the desire to be the Operator, in the control room, at the controls, airliner cockpit, power plant, studio with racks of synthesizers, devices all around you, screens showing you the latest updates, in the lain nest where you have assembled the computers routers servers boxen: it masquerades as a fantasy of control where you are powerful at the center, but it is actually a fantasy of comfort where the machines surround you like a blanket and their screens and buttons are what command your action

transitioning is easy as a dev, it's just about:
- naming things (yourself/yourselves)
- cache invalidation (telling ppl you changed identity)

i was trying to make a little tiling eggbug pattern for my pants and i stumbled into a very fun setting

A more skilled musician than me would just call it microtonal and play something really cool on it

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That feeling when you're visiting your brother and his family and trying to play something on his child's toy xylophone and the A-bar is 50 cents off, *unplayable*

I followed one of those lentil curry recipes and what I learned is that sambal oelek (which is spelled weird because of the Dutch apparently) is a good ingredient and coconut milk is not

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TIL that windows explorer can mount ISO files

INTRODUCING: “Let’s Talk About Stuff,” a brand new weekly show from Sarah Zedig where we watch movies and talk about the movies that we watch! first up, the 1965 gay awakening film Winter Kept Us Warm.

give it a watch, share with your friends, and let me know what you think in the comments!

youtu.be/M_OMMHVZX48

I understand that its just the fact that google is a search company that became an ads company that became an AI company, but the "chat with AI about this" option on content inspector is very funny

do you want to talk to a computer about this <div>? because if so, you should probably talk to someone. not a computer, a trained professional

The garbage that happens when you treat HTML and CSS as an "output target" instead of its own actual thing.

Everyone can see this is a pile of inefficient noise. A layman can see that; it is self-evident.

How come "smart devs" twist themselves into contradictions to believe it's not?

This is *one DOM node*.

> More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communication Workers of America labor union.

wired.com/story/wikipedia-work

I need to make napping a religion so I can practice my rituals daily under the guise of religious freedom.

TIL that Apple’s developer site now advertises an official link rel=“alternate” for Markdown-formatted documentation. As far as I can tell you can just put .md at the end of any of the URLs, e.g. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array.md

Clutch!

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