Derek Orpen

@dorpen
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I will not watch the Dune 3 trailer because I have learnt the lesson of Paul Atreides and do not want to see the future.
It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.
As it turns out, not only is my boss an asshole, but my coworkers are, too.

The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.

Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.

A green heron, an egret, a chipmunk, and a wood duck in High Park.

Some wildlife shots from last summer.

#wildlifewednesday #birds #birdphotography #ducks #woodducks #herons #greenherons #egrets #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photowalks #chipmunks

Some shots of egrets I took this past summer in Grenadier pond. (1/3)

#wildlifewednesday #birds #birdphotography #ducks #woodducks #mallardducks #herons #egrets #greatblueherons #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photowalks

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Shots of some trees from a photowalk this past summer. (And some ducks.)

#photomonday #summer #nature #naturephotography #naturewalks #photowalks #trees #mallardducks #ducks #woodlands #woodlandphotography

Some wider shots from High Park gardens (i.e., not close-ups of flowers.)

#silentsunday #flowers #gardens #summer #nature #naturephotography #naturewalks #photowalks