optimism is not a plan and “I’m sure it will work out somehow“ is actively insulting

a jyn is a kind of resonant string

I'm only partway through @jyn.dev's excellent blog post, and I love it so much that I insist you all read it. jyn.dev/the-terminal...

My strong belief is that you should be able to ask a program how it wants to be talked to, so you can: * cross check binary compatibility at runtime * download schemas for codegen or proc gen'd docs * dynamically generate tool paths for a repl/cli lib/api translator

new jynpost jyn.dev/the-terminal...

quietly obfuscate your intentions. add something that you're afraid will make an editor ask "why is this here". that stuff is important, even in genres or parts of stories where you think it might not be

competence is when bad situations are recoverable

my life has gotten significantly better ever since I started scheduling weekly calls with friends

an important thing to know about me is that I have a lot of friends and I miss them all a lot

i like the rain i miss thunderstorms

one of the funny things about me is that you might assume I talk like this because I’m posting on a public social media site, but I actually just talk like this irl lmao a friend told me the other day “the way you communicate is very abstract“

often these days i have the sense that all the good things in life are balanced on a knife’s edge that can disappear at any moment

“girl of unknown provenance” would be a good song title

there is a square-shaped hole in your heart and you are trying to fill it with piss: a thread🧵

depopulating the countryside with machine guns and b-29s is easy. doing so with nothing but a halberd, two dozen musketballs and sheer determination takes the heart of a hater

"please bless the poor coyote" poetry or something. 2025.

is there any research into languages that treat conditional compilation as part of typechecking, rather than something that happens at latest shortly after parsing? i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.

a doll is a kind of spiderweb

monster friend!

it’s not debt, it’s risk! jyn.dev/technical-de...

get in losers, we're doing 2008 again but with graphics cards instead of houses

21. And another world is possible. In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old. For the union makes us strong. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown kirby:

i made a helpful reference

Dancing Cats

Resurrected

Onward! Into a new future!

This one's my favorite because it looks like Everett got so good at kicking ass that he merely astral projects images of the beating into people's minds.

Sacramento Star , March 12,1914

this one was another fave, something really bleak about it. I really for the guy

tick tock. tock tick. no time to rest—there‘s a moment and a moment and a moment and things keep happening. worn down by the river, the monument crumbles. it was a good monument! people really did say so! of course, they don’t say that anymore….

an angels job is to watch

if you ever find yourself unsure what’s missing from your diet, just remember: a sense of drowning! it’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s free!

new jynpost jyn.dev/build-system...

do you think falling feels good for an angel? like in the time between when they lose their halo and when they hit the ground

it’s well known that an isolated human mind will eventually warp, no matter its strength. what’s less known is that divine revelation can slip through the cracks. the important component of revelation is that *the truth does not matter*; the truth never mattered. what matters is the feeling of being

once doctors discovered novacaine for the soul, they went on to research lidocaine. it turns out there‘s few treatments that are rapid acting, reliable, and have few adverse effects. the compromise was on “adverse effects”. hysterical laughter is now one of the most common treatments for depression.

a balanced diet: - one (1) iron supplement - two (2) mcdonald’s hamburgers - three (3) cups of chicken noodle soup - the self-conscious joy of a panhandler who‘s finally gotten a meal - a sense of drowning - steroids - the disappointment of my peers

some may ask, jyn, why return to Posting after so long an absence? and to them i say, it is not a coincidence that i return on the day i am having literal fever dreams

creating things that are uniquely your own, that make no pretense at being “useful“ for others, is an act of defiance and rebellion and i’ve found it so healing

⚪ Male ⚪ Female 🔘ניצוץ, a shattered spark of the divine light

“resting” is when the funny screen shows me things i want to look at, not things my employer wants me to look at

one upside to being sick as a dog is that when people ask me “what is *wrong* with you?” i get to make them feel bad about it

one of the less-known failure modes is so-called “false divinity”, when an ablative identity believes it has been divinely touched but is not scourged away. outwardly, it appears as if a (non-resistant) mind really had been touched, but the inner identity grants it just enough ground to doubt itself

Of all the ways to structure a mind to resist the touch of divine madness, the construction of ablative identities is unique in both its effectiveness (being generally somewhere above both smearing and hardening) and its problematic tendency to fail in non-obvious ways, often involving slow rot.

⚪ Male ⚪ Female 🔘 Hunger, Red – Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out?

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care

beachday!

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for doing the right thing and standing up for their people, even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

tired: traveling for halloween wired: spooky action at a distance