Mark T. Tomczak

I'm back in C++ land (using bazel as the environment engine) and, once again, I am amazed at how slow everything is. Builds are slow, running tests are slow, iteration is slow, lookup is slow, everything is just sooooooooo slooooooooow.

On the plus side though, at the end of it all... I do get a program that I have no expectation is correct.

#cplusplus

Developers: "I don't use LLMs because I need to know what my code does. If the machine makes the wrong decisions, I'm going to be responsible for the outcome and I can't trust the machine to make choices for me."

Also developers: Write literally anything ever in C++.

#cplusplus

emacs: "This is a serious development tool for serious development."

Also emacs: M-x butterfly

#emacs

Don't bottle up your art because it's bad.

Bad art is inspiring too.

Sometimes people who have an idea that should be shared keep it to themselves because they don't think they're good enough. You put out bad art, they see it, and they realize that if that passes as worth sharing, they're too critical of themselves.

This seems like a joke but it's not.

The most significant question that Americans don't even ask, much less hinge their vote on, regarding Congress:

"What will you do after your term is over?"

Brave is the second Disney movie where a redhead wins an archery contest by splitting an arrow.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr I love when paths of desire end up on the walls instead of the ground.