A three-panel photo strip captioned "Me on new year". [23:59] A woman in a yellow tank top and tight braided bun sits at a desk, typing in front of an older desktop computer. [0:00] The woman turns away from the computer towards the camera, smiling and making "peace" signs with both hands. [0:01] The woman has returned to working on the computer. In fact, this panel is identical to the 23:59 photo.

thank you all for joining me on 2024, a space odyssey

Slim Lim: "Concrete syntax matters, actually" YouTube video by Topos Institute

My talk "Concrete syntax matters, actually" from the Topos Institute Colloquium is now available!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjr...

Photo taken in a MUJI store of a hand holding up a clear packet containing a wool-felted sheep ornament. Both "Animal Sheep" and "wool felt" are labeled on the packaging

and yet a trace of the true self
exists in the false self

I started furiously listening to Mayday on repeat bc my (Taiwanese) mom commented that my accent has gotten more PRC-sounding. But now whenever she says anything to me I respond by belting out 「那一天 那一刻那個場景/你出現在我生命～」 and she thinks I'm doing a stereotype. Does anyone have advice?

Business Algebraist at McKinsey and Company

You show up expecting a normal gate but no, the transfer takes almost 30 minutes and the entire building feels like a memory leak hanging on by a forgotten reference cycle. Sublime

LAX gate 52 ("the Eagle's nest") was clearly conceived as a malediction against heap allocation. They ran out of space in the terminals proper, so "gate" 52 is actually a bus through utter no man's land to an abject satellite building with subscripted gates 52A-52I

I can't believe it took us until 2025 to have an individual champion

Congratulations to Yoshinobu Yamamoto on being the first baseball player in MLB history to win the World Series alone!

Slack thread in #all-water-cooler: this past weekend some friends invited me to watch the first game of the world series, in part so i could learn how to watch baseball. they kept recommending a slide deck which explained how the game worked, made by "some rando on the internet". this is what they shared with me: https://slim.computer/assets/teaching/ baseball.pdf at first i thought maybe this deck was made by some other person who happened to call themselves "slim lim". but after a few slides i was convinced it was made by our own @sliminal and eerie. 28 :slim: reacts

I'm delivering tremendous value in the enterprise Slack

Overflowing with thoughts; at a loss for words

slim.computer/blug/going-n...

I don’t know how this works for everyone else, so here’s an example: suppose I’m engaged in a back-and-forth with a knowledgeable interlocutor on a reasonably nuanced topic, say, baseball or the desired behavior of a particular programming language construct or why a particular person we both know behaves the way they do. Or suppose I’m reading a blog post that lays out a multifaceted argument in favor of some proposal. As soon as I understand what the person is saying (which is very much not a given), an entire response—enthusiastic partial agreement, hesitant elaboration, and multi-subpoint refutation framed by indignation—materializes all at once within my body in pre-linguistic form, and I feel overwhelmed trying to even capture it for myself, let alone convey it to another party. In practice, this usually manifests as me staring into space while speaking comically slowly, or stammering and replacing words with noises which, to me, capture the underlying emotion and therefore both denotation and connotation, but to everyone else just sound like noises. A far cry from the supposedly “articulate” communication my teachers once commended!

New blug: feeling like I’ve gotten better at conceptualizing and worse at verbalizing over time

I take everything really seriously, by this definition :)

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Happy to :) it's a beautiful tradition, I hope it never dies out fully!

Somehow I accidentally spawned a copy of the game in picture-in-picture, and I didn't notice for 3 innings (due to not looking at the screen) until Truf walked in and said "why does the game have a second, smaller version of itself playing in the corner" anyways, let's go baseball!!!!!

Scorebook filled out in pencil for the Toronto Blue Jays' (Yesavage) 11-4 win at home over the Los Angeles Dodgers (Snell) in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series, October 24. The Dodgers took an early lead in the 2nd and 3rd inning on a series of walks and singles, until the Jays' center fielder Varsho tied the game with a two-run home run in the 4th. The score remained even until the top of the 6th, when the Dodgers' starting pitcher Snell loaded the bases with no outs on a walk, hit, and hit by pitch. This prompted a Dodgers bullpen implosion, allowing the Blue Jays to score 9 runs in the 6th inning across 12 plate appearances. Notably, the Jays' Addison Barger accomplished the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history during this inning.

World Series Game 1: Dodgers @ Blue Jays (W, 11-4)

We recently got a television off Marketplace Zuckerberg. The main challenge is remembering to look at the screen, because I'll be focused on my scoresheet while listening attentively to the announcers and then forget to actually watch.

My work laptop just force-updated to macOS Tahoe and it's an enormous blast from the past because I once used Glasklart on my jailbroken iPod touch

wait how is Rino skating third????

I just "fuck yeah"ed like I've never "fuck yeah"ed before

WiFi didn't work on the flight home, so I had no choice but to spend seven hours listening to West Side Story (1961 and 2009 cast recordings obvi) ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

LET'S GOOOO

I'm not a functional programmer because of the company I work for; I'm a functional programmer because of the company that allowed me to broadcast 140-character pseudorandom neuron-firings to the only people who would get them, and which has devolved into a fash hellscape bizarrely obsessed with IQ

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Orchid Plenary Ballroom - ICFP Papers and Events (Oct 13th) YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

The video recording of my ICFP 2025 keynote talk Functional Programming for Hardware Design is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oBO...

The actual problem is that I have approx. 40 people I enjoy talking to and hearing from, so losing touch with 1/3 of them represents a huge contraction in my social environment

IATA classifies coconuts (specifically the inside meat, copra) as a combustion risk; umbrellas are pokey weapon-shaped; I believe India specifically scrutinizes spice mixes to rule out explosives?

I miss when Shriram would reply to someone while forgetting to set "reply" and then everyone would just dunk on it, and I also miss when the community could have any sort of interesting discussion in public but also somewhat insulated from unserious trolls/onlookers

I've done a bad job posting here, because it's sort of become the nothingburger estuary for my interests: Mastodon has more PL weenies, Twitter has more chatter overall (even though half of it is insipid and I'm also effectively shadowbanned by virtue of not paying a monthly tithe to Elon Musk)

In retrospect, it's not clear how much of my post-COVID depression stemmed from social distancing as such versus the demise of PL Twitter

I miss PL Twitter so much. There has truly been no replacement. We're fragmented now across three websites, and it sucks!!