honk shoo theory
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the thing attie actually does is obviously very useful but it also seems like you could build it with much simpler and less problematic plumbing and get very similar results. you could definitely build things much like it long before the advent of LLMs
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link to the past is from a time before we discovered how to design bosses and is therefore bad
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from now until the end of april, I'm running a 50% discount on my book "building git", just enter voucher code BGAPR2026
shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
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'Building Git' by James Coglan
A deep dive into the internals of the Git version control system and the computer science behind it
https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
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indulging myself
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update: have now finished this with extensive use of a guide and concluded that despite the glowing write-ups of it as an indie game legend it is in fact dog shit, to such an extent I no longer trust game reviews on general principle
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>looking for a way out >ask the store if their way out is through or not >they dont understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is through and what is not through >they laugh and say βitβs a good way out sirβ >take the way out >its through
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shenaniganised debt obligations
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I genuinely do not understand why a writer would delegate the task of explaining things, if you care at all about the precision of what you're saying, what's the point
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nice story. is it six words
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"rumours of an american century of humiliation have been greatly exagerated"
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oh no my emails
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remarkable that after bragging how much the stock market was up the president decided it was time to delete the global economy. masterful gambit etc
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being reminded that it was a profound mistake to frame "static typing" and "dynamic typing" as variants of the same thing
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price of the brick going up
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from earlier this week: "uses for nested promises", where I look at why you might ever *not* want implicit promise flattening, and how promises concatenate things in time the way arrays do so in space
blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...
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Uses for nested promises β The If Works
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/uses-for-nested-promises/
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from now until the end of april, I'm running a 50% discount on my book "building git", just enter voucher code BGAPR2026
shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
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'Building Git' by James Coglan
A deep dive into the internals of the Git version control system and the computer science behind it
https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
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quitting a game after spending ages trying to figure out what to do next, only to learn from a guide that the game's behaviour depends on the phase of the moon. like the actual moon in the sky
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country life (1974) - roxy music
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nice story. is it six words
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from earlier this week: "uses for nested promises", where I look at why you might ever *not* want implicit promise flattening, and how promises concatenate things in time the way arrays do so in space
blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...
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Uses for nested promises β The If Works
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/uses-for-nested-promises/
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remember the quaint old days when microsoft would get hit with antitrust suits over putting a web browser in windows and now they're illegitimately appropriating all the source code they've been trusted to host while the hosting service goes to hell
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wavefunction collapse is the universe going "thank you for your attention to this matter"
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mandy indiana might be the best live show I've seen in the last 12 months, absolutely ferocious
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I have run into a CORS error where all the google results relate specifically to microsoft sharepoint so I will be committing my computer to the bosom of the pacific ocean which it loved so well
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>looking for a way out >ask the store if their way out is through or not >they dont understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is through and what is not through >they laugh and say βitβs a good way out sirβ >take the way out >its through
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irritation: for Array it's includes() but for Map and Set it's has()
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slack threads are *so* broken good heavens
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oh no not sora
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if I type a URL into my internet browser then the browser should make an HTTP GET request to that URL and display the result to me. it should not instead send the URL to google dot com
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look I've tried to buy steam games on my phone, which unlike most websites is actually not a horrible experience, but has never successfully taken payment, not even once
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- badeline from chapter 6 of celeste - the whole salvador sequence in control - simone and ko-shi/ro-shi from nier automata - all the bosses in the pathless look *incredible*
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I have just freed about 8gb of node_modules directories
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6 days ago
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it's absurd everyone is doubling down on this when it's completely unnecessary and everyone hates it. random case in point: everyone loves the mspaint placeholder art in slay the spire 2
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how do you ship something that deliberately behaves like this
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who the hell is responsible for increasing contractors' tax admin by 4x and forcing you to use commercial software or an accountant instead of a free service built into
gov.uk
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the very rare these days jcoglan blog post: uses for nested promises
blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...
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Uses for nested promises β The If Works
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/uses-for-nested-promises/
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surely old donnie wouldn't abuse the fact he can make markets instantaneously move by multiple % points by posting. surely
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(deliberately fires entire arsenal of diego garcia air base into my crude oil supply with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]
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I have personally seen car drivers do every single thing listed here in the last week
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I think there was a prompt post doing the rounds about "best song lyric" and I didn't know at the time but my brain just randomly resurfaced it: future of the left's "sorry dad I know your father / disapproved of che guevara"
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I appreciate slay the spire's strong stance against streaks which is expressed by its streak stat being completely broken
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about 10 years ago I had an idea for a book about concurrency control in javascript and the reason this hasn't happened is that my idea of what a book like that should contain has varied wildly over that time. anyway consider this snippet of what it would contain if I wrote it today
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the very rare these days jcoglan blog post: uses for nested promises
blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...
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Uses for nested promises β The If Works
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/uses-for-nested-promises/
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"the aggressed-upon party should simply let the belligerent win" is an interesting position you have to say
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finally beat the true final boss of slay the spire 1 with 6hp to spare
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here's Hilary Benn speaking in parliament during a debate on whether the UK should take military action in Syria in 2015 when Steve Reed had been an MP for 3 years
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legs greensill
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WHY
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is that good
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