kubernetes

reminder to please uspol your shit

I feel like my ideal programming language would be:

• the simplest core language possible*, with thorough documentation of the exact behaviors of every aspect of the core language
• on top of the core language, add enough syntactic sugar to be as convenient to use as Python
• document all of the syntactic sugar by showing what the core language equivalent is
• then add a full-featured standard library like Python’s

* simple to understand, but not necessarily simple to implement or mathematically simple. for example it is very easy to understand what 1 + 1 means when you see it in code, even though add(1, 1) could be considered “simpler” in terms of implementation

that way it would be a very expressive and nice-to-use language, but it would also have almost no magic whatsoever. you could learn the core language and then understand literally everything else in terms of the core language equivalent. so you wouldn’t have to memorize quirks of the module system or package.json semantics or edge cases of defining a class or anything else like that. becase as long as you know the core language and you know what your syntactic sugar is turning into, you would understand everything perfectly

also it should absolutely have Lua’s require() and dofile() functions because those are by far the most elegant module system I have ever seen

just heard Any Austin describe Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) as “fast-paced”. and the thing is, that is an accurate description of the gameplay. but also, please never use that phrase to describe one of my favorite games again

went looking into how hard it'd be to make a custom linux locale like en_US but with reasonable date/time formats, and found that someone had already done it: https://xyne.dev/projects/locale-en_xx/

I've gotten the sense that images are somehow considered more "real" that writing. Like, you're often allowed to write about things you're not allowed to depict visually, even though both depictions are equally fictional.

And I suspect that interactive media is in some ways considered more real than non-interactive media. There's been a lot of cases where controversy have erupted over something being depicted in a game that's being depicted in movies all the time and part of the reason seem to be that the interactivity makes you feel more culpable in what's happening, even if all you did was press a button.

(Though to be fair, it can be kind of hard to tell sometimes if people are mad at a video game because they feel like playing through something makes it feel too real in ways movies, despite generally being live action and historically showing at least a staged reality, don't... or if they are mad at a video game because they find the medium inherently frivolous and thus take issue with any serious topic being depicted in video games,)

I’ve played about 8 games total in my life that I think are worth $70, but the funny thing is that none of them were priced higher than $15 when I bought them

meanwhile I’ve played plenty of $60-$70 games that are just… so unfun. like “I can’t get through the first hour of gameplay” levels of unfun

I miss when websites were exclusively serverside-rendered and the HTML was hand-written and it was really easy and fun to write userscripts

I’m trying to write an Akkoma userscript so that my tabs will have informative titles instead of all of them just saying “Cryptid Cafe” and all of the logic works except the stupid SPA keeps clobbering my changes to document.title all the time

I feel this and I hate it

#adhd #memes

so many fucking social media sites are now adding alt-text functionality and designing their UI so that the textbox you enter the alt text into COVERS UP THE IMAGE

I just learned how you’re supposed to decode HTML entities like ' using JavaScript and… I hate it. I hate it so much

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5796718/html-entity-decode

sorry what did you say i was too busy thirsting after vicious monsters that are 90% Sharp Death by volume

I should be a tech billionaire. qualifications:

• highly experienced at doing nothing for my entire life
• have no idea how most tech works and don’t want to learn
• would be very good at verbally abusing cishet white men
• have very extreme views that sound like scifi pipe dreams
• severe insecurity

they should make a type of girl that lives within 100 miles of me