my nephew did the 67 meme and my niece talked about skibidi toilet, so if you need me I'm gonna turn into a pile of dust over in the corner

average tmux user be like:

Finally, a game I worked on (albeit briefly) shipped, so I have more than just nebulous NDA'd and cancelled projects on my CV~

Carl M. Ziehrer - Cis und Trans It's music that's for everyone 💞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...

*walking into the local library* "Excuse me, can you tell me your your Slow Burn Enemies to Lovers books are?

Wrote a blog post on trying (and failing) to use an LLM to make progress on a hard maths problem benjins.com/blog/binary_...

If a Test-Driven Development advocate wants to write a convincing argument about why you should adopt it: they will first write a counter-argument about why you shouldn't use it. Then they write an argument that just barely rebuts it. They repeat this process until their argument is feature complete

A while back I wrote a little audio journaling locally-served web app, something that records and transcribes them for later perusal. And oh my god, I use so many "like", "um", "kinda", "you know" filler words, it's gotta be the majority of the transcription most of the time

Math is the continuation of Science by other means

excuse me?

this government is crazy, they're out here taxing everything

I got three dental implants put in today. After each one, the periodontist was like "Beautiful. You're doing great" and I'm sitting there like

POV: you are a squirrel

Happy TDoV~ 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

TIL: Bash doesn't do backslash escaping of single quotes in a single quote string. e.g. ``` echo 'don\'t' ``` does not work. So instead, you want to chain single and double quoted strings like so: ``` echo 'don'"'"'t' ``` (if that's visually hard to parse, the middle is <SQ> <DQ> <SQ> <DQ> <SQ>)

Made Princess Cake. Nice enough, but it is a lot of work (and sooo many dishes 😓). Jam is stronger than you expect, so best to go scant. Ended up overcooking the sponge cake, so extra milk soak or cream helps combat that

I'm a sucker for gochujang on anything, but I think turkey goes with it especially well, for things like sandwiches

Confession: every time someone mentions "Chinese Electric Vehicles" I think of Hei from Darker than Black, aka "Chinese Electric Batman"

So, I was watching this video on Youtube, and it was auto-dubbed. So I switch to the original "Spanish" audio track w/ subtitles, and I hear...English? So YT thought the English track was in Spanish, and auto-dubbed it in English...with the same words just awful TTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=viA-...

sorry, I'm the guy who goes around flipping the switch in people's heads that makes them respond in bad faith to all your posts. my bad, honestly

Have been thinking about mazes as game design. Not a designer, but hopefully I got enough background not to embarrass myself benjins.com/blog/maze_ga...

I was today years old when I found out that apparently "homomorphism" and "homeomorphism" are separate things in math

the Hypergame Paradox is just Russell's Paradox for Gamers™

I love the Numberphile videos where it's like "I spent 11 years proving Bupkis vectors are always non-zero, and only 7 people in the world have read the paper beyond the abstract. Now I have 20 minutes to explain my research to 100 thousand people with a high-school maths education"

Turns out, kataifi is actually pretty nice on ice cream shred it, toast it in some ghee/powdered sugar, and sprinkle it over ice cream for some textural variety

Library-borrowed books having a fixed duration is actually a good thing: if I bought the book, it'd probably just sit on my shelf for years. But now I have to actually read it in the time limit. Deadline-driven productivity

If I could make one lasting change to language it would be this: if your program runs out of stack frames, that's not a stack overflow, it's a stack exhaustion. Stack overflow would mean a buffer overflow on the stack I always do a double take, since one is mostly innocuous and one is a security bug

you can get more with a kind word and a gun, than a gun alone

Wrote up a blog post around a #math #puzzle I thought of recently involving graph theory, and a bunch of prisoners forced to do math benjins.com/blog/graph_p...

Was idly thinking about graph theory (as one does), and read about Self-Avoiding Random Walks: that is, given a starting point, randomly move to one of your neighbors that you haven't been to yet. If there are none, it's over

quince-cunx

Random coding project: combining Tracery (a grammar-based PCG tool) and Strudel (a live-coding music language) to make randomly-generated music Someone who is good at music tell me if it's bad or very bad, I can't tell benjins.com/experiments/...

TIL: bash (and maybe other shells) keep a cache of the absolute path your command resolves to (so it doesn't need to scan PATH each time)

I feel like HTOP is sassing me with that (!)

I've been toying a combinatorics problem involving colorings. I usually reach for Z3 for these things, so I tried it. Checked an 8x8 grid in just under 2 hours Looked around at how to speed it up. One suggestion: re-write it as a pure SAT problem and through it at a purely-SAT solver (CaDiCaL).

the covariance of a man with himself, call that the sigma(male)

So I was prototyping some local web app, and had a login form. I made a dummy account in the database to test login flow, with a password like "pw123" Anyway, when I tested it out I get:

*me trying to think of a vague and exciting comment about the world series* damn the innings are really outing this time

The following is an 8x8 Latin Square: 8 6 1 5 4 3 7 2 5 1 8 6 2 7 4 3 4 8 6 3 1 2 5 7 3 5 7 8 6 1 2 4 6 3 4 2 7 8 1 5 1 7 2 4 8 5 3 6 2 4 5 7 3 6 8 1 7 2 3 1 5 4 6 8

Another attempt at carving a relief print at my class. This time I tried the Mount Holly logo from Blue Prince. Edges came out cleaner than I was worried, but my freehand shaping is still rough. Also cannot get a good ink print (I think the block itself looks nicer w/ its deeper contrast 😛 )

never let them tell you you're alone

The stages of my first relief block print Definitely peeved about how tricky clouds are to render. And the lack of Ctrl-Z 😅

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I just can't understand this fundamental maths result in knot theory. If only there were more neon rope lights and pole dancing"? Well, have I got the video for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKp...

"Python 3.14 is out...call that pi-thon" (I am crushed by a comically large tomato)

Quick, steal the declaration of independence

seems there are fans even way out here

The Ko-Fi inbox UI makes the bold decision of putting messages in chronological order, with the most recent messages on the bottom If you scroll down to the most recent ones, there's a load more button. Which loads more...at the top. Because they're older

you compile Warnings as Errors I compile Errors as Warnings we are not the same

I just wanted to find a song called "better without me"