Ukraine conflict summarised in a 5 min video clip https://x.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1897059481378545714
Mark
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One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it
Firas Zahabi on how to exercise
Russell Brand has a spiritual experience, described from 1hrs 4mins
But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it
- Taleb
64 bytes program competition winner. Scroll down for assembly. Not heard of "sizecoding" before 
Starpath
64b Intro by HellMood / Desire, released 15 February 2025
Not surprised about twitter's grok AI having a security hole (and the doge website). When you prioritise efficiency, it's difficult to distinguish devs who do things right from those that cut corners. In fact, those that cut corners might initially seem better to management. On the other hand, lots of slow devs hide behind "doing things right".
There is no easy answer. Pushing for efficiency isn't necessarily wrong - just that it's difficult for management to push in that direction without these kinds of issues. That cost (along with the reputation and likely maintenance cost) might be acceptable given the speed of shipping - although that balance changes significantly if personal/payment data are involved.
Dragonsweeper - minesweeper variant: 
itch.io
Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui
A roguelike minesweeper adventure
How to bring down a dictatorship
Overview of Trump's first 100 days as president: 
Trump's First 100 Days (Part 1)
This morning, I filmed a special webcast on Trump's first three weeks in office with JT Taylor, Hedgeye's veteran Washington Policy Analyst, and Mi...
The end of programming as we know it: 
Feel like a point that is missing is the loss of expertise. Users of intepreted languages (mostly) don't understand the what their code boils down to, and so solutions are generally scuffed.
Hardware performance gains allowed this. Without those gains, much of what is done today where I work wouldn't be feasible.
I think many of the efficiency gains of AI for programming might not materialise if AI produces even worse performing code and hardware doesn't continue to speed up.
The loss of expertise will become a problem. Or maybe its a transfer, from underdtanding how the computer works to understanding how AI works - people building solutions they don't understand.
O’Reilly Media
The End of Programming as We Know It
"As civil society activists, we present a list of “red lines not to be crossed”. Should the President cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country and the deterioration of international relations"
Uacrisis.org
Joint statement by civil society representatives on the first political steps of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky | UACRISIS.ORG
Over the past five years, we, the undersigned, members of civil society organizations, have been actively defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and nat...
The spotless man 
Wifi router turned into a camera
Rossi face helmet
You are a goddess,
and I am a simple
being, trembling beneath
the weight of your presence.
I believed you would heal me—
wrap me in silken light,
stroke the knots of my sorrow
until they unraveled into grace.
And you said,
“Sure, let’s begin.”
But what I meant wasn’t this.
What I thought was gentleness
wasn’t the fire you lit in me.
I thought healing would be
soft and sensual,
a balm against my bruises,
a dream made flesh,
a cocoon for my desires.
Not this—
this unmasking,
this shattering of the mirror
that held the fragile portrait of my persona.
Not this pain, raw and unrelenting,
flaying my illusions one by one
until I stood exposed,
naked in your gaze.
You loved me in the discomfort,
held me in the discovery,
kissed the breaking open
as though it were a blessing.
And perhaps it is.
Perhaps healing isn’t soft,
but sharp, jagged, alive.
Perhaps the only way to live
is to be pierced by it,
to be stripped of every lie
until the truth shines
like a wound,
like a gift.
And so I stand,
shivering in this unmaking,
no longer sure where I begin
or end.
Your hands are not kind,
but they are sure—
sculptor’s hands,
breaking me apart to rebuild
a thing I cannot yet fathom.
“Trust,” you whisper,
though it sounds like thunder.
And I do,
though the trust tastes of blood,
though it feels like falling
into endless sky.
Your eyes burn
with something ancient,
and I realize—
you are not here to save me.
You are here to remind me
I was never broken,
only buried
beneath the weight
of my own forgetting.
Larson Langston
This "obviousness" is what I strive for:
"Don't take this to mean his code was spaghetti—it was actually some of the easiest-to-understand code I've ever worked with. It has an almost indescribable quality of "obviousness." Like, you know when a really good teacher explains something, it seems obvious? That's what his code was like. I mean, OF COURSE there's a loop where you service the pending events and call a refresh on the UI layer."
My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories
The way I got into the software business (besides learning to code) was to use every piece of software I could find and send the developers ...
Man suffers from centralised platform woes: https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1875214258046193880
Interior design idea: exclusively display prints of stolen, location-unknown paintings.