Andrew Allen

@often.codes

i attempt to speak to rocks and make them think

Rod Liddle from the Sunday Times with Oxo Cubes all crumbled into his eyes - Stuart Lee. Thinking of food stuffs and where to put them on Rod Liddle for comedic effect for twenty years.

WARNING.- HOAX.- SCAM !!! If someone knocks at your door and says they're carrying out a survey and need to see your bum, DON'T SHOW THEM. It's a SCAM. They just want to see your bum. I wish somebody had warned me, I feel so stupid.

Transcribing software whenever I try to mention the type script testing library for unit tests: Fit test, fit test, fit test, fit test. Vetus. Feed test. Fit Test. It's just. Fitzess. Fitzest. Vizas. Fitzes. The test. Pizza. Feeds us. For test, for test. Fetus. The test. Feet test.

ugh the emily wilson review is so tedious "there is no restraint in Nolan’s version of The Odyssey: every second is jam-packed with incident, lights and noise, and nothing is ever at a human scale" did we watch the same film?

you're annoyed at one subway take for being wrong... i'm annoyed at all the subway takes that are obviously correct and i don't know why they picked them as hot takes

nolan missed the obvious rule of 3 joke robert pattison as antinous:- get the swords! they get the swords get the shields! they get the shields get the spears! they get the spears get the gastraphetes! huh?

blocking YouTube shorts via extension has made the web experience way better I’m watching more of the longer format science videos I enjoy

Here are 58 words of prompts to GPT-5.6 Pro that got the model to discover that the long-standing Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. Increasingly, prompt crafting is over-rated, ask for what you want. (Which itself can be a hard problem)

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its a seminal work of western civilization, a piece of art so perfect that any change or interpretation outside my comfort zone is an affront to the accomplishments of humanity. i havent read it though, thats for nerds