a community of none

this is an appreciation post for the word “straddle,” what a neat sequence of letters

idk what you were looking for on my door handle in the dark, Mx Slug, but i didn’t appreciate the squishy surprise when i went to open the door…

be nice to semantically dedupe my feeds. people keep posting the same bad opinions with different words. seen it. don’t need to see it again.

the world couldn’t even standardise on what symbol to use for the “decimal separator” kudos to everyone involved

shoutout to whoever at apple is responsible for macos still pinging me with imessage notifications when my phone is in do not disturb mode .. you should speak to whoever gets the macos sidebar panel to show that “do not disturb” is active

beginning to think the world would be better if positions of power weren’t typically held by irredeemable sacks of shit

🙃

that set of words that will abort my reading of a post

shoutout to whoever on the bazel team decided the “eternal” timeout would default to one (1) hour. ∞

FragCoord v0.5, Huge updates since the original release! -Inspector has 3 new modes for NaN error detection, frame performance and an instruction heatmap -Community system: share, like and follow creators -Automatically detect and fix common errors and compatibility issues

join me in the class action against noodle manufacturers for false advertising “instant” noodles

And as we go back down the ladder we discover that yes, the mind was like large language model after all yes, it was like a computer too and yes, it was like an engine of gears and yes, it was like a fine clockwork mechanism and finally yes, it was like a wheel that spins round and round

Introducing FragCoord: My ultimate shader editing tool!

(the minnow would be lost)

shoutout to those still carrying a torch for phlogiston

less conflated ground

Here are some techniques I discovered through 14 years of shader programming:

shoutout to those still carrying a torch for phlogiston

heh, wrote an awk script today. don’t remember the last time i did that, would have been awhile. a saner person may have used python, but the regexes were the meat of it, python wouldn’t have made that easier works for now; time will tell if i regret this ahah

So the Hermann grid illusion can be annoying when doing unit symbol charts, because it causes scintillating dark spots in the corners of the grid. Had to try and see what happens if you put lighter spots where the illusory spots appear. Well, this makes it worse! 📊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_il...

shoutout to whomever in the coles supermarket corporation was responsible for deciding that bacon belongs in the beef section, unlike the other pork products which are unfathomably placed in the pork section

hell yeah! (milestone reached)

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

i wish i had a shiny metal ass so i could say “bite my shiny metal ass”

this is a gyrobifastigium appreciation post, look at this funky little dude!

Hexagonal DVD logo bouncing around inside an expanding equilateral triangle yields a path that is unexpected to hit any of the corners. #genuary #genuary18 #genuary2026

Crescent Saturn & Tethys - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2FAnon

the direction of clockwise should depend on which hemisphere you are in

complementary and complimentary are too close together

the year of the sad horse seems fitting somehow www.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/20...

tfw the 7 hour test you left maxing all cores all night comes back green 😌

(maniacal laughter)

oh of course! it’s an axially squished triangular bipyramid! i should have realised sooner! 1/√6, don’t see you every often

who’s controlling the weather thesedays? i wish to make a complaint

16x16 grid tiled by L-shaped trominos automatically rearrange to accommodate the one uncovered square #genuary #genuary19 #genuary2026

“following 187K,” ahh yeah sure you are. i bet you follow them real good.

"The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth." - H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds)

that reassuring phase when inventions become discoveries

I am sorry 'The Last Supper' fans, 22 hours from now, I will take 'The Last Supper' down. I cannot take this anymore.

idk, its pretty funny seeing people borrow arguments from the creationists to support their views

hahah shoutout to the guy on the news who said “britain is an NPC” 🙃

“bug fixes” yeah what were they? “performance improvement” yeah what are the metrics. going slower is not an improvement. nothing else you’ve changed? lying fucks. want me to upgrade? how about being honest about what’s different, assholes.

shoutout to the gaping abyss

that of which i’ve had a gut-full

what do you mean, you use software written by fossil-fuel consuming non-vegans? that shit’s *tainted* 🙃

Here's some ice I can get behind. The southern polar cap of Mars, imaged by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft in December 2012. Much of this ice is frozen CO₂, with some portion of conventional (to us) water ice, too.

those who have demonstrated unworthiness of replies