Mousetail
@themousetail.bsky.social
Programmer, Code golfer, Puzzler. https://mousetail.nl
I wish people who wanted to make the world a better place wouldn't spend 99% of their energy fighting other people who want to make the world a better place in a slightly different way
Normalize websites just being down sometimes. You can wait
I don't think trees are a very good idea for carbon capture because they tend to catch on fire and release the carbon again
I don't actually want to go to your birthday party. But I'd like to be invited. That would have been nice.
Apparently there is a psychological condition associated with using Linux desktop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patholo... This is definitely me
Pathological demand avoidance - Wikipedia
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how privileged are you? Netflix ✅ Apple Music ❌ iPhone ❌ pool at home ❌ trips every year ✅ (I take the FlixBus to European cities) you get an allowance ❌ you buy clothes often ❌ you own a credit card ✅ you don't take the bus ❌
how privileged are you? Netflix ❌ Apple Music ❌ iPhone ✅ pool at home ✅ (This is on a technicality that I can't explain without doxxing myself but it counts) trips every year ❌ you get an allowance ❌ you buy clothes often ❌ you own a credit card ❌ you don't take the bus ✅ (don't drive either)
Confidential Killings, the detective game I've been working on with @branegames.bsky.social, has just been released! 🔍 A series of murders in the glitzy world of show business, all connected to reveal a bigger mystery... 🕵️ Steam link: store.steampowered.com/app/2797960/...
In my opinion, you should always apologize even if you don't think it's likely you'll actually be forgiven
There might be a code golf competition at #39c3 If there is, try and join, it's fun.
I'm Indian/dutch and speak some Spanish. I have also watched a lot of Brazilian TV.
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What if: AI inserted a bug in every PR and you had to find it before you can approve
What if GitHub made you take a quiz about your PR before requesting reviews, to make sure you know what's in it? And if you don't...
I converted a bike wheel into a roulette wheel for an #improv show. The slices are removable. Bike is still ridable, if you remove the slices and go very slowly and carefully. And the weather is dry.
I recently watched a talk about Rust and they where so enthusiastic about the `env!()` macros. They said "no other major language does that". Yet every JS bundler has a similar feature.
The JSs ecosystem's way of "you can import any type of file and just configure how that should be interpreted" is actually really nice. Every language should have that. How does an interpreted language somehow have some of the best support for compile time computation
You just spilled Marmite over your keyboard and now your shift key is stuck down. Can you still solve Tribonocci without using digits or []\/.,? byte-heist.com/challenge/43...
Broken shift key - Byte Heist
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You just died. The 13th picture in your gallery is what killed you
You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
I wrote an #article explaining how tools like #Docker actually isolate and sandbox programs ran inside them: byte-heist.com/doc/Linux_na...
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Want to try a more challenging types of code puzzles? Try code golf. I wrote a short article about how to get started: byte-heist.com/doc/Intro_to...
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Byte Heist now has statistics on it's profile page actually filled in with new data. Now you can see what languages you are the best in.
Why AI was fun in the '10s but feels so uncomfortable to read now
[1/?] I've been researching #webrings to add my site to, and I find a lot of them have broken links, are no longer maintained, or sites where it's impossible to actually find the widgets.
On byte-heist.com, now you can see how many first places and top 10% you earned on your profile page.