spent the better part of the day theming my phone's home screen...

@joe yes, I overscaled them to make sure that they don't get scaled up, only down

the most severe example is ruby on rails. there are conventions for how classes need to be named, and if you're not aware of those conventions it's nearly impossible to figure out what code is going to be run and when

I think we should think about "reverse engineerability" when we design software. it should be possible for a programmer to read through code and get an understanding of data and code paths

consider some web server framework that automatically finds route handlers by searching through every defined function and matching against a pattern. convenient, but how would you debug this if you add a new route and it doesn't work, and you weren't aware of the magic route handler finder?

every time you pick a framework, or add a depencency, you're getting some magic. magic you need to know from the outset if you're going to be able to understand the behaviour of the program. should we be expecting people to RTFM when there are 100 manuals for the 100 dependencies?

compare this with another hypothetical framework that requires you to manually add routes to a table. sure that's annoying, but there's no magic to confuse us.

this has become "blackle rants about dependency overload" again huh

honestly think we need to do away with programming things that work "automagically," it makes code extremely hard to read and reason about

produce a sentence that contains no information but sounds like it does

tetra pointed out this weekend that shader showdown is basically a math duel and now I'm considering adding "math duelist" to my bio

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@crashglasshouses of course

what if a town but it's all trans people

oops! all trans people

my gf likes me 😱

thinking about how it should be super easy to host a website on residential internet and yet it isn't

at one point I say the "ponyo loves ham! ponyo loves sauske! ponyo loves REVOLUTION" meme in the femmest voice I could muster and listening now I was like "oh shit I talk like that all the time now"

I found an 18 minute video my friends and I took in 2015 that we intended to turn into a time lapse, but you could still hear us talking in the background

I was playing with art breeder several months ago and created an image that made me involuntarily scream and immediately change the gene parameters. I'd love to be able to find that image again but it's lost forever, presumably