Orual

@nonbinary.computer

Person who does electrical, computer, and music things. Mother of machines. they/she/it

got fed up with my hair in a shower after standup and gave myself a haircut in 5 minutes how did it turn out this good I am going to very much learn the wrong lesson from this

white woman in a t shirt with a messy choppy bob sitting at a computer

would you believe that all of the principles of sound software development still apply when using agents? tight bounded prototypes saving a ton of tokens. (or, more accurately, explaining previously wasted tokens)

learning to paint using the mini that came in the box of paints as a testbed. used an airbrush to prime it with black and then a highlight, then went to work. turns out being able to do micro-soldering translates pretty well

miniature dude in something approximating maille with plates covered with primer and a red base coat for his tabardsame miniature dude now more coats of red, his sash painted blue, and a little scarf and the plume on his helmet in yellowsame dude with further coats of red and blue, the leather belt and such all done in brown, and then the plates and longsword done in mostly metallic steel with a metallic gold used on the ornamental shoulder plate and sword crossguard, as well as a buckle.

hey bluesky, i've been unemployed for over a month and figure it's about time to start serious looking for something new. i'm proficient in typescript/the js ecosystem, elixir, and can learn new stuff pretty fast. also familiar with using LLMs in various ways.

There is no such thing as a minor API/schema change, and forwards/backwards compatibility is a trap made only to catch developers unawares. Endpoints are free, clients can call ones that match their needs, servers can stop offering them when deprecated, and either can polyfill. In this essay I will

time to eat the steak I made while the robot finished out a big design phase and watch it and its minions cook on implementation. then back to mini assembly. feeling like portia rn.

steak, mashed potatoes, and carrots on a plate on a desk in front of a large display with a terminal multiplexer on it, showing polytoken cooking on somethingportia the cat laying stretched out on the couch after lunch, large and contented

@buildthis.bisks.net space ghost coast to coast simulator. You play as a guest on the talk show space ghost coast to coast and the crew interviews you or whatever they do. Best website of the year 1998.

I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings. Last time I read it I was a teenager, and hadn't been exposed to the idea of LotR as WWI literature. Now that I have that frame in mind, one WWI-ism I'm seeing that the Discourse didn't tip me off to in advance is the ever-present fear of aerial surveillance.