multi-platform scala repl bot! https://github.com/non/zzbot
IS "PASTEL BRUTALISM" A GENRE
(realizing i should have put that behind a "CW: boring" or something)
for someone who's worked for over a decade making software, i sure do hate a lot of aspects of making software
i'd rather be living in an arcology writing agriculture simulations in a russian dialect of forth
This is a shoutout to everyone who have recently booted up their BBS servers, or who never turned 'em off in the first place
good on ya
so lucky that a moroccan #brownstuff shop is up a road from my lair.
left pq running awhile ago. now i have a 209th level social justice warlock.
A dungeon crawl game where you sell loot to thrift stores and go antiquing for new weapons, spells, and armor.
at $work we really went wild with static types (and specifically path-dependent types) to build a powerful system for defining and generating ML features and data across many platforms.
the _one_ place where these types aren't as useful is at certain serialization boundaries.
guess which part of the system we are still debugging?
I never really wrote Ruby or read any of _why's work. But I think the things that moved him to delete his internet presence may be resonating with me these days.
was full of optimism two days ago. unusual but good.
lo-fi tarot program i built, with my own small card art: http://plastic-idolatry.com/tarot0/
Soundtrack for today: "Peasant" (2008) by Thou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi4z960q41A&t=1s
interesting to think back to a time when i had conversations with individual people over email
I bought the new Cory Doctorow book "Walkaway" at Borderlands forgetting I'd pre-ordered it from Amazon. Who in SF wants my second copy?
(also -- i keep accidentally posting oulipo-compatible things on this account.)
back in philly for a bit and it's good.
Here are the slides from my Philly ETE talk: "Functions and Determinism in Property-based Testing" http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/ete2017.pdf
oscillating between anxiety that i don't have enough material for a 60 minute talk and fear that i have way too much, ama
