Mary Holstege

@mathling
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Retired software engineer. Now I write programs to make art and, lately, make art with words.

Will natter on about tech in general with forays into linguistics, football, cooking, politics, climate, and random stuff.

Maker of jam. Petter of cats. Viewer of stars.

she/her or they/them

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DeviantArt (Bit out of date)https://www.deviantart.com/lingmath/gallery

TFW you're trying to spell/grammar check a book with SF vocabulary, one semi-Francophone character with aphasia, and another with non-standard grammar usage.

Mine eyes glaze over in the blizzard of coloured squiggles.

(Oh, also my own spelling and usage is stuck somewhere between Rickmansworth and Cupertino. What is "correct", dear reader? What does it mean to be "correct"?)

#Caturday #photography

The cat whisperer and his magnetic attraction to felines

Lost alien worlds
How fun! The day after we decide that the earthquake insurance we've been paying for lo these many years is just too expensive (250k deductible for 5k/ year), mother nature says hi with a rattler shaking me awake in the dead of night. "Hey, girl? You sure?"
Claude Code leaked, you know what that means. Time to break down the worst typescript I've ever seen.

First off this isn't code, its advanced begging. The most common design pattern I can find is just
recurseUntilSuccess which is more of a prayer than an efficient architecture.

Shit like this is hard fucking coded into the prompts. Not that the LLM will obey, they just hope it will:

"You are not a lawyer and never comment on the legality of your own prompts and responses."

"In the Sources section, list all relevant URLs from the search results as markdown hyperlinks: [Title](URL). This is MANDATORY - never skip including sources in your response"

"IMPORTANT - The current month is ${currentMonthYear}. You MUST use this year when searching"

"ONLY mark a task as completed when you have FULLY accomplished it"

These people use caps like children. This isn't code, this is begging to a false god that cannot understand your words.

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#GenerativeArt interlude

An experiment with reflection across a curve, reflection along tangent at nearest point

#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding

Chapter 42 of Atraxian Blue (https://
books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at
http://mathling.com/books/index.html

Through the gate

In which Renny and Lila have a quiet moment, transiting the gate to Aconthia

#scifi
#writing
#AtraxianBlue

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