The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]

toothpicks? no. teethpick.

the only thing preventing the production of a 1km long twizzler is cowardice

It's only 3d pop if it comes from the Zeiss region of Germany. Otherwise it's just sparkling barrel distortion.

Every piece of code I write feels like a decision I'm taking responsibility for. If my code doesn't work, or does something it shouldn't, it's on me. So I prefer to take my time and ensure the code is right to the best of my ability.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

mfw mr beast is planning to launch his own bank

It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex. Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.

on type safety

Found out that Attilla Danko, webmaster of cleardarksky.com, died late last year. www.cleardarksky.com/personal/ind... CDS has been an excellent resource for #astronomy forecasts for myself and doubtless many others. RIP Attilla.

I am golang insane

#memes

Oh look, a Python package that does exactly what I need! It's lightweight and well-documented, even! It's unfortunately also unmaintained and depends on an older version of a library my project uses that has since introduced breaking changes 🙃

Mall Escalator Spits Out Another Pile Of Bones

And one thing I'm quickly realizing about myself is that I have a hard time sympathizing with the idea that "the way the world used to work" is harder than how big tech wants it to work. I can't shake the feeling that big tech thrives on people who conflate "new" with better.

Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳

ive been thinking abt this video literally all day today

leaving my malapropism job for greener pastors

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is knowing _how_ to force push vs _when_ to force push

I wish the Slack and Google Photos notification bar icons were slightly more distinct. 😐

Last time I tried to use Haskell, it bit me, I got a rare blood disorder, and I had to start medication. At least there are no side effects.

Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social · last yr.

Haskell is a language that has the elegance of typing with your elbows while listening to math rock

It's okay to let it outside, won't survive for long. Nature abhors a vacuum.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last yr.

roomba accidentally saw outside

There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FULL SYNC OF THE WHOLE NETWORK INTO MY FIREHOSE CONSUMER

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

[Python packaging tool yells at cloud]

#hatefeed v0.4.0 is out! The hatefeed now hydrates display name and handle. hatefeed.nanovad.com

About 1/4 the way through Kerouac's On The Road. Is it like this the whole way through?

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