The desire to influence strangers is the rot at the core of the human soul. The baby's inborn inclination to consider Alexander "Great".

I need to wean myself of this desire, to take myself less seriously. I'm not there yet.

We can't have a convivial society without convivial relationships. I don't want to encourage parasocial relations. Not even a village chief operating within Dunbar's number.

If I reply to you a couple of times and don't get any response I'll probably unfollow. It's ok, we might click again down the road.

By all means, feel free to follow me or interact in any way you like. Communications are not relationships. If I am not moved to respond it's my problem, not yours. Perhaps the cosmos is telling me I need to climb further up my own asshole 😄

TIL about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification is starting to loom large in my thoughts. If I need to upload id to sideload an apk I'm going to ragequit Android and maybe all smartphones.

https://keepandroidopen.org

Anyone keeping up with the latest here? It's all very confusing. What happens to existing sideloaded apks? Will F-Droid disappear? Will publishing to F-Droid require uploading id? (If so: ragequit in solidarity.)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/google-shares-updated-timeline-for-rolling-out-android-developer-verification

I think I'm going to try this: https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck

10 years ago I had a lot of trouble running wifi on a laptop without a DE. But I never tried Debian, only Ubuntu.

"Our protagonist happens to be somewhat of an idealist, and since his condition is too acute to be treated by experience, he’s bound to make what pragmatists call “rookie mistakes.”

😂

https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html

"After the obscenities of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries on Old Earth, when military leaders had committed their nations to strategies wherein entire civilian populations were legitimate targets while their uniformed executioners sat safe in self-contained bunkers fifty meters under the earth, the repugnance of the surviving civilians was so great that for more than a century the word ‘military’ was an invitation to a lynching."

-- Hyperion (1989)

Most beauty per unit code

Share your favorite short programs that have beautiful output.

Any output modality, any programming language, any units.

Recording of output helpful but not required.

I think a program is more beautiful that doesn't generate identical output each time. But that's just my opinion.

My candidate is ~24 lines of LÖVE or equivalent. I'll share it a little later.

I suppose 10print is another candidate.

Boost at will.

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