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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · 3d

Claire rocks. She helped me realize I could be loved for being myself, flaws and all. Thanks for being rad af, Jeph. 💜

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 6d

co-signed. a robot might be able to type rote code faster than me, but *typing speed* is not the limiting factor in my effectiveness as a software engineer, and never has been.

*understanding* the code (and the pre-existing human and computational systems it interacts with) is the hard part.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6d

I'd also identify a third position, "I see or imagine there are meaningful uses for LLMs, but that they are relatively few (not 'everything') and relatively small (+10%, not +10000%) and so may not support the cost of model building and inference or the valuation of these companies."

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7d

I think a lot of people who are reasonable AI skeptics are saying things like “I don’t see a reliable use for LLMs in areas I’m an expert in” and that those folks are quite distinct from people who argue that LLMs don’t have capabilities that they clearly do

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · 15d

Pretty much tied with:

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · 15d

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

Female Commander Shepherd from the Mass Effect 3 box art. She is giving a fierce look to camera with the Earth in the background and fiery projectiles raining down.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24d

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
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julia ferraioli @juliaferraioli.com · Sep 8

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 5

Oh my god, just watched Kpop Demon Hunters with Zooey and the kiddo and that had NO business being as good as it was.

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Sep 4

I see you hired the marketing firm responsible for xkcd.com/641/

Free

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · Aug 30

the best part about gophercon was that nobody said "golang"

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Aug 27

You rocked it. Great talk! 💜

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Aug 27

Thank you! Looking forward to your talk. ☺️

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Aug 27

If you want to follow along with the slides, I've posted them here: www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/08...

My GopherCon 2025 Lightning Talk

Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter in 7 minutes or less

www.zombiezen.com

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Aug 27

I'm giving a lightning talk at #GopherCon this afternoon about building a Lua interpreter in Go. If you're here, come see the lightning talks at 1:40p.

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Aug 13

I'm so excited to be giving a lightning talk at #Gophercon! Come see me talk way too fast about programming language nerdery. www.gophercon.com/agenda/sessi...

GopherCon 2025

Join us in New York City from August 26th - 28th at the North Javits Center for GopherCon 2025! As the premiere gathering of Go programming language enthusiasts, you can expect some of the very best p...

www.gophercon.com

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Stargirl @thea.codes · Jul 27

Do 👏 not 👏 send 👏 me 👏 AI generated 👏 pull 👏 requests

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jul 20

I finished reading "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Very accessible and well-researched. I think everyone should give it a read. 👍

Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jul 8

The unexpected delight was re-discovering all the weird bits of music that I had which weren't on Spotify. Zelda Twilight Princess OST, Hitchhiker's Guide (the radio show), an indie Euro EDM song from an iPod commercial, ...

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jul 8

I feel you. It definitely was work, but it was one of those things where I built it up in my head as an unachievable thing and then ended up being much easier to do once I sat down to do it. The software has gotten much better too: Mp3tag rules for doing bulk organization.

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jul 8

I switched from Spotify back to a directory of local music files today. I've had it on my to-do list for a year, but I finally had some spare time to restore from my old hard drives and purchase any albums I missed from Bandcamp.

I'm thrilled to be back to owning music. Offline always. 🎵

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · Jun 27

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jun 26

2 millidollars and 20 microdollars

Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jun 26

I'm having flashbacks to the .002 dollars vs .002 cents Verizon support call from early internet

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Roxy Light @zombiezen.com · Jun 23

New blog post! This time, going into the fun, juicy technical details of the Lua interpreter I wrote in #golang for zb, my new build tool. www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06...

Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter

Building a Lua interpreter in Go

www.zombiezen.com