Leo Alekseyev

Switching to the i3 window manager After using the awesome window manager for 10 years, I have switched to i3, another tiling window manager with a different philosophy.

I can't stop flogging the dead horse of tiling window manager (now with wayland): vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2021... via @vincent.bernat.ch

Job applications in 2025 be like...

#mood

Everything all at once was perfectly understandable

screenshot of advent of code page

I finally beat AoC. Yay me. But also, FML for spending hours upon hours getting good at something I don't enjoy because that's table stakes for getting a job in this industry. #AdventOfCode

and looks tacky AF

Side note: pictures of sideways ASCII Christmas trees on Reddit made me aware of the class of bugs known as the XYRC problem, which, as a native Russian speaker, will forever be sealed in my mind as the ХУЯК problem

computer screen w/ ascii xmas tree

Ah, the Advent of Code. Sometimes you need to run Dijkstra or use clever dynamic programming, sometimes you print to screen until a xmas tree appears. #AdventOfCode

Curious, can you push photos to it?

dude and double rainbow

Who else appreciated the brief cameo (at 19:20) of the incredible double rainbow from Muddy Man 2023?

dude and double rainbow

That video was dope. Plus there was a super brief cameo of Derek at Muddy Man 2023 under this same amazing double rainbow!

a dude and a double rainbow

I did appreciate the 5 second cameo of Veritasium enjoying the rad double rainbow at Muddy Man 2023 though!

Before today, knowing how rainbows work was the silver lining to wasting years away in a graduate physics program. Kids these days can just watch a 30 minute youtube video. Thanks, Derek Muller 😠

All right folks, I decided that I don't want to run my own bsky PDS at the moment, so I'm re-following everyone under my original account. Plus I get to enjoy the dubious glory of being a bluesky elder.

Wednesday jazz vibes #catscornersf