Tessera

and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self

Photo taken in a MUJI store of a hand holding up a clear packet containing a wool-felted sheep ornament. Both "Animal Sheep" and "wool felt" are labeled on the packaging

I started furiously listening to Mayday on repeat bc my (Taiwanese) mom commented that my accent has gotten more PRC-sounding. But now whenever she says anything to me I respond by belting out 「那一天那一刻那個場景/你出現在我生命～」 and she thinks I'm doing a stereotype. Does anyone have advice?

Business Algebraist at McKinsey and Company

LAX gate 52 ("the Eagle's nest") was clearly conceived as a malediction against heap allocation. They ran out of space in the terminals proper, so "gate" 52 is actually a bus through utter no man's land to an abject satellite building with subscripted gates 52A-52I

Congratulations to Yoshinobu Yamamoto on being the first baseball player in MLB history to win the World Series alone!

I'm delivering tremendous value in the enterprise Slack

Slack thread in #all-water-cooler: this past weekend some friends invited me to watch the first game of the world series, in part so i could learn how to watch baseball.

they kept recommending a slide deck which explained how the game worked, made by "some rando on the internet".
this is what they shared with me:
https://slim.computer/assets/teaching/ baseball.pdf

at first i thought maybe this deck was made by some other person who happened to call themselves "slim lim".
but after a few slides i was convinced it was made by our own @sliminal and eerie.

28 :slim: reacts

New blug: feeling like I’ve gotten better at conceptualizing and worse at verbalizing over time

I don’t know how this works for everyone else, so here’s an example: suppose I’m engaged in a back-and-forth with a knowledgeable interlocutor on a reasonably nuanced topic, say, baseball or the desired behavior of a particular programming language construct or why a particular person we both know behaves the way they do. Or suppose I’m reading a blog post that lays out a multifaceted argument in favor of some proposal. As soon as I understand what the person is saying (which is very much not a given), an entire response—enthusiastic partial agreement, hesitant elaboration, and multi-subpoint refutation framed by indignation—materializes all at once within my body in pre-linguistic form, and I feel overwhelmed trying to even capture it for myself, let alone convey it to another party. In practice, this usually manifests as me staring into space while speaking comically slowly, or stammering and replacing words with noises which, to me, capture the underlying emotion and therefore both denotation and connotation, but to everyone else just sound like noises. A far cry from the supposedly “articulate” communication my teachers once commended!

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World Series Game 1: Dodgers @ Blue Jays (W, 11-4) We recently got a television off Marketplace Zuckerberg. The main challenge is remembering to look at the screen, because I'll be focused on my scoresheet while listening attentively to the announcers and then forget to actually watch.

Scorebook filled out in pencil for the Toronto Blue Jays' (Yesavage) 11-4 win at home over the Los Angeles Dodgers (Snell) in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series, October 24. The Dodgers took an early lead in the 2nd and 3rd inning on a series of walks and singles, until the Jays' center fielder Varsho tied the game with a two-run home run in the 4th. The score remained even until the top of the 6th, when the Dodgers' starting pitcher Snell loaded the bases with no outs on a walk, hit, and hit by pitch. This prompted a Dodgers bullpen implosion, allowing the Blue Jays to score 9 runs in the 6th inning across 12 plate appearances. Notably, the Jays' Addison Barger accomplished the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history during this inning.

My work laptop just force-updated to macOS Tahoe and it's an enormous blast from the past because I once used Glasklart on my jailbroken iPod touch

WiFi didn't work on the flight home, so I had no choice but to spend seven hours listening to West Side Story (1961 and 2009 cast recordings obvi) ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Automerge@automerge.org · 10mo ago

LET'S GOOOO

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

A screenshot of the Automerge landing page. It says "Version control for your data. Automerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast."

Satnam Singh @satnam6502.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The video recording of my ICFP 2025 keynote talk Functional Programming for Hardware Design is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oBO...

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Orchid Plenary Ballroom - ICFP Papers and Events (Oct 13th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

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I miss PL Twitter so much. There has truly been no replacement. We're fragmented now across three websites, and it sucks!!

I really do think West Side Story is the superlative American composition of the 20th century, and I am ordinarily not into musicals or even vocals. I've spent probably thousands of hours listening to the score, and I still grow verklempt from Bernstein's passion and harmonic creativity every time

A lifetime of media underrepresentation has left me wholly unprepared for this moment. My head is spinning; I don't know how to respond

AI-based frontend development has the same problems as Dreamweaver-era WYSIWYG editors: you're supposed to be able to manually edit the HTML, but in practice you absolutely cannot because each seemingly-innocuous change produces fifty <span> </span> elements and invisible tables under the hood

I went to a baseball game alone on Friday night, and it was the most fun I've had in recent memory!! I found a great ticket on last-minute resale. Brought my radio and scored the entire game listening to the broadcast with one earbud in. Giants won, and there was a Pokémon drone show afterwards!

View of the infield from my seat, about 13 rows back and a section past 3rd base. Holding a tray of lumpia in the foreground

Postgame Jumbotron showing the final score of Oreos 8 runs, 10 hits, 3 errors and Giants 15 runs, 18 hits, 0 errors. Season high runs scored! Fans clad in orange-and-black (incidentally the colors of both teams) standing jubilant against the night sky

A drone conflagration forming a 3D Pokéball and the text "Gotcha!" in the night sky, framed by a yellow foul pole and conspicuously-named Bank of America arcade seats

An open scorebook with the game details penciled in, showing 15 runs scored by the giants, and a transparent Sangean pocket radio with an attached monobud