Theodore Manassis

How the "Dear Jonas" letter to the Norwegian PM really sounds like*. 3rd rate cartoon villainy .

*Credit to the original creator for this

Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.

YouTube video by Kraftwerk - Topic Robotnik (Kling Klang Mix)

Gihub Copilot's and Claude Code's fav track
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ab...

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social:

"AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed

"AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

And similar to my original gist, to better direct people to the appropriate details in a slightly less scattered/chaotic way than in the past:

Serum 1 Preset File Format (.fxp):

gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5...

Serum 2 Preset File Format (.SerumPreset):

gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5...

I also added 2 new sections to my new gist, summarising the Serum 1 preset (.fxp) file format notes:

gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1...

And the Serum 2 preset (.SerumPreset) file format notes:

gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1...

Speaking of old projects of mine; there's been some interesting discussion recently on one of my old gists that in part is about reverse engineering / figuring out the Serum VST preset file format.

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Have become fairly allergic to any content that

✅ now
✅ includes
✅ emoji lists

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

Working on two git branches at once with git worktree In this post I describe how you can use git worktree to check out multiple branches at once, and some scenarios in which this can be useful

andrewlock.net/working-on-t...

A reminder that working in the open, even just amongst your colleagues, takes time, effort, care, thoughtfulness and dedication. It can feel exhausting, yet failing to invest these intangibles can lead to obfuscation.

And yes, this is a note to self, not a criticism of others!

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

pyspark-ducklake-2.py GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

TIL about the 🔥 chardet library — it guesses unknown file encodings!

📄 Write text in latin-1 ➡️ try to read as utf-8 ➡️ 💥 UnicodeDecodeError.

👨‍💻 Solution:

oops. i just got a basic 24GB RAM m4 mac mini to replace my 2012 (!) mac mini that still runs great.

For the $$ its a no brainer.

The Skrub TableReport is a lightweight tool that allows to get a rich overview of a table quickly and easily.

✅ Filter columns
🔎 Look at each column's distribution
📊 Get a high level view of the distributions through stats and plots, including correlated columns
🌐 Export the report as html