Digital Mark

After one accident long ago, I have a policy of all drinks on the right, on a lower level than the electronics. I’ve splashed a few keyboards & mice, but never again a computer.

There are collected “issues” on analog nowhere and non-series pages on mini

It’s clearly secondary to correctness: A program that is well-written but doesn’t work right is worthless. Many hairy balls of mud have shipped to great acclaim.

Human readability & comprehension is nice for maintenance, but you don’t get to maintain something that never worked right to begin with.

… Of course, Windows is existence proof that you can be successful with neither.

Aggressive dialogs begging for my email = close tab. I don’t care what your excuse is.

Also, 404 (Not Found) is the dumbest name for any site ever, so I’m just as glad to see it go away.

RCS is not end-to-end encrypted, so their bubbles will remain green.

Google’s proprietary extensions add E2EE, and Apple’s not going to pull a Beeper on Google.

Scheme, and work through SICP, watch the lectures along with the reading.

I prefer Chez Scheme but there’s many implementations. Chez’s fast and practical, C FFI, large standard library, nice REPL with editor.

To misquote John Waters,

If you go home with someone and they have LinkedIn in their browser history, don’t fuck them!

Budget’s about half what it should be, but Keychron makes really great mech keyboards, you can pick a range of switches (I use Gateron Red, clicky but not too stiff; YMMV).

You should reconsider bluetooth if you can, there is lag in it, and sometimes just random disconnects if there’s interference. USB’s the way to stay fast & stable.

Good programmers - AI = best code.

I’m staying with Vim, mainly because I hate Lua.

Vim9script is fine, I write enough small scripts in it that it hasn’t annoyed me. Vim’s plugins, and NerdTree in particular, make it a perfectly good editor for this millennium as well as the last.

Videogame companies literally did use “megabit” when the truth was “128KiB”, because it sounded better. Actual computer companies were still listing binary power numbers, because buyers had more to invest and care about accuracy.

You say “sensible”, but it’s lying for profit.

It’s a scam by HDD makers to sell less storage for more money.

If you switch to Scheme (or the few other tail-recursive languages), you can always use recursion, and it’s the most efficient solution. It’s a bit of a weird shift at first, and the hand-holding do, dotimes, loop macros will let you transition at your own pace, but soon all your “loops” will just be named-let recursion.

iPhones have like 8-20 hours of charge now, depending on what I’m doing. My old iPod is <4 hours, maybe <2, but it’s enough for a walk. And if I’m out, where would I be charging it? I don’t usually carry a phone charger and wall wart. If I was out for days, I’d use my laptop to charge it, while listening ON THE LAPTOP, which has analog headphone jacks.

So, it’s a pointless conflict.

I have a lightning-analog dongle on my phone headphones, that works fine. I have another analog headphones on my iPod classic for walks. The terrible catastrophe of taking out the headphone jack is nothing. There’s no situation where I’d be listening to my phone and want to charge it, if it’s on the charger I have a computer with speakers.

I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they’re often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven’t lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it’s some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn’t trust any of my work output there.

But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.

Ooh, a whole decade! I’ve been developing games (“developing”) since the '80s. You are literally the guy I referred to, in a studio, with a stupid title. If you’d called yourself a developer without being able to write code at some companies I’ve worked at, you’d have a conversation with HR. As it is, people can get away with it but it’s not true. Words have meanings, even when savages from a fallen age misuse them.

Actual customer service/community managers are fine, we need those; working indie that’s the worst part, not having them. But I’m with Bill Hicks on marketing douchebags.

I say “developer” is only for code, “designer” can be any system, level, or character designer (ooh they use spreadsheets!), “artist” is only for drawing things. Marketing douchebags are “marketing douchebags”. And since I’m indie, I’m all of those.

But some studios just don’t care and have stupid titles; as long as thy get paid it doesn’t matter to them. WTF cares what some idiot screaming in a forum says?

Golden Palominos, Prison of the Rhythm Exuberance Is Beauty Mix

Way back on my radio show, that was my “I’m in the can or searching stacks for music” song.

I’ve never had that happen, within the same type. I had some loose-fit Levis 568 which were very different, but the 501s never change. Just switched from 40w to 38w, got exactly the size change I expected.