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This book is *so incredibly good* and teaches about a huge range of programming areas along the road of building a practical tool
absolute horses@jcoglan.com · 12mo agoit's back to school season and I'm doing a sale on my book "building git", a deep dive into a ton of programming topics through the lens of rebuilding a tool you use every day visit shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ and use voucher code BGSEPT2025 to get 50% off
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
John Carmack was building in public *before* it had a name. He shared engine updates, bug fixes, design notes: all through .plan files. I was today years old when I discovered his WIP logs and what the `finger` command was actually for. Mind? Blown.
Tonight's storm rolling in over Bde Maka Ska. Check out the wind blowing that water! Minneapolis July 2025
If schools were actually preparing kids for white-collar work they wouldn't be phone-free, you'd have to have your phone on your desk all day for the authenticator apps
Fun fact: the bus at the end of THE GRADUATE also couldn't slow down without exploding.
I periodically come across the image below, with the caption claiming that it is showing a German plan to use an atomic bomb against NYC, or at least an attempt to imagine the effects of such a weapon against NYC. But... it actually doesn't. Not at all! It's actually MUCH stranger than that.
It's one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
Satan’s Niece@krissychula.bsky.social · last yr.This is high art
More computers should be shipped as integral parts of furniture. (I love the www.docubyte.com/projects/gui... collection, I have this and an ibm1401 as prints)
Computers in 1985: Look, the computer can display multiple fonts. Beautiful! Computers in 2025: Sorry, the fonts are malicious and may try to steal all your money.
It will never cease to amaze me that the Army invented a four letter acronym (LSCO) for a three letter word (war).
