, even more than Tommyknockers (which is a much worse book & film). Sober King is probably a lot healthier but he's less fun.
#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

2025-04-14 04:45:45 CEST

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There is a release of "Xanadu" that has a hand-hacked database, no editor, is not actually useful.
I was so enthused as a yout' by the library copy of Computer Lib/Dream Machines, and a few Xanadu articles. But then I figured out it was vaporware after the magazine (Creative or Byte, I'm running a search but it's slow) article explaining & praising it by one collaborator… and then the next issue had an angry letter from Ted Nelson retracting almost everything.
#xanadu

2025-03-03 06:17:05 CET

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"" is true, only #f is false (Scheme ofc).
All the falsey values are hard to keep track of once you know more than one language. I will say that's one area Java did right: tests only take a boolean result, so you must convert to true or false.