men have somehow discouraged themselves from wasting time or outright having fun, that they're inadvertently creating dumb little ways to make that happen without acknowledging that they're doing it. martin here is *playing*. the hideous plagarism robot isn't the sweet thing; you are

me: waiting for stdout grep: waiting for stdin

"Dear Katherine, your level for lead is low and well within normal limits. No further action is required." guess who got free headroom for doing more stuff involving lead wooo

nailed it

this is going well

Reminder that a lot of the synth pioneers were women: (With artwork by @monosilabo.bsky.social. And yes, you can print this for classrooms.)

don't do it

Have you seen this cool bot by @katef.bsky.social ?

asmr but it's lead paint

fucks you up when people die young. you get older but they stay the same age forever

me: i'm irritable, for like no reason at all. and stupid, a lot more stupid doctor: Are there any other symptoms that you've noticed? me: yes, there was another thing, yeah. but i forgot doctor: Are you forgetful? me: oh! yes. i'm forgetful

i am outside and i got lost and there's a guy singing and sirens and lots of people talking and my phone is ringing. but i have found a small rock to balance on

boulder problems should be rated in Elo

do you like finite state machines

pros: - warm - fuzzy cons: - uanble to straight i rate being drunk a whole solid 5/10 ho i am much more drunk than i expected holy god typing is really hard you guys i haven't been this drink for years uh

deciding stuff is way harder than writing code. because i keep thinking on the deciding part until the code becomes easier than the decision-making

Oh, found a new DuckDuckGo setting I quite like duckduckgo.com/duckd...

things are going well

i'm thinking about "project boxes", for storing WIP stuff that's currently blocked on something, without getting them mixed up. the trouble is, any given project has a mix of tiny parts and big chonky parts. any advice on how to store both together? maybe some kinda subboxes. i would like an octtree

good news everybody, i have one of those really important tasks that would take five minutes to do if i were to actually do it, and i've spent three months not doing it. means i'm getting a lot of other stuff done

what if i got out of bed and ate a little bit of food

two 60ths of a Falk

Can't tell if home renovation or mental breakdown, but I refuse to check the thread to find out. Doomed to forever live in uncertainty.

I'm going to assume you are not renting 🙏

drilling into various parts of my walls to see if i can find anything exciting

to the paint on the woodwork in my home that i do not want to be on the woodwork in my home:

#Honey was a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which were honey bees. Honey was made and stored to nourish bee colonies.

This reminds me of the time the fire alarm went off while you were recovering from FFS. You just walked out onto your balcony and told me you were ready to die instead of walking down 9 flights of stairs

POV: you join a zoom meeting with me. i am sitting there looking unhappy, with my fingers in my ears. my mic is unmuted. there is a fire alarm sounding. you leave the zoom meeting

me: hold on to this thing for me please github actions cache: no problem boss. i've got it me: you got it? github actions cache: i successfully confirm i do not got it github actions cache: hey all your builds failed github actions cache: also you're a terrible human

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

i went outside ten hours ago to go to a cafe and do some coding and on the way there someone waved at me from inside a nearby building and i was like oh that's the guy from the adhd group meetup that happens on ... oh that's today, cool. so i went to the adhd group meetup

After years and years the Korg Phase8 is finally out. I did a video on it where I treated it *respectfully* but it turns out it likes to be treated *weird*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMx...

glad to see water hardness is bisexual

website: Your password must contain a non-alphanumeric character (a character other than A-Z a-Z or the digits 0-9) me: ` website: NOT THAT CHARACTER me: _ website: NO me: @ website: no me: - website: no me: = me: come on website: no what do you want from me?? these aren't even non-printable

HEARTBREAKING: This Woman Thought Her PR Was Already Merged

The alt text in these photos are works of art.

that's easy. if it were intentional, he'd be bad at it

i think it's nice that there are people

friends i went outside. it's basically the same as inside, but a lot bigger

climbing gym playing exclusively tr-303 acid basslines this morning

Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems

new exciting things to modulate

okay Internet, i have two bits of information i'd like to share: 1. when i got home after being away for christmas my home was 5.6°C. this place has no insulation. the heaters are unable to keep up. it's currently 9°C and dropping again 2. i have maintained keto for a year, with much success

[reads up on guy who made Gill Sans, surely it can’t be too bad] HE DID WHAT

is a tie between Firefly and Gill Sans

fondly remembering the How To Write Alt Text For Naked People class i ran in the hellthread, where people were like "i have no idea how to talk about myself" and the alt texts were like "this is an amazing dope-ass naked person, they look INCREDIBLE, they're killing it in xyz ways". good things

i made a notation system for gravitrax marble runs, so i can write down multi-layer designs without needing to describe the process of building step by step