@rowan ugh it really really is. I’m sorry you have to deal with this shit too 🫂

there are a few different technologies (languages, frameworks, etc.) that I’ve been interested in learning, because I think I might be able to find them beautiful eventually

but as soon as I start trying to learn them, the surface-level details that I learn immediately strike me as very ugly. probably just because I don’t understand the wider context for why they’re designed the way that they are. but I tend to be so put off by my initial distaste that I just give up on learning the whatever-it-is. I wish I could download full knowledge of the technology into my brain so that I could immediately know whether I like it or not, with full knowledge of what it’s trying to accomplish and why it’s designed the way that it is

anyway the things that I’m thinking of as I write this are:

• Model-View-Controller and its variations (MVC, MVVM, MVCVM)
• architectural patterns in general
• Lisp, Haskell, and F#
• Nix / NixOS

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okay but more seriously, I care a lot about writing code that I find beautiful: the joy of writing code to me is about creating beauty

so I’m only interested in {tools/frameworks/architectural patterns/etc.} that facilitate elegant, beautiful code (in my subjective view of elegance and beauty). but I have no way of knowing if I’ll find them beautiful without spending a lot of time and energy deeply learning them, what problems they’re trying to solve, what philosophies they use to solve those problems, etc.

and I don’t really have the spoons or patience to spend those resources learning something highly technical on the gamble that I’ll end up liking [the thing]. also anything sufficiently complex or opinionated looks Very Ugly to me by default until/unless I learn that there are good reasons for it to be designed Like That

so that’s why my knowledge of technical things is so limited and why I like to write most stuff from scratch and invent my own best practices as I go

if it takes me more than 30 minutes to learn how to use a piece of software then I do not want to use that software

and that’s why I only know Python

@1 There are a certain category of music that is probably actively dangerous to play in a car cus it has the capacity to awaken anyones inner speed demon, and MBR is definitely among them. I'd say most metal music with the exception of doom metal prolly fall into that category to some degree.

@Impossible_PhD I want to beam this into the brain of everyone who has ever touched open source software

Every semester, I have to stop my students when they try to go "you can just--" in my technical writing courses.

Nope. Everything that ever comes after that opening bit is *always* coming from your specialized knowledge. If someone could, they would've already. They wouldn't be asking for help.

i'm looking for recommendations on (web)comic / manga with queer couples (ideally women) who also have kids (either from before the start of their relationship or after)

it doesn't need to focus on their parenthood although that would be a plus

rn the only one i know is Motherlover (https://motherlovercomic.com/comic/welcome/) which is good but i'd like to know more than one comic like that ^^'

(boosts appreciated)

Silk song moment

Live footage in valve server room

fuck the concept of only having one name for your whole life. peoples’ names should evolve over time, like a Pokemon:

• Robling
• Bobbert
• Robertio

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@aei I like Metroidvanias but not Hollow Knight at all and I’m right there with you

get a glass of water, go take a walk, eat something (preferrably edible), take a nap. put your phone down for a while. take a breath. do something to take care of yourself instead of spiraling.

a stopped clock is right twice a day. if you have 720 different stopped clocks, one of them will always be right, and knowing the time becomes a simple matter of finding a way to identify which one

User Interface Wrapped

• You spent 23 hours using an analogue stick to drag a cursor around various AAA game menus
• You accidentally clicked the wrong button because an element loaded in above it and pushed it down suddenly 58 times
• Your password manager autofilled your username into the wrong field 126 times
• You clicked "remind me later" on a dialogue box you'd rather never be reminded of 96 times
• You made 6,834 minor typos that were caught by autocorrect
• You made 532 typos that were caused by autocorrect, including 56 "duck off"s and 22 "go to he'll"s
• You checked the "remember me" box 87 times, and it actually worked 21% of the time
• You only ruined a mailing list thread by clicking "reply" instead of "reply all" once - but you'll be thinking about it for the rest of the year
• You spent 3 hours typing search queries into an alphabetical on-screen keyboard with a TV remote

going to go back in time and kill whoever decided that a “good” story should start off relatively light and then get darker and more harrowing over time. this cultural expectation right here is the bane of my existence