I’m under severe seasonal depression and I know I’m not fun at parties, so I’ll just be That Person:

Multiple entry points not clearly market? Using rectangles for conditions and terminals and diamonds for mega-hella-terminals or whatever these are supposed to be? …What?

We need to bring the fine art of flowcharts back into the curriculum before we lose computer science entirely. Never mind about AI turning people’s brains to mush, we need to draw the line somewhere. If we lose flowcharts, we lose what it means to be a developer.

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Yeah I can understand why they’d pirate adult films.

But I don’t know why anyone would watch, let alone pirate, any filing shows. I mean, each episode is just 8 hours of people filing paperwork and putting it in folders and in the filing cabinets. You’d think it’d get interesting when they do the lunch hour, but no.

But I don’t want auto followers. Twitter proved that that was a terrible idea, this whole follower thing.

Postman is just a tool that lets you make web requests through a nice GUI. Like a web browser, but for APIs.

It’s been shady bloated nonsense for a long time. Insomnia is much better if you want a GUI for API development. Or I guess you can just use curl too.

X11 is a decades old protocol. People kept saying “can you please support this one new hot thing?” and the devs were like “fuck, let me think of something. [furious duct taping] There, it works! Kinda.”

Yes, it’s “stable”, by some definition of stable anyway. Also with loads of technical debt. You can keep extending it, but it’s a painful, janky process every single time.

Wayland is a clean break from all of that with a more modern approach. But, of course, it’s newer, and with a clean break you want software to be ported over to best utilise Wayland, and there’s going to be a lot of work until you can finally drop the X11 compatibility layer.

But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the idea of X11 backwards compatibility at the moment. Or staying with X11 until Wayland runs on your hardware. But when the app toolkits eventually support both, I think targeting new software exclusively for X11, or further development of X11 itself, is starting to look less and less sensible as time goes on.

Too bad I can’t find it now, but one of the most hilarious random pictures from early 2000s that I ran into was picture of some little girl happily reading Applied Cryptography (2nd ed) by Bruce Schneier. (…probably because I was reading it around the same time, I think I still have it in some box or other)

I’ve always said that Crusader Kings is exactly like the Sims. Except with more marrying foreign princesses to secure allies for upcoming hyperwars, and less dying on toilet. (But only a little bit less.)

“Can I interest you with some fascinating GEOGRAPHY NERDERY?”