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that spooky janitor character in the direct-to-video movie of your life
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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
@jgilbert For more depth, here is a much deeper and fairer response than my kneejerk negativity: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
@jgilbert I am being snarky about the recent Doctorow piece where he characterizes refusal to use LLMs as "neoliberal purity culture" and insists that if you do not use LLMs you are "fucked", which really made me lose a lot of respect for him. (In fairness, he's talking about local LLM models and not the big startup-backed services, but I still think it's a disingenuous and gross argument.)
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.)