Rondo Dondo

Your skills need constant honing and refinement and will atrophy otherwise. This is why when you go on a two week vacation you have to completely re-learn how to program when you get back

Favorite fun fact about PHP: they got the associativity of the ternary operator wrong in their original YACC(?) grammar and they just never fixed it

Been reading Moby Dick. Shit is FIRE

It is genuinely fucking insane that slack doesn't have syntax highlighting for text blocks

my second most controversial PL opinion (the first is that macros are good) is that if you’re willing to accept a GC you should be willing to accept multi shot continuations

Hey Siri. Decompile and distill tetris. Add an 8th tetronimo

I wish there was a nice convention for specifying a TODO that must be completed in this PR vs a general "do this eventually". If you have a good idea for one tell me so I can start doing it

Immensely satisfying to rename the very ugly named "pop_jit_cont" function to "pop_return_address"

One thing that I wished was talked more in PL research instead of how we can make PLs play better with hardware is how we can make hardware play better with PLs

A little in awe of "Representing Control in the Presence of First-Class Continuations"... what a paper

The final form:

None of the programs I tried for uploading worked, so I asked Claude to write me my own. I think it's because I wasn't running them as root, but still

I’ve reached levels of pretension previously unheard of

I can fucken type again we're so fucken back let's gooooo

got my (hopefully) last appointment with the bone docta coming up

what the hell

I think that my belief that leaving the window open will make some of the flies that have previous flown in through the window eventually leave is running afoul of the second law of thermodynamics

Pretty happy with these performance improvements, but there's still a long way to go

CDs are amazing... they cost $10, you keep the music forever, and sometimes they come with a fun little poster on the inside

Have been having so much fun lately collecting CDs. I bought a modded iPod off of ebay.

I've been using claude a lot more for a certain scheme-rs patchset since I have two broken fingers and getting the code to feel authentically my own is such a struggle that I may just hold off until my fingers completely heal

Oh fucking Christ

Forgot to add “no shade to OxCaml” before throwing shade at OxCaml 🤦

yes, “our age of bronze is collapsing“ is stupid, and maybe 90% of the dialog in The Odyssey is not great, but it can still be an amazing film and have stupid dialogue. Not every movie is my dinner with Andre

Has anyone thought to ask the AI “why turbulence?” yet

Using emacs with two broken fingers and only one ctrl key on the side of the hand with the broken fingers is an interesting challenge. Also I'm back from my backpacking trip...

If macros have one fan, I am still alive

Get yourself a Ph.D so you too can make music with Hikaru Utada www.nts.live/shows/floati...

Buying a DAP. Buying a dumphone. Deleting my social networking accounts (including this one, eventually). I will be free

The last thing I got claude to do was uninstall itself from my computer

The other thing about AI is that it has replaced something I like - programming - with something I don't like - mindlessly scrolling the web and fixing bad code

Ordered an MNT Reform Next. Pretty excited about it

The other problem with AI is that over use makes me feel sick in the same way that staring at my phone all day does.

Honestly kind of sick of AI tools in some cases. When you approach sufficiently difficult problems, they just don't produce good code. You get lulled in because the easy and rote stuff is done so much quicker, but past a threshold they just waste time.

Rust isn’t good because it’s “memory safe,” it’s good because it was the peanut butter spoon that forced system programmers to finally learn functional programming concepts

News aggregators have become insanely boring. I don’t need to read comments. I’m going back to RSS. If you have a blog (or know of some interesting ones) please send them to me/comment them!

Managed to write an algorithm that requires Read/Write locks and the ability to upgrade read guards/downgrade write guards and I must say it made me feel like the smartest person alive

I’m gonna get an MNT Reform Next and try to install Guix on it

Couldn't sleep so I did some optimizing. Well, that's not accurate. I couldn't sleep because I was doing some optimizing

I feel like there has to be a way to combine concurrent cycle collection and biased reference counting

I actually don’t have any problem with this stupid, evil, fucking moron

The solution here is to switch to stack based continuations.

I can't help but think that the internet has gotten insanely boring. Maybe my standards are higher? Feels like there used to be so much weird stuff to find.