Daniel

Found where they make the shells

On the weekend I spent some time moving a thing off Heroku and onto a FreeBSD VPS. And in that vein also cleaned up some old code in a 10 year old golang repo I'm using for various personal shenanigans. And it was ... fun?

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

In Germany the F in 2FA stands for Fax

@janl@narrativ.es

Only age verification on a website I'd accept is showing a screenshot of Age Of Empires with the question "is this Age of Empires?" and a button that says "yes"

Randomly stumbled upon an interview in the newspaper about quantum communication with Stephanie Wehner (https://ocw.tudelft.nl/teachers/stephanie-wehner/) and it immediately teleported me back to WTH2005 where I was mind blown by her introduction to quantum cryptography talk

And now I have all the simultaneous feels of nostalgia, how small the internet can sometimes feel, and how awesome it is that this person who I saw giving a talk 20 years ago is now an award winning scientist being interviewed in a regular newspaper

"These tools don't represent an amazing technological advancement to me, they represent the horror of realizing that it was actually about automating as much humanity as possible. Connection, learning, teaching, producing new ideas, all of it. If we have an agent doing everything we love, what are we left with?" - @koronkebitch@types.pl

https://koronkevi.ch/posts/humanity.html

The eternal conundrum of having too many shoes you enjoy wearing.

The struggle is real.

Love (seriously) that we have 30 years of improvements since then but for some computer tasks that one weird perl script from the 90s is still the most performant you can get