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

link to the past is from a time before we discovered how to design bosses and is therefore bad

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/

indulging myself

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

>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 “it’s a good way out sir” >take the way out >its through

shenaniganised debt obligations

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

nice story. is it six words

"rumours of an american century of humiliation have been greatly exagerated"

oh no my emails

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

being reminded that it was a profound mistake to frame "static typing" and "dynamic typing" as variants of the same thing

price of the brick going up

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...

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/

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

country life (1974) - roxy music

o7

nice story. is it six words

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...

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

wavefunction collapse is the universe going "thank you for your attention to this matter"

mandy indiana might be the best live show I've seen in the last 12 months, absolutely ferocious

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

>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 “it’s a good way out sir” >take the way out >its through

irritation: for Array it's includes() but for Map and Set it's has()

slack threads are *so* broken good heavens

oh no not sora

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

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

- 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*

I have just freed about 8gb of node_modules directories

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

how do you ship something that deliberately behaves like this

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

the very rare these days jcoglan blog post: uses for nested promises blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...

surely old donnie wouldn't abuse the fact he can make markets instantaneously move by multiple % points by posting. surely

(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]

I have personally seen car drivers do every single thing listed here in the last week

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"

I appreciate slay the spire's strong stance against streaks which is expressed by its streak stat being completely broken

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

the very rare these days jcoglan blog post: uses for nested promises blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...

"the aggressed-upon party should simply let the belligerent win" is an interesting position you have to say

finally beat the true final boss of slay the spire 1 with 6hp to spare

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

legs greensill

WHY

is that good