Justin

I didn't really expect how much of adulthood was going to be about watching other people use websites to keep track of books and movies they've recently seen

I guess some Core Design development stuff leaked and this screenshot from an Indiana Jones prototype for PSP is absolutely delightful

castle grounds

*first contact with an alien*
me: hey btw can you guys do SAT in polynomial time
<alien jeff👽 has sent sat.zip>
me: is this c++
them: yeah just run make
me: it says im missing something called “libyorbo”
them: that’s required for posix here

i sent this to a friend and they would like to know if you have more music they can listen to/purchase somewhere

Meme image little boy faces two paths, left to bright sunshine house "the attorneys office where my recently deceased eccentric uncle's will is read" vs dark scary house "the haunted house I have to sirens the night in to claim my inheritance"

First Half Life, 3 Screenshots

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

ive detached from all my algo feeds and am trying to relearn how to find stuff on my own and it has been really hard, i can't tell if it's me or the landscape. for music and recipes in particular but also everything else

New style obsession:

(when an app asks me to put in an 8-digit code to log in) mister big shot over here. 6 digits ain't good enough for him no more. he wants two whole extra digits, well la dee da (voice gets lower and quieter) you think you're better than everyone else? that what this is? think you're better than me?

Teach a man a fancy AI text editor and they can hate it for a day, but teach a man vim and he can hate it for a lifetime.

it feels like there is more money in text editors than ever before and i hate all the text editors i use more than ever before

>ask if new browser is real or chromeslop
>”it’s a good browser sir”
>it’s chromeslop

that’s right

presumably this is what mermaid always was if i looked hard enough but it's just annoying

it would be nice to like a software project and then 5 years later NOT start getting emails from some PM trying to get me to buy a subscription to some cloud bullshit

the titular table master stands with cue in hand next to an illuminated portrait // Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #retrogaming

last time from here justinjaffray.com/understandin...

I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to figure out how to get a really high quality rendering of the query plan diagram and I think I succeeded in getting something much nicer than the old rasterization methods:

Query Plan Caching Serious NULL BITMAP heads know my love for the Query Plan Diagram. This is a 2D-rendering that represents the selection of plans for a particular shape of...

For NULL BITMAP: I wrote about query plan caching: buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

the highlights on the sugimori drawings always hit me like a truck

there are two wolves inside you. they are unaware of you, in any sense that you would recognize; to them you are the sunrise in the mist in the morning, and the cool moss on the warm earth in the night. the story of your life is the story of these wolves, and how they have run and hunted inside you.

for such an expensive book there sure do seem to be a lot of them that pop up on ebay

nice try but i already had a subscription to that