"[…] it's been a Very Long Time since I wrote any software."

"Bah. It's like riding a bicycle. You just fall and get some broken bones, now and again." #NoContextForYou

I just spent three hours writing these regexps.

Anyone who can correctly describe what this program does will win one (1) sticker, prize to be redeemed at the next con we both attend.

https://paste.sr.ht/~zackw/39e01179106f843e4108d0460c40a1f3dcfb5c81

#NoContextForYou #SundayEveningObfuscatedCodeChallenge

::Breathes out:: the pain's gone and I've even got a bit of a high from the painkillers -- which tells me that I probably didn't need that high a dose. But I'd lived with the pain all night, too dopey to go and find the pills.

Sod it. Once in a blue moon won't hurt. It's not as if this pain is constant or anything.

#NoContextForYou

Mental theme of the week seems to be "mortality". It keeps coming up.

good luck, mate. you were ferociously smart, a little intimidating, funny, nice. I did not know you well. But.

#NoContextForYou

Sometimes I realize a lot of people I think of as being generally on my side, and vice versa, inhabit an entirely different moral universe than I do.

Really I've known this for a long time. Getting smacked in the face with it is still weird. #nocontextforyou

If I get one more comment demanding I swap a perfectly good English word with a very specific meaning that's really quite important, for another, vaguer English word that s far less useful, because people "might find it confusing", I shall lose my mind.

#NoContextForYou #vocab #ThisIsWhatDictionariesAreFor