One Happy Fellow

check it out on soundcloud: soundcloud.com/one-happy-fell…

or some rando automatically generated music video with lyrics: https://youtu.be/wlbio_EyUUU

ya boi dropped a rap single, it's called Riddle Master

full of programming riddles, can you guess all four answers?

enjoyyyy

the real type safety is the errors we caught along the way

YouTube video by Happy Fellow Riding OCaml my Caml

mum im a rapper youtu.be/dAK7eAheQF4

distrusting machines is healthy, especially lisp machines

they're always schemeing

creating is hard, extraction is automated. take what's left in the bodies of struggling people, suck it out, convert it into option grants, so that a dev can get a shoebox SF apartment and feel like his changing the world

and he's right, he's changing it. but I wish he would stop.

"$2.7 dollars of gluttony for sale! who'll bid more!", yells out an auction bot

"a teenager with developing gambling addiction, which game with surprise mechanisms is going to drag him down? $3.1 only!"

chatgpt ads announcement reminded me of my old post: we instruct demons to direct people's attention to gambling, fast food, porn, fast fashion, payday loans, to the brink of hell

we took vice, lust, gluttony, greed and securitised it, packaged it up

there's a priest in Rome who lives on a top of a mountain so high, nobody but him is able to climb there

they call him the Inaccessible Cardinal

ur type so fat it requires large elimination

holy mother of banger, this is gold

welcome to the other side, it's nice here

programming riddle:

I'm like regularity but with arrows reversed
when you keep me on hold, I'll preserve
state your business and hold on tight
I won't return, your request is denied

what am I?

new post! it's called "computational tyranny"

it's an extension of a thread I posed here, trying to point at a common thread between a couple of problems I was thinking about recently

happyfellow.bearblog.dev/computationa...

important thing to mention: i'm an outsider.

i got a good plt education as part of my undergrad, i did a very simple plt research, decided not to pursue it further. i don't write compilers for a living.

do with that knowledge what you want!

just a short post describing my ✨feelings✨ about why newcomers might bounce off PLT (it breaks my heart a little each time it happens)

Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem happyfellow.bearblog.dev/programming-...

To all operatives and researchers, please go to typememetics.institute website and start your mandatory session IMMEDIATELY (in the sidebar)

Wizards who forgot their magic We are wizards who have forgotten we can do magic. Every morning, millions of us sit before our scrying mirrors, weaving spells that can topple government...

Programmers are wizards who forgot their magic. happyfellow.bearblog.dev/unwise-wizar...

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10. world is much more malleable than you think

9. stocks have value for roughly the same reasons fiat currency has value

8. incentives + selection effects + feedback loops explain a lot

7. programmers are spell-casters bound by limitations of their own design

6. some people are simply not worth your time. doesn't mean it's their fault but stop fretting about it and let it go

5. career advice: have a generalist skill set but market yourself as a specialist

4. model of domain and codebase residing in devs heads is one of the most important business assets (implications for dev and business incentives following from it are left as an exercise for the reader)

3. aesthetic judgement is frequently a substitute for engineering

2. almost nobody is serious about pursuing their goals. it's obvious if you compare their actions to what even a half-decent plan would look like

1. causes and effects are not fundamental, being able to understand a situation through that lens is an exception not a rule