Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

Can you build serious skill-building momentum while ONLY pursuing "performance"? No probably not. A classic learning issue is that "PERFORMANCE IS NOT LEARNING"; optimizing for short-term performance will often lead us astray, I call this out in a lot of my talks www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bM...

New Blog Post: "So I've Been Thinking About Static Site Generators" wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-02... #programming

The Monday Period: Pages 1-4 #garfield #imsorryjon

Bunny was quiet for a long time after she hung up. Staring, silently, at nothing. Letting her eyes unfocus. Eventually a drop of water fell on her head and she sighed, and got up, and went inside. Behind her, the trees were blowing in the wind. The cherry blossoms would start blooming soon.

college freshman, drunk on stolen whiskey she can barely stand the taste of: so like. why is there something rather than nothing her roommate, also drunk, knowing that the answer is "so we can be here right now. so you can touch my hand as you pass me the bottle": why does there need to be a reason

about a year ago I read a blog post that was a queer analysis of The Shawshank Redemption. I have no idea who wrote it and I can’t find it again. Has anyone else seen it or know where to look? cc @economeager.bsky.social, I don’t recall if you wrote it but it seems like something you’d have written

New year, new vacancies: Mainmatter is looking (again!) for an experienced Rust developer to join our Rust migration projects. C, C++, Delphi. Different starting points, same target: Rust! If you're interested, send an email to the address in the screenshot.

hey Siri is it normal to fall asleep while sitting for a tattoo

"strong" type systems are such a silly concept. it's actually really simple: there are statically typed languages like python and dynamically typed ones like LLVM's C api

No, that wouldn't fix you. I know what would. I've known for a while now, actually. Sorry. Should I have told you? Should I tell you now? Or is that yours to figure out.

time’s up

transgenderism *is* transhumanism eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

APERTURE SCIENCE LITERALLY SOLVES BRAIN UPLOADING TECHNOLOGY AND THEY WANT TO USE IT TO SELL A FUEL SYSTEM ICING INHIBITOR????????? GLADOS WAS IN THE RIGHT

i'm too sleepy to go to sleep

> Well. Well. What if I Simply put tailscale in initramfs? jyn.dev/remotely-unl...

Hannah Arendt

this is the best visualisation of thinking i've ever seen, it's *exactly* what's going on in my head. i've tried to describe this as a "mental stack" before. go click on it

Idea: clock that tells the time by looking up the IP address of docker container that crashes every second

nancy 5: the new adventures of sluggo

One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true" Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development

The grammar’s questionable in the reposted phrase but I haven’t changed it because this is the very first sentence structure in @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social — from the little Advice for the Fleeing Girl zine I did for some patrons

STOP ORCHESTRATING AGENTS Chatbots were NEVER meant to form a chorus Want to talk to 9 imaginary disembodied entities at once? We had a tool for that it was called PSYCHOSIS

richard brautigan please plant this book

look at him. where will he go repost to send him on a journey

telling everyone "you need to read more about cybernetics" while not actually reading more about cybernetics myself

YEAAAH CONGRATS TO SINNERS

i like to have fun on the computer jyn.dev/remotely-unl...

in 10 years you will be so much happier to have created 4 bad things than not created 1 perfect thing

her soot-rubbed halo undoes her isolation, crowns her in mothblack

My talk's gonna be soo good.

you’re standing in the kitchen. you’re falling. you’re washing a plate. the air rushes past and you can’t breathe. you put it in the dishwasher. you’re so dizzy you can hardly stand. you pick up another plate.

INTERCAL

冬の色

It doesn't really matter if it's good or not. Good comes with time, and practice, and building your style up from the trash like a magpie lining its nest with the shiniest things that catch its eye. Doing it is what matters. You've got to. It will never become good if you don't.

good afternoon and happy boxing day everyone jyn.dev/pre-commit-h...

MAZES AND TRAPS

it’s a strange feeling to have been treading water for as long as I can remember and suddenly realize that I can touch the bottom

girl who is a library the longer she stays in a place, the more bookshelves, mysteriously populated, slip into being around her, never when you're looking

that folgers ad, but it does not take place at home. we are in a small coffee shop. the brother did not know that his sister had moved to the city. but there she is, behind the counter. things ended strangely, between them, but if he's honest, he's missed her. he waits in line, anxiously. she smiles

#Writing #Booksky

sufficiently advanced math indistinguishable from ghosts

maybe i have overstayed my welcome in your feed, but could i ask for just a little more of your attention? i wrote a scifi book. it's pretty good! i am writing the sequel right now. if you want links to sites where you can find it directly ams.lastnpcalex.agency

being mean to computers is easy, free, and legal. try it today!

"artists do art for ~*the process*~" idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't

Lots of different parts spoke to me but yeah maybe more than anything the idea that if something seems far away you can just start walking towards it and maybe if you keep walking you'll get there eventually has been something I've tried less eloquently to share with others.

Genuinely powerful words to live by.