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"I've always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world. I've spent lots of time on totally useless things." - Claude Shannon

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sitting in the dark listening to my UPS battery fight for its life

time to taste the local food 😋

on a vacation after a long time

if you cant handle me at my worst I understand Im sorry

may the second be with u

feels kinda weird that named parameters have to have the same sequence as its declaration in Swift

Michael Lynch (@mtlynch.io) has compiled here a wonderful list of essays about software that influenced him. The ones I’ve read (and I’ve read a few before) have all been very good.

ok cleaning is therapeutic

my gf got me luffy bobble head. I'm gonna marry her

mongoing the DBs

Well I guess that at least answers my question.... downforeveryoneorjustme.com

When I first joined stackoverflow i was overwhelmed by all their rules, but eventually I realised it makes so much sense. I was rubber ducking the problem everytime I wrote a question. I would come up with a solution before clicking the Post button! SO gets a lot of hate but it got forums right

view transitions and pre-fetching have been achieved internally

revamped my website from scratch, with zero AI and it felt kinda nice. switched to astro from zola. i wanted to do it since a long time. finally got a free weekend. ig i wanna start putting some js/interactive stuff within my articles where relevant. would be a high value low-effort thing with LLMs

Open vim in insert mode with the cursor at the end of the file: ``` vim "+norm Go" "+startinsert" $filename ```

developers.google.com/chart/intera... support.google.com/docs/answer/... TIL: Google Sheets supports a QUERY function using which we can run queries on a range of data.

firefox now has a sidebar which is awesome but expand on hover animation is super slow so i'd rather keep it always visible for now till i figure it out i have no idea why it has AI, but now that it does, i want to see where they plan to take this or if it's just following the trend

so bored

This is how you can get the news with a TUI! 💠 📰 bulletty — A RSS/ATOM feed reader for your terminal. 💯 Offline-first, markdown rendering + read later, highlight & notes. 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/CrociDB/bull... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #rss #terminal

they added AI in washing machines

no Dexter episode to look forward to this weekend

NanoBanana pls

vagabond is on hiatus since 10 years 😔

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

I've been exploring Swift recently for fun. I like it, and parts of it feel like Rust. Also, it's really syntax-sugar heavy, which can have both a good and bad impact, but it seems good for now. Just wrote about a few cool things I noticed in it so far. #swift #article

Nice shortcut key in VSCode I wish I knew before: Ctrl+W - Search open Windows and switch

how blue the sky today

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

i'm now cloudflare gang

reading my 2018 diary feels surreal.. the me back then was so... kind

what if we lived in a world where emojis looked the same on every device

May 3 force be with you

learnt it the hard way today that RegExp.prototype.test is not a pure function

published a new article: Making LLMs do what you want. just a few things i've learned while shipping LLM-based features.

came across some ancient PHP drama philsturgeon.com/wtf-is-t-paa...

This is another great example of how well @cloudflare.social is playing with the open source ecosystem: not a simple use case report but a full-fledged and generic new API proposal for @vite.dev. More companies should have dedicated teams actively working with open source projects like they do.

symlink deletion pro-tip -> check if there's a slash at the end (there should be no slash at the end)

how do i collapse a thread to move to the next top level comment

i made a todo CLI to learn rust two years ago, i use it daily now. Features: - plain text gang - support multiple lists stored at different locations all over your system - uses current directory's TODO.md if exists. - CLI gang - is quite nice with grep/rg to filter tasks

Bro are you ok? Your wizened visage appears forlorn

omg threaded comments are cool

I'm getting good at writing prompts that make LLMs do what I want... . . . Or maybe the models are getting better.