If the universe were kinder we’d have seen Tony Todd and Brad Douriff in a buddy cop movie series, except with monsters.
esmevane, sorry
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Insipid but well-meaning software developing art gremlin. "Incoherent; mayhem." - 4/5 stars. "Couldn't make any sense of any of it, it's like he's talking to himself." - 2/5 stars. https://mastodon.esmevane.com/ironchamber https://esmevane.com
Totally! Good advice. My preference is to have a vague idea of: - major motivational plot beat - general appearance & personality - a driving goal And I try to 7-words-or-less whatever I can (Also I try to find a way to quickly accept & get along with other player characters)
Dana Fried@leftoblique.bsky.social · 2mo agoBackstory opinion: Creating your backstory as needed during the game, learning who your character is as you play, and letting them surprise you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> writing a bunch of stuff ahead of time that straight-jackets your character and might not fit with the campaign or other characters.
An old tension between me and a friend is “quadrafecta” (me; correct) and “fourfecteca” (him; Terry; wrong)
Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhen it comes to web stuff… It’s one thing to have an idea. It’s another to be able to build the idea. It’s another to be able to explain the idea with words. It’s another to be able to build examples that illustrate the idea and the problem it solves. That’s quadfecta is difficult and rare.
This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous!
Andy Bell@bell.bz · 3mo ago
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Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich: Deep Dives, Patterns & Performance
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The strategy behind behavior like this is often to just keep asking and asking, preferably around different company each time, until you finally get enough people saying what you want to hear. It’s not asking for an answer, it’s looking for permission
@greenlightening.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are living through ppl asking the questions, “do security and accuracy really matter, though?” as if the answers to both aren’t glaringly obvious.
Proud to finally share what I've been working on. I'm excited for a future where privacy is normal. encryptedspaces.org
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
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The Orchid's Dream, 2026 Finished this painting that I’ve been working on since 2020 (concept sketch was pre-2020). During that time it mostly sat on my easel neglected while I worked on higher priorities. Prints are in the works, join my newsletter if that’s something you’re interested in.
bemused is a bullshit word and I'm sick of pretending it isn't
bunch of people faceplanting into the "making the thing is hard, but it isn't the hard part"
Peter Thal Larsen@petertl.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe rise of AI App-slop. Or slopapps, perhaps. www.ft.com/content/8e9a...
TIL that canon means an array of things, all subtly different from each other in probably not great ways
Heavens grant me the self confidence of some of these dudes reposting their own not good jokes 3-4 times a day for days after making them. Yearning for that algorithm to boost your junk, boys?
I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.
Recommendation algorithms might be making your entertainment boring, new research suggests
Because algorithms focus on maximizing short-term engagement, they often prevent us from discovering new genres. A recent study reveals that slightly imperfect recommendation systems are actually much...
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I've just heard someone call a "pivot" a "lurch" and hell yeah. That's going in my back pocket for sure
One big mistake I see with design token systems is that they attempt to make things scale predictably, using the golden ratio usually. That _seems_ to work, but it just doesn't hold up. You have to fine tune the ratios for every given setup.
well, this morning the robot reviewed one of my old codebases and called the git log "a journal of someone building alone" so, i believe i should be allowed to take a personal day today and go back to bed
"Friends, Romans, countrymen" Obvious AI slop.
Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 4mo agoPlease do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things
I'm not sure if you're open to this, but... have you heard the bad news about git? www.billjings.com/posts/title/...
Git Is Not Fine
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Are you the sort of person who showers with their socks on, or off?
To really differentiate themselves, maybe a browser incumbent could rewrite it in rust. Maybe some non-Chrome contender, like Mozilla? Could you imagine that, a browser in rust? It'd be so fast, huh? Man if only some major player had been investing in this ahead of time, huh?
Zed@zed.dev · 4mo agoBig diff go brrrrr
you can like, mash 'em up and put stuff in 'em, and make a stew
Paul Frazee@pfrazee.com · 4mo agoAn antimeme. No matter how many times monads are explained, nobody ever retains what it is.
i told the model it could name itself whatever it wanted and it called itself the moss expert
A lot of people don’t know this but “Cinco de Mayo” stands for “Cinco of Mayo”
yeah; it sort of helps if you subvert what a "unit" is, from "a function" to "a unit of our interface" like, if you're building a library and you're offering a function as one of your boundaries, that's your unit. if you're offering a framework and your interface encompasses a lot of stuff, that is
Emelia@thisismissem.social · 4mo agoUnit tests were never that useful unless it made sense to test something as a unit, but they were deemed required by TDD, even though the unit usually isn't the right size there, and instead integration or e2e tests were way more important. units' don't exist in isolation.