my day 2 advent of code solution feels super scuffed. is there a way to determine if a number is a repeating pattern without iterating over all of its possible substrings? at least I skipped substrings that have a length that is not a multiple of the original number's length

trying out the advent of code again today... I got stuck last year and didn't finish them. trying it in rust this year because I really like rust and want to get better at it. spoiler: don't double count your zeroes like I did!

I can't stop humming the pokemon printer error theme after hearing it in a video the other day

*sleeps for 10 hours cutely*

is there a performant privacy-focused browser like firefox that isn't trying to shove AI into its users' faces? I tried out zen for a day but I'm noticing that it uses more memory than firefox unfortunately. browser choices seem so limited

there are so many incredible people out there. its hard for me not to be self-conscious about it. but I'm trying to remind myself that it isn't *weird* not to be incredible. rather, social media exposes me to all the supremely skilled and talented people out there all the time.

godot development is fun c:

just learned about www.shadertoy.com. shaders are powerful and beautiful, huh? its so cool that they are just rendering in real time. maybe I should learn how to make my own. I really like this one: www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms2SD1. makes me appreciate how games that render realistic water like this

Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please? gist.github.com/asahilina/31... Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works.

I mean, sometimes less really is more

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

obsidian not letting you enable vim keybindings unless you can prove you know how to quit vim without saving is HILARIOUS. wish I took a screenshot of the dialogue box

if ao3 is so hype then where is ao4???

woof. mindful/present thinking is tough. I drift off so easily into thinking about what I will do next or what I said in the past or what someone else might think in the future... I will keep trying though!

once I play enough tales of zestiria intense difficulty mode I'm going to be so fucking cool also love how "weep openly" and "faint" are in green like these are game mechanics

i keep denying myself self-care and as punishment I further deny myself self-care. how counterproductive! you deserve to take good care of yourself even if you haven't done so in a while. especially if you haven't done so in a while.

did those who have 100%ed silksong do so with or without a guide? would love to claim that cheevo for myself but I got to 87% without a guide and it was a bit tedious running around looking for something new to do when its all hidden from you

I will be gentle to myself when I don't take care of myself for a few days. no use punishing myself more for my mistake, simply do a care and then keep going from there. no need to wait for the next day, or even the next hour, I will just care for myself when I notice I haven't.

cool partly cloudy autumn morning, a little sore and feverish, grocery shopping. feels like I'm back in high school taking a sick day

still playing skong so I don't know how this ends but I'm surprised they didn't do more with the Tumblr Sexyman bug. they teach you how to parry and then promptly die. wasted potential

Last Judge Silksong got me feeling like a sinner. runbacks feel like my penance, my sick twisted burden to bear

we spent 5 hours talking through a translator for this one :]

being annoying is not a crime or a moral failing. just something to consider.

Thinking of moving my Debian install to my NVMe SSD instead of one the SATA ones. I've got Windows installed on it rn but increasingly I've just got no reason to use it. And as far as I can tell my motherboard only ever wants to default boot from NVMe so I have to race to the F11 key every time

I usually go to bed while listening to youtube, but I wonder if that's been making my sleep worse. I tried a couple nights ago to count to 1000 instead, and that worked. but I didn't want to do it again last night because it takes so long 🙃 how do normal people fall asleep

been into picross lately. really enjoying @objetdiscret.itch.io's charming Taiyaki Fabulous Museum of Fish!

Chess annotation symbols, Wikipedia – "The double question mark '??' indicates a blunder, a critically bad mistake. ... Though more common among weaker players, blunders occur at all levels of play." I find this weirdly inspiring. Everyone makes mistakes, even masters make "critically bad" ones!

learning about "man ls"... seen a lot of those before am I right ladies

My mix and arrangement of a piece by @\TheMIDIMan1 on Twitter, not sure if he has an account on here this was fun! I love the groovy-ass melody line he wrote. my second mix ever! original: tinyurl.com/235mync4 TheMIDIMan post: web.archive.org/web/20221221...

Do employers who optionally provide a space to submit a cover letter really want one? Maybe I'm looking at it wrong but it seems like I would just be re-iterating whatever is already in my resume...

offline HTML documentation is pretty rad ngl. been making good use of Erlang's and also just discovered that I can download some for the kernel on debian through apt ^^ unfortunately this has also exposed my habit of typing firefox.exe from my days of using WSL

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low-key excited for Debian 13 today. idk why but software upgrades always get me going lol

so disappointing how many ppl I see preemptively convincing themselves they can't learn a thing w/o giving it a real effort over time bc they think natural aptitude is the defining factor of skill acquisition. the only diff btwn them & the ppl who can do the thing is that the latter just kept trying

My sleep schedule has been totally borked since I started high school, ~10 years now. I've been falling asleep between 2 AM - 6 AM. I get more emotionally sensitive with less sleep. I've been more prone to oversleep the last couple of years. I berate myself for sleeping so late. 🧵

Actually, "Manosphere" is Latin for "hand orb", and refers to grabbing your own balls

I transcribed Crumbling Tower, here's a portion of it. I love Toby's composition style, maybe some of the genius will rub off on me if I spend enough time in the music Also I always forget how much I like working with music until I start doing it again. I will improve ^^ #deltarune

There's not enough time to do everything I want to do so I just freeze instead of trying. How counterproductive :( But there's still time to get better right?

Thinking of starting a blog. I think my first post will be about Slay the Princess, the Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, and Octavia Butler's Earthseed duology And I always figured my first blog post would be about something technical!

Read deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping... today: > An article that reaches many people and touches many minds, a truly elegant website or a software tool, art that expresses a truth in a way that AI-generated art just can't: we need to be able to touch people in a qualitatively different way.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.

finally made myself a new banner to use for the year... can i come over and look at you like this #art #digitalart #illustration #drawing #anime #oc #vtuber

Finally got Prometheus scraping all of the VMs in my homelab + Docker hee hee hee Getting Docker metrics was definitely the hardest and most confusing part. Took like 2-3 hours to fix but it wasn't satisfying 🙃 Now to decide between setting up Grafana or AlertManager next

<3 servers with configurable URL prefixes <3

Took a peek at Cory Doctorow's "Who broke the internet?" blog post: > In other words, show me a 10-foot enshittifying wall, and I'll show you an 11-foot disenshittifying ladder. Hell. Yes. This is what I want the ethos of computing to be. This is why I use Linux and F-Droid. Circumvent everything.

Reading K&R for the first time and I am getting through it so slowly because I am doing the exercises. Even though I'm doing them selectively its still taking a while. Any K&R stans out there vouching for their exercises?

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