steve losh

@sjl
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Move slow and make things.
Sitehttps://stevelosh.com/
Codehttps://github.com/sjl/
Thousands of pixels in both dimensions, four (4) tick marks per axis. Please, ggplot, I assure you my screen can handle a couple more. I promise I won't tell Tufte.
me every single time I use ggplot2
It is done. 1 LPS is finally mine.
A while back I got a Sinc keyboard because I wanted to try a split board with a full layout (F-keys, etc) after using a UHK (split, compact) for so long. I finally got around to slapping together a janky wrist rest so I can try it out without hurting my hands, and so far I think I like it. Now I just need to decide what to do with the extra macro keys on the left. Maybe switching StumpWM workspaces or something?
#softwaregore at the airport
Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

The New York Times

Looking podcast recommendations of a very specific kind:

Podcasts that go chapter by chapter through interesting books/series and discuss them spoiler free, where the hosts have clearly read and prepared well. Preferably scifi or fantasy (especially anything in my unread shelf of shame) but I’ll take general fiction too.

Examples: Alzabo Soup for Gene Wolfe’s books, The Prancing Pony for Tolkien.

unexpected downside of lparallel on a machine with a lot of cores: trashing your ui when you write something broken and every thread signals an error