common advice to new chess players is to never resign. it’s pretty simple why:

if you resign, then you don’t qualify for chess unemployment. better to be chess fired

Leo pointed out that C++20’s std::chrono overloads the `/` operator to provide date creation syntax. Surely Ruby can do better?

```
>> module ISO8601
Month = Data.define(:y, :m) { def -(d) = Date.new(y, m, d) }
refine(Integer) { def -(m) = Month.new(self, m) }
end

>> using ISO8601
>> 2025-12-29
=> #<Date: 2025-12-29 ((2461039j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
```

Fediverse! I need some help!

I have a fellowship to go to Aotearoa New Zealand for a few weeks, and also an offer of an additional fellowship to give lectures around NZ. This is INCREDIBLY EXCITING!!

...but I have a lot of animals! And it's going to be during Saskatchewan winter! The potential farm sitters I've reached out to locally have all fallen through, so I need help to find someone.

Not sure if I should put out an actual farm sitting job ad here? Or if there are better places to try?

I've been bedridden for the last 6 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

I got laid off today. Eek!

I am looking for a role as a staff software engineer (backend focus) working on high-volume large-scale distributed systems.

Some keywords: backend / Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Go (Golang) / AWS / Terraform / frontend / Type­Script / React / full-time / remote-first

Some more details on what I offer here: https://denisdefreyne.com/notes/get-me-a-job-2025/

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