CJ Mallard @duck57@mastodon.social

@garrett @thegibson I only want others to get me something if it strikes them as something that I would really like or enjoy, or has some sort of meaning attached to it. DO NOT get me a gift for the sake of giving me a gift. If you must do that, make it food so it won't stay around forever.

stout apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1906

It's the same reason why OOP gets nasty: you're trying to model relationships between data types and instead you keep polluting that information with methods, which assume you are trying to do one very specific and well-understood task with that data, which is fine until you aren't and then you're stuffed.

@Gargron Could you make most recent by day instead of by minute, then randomly within each date group? That way the people regularly active stay close to the top but it's much harder to coordinate something like this.

ethernet over xlr

“What we are coming to.” Illustration by Grant E. Hamilton from JUDGE (1895). http://wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/180928011041/what-we-are-coming-to-illustration-by-grant-e

science has proven that seeing an image of a duck every day of Daily Duck December grants you Free Money. that being said, here's your 8th duck

I just stumbled upon the wonderful world of esoteric programming languages and I’m really digging Piet, where the programs look like abstract paintings.

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

@Caelyn Sooo sick of the 100.0% guaranteed knee-jerk shriekfest about every single new feature tbh @sean

@sean I've been kinda disappointed by the reaction to it. There's an assumption of bad faith which seems totally unwarranted. Also lots of "no-one asked for this" when folks have been asking for a way to find people to follow for a long time.

@sean Sometimes you have to try something to find out what's broken about it.

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Busted...

The stages of Steam library growth:
- Own some games
- Own some games you haven't finished
- Own some games you haven't even started
- Own more games than you could possibly finish in a lifetime
- Own more critically-acclaimed, culturally-significant games that you were really interested playing than you could possibly finish in a lifetime
- Own more games than you could possibly start in a lifetime