maybe you could do a star trek transporter accident thing and split into your component races?

Doomscrolling has made me unmotivated to do long-term work, so to force myself to be doing *something* besides doomscrolling:

n² likes = n obscure software engineering concepts/principles/memes I find super useful

grAy -> A = Actual

grEy -> E = Erroneous

depending on the money i think i'd take the beating

Cokes Zero

investors ask me "ok but what IS lilypad" and i just show them this image and leave like a boss

i'll take it!

which of those covers incompetent comic artist?

My Gripes with Prolog It's not my favorite language

I have some complaints about Prolog.

I have many complaints about Prolog.

I wrote up *most* of my complaints about Prolog in this week's newsletter: buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

heh

there should be two versions of every programming language: the regular one for getting things done and the twin language with no regard for backward compatibility that fixes every suboptimal decision and makes the best version of the language

You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial TDD Gone Wrong (Gone Z3xual)

New newsletter! "You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial" shows how to generate polynomials that pass a set of unit tests, using the insanely cool technology of SMT solving!

buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

Click here for more canonical smackdown:

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/auteur

Julia - an Array Language YouTube video by robert therriault

Oh btw I was recently on the #arraycast with @codereport.bsky.social , Bob Therriault and Marshall Lochbaum

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

If you have no idea what array languages are, you're in for a treat!

honestly within a few year i think with an LLM and some patience it will be quite doable.

in no way is the twin language for people to "use" (though they are welcome to). it's more for the aesthetics.

even in 3 i can find a ton of things to "fix"

there should be two versions of every programming language: the regular one for getting things done and the twin language with no regard for backward compatibility that fixes every suboptimal decision and makes the best version of the language

he's basically just a walking ATM