FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@noracodes My friend’s three-year-old’s version: ‘This is easy, dad. You go “type, type, type,” and it goes “‘‘pute, ‘pute, ‘pute” ‘.

Let's do an experiment! If you're *not* a professional or habitual programmer, I'd love to hear what you know about what happens between typing a web address like "example.com" into your web browser and actually seeing the page show up. Whatever level of abstraction and verbosity you're comfortable with.

Tech folks: absolutely no making fun of people for being wrong, okay? People are allowed to not know stuff!

Boosts appreciated, but only if you're interested in frivolity 💜

Es ist exakt so.

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

an ominous I-am-under-NDA-coded warning to immediately uninstall atop has been posted by a reputable tech blogger. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/25/atop/

@lizzy or a secret third thing: the compiler is doing something seriously fucky

#Signal #TheAtlantic

HANG UP YOUR SHORTSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DARK THOUGHTS. AND YOU WILL WIN.

"The game's in our heads. We can do what we want."

as I once memorably said off the cuff while DMming.

I actually wasn't nearly that freeform at the time, though I've since grown into the perspective.

#meme #NationalSecurityFuckUps

I had not thought that Rust had the OCaml Nature of "if the code typechecks, it's probably accurate" but I'm having to reconsider my position

@mcc I had a fun one with Swift recently where the type system happily checked and compiled my code into an unintended infinite tail recursion that the optimizer turned into the arm64 equivalent of 10 GOTO 10 and inlined all over the place. The app simply spun rather than stack overflow, and I’d break in the debugger and be bewildered why a branch to the branch instruction’s own address was inserted in my function. So much for the type system fixing so my issues.

Just sorta lost about 2-3 hours during which I accidentally implemented complete file handling support for my experimental LISP

Not sure what emotion to feel about it

What have we here!

https://www.internetarchive.eu/

Hey, it's supposed to be Science FICTION!

This is the best fortune cookie I ever got.

My trans positive children's picture book, Me and My Dysphoria Monster, was directly targetted by a book ban last week.

Rutherford County Library System board members (Tennessee) voted 5-3 to ban / remove the book from libraries.

https://eu.dnj.com/story/news/2025/03/18/rutherford-county-library-system-board-bans-books-on-transgenderism/82514073007/