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breaking.computer
Music, code, and cooking enthusiast. Staff engineer making developer tools at a reasonably well known tech company/podcast sponsor. Occasionally writes at breaking.computer
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I am experiencing a compulsion to listen to Talking Heads today out of a desire to appreciate our Old Weird Davids while they're alive.

This game is a really lovely intro to programming/understanding how to read code. Ms 12 has been writing Python/Scratch for a while and she blitzed through it, but I think it would have been excellent when she was smaller too. www.101computing.net/wp/wp-conten...

counterpoint: it is absolutely living up to my exact expectations

me: wow this app is really nice let's see what settings it has app: here's a blank json file for you to edit me: thanks looks great time to uninstall

Let it be known that @nora.zone makes some excellent jewelry. Got two pieces for my wife for her bday, and they’re new favorites.

This happened when I was there in 2013. Glad to see some things don’t change.

It. Is. Always. About. Your. Threat. Model.

fishshell.com/blog/rustport/ #rustlang

Robert Christgau once described the dismemberment plan as sounding “sort of the way Primus might if Primus enjoyed a normal sex life”

This is why my variables have names like todo_fix_this_its_not_great_but_it_works_for_now

The folks at Blacksky are doing some of the coolest atproto work out there right now. This is what real sociotechnical problem solving looks like.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Designer: It's actually called whitespace

Same

Did you know you can just listen to KNOWER instead of the Lex Fridman podcast? I think some of you don‘t realize this.

This is amazing news.

Often times I miss living in NYC proper, but once a year I’m reminded of SantaCon and that feeling completely goes away.

i’m not going to pretend like i haven’t occasionally had a rough go of it on this or other online platforms but one thing you’ll never see me do is write an essay about people being mean to me on the internet. why? because i’m an adult who understands that there are real problems in the world.

Will showed me a demo of this last week and it’s really cool!