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Processing Project Lead at Processing Foundation.
I am an experimental musician in NYC, a software developer, and life long learner.
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learning too much about github actions...
@stillgreenmoss cant wait to hear about your BSD journey!! Its so punk
@stillgreenmoss buaha. I have two laptops running gentoo now. And it's truly the least-unhinged setup I've ever had

After using gentoo for the past year or so, dealing with ubuntu is such a horrible experience. from the online docs that aren't AI generated but definitely give AI slop vibes,, to the incoherence of package management it is just a really sad state of affairs.

Google SEO also led to slop?

this isn't a scientific post

NYU strike was mentioned on Democracy Now! today.

A new Rust language design post from boxy (my ???): https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/

This is a complex topic, and as the post itself says, it is a bit "lacking in smallness". 100% worth digging into though if you're interested in #rust or the theory of programming language design.

TL;DR: coherence (which is responsible for the orphan rule about trait impls) causes problems with ecosystem lock-in. If we introduce the idea of named trait impls we might be able to do away with it!

An Incoherent Rust

Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision for how we should solve coherence once and for all.

Will be at wondies for livecode soon
metaverse wasn't inevitable
ar glasses weren't inevitable
blockchain wasn't inevitable
nfts we'rent inevitable
ai isn't inevitable
nothing is inevitable!!!!
the ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make
and could just as easily make differently
make choices
make choices
make choices

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I feel too much anxiety to settle into deep work when there is some bullshit looming