Web page maker and Pokémon catcher. Building a bunch of fun stuff on the internet and having fun along the way!
When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer.
“Give me the best piece of meat you have,” said the customer.
“Everything in my shop is the best,” replied the butcher. “You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best.”
At these words Banzan became enlightened.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes —
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs —
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?
The Feet, mechanical, go round —
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought —
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone —
This is the Hour of Lead —
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow —
First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —
— Emily Dickinson, prolific LLM user, 1862
Instead of the advent of code, I’m gonna start doing the lent of code, where you give up your favorite programming language or feature for 40 days
Another LinkedIn influencer explaining that if you write using em-dashes, he'll ignore you because you obviously used AI.
MF, I was writing blog posts directly in HTML twenty years ago with — and also ranges with  –  twenty years ago, don't tell me I write like AI.
I don't write like AI, AI writes like it reads my web site, you dunderheaded thunder-chicken.
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Just updated the https://omg.lol landing page with an amazing illustration by @andycarolan! (Andy actually finished this a few weeks ago, but it took me forever to get it up and running; hopefully the little easter eggs made it worth the wait!) #omgdotlol
I can’t manage to take a picture of it because of the airplane window, but there is a beautiful full moon staring at me. It’s so bright and feels reachable at 32,000 ft in the sky. This is one of the many rewards this week will bring.
I just had a Capybara experience at a local zoo. They have to be the cutest, most chill animals I’ve ever seen. Adorable.
PSA: I’ve seen some #DogsOfMastodon folks express disappointment that there’s a #caturday but no direct equivalent for pups and their fans. May I present:
- #Sundog
- #Mondog
- #Tuesdog
- #Wednesdog
- #Thursdog
- #Fridog
- #Saturdog
Louder for the people in the back:
"If your pipeline only selects able bodied neurotypical cis white dudes with 110% energy and who aren’t burned out, your pipeline isn’t selecting for talent or for capability or for intelligence, it’s selecting for privilege."
in a just & true world, every youtube video you'd scroll down and the top comments would all be like "i was enjoying your video until what the fuck is this mobile game garbage. why are you telling me about a VPN"
https://AgBr.app was covered by @macstories in their club newsletter yesterday! Check it out: https://club.macstories.net/posts/macstories-weekly-issue-461
Sorry to bring you the finest of 2012 tumblr, but I think we could all use some system maintenance this weekend.
that pain everyone is feeling has a direct line to y’all couldn’t just be normal about trans people
101/365
The Alfred Street Baptist Church is the oldest Black Baptist in Alexandria. The church was built in 1818, but the congregation has been worshipping since 1806. #project365
@raganwald I prefer more space around my dashes, and I absolutely *hate* when they come at the beginning of a line, so I've been using — (and then a normal space) since probably around 1999 or so. I wrote a blog post in 2010 that promotes that sequence, along with other things: https://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2010/07/10/typesetting-in-between-the-letters/
You're right: we don't write like AI. AI writes like us. Because it was trained on our work.
