mistakes

how to annoy your friends

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the prize for Domain Hoarder of The Year is goes to...

when you know more than tech support

nostr:npub1fhyduytlwhasld3fv6w0jrzurzhnxv7j4kuutsskx426ahhdya5qqc0da8 you wonder if it's best to pretend everything is new and being done for the first time

it feels like anything i could possibly code would just be reinventing the wheel so why bother, other than for the fun of it

professional software development is pretty ew these days. when i left the business in 2020 i was just having mental issues and a burnout but looking at what the industry has turned into, it's not something i want to participate in. if i could just write nice small programs and sell them, i'd do that, but no one's doing that anymore, and most problems imaginable have already been solved by someone else, so now we're just making up shit no one needs.

at war with your computer

Philips Videopac G7200

1983

nostr:npub1cuykz7s3ll0clwnw7cfcelqjlzeh7wdkjppq6lwrg9vtnpegz6aqw4yp9m you tell that to macOS/iOS and BSD

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John Berkey

Popular Mechanics

June 1988

1980s Apple prototype

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did Rust even bootstrap yet?

last time i checked, the compiler was still in C

nostr:npub10ze7guqzj0kf8ayzzp605y2rwsczqny0afjyyt52fcl9nuttju2qahmjrr give me one second and i'll write my own Pytthon implementation. guess what language

nostr:npub10ze7guqzj0kf8ayzzp605y2rwsczqny0afjyyt52fcl9nuttju2qahmjrr i mean, it's gonna be highly flexible but i don't want to render video in Python, it's too slow

Linux enjoyers when a geek has the audacity to use Windows

nostr:npub10ze7guqzj0kf8ayzzp605y2rwsczqny0afjyyt52fcl9nuttju2qahmjrr not impossible but talk about needlessly working uphill