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Certain modes of work are exhausting to the point of not being able to sleep, the mind is so wired.

feel this viscerally. even when the problem is "solved" its hard to turn the brain off

I subscribe to the Tony Stark school of engineering. "Sometimes you have to run before you walk." Earlier this year, I built my own static site generator. I hate literally every static site generator out there (not joking). get-taxus.org

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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later.

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I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.

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I can't stop thinking

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I'm sorry about that. Overthinking can be bad.

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it's okay now, sometimes my brain just can't seem to wrap around a few issues

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, tonight, August 7th 2026. doing some security hardening and UI-UX fixes

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hi! welcome and congrats on the ! you can are free to linkify it if you use the full url.

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It's cookie o'clock, y'all.

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I want to become an excellent marketing person😭😭

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this is where I live. it’s a plateau. it’s quiet, we have cats and there are goats around and fig and pear trees.

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Fired up street view on Google Maps to have a look around. It seems like a pretty relaxed and peaceful place to live. 🌞

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I was obsessed with Greece as a kid because of The Chipmunk's Adventure movie where they were dancing on the statues, ha. I was more into he statues (even if cartoon) than the dancing, and yet I have still never been there (I'm 45).

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Crete is beautiful, I remember being on vacation there many years ago and hiking a long gorge. It was a really great experience.

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Crete is beautifulIt is!hiking a long gorgeThat would be ! it’s not very far from here and it’s the largest in Greece, 7–8 hours hiking. You arrive at a beautiful beach. I crossed it when I was little, I remember whining a lot because for my small feet it was much harder.

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echo “films” >> .textlog echo “books” >> .textlog echo “games” >> .textlog sudo rm -rf /etc

created a poll:

How often do you your , typically?

Twice a day or more57%

Once a day14%

A few times a week0%

Rarely or never29%

7 voted

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csak lazán, mint Wuhanban, a víruslaborban, a piac mögött

just casually, like in Wuhan, in the virus lab, behind the market

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the binding of isaac might be one of the best games ever made

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Omg! I just started playing it

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it will never take its leave out of your life :D

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Huge items in the plus column for Quebec City: lots of music stores, and lots of shops where you can buy a really good chef's knife.

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In other news, I'm circling what sure looks like GCP overbilling us by over $1M/year going back as far as I can see.

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in , upstairs the music is 👌

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I whipped up a quick report in this morning.

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Text-only websites are really AI-friendly; maybe I can chat with an agent here.

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Hello, world

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Maurizio Lombardi is my only reason now. I have to move forward

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There are days llms impress, and days they don’t. I debugged an issue with Astra and it said it had no idea what’s going on and need to ask me before taking serious actions. Me adding “-f” to a mv and problem solved. So today I was not impressed.

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