There are two kinds of people: those who accept that perfection can’t be achieved and strive for the best possible outcome, and those who slavishly pursue perfection and wreak destruction instead.

Anyone attending Paris Blockchain Week by any chance?

Cohering is the opposite of cognitive dissonance.

I gave a talk on strongly typed financial software in Rust at Rustikon this week. Slides are up for those interested! https://www.snoyman.com/talks/2025-03-rustikon-strongly-typed-financial-software.pdf

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr

Speaker dinners at a programming conference are a great way to find new libraries to have fun with. New ones in my list: cargo-mutants and monoio

Macbook battery life is such an amazing thing. I had my laptop at about 70% charge when I got off the train this morning. I've been coding almost non stop since then: 3 hours in the airport, 4 on the plane, and another 2 getting to my hotel. Down to 23%. And there were a lot of crates to compile and recompile often.

WTF why doesn't this code compile? The error message doesn't even make any sense, that's not the current version of the file! ... five minutes later Oh, I forgot to save the file 🤦‍♂️

עזרי מעם ה' עושה שמים וארץ

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr #code

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back may be the perfect book to read to a three and a half year old autistic son.

I saw a video with @Miriam Snoyman last night, it was a bunch of leftists talking about the need to kill Trump. The phrase that stood out in my mind was "someone needs to take one for the team." Four years ago, plenty of people on the pro-Trump side believed that a civil war was not only inevitable, but was a just thing to do. Arguably, that stance is far more vicious than assassinating just one person. The price in blood would certainly be higher. So a fair takeaway is: the anti-Trump crowd is morally more justifiable. I disagree. The pro-Trump side was claiming--whether you think they were correct or not--that the system had been broken. The constitution ignored, laws circumvented, and that we had an illegitimate president. It was a belief in the good of the system, and a claim that bloodshed was the necessary next step to restoring justice. Soap box, jury box, ballot box, and finally ammo box. The claim of "taking one for the team" is fundamentally different. It's a tacit admission that killing the president is a crime. It's a recognition that Trump _is_, in fact, the legitimate and duly elected president. It reveals the fact that democracy was never the point, but instead the outcome was. And that the good of their group outweighs the rules of the system. It's tribalism, collectivism, and mob rule, all rolled into one delusional package.

What percentage of government leeches are simply necrotic humans?

I know a bunch of people here aren't a fan of Trump's actions and rhetoric. I _am_ a fan, but that's not really relevant. The United States is in a crisis because the rules of the constitution have been ignored. The executive branch's power has been stripped from the President--the only person voted on by all members of the nation--and given to unaccountable bureaucrats outside his authority, thanks to the meddling of the other two branches of government. Does the constitution create a scenario where a president could wield more power than many of us would like? Absolutely. But that risk is far superior to that power being wielded by those unaccountable to the people. Checks and balances _should_ ensure that each branch of government has some ability to stop the actions of the other branches, not compel them.

Money printing is the forceful seizure of others' wealth without providing equivalent value in exchange.

Since I'm on a posting roll this morning, I'll mention: I just took on a major project at work, very engaging and time-demanding, so expect to see more days of silence followed by an hour of dumping all my thoughts on the Nostr-verse. #sorrynotsorry

Capitalism is democracy of productive output*. *Terms and conditions apply, offer not valid in presence of money printing.

My ‘avoid central planning’ philosophy isn’t just for politics. It runs through business, coding, parenting, and daily life. Some planning helps, but way less than people assume—flexibility beats overcontrol every time.

Raw talent is absolutely important to success. And for the most part, the people who will transform society are the most extreme outliers of raw talent. However, outside of these extremes, effort and dedication will overall have a larger impact on results than God-given abilities. (Terms and conditions may apply.)

GM Nostr! And a happy Purim! #memes #memestr