how can a joke be dumb if I enjoy it

"Most of the time, design patterns are nothing but ugly workarounds for the fact that our programming languages aren't powerful enough or flexible enough to express what we actually want." Design Patterns Suck

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

#umd love having a cool alma mater

New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

An egg cannot lay an egg.

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see this is a respectable use of insane wealth

What could be more in line with #makeaterriblecomicday than doing it at the very end of someone else's June 24th.

Making my piece with being Harry in the Sultans of Swing

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

With apologies to @mattielubchansky.com & @edzitron.com

This here is basic theory of computation, explained in simple terms. It's first semester stuff for every computer scientist, software engineer, etc. Everyone "working on AI" knows this stuff yet the grift just keeps on going

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Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!

I think this is my favorite holiday

it's inevitable

Howdy I'm the sheriff of #makeaterriblecomicday

We're making games with MATH on whatever's around (in this case, a taco bell box while in traffic)

An associate editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience has resigned. He asked the editorial office to turn off the AI assistant, and was told it was "not possible". 😵 Read the whole thread!

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

And even if that weren't true, and all that ever came out were full, unadulterated quotes from the sources, this is STILL a bad idea, because language is interpreted in context. >>

Maryland officials gathered in the Dundalk area Monday to commemorate the arrival of the first “double-stacked” shipping containers arriving by rail to the Port of Baltimore, thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements. marylandmatters.org/2026/06/22/d...

Damn maybe I actually gotta hurry up and get married, that looks fun as hell

You should not compare LLMs to compilers

This is my favorite rendition of Socrates

storyboarding being the new target for "useless menial work that can be automated" means it's now important to highlight how massive of an impact storyboarders have on the final project, it's not the "ugly early drawings before they make it pretty" it makes or breaks good scenes

www.youtube.com/shorts/yju27... here is the attempt, how did i do?

and the all-important point: YES IT ABSOLUTELY IS the most parsimonious course of action; you have already considered and rejected all the other alternatives, but making that case to onlookers would probably take more effort than just doing it …that is, until somebody in charge insists you prove it

"wish you were beautiful" nothing but the good jokes here

I think there's a bit of silliness involved whenever a non-expert talks about how "we don't understand X," but it's still interesting to see it formulated like this- it's a new distillation of an idea that has been bothering me for years. 1/10

y'all should listen to this. Maybe even watch it, if you like footage of monster games played poorly ❤️

Asteroid astronomers, behold sedimentary grain shape classification into spheres, discs, blades, and rods. Why don’t we use this terminology for the shapes of small bodies

He fall on him face

'One member who voted against the curriculum questioned the reliability of “Maus” and other books in the curriculum. They wrote that the books are from “extreme experiences whereby the very nature of the authors’ writing calls into question their validity.”' www.idahoednews.org/news/nampa-t...

"why doesn't it just work" because one application's bug is another app's intended functionality. If you can't talk to the computer in machine code, you're not talking to the computer. Imagine teaching jujitsu via text, w/ no sparring. You can approximate the lesson, but there's no learning there.

Heads up, I think the best way to use this site might be with 3 highly popular titles you love, then 3 mid-popularity, and then 3 low-popularity; I think including none of the super popular games limits your reach to other people that only bring up obscure games

The OnlyPosts feed algo changed (or bsky changed its response to it) and now the only feed that I had a shot at getting all the way through has replies in it 😞 The replies are great! But I've lost my defined endpoint to The Scroll and that was integral to getting out of my phone :/

it does actually blog.plover.com/prog/burrito...

The SOP for any given thing is in someone's head, and management doesn't always even know who that someone is. How work orders get turned into outputs at any company is a black box far more impenetrable than any LLM. No surprise that Charlie Stross called bureaucracy "slow AI".

the internet should never have been made wireless it should always be leashed to a wall

A DnD Trello Board during COVID with 5 people on it

Red Dead Redemption 2 fans, be sure to check out Bounty Trail! It is EXACTLY like RDR2 (but if it was made by one guy on 0.0001% of the budget)

Man. All I want from this life is to make stuff. For my friends to be able to make stuff. For us all to live comfortably & not stress or worry about the world ending. I want to have the luxury of being able to do nothing, & be useless sometimes. Life is already so hard. We gotta lift each other up.

As a programmer, there's no phrase I hate more than "looks good to me" (LGTM) on my merge request code reviews. Whenever I see it, I'm like, "So it's just a matter of aesthetics, you [expletive]? Did you even bother to understand what my damn code change is for?"

I'm so ready to be the coolest nerd in town