The last week I've been getting up at 0600 and finishing work at 2300, and it's just... wrecked me. Today I had a morning to just putter around and catch up on things. Tried taking cuttings of the ailing juniper, cycled the compost, trimmed some shrubs... Feels good.

Shout out to the busker who just set up under this theater awning and started singing for a couple, standing all by themselves. No one else around and he's just *belting* Keyshia Cole's "Love" and fuckin' nailing it. Put a big smile on my face.

love how one in three mastodon releases is both an urgent security disaster that needs to be applied *now* and also immediately plunges you into incomprehensible merge hell where you can't run any git commands because things like `lint-staged` are missing

@andrewnez just wanted to say thank you for "Interview with a Maintainer". Deeply funny, and also OOF. OOOOOOF.

The way Kalifa delivers "snap / crackle / papi chulo got his hot paws all over my boy culo" has embedded itself so deeply into my brain that over a decade later it'll spring unbidden to my lips while folding laundry or mopping the floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKwLsWwlqYk

@kvetch.gay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSZCtLrgz8 Such a feast, sonically and visually

Happy boy at the beach 😋

Man the Selma & Louise cinematography is DAMN good

If you, like me, have absolutely no idea what you're doing w.r.t. pruning shrubs and trees, this is a very helpful, no-nonsense guide: https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/B949/basic-principles-of-pruning-woody-plants/

Basic Principles of Pruning Woody Plants | CAES Field Report

Pruning is one of the most important cultural practices for maintaining woody plants, including ornamental trees and shrubs, fruits and nuts. Proper pruning requires a basic understanding of how plants respond to various pruning cuts. The principles and guidelines in this publication will help you master common pruning techniques.

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Man designing a garden is HARD.

The existence of an oubliette implies the existence of a larger, more masculine, less constricting oubli.

I know I'm *way* late to this party, but I'd like to say how much I appreciate Lee Read's work on https://cljdoc.org. I used to maintain separate docs sites for a bunch of my libraries and it was a whole process; the docs were never in sync with the releases, maintaining older versions was a […]

Released bifurcan-clj 0.1.4: Clojure bindings for @ztellman.ideolalia.com's excellent Bifurcan data structures. If you haven't used Bifurcan you're in for a treat. They're very fast, come in mutable and immutable variants like Clojure's transients, support efficient splitting and merging, you […]

Released dom-top 1.0.10. In addition to the usual menagerie of Weird Control Flow, it now offers a promise which can throw on deref (like future), and a `timeout` macro for evaluating IO-bound code that you don't want to run forever. https://github.com/aphyr/dom-top

GitHub - aphyr/dom-top: Unorthodox control flow, for Clojurists with masochistic sensibilities.

Unorthodox control flow, for Clojurists with masochistic sensibilities. - aphyr/dom-top

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Cut a very minor release of Tesser today, a library for composing concurrent folds over large datasets. https://github.com/aphyr/tesser

GitHub - aphyr/tesser: Clojure reducers, but for parallel execution: locally and on distributed systems.

Clojure reducers, but for parallel execution: locally and on distributed systems. - aphyr/tesser

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"I would like pain without impact please"

@algernon I've been inspired. Added a lightweight (very bad) maze to jepsen.io as well. https://jepsen.io/llm/index

A house centipede just ran out of my CPAP tank when I took it out of the drying rack, so if anyone needs me I'll be never breathing again

I have to say this new thing where users report each other as suspected LLMs is both understandable and, for a moderator wrangling a crowd of queer train enthusiasts online, deeply exhausting.

Man the fatigue is real this week. Basically all I've been up for today is a little weeding, repairing the porch, and cleaning the house. Everything is sore and I'm exhausted. 🫠

Shout out to Zach Tellman's byte-streams, which I use *constantly*: https://github.com/clj-commons/byte-streams

GitHub - clj-commons/byte-streams: A Rosetta stone for JVM byte representations

A Rosetta stone for JVM byte representations. Contribute to clj-commons/byte-streams development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Given how impossibly grim and idiotic things are here in the US, it's nice to know there are still some countries upholding the high standards of democratic governance to which we all aspire.

Nothing like one of your neighbors screaming "faggot" at the top of his lungs to remind you that homophobia is alive and well. 🥴

holy shit how did it take me this long to learn about btop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop#screenshots

This is a video of me playing around with a heavy chunk of cast iron..believe it or not this was going out my roof as part of the main drain vent. I'd say it weighs about 130-150lbs. Sorry for the weird camera work hehe

"A ship that can navigate space without a computer on board can be constructed in one-fifth the time and at one-tenth the expense of a computer-laden ship. We could build five times, ten times as great as Deneb could if we could but eliminate the computer." […]

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