huffing vitamin D3 to dispel the darkness

Feeling a bit "Spiders Georg" with these statistics

Feeling better this week as I'm cooking with Rust on an interpreter adjacent topics

"Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression" - almost poetic

Dreamed about getting a Vexing Bauble

One advantage of not touching Haskell for a few years is that I am now considering it for advent of code. Not sure how cabal holds up after all this time with cargo however...

KDE on the new NixOS 25.11 is feeling very nice!

where my nerds at

On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...

Screaming hate campaign by our media and various parts of our government starting to pay off in increasingly negative public attitudes to trans rights in the UK. This is, it should be clear, just as much a product of our centre left faction as our right. Absolutely disgraceful.

All hand drying options...wads of paper, hand dryers, towels...are ecologically inferior to the optimally moral method of drying your hands, extending them behind you & Naruto running until they're dry

My spite for the Windows operating system is a powerful motivator for writing NixOS modules and debugging security devices.

killedbygoogle.com seemingly Google hasn't killed any products in almost a year? Soon to be broken with the death of Tables.

I got good grades in a quantum computing module at university...

Every time I'm exposed to Python world, I wonder how people live with this much pain. So many people are introduced to programming via Jupyter notebooks... which trains people that it's fine to load web pages that execute system code locally 💀

There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history

Worms are free and they're everywhere. If you're not crawling around in your garden with a trowel at least 3 times a day, you're just leaving worms on the table

Also from the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on TdoR

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

I feel like I should buy a leather jacket... youtu.be/d4JL1IDupYI

Kind of fun and surreal to have a multi billion dollar spend a small portion of their presentation calling out my teams technical decisions.

I Have Seen Your `if err = nil` Checks As I Have Seen The Face Of Your God Cry.

Emotionally Distant Husband Would Rather Watch ‘Stargate SG-1’ Than Have Honest Conversation About ‘Stargate SG-1’ https://theonion.com/emotionally-distant-husband-would-rather-watch-stargate-sg-1-than-have-honest-conversation-about-stargate-sg-1/

"No successful projects use Haskell" During my "advocacy" phase I had a mental list of projects I had to keep citing.

Seems like a cool technology but the name S A D R A M is quite funny to me for some reason

Horrifying realisation that I might actually have become a Quantum Computing Expert ™️

On my way to SC25!

Ouch

Very interesting talk about coverdrop.org from @lambda.bsky.social @ @cambridgerust.bsky.social

everyone talking about Frieren's demons has missed a better comparison, so-called "AI" like Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, a thing that mimics human syntax brilliantly, isn't capable of human thought or emotion, but merely preys on people

Next stop...

arxiv.org/abs/2511.05465 I have my name on this paper because I (my team) made the website (the platform for job management and submission)

Not having slack on my phone is causing about as much anxiety as having it...

The European Commission @ec.europa.eu calls quantum experts, researchers, academia, agencies, EuroHPC @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social and EuroQCI infrastructure operators, and industry leaders across Europe to share their views on Europe’s quantum R&I landscape. link.europa.eu/XYR7Fg

Cambridge Rust event November 12th! Sponsored by @chasersystems.bsky.social 🦀 Event link: www.meetup.com/cambridge-ru...

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

uk politics be like "regrettably we cannot give a child so much as a grain of rice for free, since our economy has been so damaged by child starvation that we cannot afford it"

Maybe I will soon be free of the cursed snake! 🐍

Year of the Linux desktop

One constant through my entire software career has been that anytime I have to look at code that uses the boto3 library I have a very bad time.

trying to use dynamically typed languages again

Pure chaos

My team at Quantinuum is looking for a Lead/Principal Quantum Compiler Engineer to join us. You'll be at the forefront of quantum tech, developing the compiler infrastructure that translates quantum algorithms into instructions for our cutting-edge trapped-ion quantum computers.

Parallelize was certainly the turning point for me, where I felt like I couldn't turn back to the git cli anymore