and the punslinger followed

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that spooky janitor character in the direct-to-video movie of your life

formerly @keweddji and @aisamanra on birdsite. he/him

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Write code, not too much, mostly functions
Maybe someone out there has written a Rust web framework whose interface is "some types, maybe a builder or some convenience methods" instead of "eight billion traits and tons of implicit conversions", but if so, I have not yet found it.
I also was writing a new personal blog but kept getting a bit distracted in part because of the tedium of how I was writing it. I was using Rust—a language I do like!—and it turns out I don't like pretty much any of the Rust web frameworks out there.

I haven't been making time for technical blogging lately, but I've got three posts knocking around in my head that I'll have to finish at some point: one that is about design patterns but also a specific Star Trek episode, one that's about style and structure of Sorbet+Ruby code, and one complaining about a specific xkcd comic that I despise.

(Yes, of course it's xkcd 927.)

I've been using Obsidian, and decided to dip my feet into plugin development by writing this plugin that renders specially-formatted code blocks as interlinear glosses. I can't fully endorse it yet—there are some rough edges—but I do have the work-in-progress online at https://codeberg.org/aysamanra/interlinear-gloss
I thought enshittification was something that happened to companies and products, but I am hearing now that enshittification has happened to Cory Doctorow.
I'm mostly just allergic to the style of puzzle-box plot that is primarily following clues set intentionally by someone else, and that comprises the overarching plot of the entire season. I also had this problem with the last season of Fringe—a show I thought was mostly a lot of fun until that point—when the plot started revolving around following the bread-crumbs left by a character who had since given himself amnesia. It feels so rote and flavorless.

In my attempt to watch all of Star Trek, I have nearly finished season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. A thought I have nearly every episode is, "Some of these characters are fun! I sure wish they existed in a show with better writing."

(I suppose that wish has already been granted for Anson Mount's Christopher Pike, but alas, there's been no such salvation for characters like Saru or Paul Stamets.)

The big advantage here is that I have a digital dictionary that I'm still filling out from two-decade-old paper notes, and switching the keyboard layout like this is way nicer than the janky script I previously used to use to write in the orthography (which would, uh, modify the paste buffer to create a transliterated version of whatever I'd just copied.)
(…although now I just look at this text and remember how I really need to go back and fix the kerning on this font.)