Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

Someone should write a small GUi wrapper around a command line utility and distribute it initially via reflected lunar radio signal to HAM receivers worldwide.

I can assure you this is an entirely practical means of creating and distributing software, and not an elaborate and expensive process to allow the HAMs using the software to claim that wizard came from the moon.

Just a chill little robot looking for corndogs #PhotonVision #romi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2MqCNQNC3I

Just a chill day building a corndog finder. #PhotonVision

Watching the first episode of Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Wow, TV was just different back in the 90s.

This I care about in your game store.

Offerings:
[***-------]
User interface:
[**--------]
Discoverability of games:
[**--------]
Whether I have to manually delete files in your web cache and restart my computer because your game store code sucks:
[**********]**********

One of the fun things about #typescript is that since it compiles to JavaScript, it can proactively support language features that are under discussion but not yet finalized for JS itself.

TypeScript 5.2 is adding the `using` keyword. Woot. :)

https://www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-5-2-new-keyword-using

In general, I appreciate APIs where {foo: null}, {foo: []}, and {} are not only equivalent but indistinguishable from each other.

Otherwise, you’re giving me an urn with a scorpion in it and I never appreciate that.

#cplusplus #rust

You know that thing about "You can't look up a recipe online without having to scroll to the bottom to get past the writer's life story?"

The software equivalent of that is looking up anything about commercial software systems. You Google them and then you have to scroll down past all the vendor's advertisements and their main page where they tell you "MoonClover is a rethinking of the nature of the nature of knowledge, the next step in evolution of the human comprehension of reality. The top choice of forward-thinking tech firms, it's pushing through ignorance to shine new light on the nature of existance and..."

Fuck that. You scroll down to the Wikipedia article so you can read "MoonClover is a key-value store with performance equivalent to MongoDB that was created by Bob Bobson and Steve Stevens to get their company, BoboStevo Inc., off paying the Oracle DB tax every quarter."

#reddit is foundering today.

I'll be interested to find out (if I ever do) why the Reddit Strike appears correlated with general service degradation. My guess is that either trying to access a private subreddit is actually an expensive query and Reddit never realized that because they never had to test that interaction at scale, or tens of thousands of bots that treat Reddit as infrastructure and auto-archive or copy the most popular subreddits are now finding their access cut and their recovery protocol is busted, and Reddit never had to test denying access to so many bots (probably not using the API, probably scraping the page and faking being real users) at scale before.

The Videogame Sequel Doctor takes on Tears of the Kingdom. #TotK

(With apologies to Key and Peele, who are kings of comedy while I am a mere King of Thieves).

(Caution: Small Tears of the Kingdom spoilers)

https://personal-blog.fixermark.com/posts/2023/videogame-design-doctor-totk/