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gave a presentation at my local rust meetup on full stack web development in Rust! if you’re curious, here are the slides: github.com/boringcactus...

...Retsuko? Is this you?? 😳🤘

The idea that everybody on the planet must forever be beholden to the default of babysitter of other people’s children except for their actual fucking parents, and as a result any attempt to opt of non-consensual babysitting must include getting my identity stolen, is an idea that must fucking die.

it's been a minute but I think confirming that the question was correct is important to do explicitly first so that the other contestants can buzz in if it was wrong instead

biggest issue to me is trebek not indicating whether or not op's question is correct. doesn't actually matter but c'mon

my This Machine Makes Fascists Slightly Uncomfortable (Or At Least It Would If They Noticed Me At All) sticker is too large to fit on my guitar

guy who only commits tax evasion in years when the president is a Republican

it’s past 9pm somewhere,

this jit packs maven libraries

firing up my IDE for thirty minutes and going “oh cool i have made some progress. now i get to go back to doomscrolling”

If you have important code that only its author understands, your bus factor is 1, but if you have important code that an LLM spat out and nobody really gets, your bus factor is 0, and that should terrify you.

Every false start and every round trip to the docs teaches you more about your problem and your tools, and by the time you have the code you want, you know it inside and out, and you can walk your colleagues through it in code review.

Code is cheap; understanding is valuable. LLMs can give you code, and sometimes it even works, but when you need to understand the problem and the solution for yourself, the most an LLM can do is point you in a direction that looks right.

the reverse pomodoro technique: do five minutes of work and then take a twenty minute break

We’re on sale for our biggest discount yet: 35% off!

Game Informer said 1000xRESIST is “one of the most groundbreaking stories in video game history.”

So run, don’t walk, to grab our Peabody award-winning game!

it’s a joke about people who are still harry potter fans

I've been trying to reframe "I'm not built like that" as "I haven't built myself like that" but actually I don't think I like taking that much responsibility for the way that I am

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

this would fix me. I should send my husband on a burrito quest too

drank too much, woke up after four hours of sleep with a gnarly hangover, threw up. can i get a mulligan

ok I know for a bit if you applied for a US passport while transgender they'd just steal your documents and not give you a passport; does anybody know if it's still quite that bad? I'm assuming even though I got my birth certificate corrected I'm not likely to get accurate info

hell yeah

real as shit

just got married btw

A puppygirl holds the leash of another puppygirl who is kneeling before her. The leash-holding puppygirl presides over an old-school CRT monitor and says "on the internet, everybody knows you're a dog."

thanks!

a secret kept so closely it can only be whispered when one nearly encloses the other. this too is yuri

I had not before but you may be on to something

evil gerson: I’m young!