it's interesting to me that i've tried writing a lightweight TIL style blog post and failed a few times before just writing a gist that annotated some code i had written along the way. the gist isn't even that interesting, but it's interesting to me (all that matters tbh)

@durumcrustulum yo d, i finally got around to listening to the musk in the middle episode and like 2/3 the way through the audio gets totally messed up @tqbf 's channel got unmuted and shifted over so it was overlapped on a completely unrelated set of conversation (more than usual in any case :p)

this sucks for the community, but the irony of an entity suffering an unexpected problem involving private insurers, medicare, medicaid, inability to find work during a pandemic resulting a collapse into financial ruin and actually wait it's a hospital and not a private individual is just a messed up system.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/illinois-hospital-links-closure-ransomware-attack-rcna85983

@pamelafox @jeremyosborn wow you two know each other?! what a small world!!!

it’s weird to see people complaining about how usable or confounding swift macros make the language for beginners and like, did they all forget how confounding manual memory management and objc’s object lifecycle was for jr devs as well???? did they think everyone just “got” pointers??? nothing is intuitively obvious

i guess what's so hilarious and pathetic about it in hindsight is that it was so nakedly thirsty in the way that we lampoon midlife crises: web3 was the red sportscar of a whole group of mid career techbros who were living (or could picture in the near future) a dull corporate future that they hadn't signed up for and signaled their diminished relevance. so web3 became a solution for doing something, anything, as impractical as getting milk in a cherry red dodge charger so loud it wakes everyone in a neighborhood.

when i posted this in… 2019, it struck me as indicative of how upper middle class people had rationalized their “economic anxiety,” the realization of visible, tangible achievement marred by the post-2008 reality of its precariousness compared to their parents or older siblings.

but looking now, i feels it better captures the nonsense behind crypto and web3—a whole cohort of people roughly my age who missed, by virtue of age or being in school, the spoils of both web 1.0 and 2.0, who had arrived at well paying tech jobs just a little too late for the golden equity offer, felt they had accepted the right job at the wrong startup, or just not exited as early as they had hoped and who desperately wanted, needed, to find a way to manufacture a movement they could helm, that would lead them to the kinds of prosperity they had seen as just out of reach during the years they were still struggling to establish themselves.

https://nsfmc.tumblr.com/post/184259789624/its-good-to-be-in-something-from-the-ground

total monkeys paw shit getting a max pro that’s just a mac studio bolted to a bunch of pci slots. want lots of drives or m.2 slots? sorry! want expandable ram? out of luck! i don’t love it, but i grudgingly respect the gusto

In his 1963 book *Misreadings*, Umberto Eco presented a structuralist schematic for generating Jean-Luc Godard films. I've implemented it on @glitchdotcom: https://godard-film-generator.glitch.me/

@sliminality eval / apply

@pamelafox i like that there are two people who are mortal enemies at paypal and their feud is likely responsible for this select.

@bryanjclark interesting to think of this, what you’re describing, as a spin on literally anything learned from the design of carplay

oblique strategies for programmers:

hardcode everything

do repeat yourself

you probably don’t need that

optimise early, it’s fun

try a new language feature

maybe you can do this entirely with tags and filters

try turning your program inside out

restate the problem

the naïve algorithm is probably fast enough

it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission

it is easier to correct a wrong program than to write a correct program

create a new programming language for this

@jeremyosborn @bit101 og lost highway, great movie

reacquainting myself with the sound of Link screaming as he falls into sundry voids

@taber it’s a low glycemic index if you’re diabetic (or have gestational diabetes short term) and want a curry or something. i don’t think anyone really loves it.