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sometimes you see a piece of code so beautiful you simply must commit it to physical media in the most elegant way you know

(source, context)

#calligraphy

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Seasons rev. 0 (unpreserved, cracked by Passport, RWTS parameters only)

https://archive.org/details/SeasonsRev0_4amCrack

#AppleII #retrocomputing

Happy 50th, Apple!

(Here's my oldest!)

Some people, when faced with a problem, say “I know, I’ll get AI to solve it”. Now those people have regular expressions.

Milo, who has never been petted in his entire life, would like to be petted before you find out what he did (performed sentiment analysis with regular expressions)

#DogsOfMastodon

For Transgender Day of Visibility, here’s a throwback photo of me from circa 2006, when Apple featured Mac developers in an online ad campaign for WWDC.

Yes, we were around even then. There’s a pretty good chance if you played Mac games in the 90’s, one was written by me or @burgerbecky
#transdayofvisibility

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

This: https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

which led me to Peter Naur's 1985 article "Programming as Theory Building": "the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution."

When I'm building software, first and foremost the thing I'm building is me.

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

how to make programming terrible for everyone