John Children
@johnchildren.bsky.social
Software Engineer working on Quantum Computing Web Services. Into Programming Languages, Compilers, Video Games and Anime.
GitHub.com/johnchildren
GitHub.com/johnchildren
JLPT day and I have a cold 😭
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
JLPT day and I have a cold 😭
Reposted by John Children
Nurgle cult infiltration
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Nurgle cult infiltration
Reposted by John Children
The day after I managed to uninstall the game...
Light it up, let's go! 🔥
A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV!
Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!
A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV!
Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The day after I managed to uninstall the game...
Reposted by John Children
Reposted by John Children
huffing vitamin D3 to dispel the darkness
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
huffing vitamin D3 to dispel the darkness
Feeling a bit "Spiders Georg" with these statistics
Global chicken consumption per person has quadrupled since 1961—
In 1961, around two chickens were slaughtered per person globally each year. As many countries grew richer — and richer countries tend to eat more meat — global demand for chicken increased.
In 1961, around two chickens were slaughtered per person globally each year. As many countries grew richer — and richer countries tend to eat more meat — global demand for chicken increased.
December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Feeling a bit "Spiders Georg" with these statistics
Feeling better this week as I'm cooking with Rust on an interpreter adjacent topics
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Feeling better this week as I'm cooking with Rust on an interpreter adjacent topics
"Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression" - almost poetic
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression" - almost poetic
Dreamed about getting a Vexing Bauble
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Dreamed about getting a Vexing Bauble
One advantage of not touching Haskell for a few years is that I am now considering it for advent of code. Not sure how cabal holds up after all this time with cargo however...
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
One advantage of not touching Haskell for a few years is that I am now considering it for advent of code. Not sure how cabal holds up after all this time with cargo however...
KDE on the new NixOS 25.11 is feeling very nice!
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
KDE on the new NixOS 25.11 is feeling very nice!
Reposted by John Children
Reposted by John Children
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
Reposted by John Children
Screaming hate campaign by our media and various parts of our government starting to pay off in increasingly negative public attitudes to trans rights in the UK. This is, it should be clear, just as much a product of our centre left faction as our right. Absolutely disgraceful.
the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Screaming hate campaign by our media and various parts of our government starting to pay off in increasingly negative public attitudes to trans rights in the UK. This is, it should be clear, just as much a product of our centre left faction as our right. Absolutely disgraceful.
Reposted by John Children
All hand drying options...wads of paper, hand dryers, towels...are ecologically inferior to the optimally moral method of drying your hands, extending them behind you & Naruto running until they're dry
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
All hand drying options...wads of paper, hand dryers, towels...are ecologically inferior to the optimally moral method of drying your hands, extending them behind you & Naruto running until they're dry
My spite for the Windows operating system is a powerful motivator for writing NixOS modules and debugging security devices.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My spite for the Windows operating system is a powerful motivator for writing NixOS modules and debugging security devices.
killedbygoogle.com seemingly Google hasn't killed any products in almost a year? Soon to be broken with the death of Tables.
Killed by Google
Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
killedbygoogle.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
killedbygoogle.com seemingly Google hasn't killed any products in almost a year? Soon to be broken with the death of Tables.
I got good grades in a quantum computing module at university...
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I got good grades in a quantum computing module at university...
Reposted by John Children
Every time I'm exposed to Python world, I wonder how people live with this much pain.
So many people are introduced to programming via Jupyter notebooks...
which trains people that it's fine to load web pages that execute system code locally 💀
So many people are introduced to programming via Jupyter notebooks...
which trains people that it's fine to load web pages that execute system code locally 💀
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Every time I'm exposed to Python world, I wonder how people live with this much pain.
So many people are introduced to programming via Jupyter notebooks...
which trains people that it's fine to load web pages that execute system code locally 💀
So many people are introduced to programming via Jupyter notebooks...
which trains people that it's fine to load web pages that execute system code locally 💀
Reposted by John Children
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
Reposted by John Children
Worms are free and they're everywhere. If you're not crawling around in your garden with a trowel at least 3 times a day, you're just leaving worms on the table
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Worms are free and they're everywhere. If you're not crawling around in your garden with a trowel at least 3 times a day, you're just leaving worms on the table
Reposted by John Children
Also from the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on TdoR
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Also from the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on TdoR
Reposted by John Children
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.