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skyking @jkachmar.com · 2h

frozen ginger grates shockingly well on a microplane at the cost of dulling it out faster

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11h

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 11h

yeah, it was the best dating app model for sure!

all i mean is that a marginal improvement over that probably won’t make this process significantly less miserable.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 11h

i don’t think this actually changes the parameters of the game much, though.

the proposition is basically “can we optimize matching people based on mutual interests“ which is good but also probably only marginally better than OKC like a decade ago.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 12h

EHR is my passion

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

Knight’s post-mortem analysis is still a thing of beauty even after all these years

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 1d

they’re calling her the contemporary Thomas Pynchon

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 2d

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David Tejera Expósito @squallido.bsky.social · 2d

¡Mi traducción de «¿Por qué no matamos al niño del agujero de Omelas y ya está?» de @isabel.kim disponible en el nuevo número de la @windumanoth.com!

Ganó el BSFA, el Nebula, el Locus y fue finalista del premio Hugo de este año. Merece la pena echarle un ojo :)

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Foto de la autora superpuesta sobre una ilustración inspirada en el relato. Un cartel que reza «Bienvenido a Omelas» frente a una ciudad idílica y una familia perfecta de padre, madre e hijo sonrientes. Tras ellos, una televisión en la que aparece un niño desnutrido arrodillado en una estancia oscura.

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Oskar Wickström @wickstrom.tech · 2d

New blog post is up!

"Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer"

wickstrom.tech/2025-10-10-p...

Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

god bless obsessive nerds

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

shoutout to all the weirdos who get fed up with this and decide to construct their own foam mattresses

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

bad news: bedding, much like clothing and audio, is also the kinda thing that can get way more expensive if you get obsessive about it

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

DO NOT

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

thought i‘d read it before but i guess that was your merkle scheme Haskell library & VCS project, i’ll toss it onto the reading list

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

i’ve somehow become the sort of person who’s read through all the async design & impl docs but has only ever “written” Rust to patch dependencies (excluding a few stray commits like a decade ago).

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

some day this could be me…

in all seriousness i should probably start writing Rust for real and not just reading it for shitposts.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

personally i love arbitrarily reordering my module structure to get around staging restrictions because macro systems don’t exist

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

i was maybe being a little too dry, but my original post was meant to be very sarcastic.

the Zig team holds some /very/ mistaken beliefs about LLVM and is in the process of replacing it with their own backend (which is slower).

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

has the rustc team considered making the compiler go faster instead of slower?

i‘ve heard the Zig folks talk about how this “LLVM” thing does nothing but slow them down, so if it’s not too much work maybe they could replace it with something less bad?

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

yeah and these are my emotional support toSomeType/fromSomeType conversion functions because we somehow don’t have stdlib From/Into

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

cope. as a Haskell dev i love Rust because it means i can just copy most of the architecture from popular libraries with like 50% of the boilerplate.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 3d

is this why Rust stole Haskell’s typeclass system? who can say!

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 4d

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

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