morning warmups - YouTube (THEY ARE STORE-BRAND RICE KRISPIES FLYING THROUGH SPACE.) Short (5-10 minute) practice talks about ideas that are relatively mature in my head, while I fini...

i actually recorded a warmup (www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...) about it yesterday but it was too all over the place so i went to jot down some notes and that basically ate my entire monday lol

(so look out for that)

true fact

mine in a nutshell: www.patternlanguageindex.com/patterns/sit...

i dunno, black leather? it was a while ago

i met him once, he was wearing shoes that looked like chuck taylors but were probably $700

that place was a sauna

wow that's a blast from the past

It's the prices, stupid Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. The UMich index isn't broken, popular government data just offer an incomplete picture of what people care about

ah here we go www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

like, if the thing worked for years and hasn't been updated but now it doesn't work, what changed?

also "doesn't work" is not a bug report

also bug reports are not customer service complaints

lol just got a bug report "doesn't work" on something that has been working for years

kids these days

Frame from Nancy cartoon. Nancy is reading a book apparently with cover title HASKELL (ignore that it's the back cover). This is the edit. The original version is titled "MAGIC". A speech bubble reads, "I'd give anything for such power" in attractive comic book hand lettered capitals. She's in front of a yellowish plaster wall where the plaster has fallen off, exposing the laths.

#haskell #fp
hat tip @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social for the original image

icq uin

i said it elsewhere but this is literally how he dressed like the week before he first became prime minister

but are they a sandwich

youtu.be/ug2bKCG4gZY

yeah i don't love it

see, you charge a license fee for the agent, and then you charge license fees *for* the agent

singularity? is that you?

betting some egghead will invent a metric that will be retroactively applied to this time interval and whatever it is will be glaringly obvious

(obviously if i was still in vancouver i would have gone; hell i almost parachuted in at the last minute but flights were innnsaaane)

deeply regret missing it

(don't mind me i was just contemplating levenshtein distance)

oh i was being completely facetious; i have no idea

🧠: what if all the librarians and libertarians traded places for a day

🧠: …

🧠: probably nothing good

clearly gross national happiness 🫠

he lurks on mastodon

i am not either but i was apparently thinking about this two years ago bsky.app/profile/dori...

yes though the thing that touches it off is "this is extremely irritating; it is getting fixed NOW" like ur goin down binch

so kiiinda analogous to spite in that way

(i have my em dashes back lol)

(to wit, i just fixed some annoying thing with unicode compose keys that has been fucked up in emacs for months now and it finally pissed me off enough to do something about it lol)

haha i think i am often irritation-driven, like i used to have a whole "with rage comes clarity" brand

so not spite per se but definitely pique, at least for the short-term stuff

somebody muuuust have it is not that original lol