Barry

@chiroptical.dev

PhD Theoretical Chemistry. Haskell/Typescript full stack engineer at Mercury. Aspiring Gleam and Erlang programmer. Occasional content creator linktr.ee/chiroptical. Drumming and fencing enjoyer.

Random idea: a specification for password requirements so that password managers can just autogenerate the most secure acceptable password.

Every hour I get up and move around for 5 minutes. I’ve gone from hypertension I blood pressure range to normal range in a month.

I’ve only missed three days of drum practice this year. No idea if I can maintain this when the new kiddo comes. Focus. Prioritization.

I swear I've used an Erlang HTML DSL where you'd write effectively `{html, [...]}` tags are just atoms. Anyone know what this is? I can't find it anymore. #erlang

Had a really strong déjà vu moment today. It was enough to be unnerving. Not sure I’ve felt that weird with one in the past.

im sorry if this offends but i believe that you are in fact capable of learning new things, improving your skills, becoming a better person, and having a happier life than you currently do.

Just had a super good drum session. Basic premise, let the time drive the notes. I was doing this clave based rhythm and switching between 1/4 and 1/8s on the hi hat with a metronome. If time drives, this should be easy.

Learned something about my drum set today. My bass drum was entirely too far away from my pedal. This is a lot easier now but obviously my timing is kind of wonky.

I am tempted to write a blog post about how AI is stressing me out but I feel like I can't say much more than has already been said.

Working on hauntstack, test is failing which broadcasts a frame from a NIC to two other NICs connected by a switch. All transmission is asynchronous and **has travel time** so... if you try to immediately fetch the NIC buffers they are empty. HELL YEAH.