Zan Baldwin

@zanbaldwin.com

Immigrant human-person (nu een buitenlander in NL); she/they. Development: 🐘 & 🦀 “You can’t quote yourself, that’s stupid.” — Me, 2019 https://zanbaldwin.com/resume.pdf

Saw the new Spiderman film today and I haven’t seen anyone talk about how aesthetically pleasing and well-designed the end credits are. I’ve never really paid attention to that before, but damn.

wait wait wait. i thought that image of a giant UFC fighting arena on the white house lawn was just ai generated nonsense but i just saw it on the news ... IT'S NOT FAKE?! THAT'S HAPPENING FOR REAL?!

It’s my first time trying to make ice-cider. It took 5 days for it to start bubbling, and I’m worried that some other bacteria started before the yeast culture could thrive. I’ve never seen that much foam before.

Frozen block of apple juice sitting in a sieve, with a bowl underneath to catch the syrup.Half-melted block of frozen apple juice, leaving behind a block of frozen water and the syrup drained into the bowl.Carboy fermenter containing high-syrup apple juice and yeast, with the airlock on top bubbling away.

Just saw Project Hail Mary, and it was amazing. It’s one of my favourite books and I was really worried about how well they’d portray it on-screen.

I don't think we've talked enough about this login trend using OTPs (one-time passwords) sent via email. My ADHD brain has enough problems staying on task as-is, I don't need you, authentication designer, over here making me open the distraction circus that is my inbox to dig up a six-figure code

Git clones of my side-project are sky-rocketing with no web traffic. Some AI scraper is probably using my code to train their models but, jokes on them, my code's shit. I like to believe that I'm doing my part to make Sonnet 5 that little bit worse <3

UPS is the fucking worst. Package cannot be delivered because "The company or receiver name is incorrect." How do you know my name is incorrect if you won't attempt delivery, assholes?

I will never understand why `--locked` is an opt-in flag for `cargo install`. Libraries? Sure, I understand. But for a binary? The decision to ignore the root Cargo.lock by default was a stupid one.

Sometimes you write cool code you're super proud of! ... but you can't test it because @cloudflare.social has decided your requests are shit ☹️ Yes, I'm aware 525 error means "host server SSL handshake" but works in Firefox perfectly fine and this is blatant discrimination against script kiddies

Error in Client.php line 71: Cloudflare is being a dick, and has determined your requests are not "legitimate".