American airports: "Take off your shoes! Is that water bottle empty?! I don't like the look of this nail file, buster!"

Switzerland: "Please feel free to purchase our iconic pocketknives right here inside the terminal."

y’all have no idea how much I would rather be able to write:

any(not isPrimitive(value) for value in someDict.values())

instead of:

Object.entries(someObject).some(([_key, value]) => !isPrimitive(value))

me:

let var = foo;

my typescript LSP: this let declares a variable that is only assigned once

me: uh… yes. yes it does

my LSP: *gestures impatiently at the word “let”*

me: is… there something wrong with that? should I do something else?

my LSP: *seething with rage, pointing emphatically at the word “let”*

(it was trying to tell me to use const instead. which… it can fuck right off I’m using let every time lol immutability is for Haskell)

i have a goddamn college degree in computer science, but spending 10 minutes looking at my fedi timeline makes me always feel how absolutely little i know

my cables will not be "managed"

I love all cables equally. each is empowered to roam freely in pursuit of self-directed goals, articulating a personality of its own. that's not a tangle, it's a statement.

cable management is a tool of the oppressor.

I love this guy

I was 19, and I was sitting alone in the room I grew up. Summer just began, and I've been enjoying the laziness that I was allowed in the moment.

When I looked out my window, I was suddenly awestruck. For as long as I've lived there, I've never seen such vivid colors from there. The sky was completely clear, and had the most beautiful, deep blue gradient to it. Each of the trees in the nearby forest stood out and had this overpowering, green energy radiating from it. The powerlines and street lights in front of them looked as if they had been hand drawn.

I don't know why this view suddenly struck me so hard in the moment, but I grabbed my dad's digital camera and took about 20 photos from my window, one of which is this one.

I'm glad that I did.

In 2022, my childhood home was demolished for a railway project.

This view no longer exists, except in the photos I made and in my head.

And once I finish writing it, this photo will be used as the header image for my gender identity memoir, on my personal page.

if anyone tells you that a FOSS technology is “really simple”, “intuitive”, or “easy to learn” that is 100% cope. so far I’ve heard this about:

• Rust
• makefiles
• bash scripts
• Linux in general

and the opposite has been true every time. I really wish FOSS people would be more honest with themselves and others about how arcane most FOSS is

“gdscript and godot are so easy that young children can learn it in a few days”

I learned a new word today! an idioculture is like a subculture but even smaller. like a single clique might have an idioculture, or a raid guild in WoW. a subculture is probably made up of multiple idiocultures

a lot of the discourse around TTRPGs seems to frame edgy characters as inherently bad. there are a lot of stories about players using their edgy character to do problematic things at the table, and it’s often presented as if the character’s edginess is one of those problematic things. even if that isn’t the framing, there’s often a strong tone of disapproval whenever a character’s edginess is brought up

I’ve never actually played a TTRPG game with what I’d consider an edgy character so I don’t have any direct experience, but this honestly sounds like a weird remnant of cringe culture to me. cringe culture, obviously, is a culture of expressing disapproval and contempt towards people who express themselves in ways that don’t conform to social norms - which sounds to me like exactly what’s happening when people treat edgy characters as inherently wrong or bad

obviously the tone of a TTRPG game is something that everyone needs to agree on, and if one character is so dark in tone that they clash with the tone that everyone else wants, that’s a problem. it’s also a problem if the edgy character is bringing up a topic that the other players don’t want in their game. but I wouldn’t frame these problem as the character being edgy. I’d frame them as the character being badly-designed for this group

this brought me all the way back to the edgy high school kas days in the best way. I can’t believe this is an official trailer

Elden Ring Nightrein | Bring Me to Life Trailer

death to all ligatures

ugh you would think that javascript’s JSON.stringify() would throw an error if it encountered an object with fields that it can’t serialize, but instead it silently discards those fields and acts as if everything is fine. also I didn’t even know that there were fields that this function couldn’t serialize. this language really needs a sane way to pretty-print things

scan this fox

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

steam is a package manager for games