ok so, this is the first time I've ever made instant mashed potatoes, and um

very accurate name

like, I poured the bag into the water, and by the time I had grabbed the fork right next to the bowl to try and stir it, it had already thickened into mashed potatoes

that was fucking fast, I thought it'd take like, about as long as instant noodles do, but nope, guess the higher surface area from being a powder just, really makes a difference there

I could not live without LSPs in Neovim, but LSPs in Neovim are the absolute worst things to configure ever T_T

now that i’m laid off and without an income, im thinking of picking up freelance game dev work again. for anyone doing that right now, what’s it like – is it hard to find steady work or has it been okay? also how are you finding clients?

boosts extremely welcome! i would really love feedback

Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/discussions/11889

If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":

my paperback of this book has arrived!!! i am legiterally in it, in the part that talks about mutual aid on fedi and also the final chapter about threads and fedipact. highly recommend giving it a read! this is one of the best books i've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, and i'm not only saying that because i'm in it!!! lol :3

shoutout to the author @rwg for writing such an awesome thingy!!!!!

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

#MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #books #FediPact #vantaselfie

@ligniform the Godot one is so baffling to me because they were already using Python and the language that they replaced it with sounds terrible by comparison from everything that I’ve heard

this post brought to you by “oh no not you too GameMaker whyyy”

If anyone in #Seattle has firsthand sightings of #MAGA or other #Fascist folk *with photo evidence* please send it my way along with as much info as possible.

Date, time, and location?

What are they wearing? Logos, badges, slogans, gear?

What are they doing, specifically?

Do they have vehicles? Make, model, plates?

Do they have weapons? What kind?

game engines need to stop using their own custom scripting languages when Lua is right there and is genuinely one of the most elegant languages I’ve ever seen

@rowan you are extremely pretty and cute and also really skilled and dedicated to your craft

and uhh… I’ll pay you in Exposure™

i think i should be paid to be told im pretty and cute all day

One of the students anonymously complained that flags and politics don't belong in class, because I have a tiny pride flag with me.
So I put up an even bigger one for everyone to see.

the objectively best measure of how good a programming language is, is how many bytes of source code it takes to print “Hello, world!”

so that award goes to Stuck, since it takes only 0 bytes to make a hello world program

I fucking love when a programming language explains why it’s designed the way that it is and what its guiding philosophy is. I’ve been reading about Fennel (a Lisp-like language that transpiles to Lua) and I don’t think I would have given it a second glance if it didn’t have a philosophy that I almost entirely agree with. I would have just seen something that looked “ugly” or “kludgy” to me (without the context for why it is that way) and moved on to something else

@dragonarchitect oohhh interesting

I feel like a genie is not going to be able to reward me well enough to make up for a twisted wish, because that would imply that the genie knows what I want much better than I do - to the point that their reward is better than the opportunity cost of my original wish and the cost of a twisted wish combined

plus I don’t know how malicious the twisted wish is going to be. is this the kind of genie that wants to teach me a lesson by twisting my wish to show me that my wish is misguided? is this a mischievous genie who just wants to do a little temporary prank? or is this a genie that wants to cause actual harm?