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i am very burned out and i am trying what remains of my best most days, and that's ok

i do appreciate everyone who says stuff like "have you tried being less mentally ill / less yourself" and i love the belief that they're the first one to ask, and that for them i have seemingly never even tried to be less visibly mentally ill, not even once, and that i would be very successful at it

asking myself if i will be less bipolar online now i have a job and the answer is "probably not, but at least it will be more comic than tragicomic, mostly. maybe. perhaps."

i've been writing a lot of go

there's ascii art! my little weekend treat to myself

codeberg.org/tef/ziptree

this is in-progress but I've been slowly cleaning up the example code, adding better explanations and diagrams

this now has recursive explanations before diving into using a zipper, and explanations for fast set operations: union, diff, intersect, etc

PILOT: beep beep

[Camera pans to rack of missiles, ACME branded]

"uncle SAM" is right there too

posts i have referenced at work so far

"leopards ate my face"
"boss baby vibes"

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jurisprudence fetishist gets off on technicality

can't wait for netflix to make a 12 part spacejam/matrix crossover sequel and cancel it after three episodes

on the plus side, the rebranding to "meta" was about as successful, so they could probably rename themselves back to facebook and no-one will notice

turns out it didn't have a leg to go on

"we demand to be taken seriously"

arrested development: gob rebukes michael "it's agentic programming michael, vibes are what californians do for money"

github was the place that forced you to fork repos before contributing (for no real technical reasons), as it inflated the metrics used by investors

modern day github is doing the same thing, pretty much

i mean, in all honestly, early github was "built by alcoholics for alcoholics" more than it was was ever built for engineers

seeing someone suggest "github used to be compelling because it was built by engineers for other engineers"

meanwhile over here, i'm pretty sure that "open source burnout" will be github's lasting contribution

another action packed day of meaning ahead, but the new job is going well and the people are really, really nice

hello todd (in the future the ai is named todd) please lift my fork to my mouth for me. my grandmother is in the hospital and her last wish was for me to take a bite of my pasta without spilling any. thank you todd. hello todd. please lift

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

i thought you had a photo lab run by two old butches that's been around for decades though

jurisprudence fetishist gets off on technicality

i am usually on "there's no such thing as a root cause, except the c-suite" but yeah it would also fit

we've always been doing shovelware it's just apple tended to be a little better maybe 20 years ago

will this ensure good ui? good design? no, but it will at least look like someone actually tried, which is generally what's missing

mandatory service but it's putting all aspirational ceos through a 6 month calligraphy course, and we'll call it "executive signature training"

corporate minimalism with all the aesthetics of an open office