FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

this is a free demo MIDI file produced by Yamaha and available for download on their website. if you aren't on Windows, you can probably extract the MIDI files from the EXE using something like 7-zip. https://faq.yamaha.com/usa/s/article/U0001363

PUNCHY.MID
1997 / 60 KB
Yamaha Musicsoft Europe - PUNCHY
Yamaha XG
Composed by Sam Sketty

Furry Party Tram - a Furdance with Visibility, a wild concept that works!
A tram full of furrs dancing to loud music was sneaking it's way through the city of Munich this last Saturday. For four hours we enjoyed this not so common event with music, food and drink onboard a moving tram.

The best thing about this whole event for me were the reactions we got from the unsuspecting public. The stares, the bewilderment, the incapability to comprehend what's happening. Pure gold.

#furry
#furryfandom

Ever since discovering DTrace and its philosophy over at http://dtrace.org/ , I have become a convert of pervasive observability and debugging; including in production.

So I've starting applying it everywhere in my work. Case in point: for my money, I have yet to see a graphical debugger for native code beat Eclipse (except maybe Xcode, but I don't work on Macs at the day job). And while it supports remote debugging, the protocol is unauthenticated; unacceptable in production… What to do?

This is for all my dad joke afficionados

Thinking about it some more, the fundamental flaw with CoPilot is that the goal is to make it faster and easier to generate code.

As a programmer, you don't want to generate code.

You want to solve problems, and the less code involved the better. I don't want to tools that will generate boilerplate, I want less boilerplate.

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ shows the problem. "Less mental effort on repetitive tasks", sure, but you should be trying to _prevent_ the repetition, not do more of it.

I am once again posting Aramaz's Theme because it is my bangingest chiptune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72xQqm1NYk&list=PLMqmD44Zmu5H-hrwNNkdVL14rDLJ5i_EJ&index=14

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Get ready!

old japanese nouns be like: fuji-no-yama-no-tate-no-tokoro
middle japanese nouns be like: chuuukanyoujoutsujuuchou
modern japanese nouns be like: Wow! Cool Mountain Style

cool Swedish phrase: ”inför öppen ridå”, literally “in front of an open theatre-curtain”. used for example when there is fighting in a political organisation and it's being talked about publicly, rather than behind closed doors (or behind the “curtain”)

just created a new type called NullTerminatedStringTableStream and i feel like i'm doing Serious programming now. a type name like that really makes you feel like you mean business

This image was in my head this morning and so now it is on the computer