Wisdom in SpaceWhen you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create!
-- Why the Lucky Stiff
Gerardo Lisboa
Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)A link to an archive of almost all of _why’s work!
“Hey, welcome to my collection of why the lucky stiff links. Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.”
https://viewsourcecode.org/why/index.html
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And the fun craziness of Ruby metaprogramming:
Seeing Metaclasses Clearly
If you're new to metaprogramming in Ruby and you'd like to start using it, perhaps these four methods could give you a bit more vision.
https://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/seeingMetaclassesClearly.html
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One of _why’s poems:
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Sister, without you,
The universe would
Have such a hole through it,
Where infinity has been shot.
This cannot be, though.
There will always be room
For you--all of us are
Holding the way open.
Or this insane and whimsical short story (which is definitely written by a real human) and starts with:
“(An octopus is busy chaining together air conditioners and, from the audience's perspective, he has piled air conditioners upwards, an endless tower which ascends right up into the zenith. A toy gun and an imaginary van lay in disarray on the floor to establish setting: a child's playroom.)”
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https://viewsourcecode.org/why/five_minute_plays/withAnOctopus.html
Reading about how vacuous gpt5 is when trying to be literary — i remembered _why (why the lucky stiff) and his inspired nonsense/sense!
Twitter posts 20 years ago:
“i try to tan my bottom so if people tell me to cram somethinsomethin where the sun don’t shine i can say “oh ho but it does shine! it does!”
“my sister keeps her sandwich in a holder which, by all appearances, is itself a sandwich. would that everything had such a container.”
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Charlie Stross (@[email protected])
"The red recording light promised truth; the coffee beside it had already stamped it with a brown ring on the console. ... I adjusted the pop filter, as if I wanted to politely count the German language's teeth." GPT-5 is optimized to produce garbage that is evaluated positively by other LLMs. https://futurism.com/gpt-5-literary-outputs
When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create!
-- Why the Lucky Stiff
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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
why's foxes — conf guestbookWho let the 🐰 rabbit in the bar?
In the 📖 guestbook (which is really just why’s poignant guide to Ruby pretending to be a guestbook—shhh!) I also found this #gem from @arkham:
> A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit enter a bar. The rabbit looks around and says "I must be a typo..." — Ju, 2023
If you ever feel stuck debugging, just remember:
the whole internet is just one big, happy, polymorphic bar.
#whysfoxes #WhysPoignantGuideToRuby #Ruby #RubyLang #whytheluckystiff
There, right at the front, just beneath the title and those gentle words that whisper who’s behind this masterpiece of a book (it’s why the lucky stiff, in case you’re still curious), you’ll find a little note from 
@matz addressed to 
why:
> He started a movement.
> I miss you, why!
> まつもとゆきひろ
> matz
It’s a note that feels like a secret handshake,
or a 
fox peeking out from behind a line of code.