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Daily auteur of space monster boyfriends and sensual fiction in a star cluster near you.

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Oh glob, vulkan core and abstraction are finally done. Tomorrow I'll move onto GLFW.

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I keep forgetting that Shift+Insert = Paste.

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This reminds me of the time I had to develop a mutual exclusion lock ("mutex") for javascript to turn Node.js's event-driven buffers into blocking serial-IO because some chucklefuck thought it'd be smart to have RS-232 -- you know, the serial data standard -- also be event-driven ...

... so that I could talk to and control a headless router attached to a server (attached to a video encoder) via a web application on a separate laptop.

At no point did anyone sit down and ask people in the field if the garbage we were developing mattered. But hey, systems integrators get contracts, amirite?

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Gotta love some conversations.

"I wonder why magazines try so hard to get people to keep their subscriptions."

"Because that's how they make money."

"I don't see how, when every other page is an advertisement."

"Because no one will want to advertise unless they have readers."

... and I can't imagine wanting to read (let alone pay for) a magazine where every other page is either an advertisement or a full-page spread.

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4,068 words for today~

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Sorely tempted to implement MUD over Avian Carriers, to really get that nostalgic 1.2kb/s feel.

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A photo collage-style commission for my pals phimeirai & capracorvid! 📷

~2023

A painting of two anthro ungulates taking a selfie at a diner booth. There's a full breakfast in front of them, each food item illustrated larger around the right side of the main scene: tea, egg hash, pancakes, and iced tea. Polaroids from various moments together are taped around the left side of the main scene: shots from a museum, in front of a license plate that reads "AS5 7HX", and one of the characters messily eating a sunny side up egg.
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@strflr trust in Florida to have humorous plates.

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The weakness of FOSS isn't "poor UX" or opacity, it's the fact it's run by volunteers, few of whom have formal technical writing skills or experience, let alone knowledge of how to interface with end users.

These are skills that are rare even in the private sector, so how can you expect someone working part time out of a garage to possess them?

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Mind, this doesn't excuse the fact that overmany projects expect full familiarity with their build environment (like all the undocumented compiler settings necessary to make it work on your specific hardware), nor that as many readme files seem more like the collected notes of someone's development process than an actual manual, but you'd be surprised how little this differs from the corporate development experience.

The vast majority of projects I've been attached to didn't even have documentation. I spent days reading and rebuilding source code to become proficient.

Unfortunately, this has become such an expectation that most engineers don't even consider the time investment and cognitive overhead it requires on the part of new developers to a project.

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Which is to say: the flaw of FOSS is accessibility, which is why many projects struggle to find willing (and able) volunteers to maintain them and add features.

It should not seem a Herculean task to contribute, yet more often than not, the process of simply getting started is much too daunting.

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Please depict LLM-bros as pigs, because they're all about that slop 🐷

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A collab I did with my pal Fizzlesoda! He drew my sona drawing his sona, and vice versa! 🐶🖍️

~2023

A painting of two furry characters drawing on an invisible wall between them and the viewer. There's an insert shot of the cartoony doodles they're making, along with some floating heads with excited expressions.
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@strflr oh wow, this is super adorable!

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Suddenly tempted to use "fosse" or "fossa" (anatomical and landform sense) in my writing.

For reasons.

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The air here is so bad lately.

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Bornean Peacock-Pheasant 🪶

~2023

A painting of an intricately patterned Borneon peacock-pheasant, in profile and mid-step. It's walking to the right and looking back to the left.
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@strflr they have the most fabulous pompadour.

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Thinking about it, I might revise my tabletop RPG system from a flat "to hit" condition to a hybrid model:

Below the defense rating of a target is a miss or absorbed.

At the defense is a "glancing blow," dealing either reduced damage for that die -or- forcing a check by the defender to prevent being staggered.

Above the defense is a hit.

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Lore of the Rings was really just a Dungeons and Dragons campaign before Gygax happened.

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Oh, turns out that stoat thing is just another FOSSbro proprietary pile of nonsense that won't actually interact with anything else.

