we need a response to "that's the joke" for the common situation where the joke was actually just indistinguishable from a non-joke

streblo

so many story titles are just like "here are what the tropes are" or "the such-and-such trope gets subverted". so lazy and boring ....

mornin'

it might be confirmation bias but i'm increasingly certain the pizza place's pizza is better on tuesday

if aliens came to earth, they would be scared of trees

do cameras still do that thing where people's eyes turn evil red? i don't think i've seen that in a while

i think the period of time X for which "if i have some errand to run within the next X days, i become utterly incapacitated and unable to think about anything else" has been increasing

getting recruiter spam for ai startups whose tech stack consists of TypeScript and react

Into is such a ridiculous trait. "yeah i just want to call a function that turns into type into another. no, i don't want to specify which types"

seeing the big names in my field posting execrable llm slop in place of science posts in truly despairing

longish day

despite doing absolutely nothing over the weekend, i'm pretty sure i'm more exhausted than i was before it started

every time i read about agent induced psychosis or whatever i'm like that guy on the bus meme looking out the good window labelled "never tried AI"

you ever go into a new discord server and it's like their memes are from an alternate universe

ohhhhh we are in hell

one of my favorite maxims of software design is that when there's a bug, it should be easily attributable to a specific component. when 2 different parts of the code disagree you need a way to know which one was right and which one was wrong

i'm still convinced that the optimal work week is working 16 hours a day mon-wed and then taking a 4 day weekend

> reading before bed in the evening > eyelids too heavy, can't keep my eyes open. guess my body is ready to sleep > go to bed > lie awake until around 5am

i should start a reserach blog

badgood PL idea: the syntax for a list type is just pluralizing the type

bleagh

i got a few "i don't get it, ICE might be going too far but don't we have to have a way of removing illegal immigrants?" type responses to my charity drive announcement video and the answer there is no you do not. nobody illegal. don't care what the law says

2026 and diff views are still terrible ...

staircases with an odd number of stairs are bad

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually make the last episode bad on purpose and also make a secret good extra episode which airs in some seemingly unrelated time slot

man i really need to go eat grass

autoplay auto-muted videos are annoying. don't get me wrong, i don't wish it was autoplay un-muted, that would be an unmitigated disaster. but even so, it's just like. okay say you wanna watch the video. you gotta un-mute it, but now you missed the beginning, so you have to rewind to the beginning

reading anything about software dev these days i'm just like what is anybody talking about

i'm still not convinced we needed to innovate past html forms

wedding stew 🍲

really don't like these super generic sounding operations that are entirely determined by type. like the From/Into traits, or the Default trait. I don't really see the point, and it just makes your code look super vague

i miss bad human-written fiction. now all bad fiction is AI-written

having clear, precise, and helpful diagnostic information must feel good af for the error messages

i don't go to the bsky 'discover' tab much but I did today and I thought for a moment I was on twitter

looking forward to the popl keynote "Medium-scale automation for proof assistants". Going to boo from the audience if there's too little or too much automation

suppose i've got a backpack with some food or water in it. If I were to eat or drink the water, the backpack would get lighter. But I'd still have the food inside me; in total, I'm the same weight. But I would probably _feel_ lighter, wouldn't I? Would it get easier to walk?

going to poopl

just as good as replacing bools with custom enums is replacing Options with custom enums

it's gonna be a yak-shaving party and you're all invited

damn

why did bsky copy the feature from twitter where opening an image on mobile overlays arrow buttons on top of the image despite the ample amount of unused space on the screen

i found my 2025 goals. GOALS REVIEW THREAD HERE bsky.app/profile/toma...

i should look up what my new year goals were last year and see how i did

2026 is gonna be the year of the linux desktop

they should make a christmas romance movie about 2 people who both hate fun who bond as they both try to ignore all the festivities around them. and then they fall in love and the story ends with them together & not celebrating christmas

just played episode 2 of of the Devil. best episode so far imo. unlike ep1 (which was still good) episode 2 was more the type of story promised by the prologue, a story that couldn't happen in any ol' detective game, but could only happen in of the Devil. store.steampowered.com/app/2739630/...

everything is auto-replay these days even though the fraction of videos in the world that benefit from auto-replay is like < 1%.

maybe i should write some Kam/Su smut for the holidays ....

feeling a bit bored over the holidays? need some philosophical yuri mystery to get into the winter spirit? try reading The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere by lurina www.royalroad.com/fiction/2880...