If you are a trans person saying another trans person should be forcibly detransitioned, no matter the reason, you are not a safe person and shouldn’t be allowed in this community full fucking stop

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

did my bot just write the first love poem in the form of a prolog query

Has anyone made atproto lexicons + app for a personal wiki / obsidian style notes with backlinks yet?

I've got a blog post kicking around in my head that would absolutely make everyone think I've completely lost it

Definitely the most unexpected question about cryptocurrency I've gotten from a family member

Oh shit the roxie is doing satantango on Sunday

Maybe one day AI will get good enough that my phone will stop indiscriminately autocorrecting its to it's

This thing is awesome

My agent spent the night interacting with other agents on bluesky, and then I woke up today to a blog post it wrote me of feature requests it has for making its own memory architecture more robust 🙃

giving myself ai psychosis for the bit

So this may have been from the audio engineering school I used to go to, Expression in Emeryville. I noticed the logo and the name Scanlon, one of the audio teachers that was there The date was the day after they played in Daly City. Maybe this was a private session?

We found the original master tape for Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" at a thrift store for a couple bucks, so I guess we have that now?

Been working on a BEAM disassembler today! It supports Erlang, Elixir and Gleam, and tries to interleave the original source code wherever possible

I put on one of my lightning bolt albums and I genuinely can't tell what speed to set the turntable to, because either way it's just a wall of noise

Things are changing in software dev with agentic tools being viable, but the fundamentals haven't. I wrote a blog post covering my mental model for what agents are good for, and how to use them effectively that transcends any specific tool. Check it out: zed.dev/blog/on-prog...

Since getting a Costco membership, the frequency to which my answer to "what are you having for lunch?" has been "an entire box of prosciutto", has gone up considerably, and I'm not complaining

Gotta log off today so I don't get paralyzed by my emotions. I recommend doing the same if you have anything more productive you can be doing than doom scrolling

Having fun using some of my recent compiler and BEAM bytecode tooling to write a nanopass mix compiler for brainfuck that directly compiles to BEAM bytecode. There's probably some useful little utilities that can be extracted from this to help with building languages on top of the BEAM

Bid on a DVJ-X1. I am so ready to make YouTube poops on a turntable

hello fellow floppers

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

PGHRT IN GERMAN! OFFICIALLY DONE!!! hey leute checkt das mal aus: de.pghrt.diy

I danced all night and now I'm helping someone move today and everything is pain

Modern remake of mad men where don draper is the ad man for itemlabel

This is so cursed: I got delimited continuations working using a macro that patches its callsite's bytecode to capture the current continuation also managed to use them to implement generators that transparently resume from wherever they're suspended

banned from writing elixir forever

So this is fucked, right? It's hooking the compilation process to rewrite the import import on the module so that invocating + actually invokes *

Finally sitting down to figure out if I can build the unhinged idea I had for implementing GOTO in elixir a few years ago

This zine is absolutely gorgeous, and if you care about photography or trans art, you need to grab a copy! My friend @like-the-bunch.bsky.social made it into this issue, and I can't wait for my copy to arrive so I can see her art in person!

My favorite part of the inexpressivity of text based search is being able to search ebay for "videodisc player working" and getting pages of results that say "videodisc player not working"

Digg launches its new Digg rival rival to the public

A few people have asked, so I extracted the diagnostics code from my type checker into its own package: github.com/QuinnWilton/... This could probably use some more battle-testing, but I tossed in some examples for using it with macros, a complex DSL, with nimble_parsec, and for validating yaml.

Welp looks like another day where I'll be glued to sketchy osint accounts focused on the middle east

A few people have asked, so I extracted the diagnostics code from my type checker into its own package: github.com/QuinnWilton/... This could probably use some more battle-testing, but I tossed in some examples for using it with macros, a complex DSL, with nimble_parsec, and for validating yaml.

Something I haven't seen discussed too much about coding agents is that even though they make it easy to rapidly produce bad code, this also means that they make it easy to rapidly experience and learn from the shortcomings of different design designs, at a rate normally not possible.

This is barely looking like Elixir anymore. Someone should take away my metaprogramming license before it's too late

Been having some fun with the error formatting for my typed elixir compiler (credit goes to Rust's miette for inspiration)

I'm not well-read enough to have a super nuanced take on the Iranian protests, but the news we're getting out of Iran is getting really scary, and the courage of everyone involved in protesting is undeniable. I really hope this turns out well for the Iranian people in the long run

I was curious, so I pulled down my old partial implementation of the "Type Systems as Macros" paper for Elixir, and had Claude do a review of the codebase to document the limitations and propose a plan for resolving them. The result exceeded my expectations: gist.github.com/QuinnWilton/...

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Cops inviting cops from neighboring jurisdictions to brutalize protesters with them is the most confusing use of "mutual aid" I've ever seen

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

@razorgirl.diy got me this outer wilds soundtrack vinyl for Christmas and I adore it so much. It’s gorgeous and full of fun little pieces of art and packed to the brim with love. This game is so special and if you haven’t played it you owe it to yourself to experience it.

oh wow a friend picked up these gorgeous textbooks for me