And you can't get the apps unless you use the official Google/Apple stores (which are often unavailable to 3rd-party builds).

Nevermind.

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I wish the C3 documentation was better / more complete.

I have a use-case where I want to emit the name of an enum on error (the VkResult received), but I'm unsure on whether the Enum.associated() method returns a map of value -> name or not.

I'd hate to have to do:

fn String Enum.lookupEnum( &self, Type value ) <Type> {
uint index = -1;
Type[*] values = self.values();
foreach( uint i, Type v : values )
if( v == value ){
index = i;
break;
}
return self.names[ index ];
}

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I keep coming back to nim, but I always run aground when it comes to something as simple as "pass the pointer to a struct," because that's somehow bizarrely undocumented in the language.

In fact, in testing, you cannot addr() an object/struct, so ... am I supposed to heap-allocate a pointer, cast and rebuild it, and then pass said pointer before deallocating it later? Because if so, that's moronic in a GC'd language with faculties for producing an untraced pointer (as opposed to a traced reference) specifically for interfacing with C.

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Love trying to pretend that Crystal is a functioning language, only for their online tool to shit out an error in the stdlib functions ...

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Gods, I'd like to just use bot matches as a way to test builds, but no, guess one of the recent updates made it so that your team in Deadlock is braindead ...

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A truly awful bot match kind of soured my view of Deadlock a bit. Definitely wasn't a fair spread, and those were not "medium" tactics (else I rolled the "new player" bots for my team).

Probably my fault for playing solo as a roaming character, but jeez. Nearly an hour to lose, and 25 minuted of that was stronghold defenses (the first 35 minutes was the bots failing to push any one lane past the first guardian, while the opposing bot team zerged lanes to draw them away. Like I said, asymmetric tactics).

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You know you've fucked up as a C-interop language when it can't even handle naked pointers.

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"Oh, you've been out of work for a long time! How are you keeping your skills fresh?"

In ways you could not possibly understand (nor will accept, since you're still so busy being "blazing fast" and waving your software stack about).

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3,519 words for today~

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Yappy dogs (and yappy dog-havers) are the worst. I've yet to encounter a small dog that wasn't a complete hellion of the most foul disposition.

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What kind of psychopath sends their dog out to bark at the weekly trash pickup …?

(My neighbor. That's who 😡)

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Pretty dumb that "patron" isn't the male equivalent of "matron."

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3,964 words for today~

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Tom Bombadil, or, what shrooms do to a man.

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And you wonder why I want to delete my account on your platform ...

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Apparently it worked, and this is just what happens when you vibe code your own ass.

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React is terrible and using it makes you bad at web desiiiiiign~

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Sure is a lot of queerness in Middle Earth 😏

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When you really think about it, the industrial revolution marked the start of a second Dark Age.

Unfortunately we're still in it, as the New Enlightenment has clearly been failing.

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Just learned about the Wren programming language (https://wren.io) which seems like a beautiful little blend between modern JS and Ruby, but with speed closer to Lua.

Right now it's meant to be embedded (and hasn't had a release in 5 years), but it's definitely a neat little project all the same.

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Reasons animals are cooler than people:

• fuzzy and cute
• no need for politics or going to war over things
• can just be naked
• the beans 🐾
• make friends with other animals (you're all in this together)
• just plain cool

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Trader Joe's might be my new favorite masala chai.

I also like that it's all in paper; none of that foil nonsense.

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It's been 24 years. Guess it's time again.

2001 edition of Lord of the Rings, announcing it's now a motion picture trilogy.
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My past has been quite thoroughly blasted. Get in.

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4,490 words for today~

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I've decided they need to release the moopsy into the capitol and white house.

The moopsy, saying "moopsy!"

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The software industry is irreparably broken.

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Referring to your after dark profile as "[name], but horny."

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My matrices might still be too slow.

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2,842 words for today~

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Sometimes I wonder if my family should have ever left Buffalo.

It's kind of a backwater, but there's a lot of cool stuff there. Nothing like this hellhole.