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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Many of us have experienced the house cat phenomenon where they want to be in your lap or face or wherever your attention happens to be in the moment, but thankfully I've never had to deal with Dave Stewart's situation with the cow while using a computer:

https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?&t=118

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

how does the syntax look on this slightly weird factorial? probably like it will offend some people 😅

https://gist.github.com/jjl/629a0ba5e16bbe79e57deb6fa8eba161

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ebeem wrote:

After 4 months of slow progress, my Wayland window manager built on #river and written in #guile #scheme is finally functional!

I call it #gliver, it's heavily inspired by #emacs. It also inherits many of the architectural decisions and lessons learned from my other project #guile-swayer.

The screenshot shows a describe-variable function similar to #emacs

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
QuietMisdreavus@squad.town ("vera grey :verifiedplural:") wrote:

ModRetro is back in the retro-game spotlight with a new gadget, so it bears repeating: “Do not buy the war crime N64” https://aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-palmer-luckey-m64-modretro/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io ("Raphael") wrote:

Hear hear:

"Real insights always run on human time. Data needs to roll in. Analysis needs to happen, at a pace slow enough to actually pay attention to the data and not just mine it for what you expect to see. Then all that knowledge needs to propagate throughout the organization. Mental models needs to update, to wrap around the “so what” of it all."

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/trust-is-not-built-on-craft-alone
by @PavelASamsonov

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I mean, all my followers here are EXTREMELY WELL-READ and would never misgauge anything on social media ever, and, also, in general, yes, very much this

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chescaleigh/post/DbcZmRJlNo8

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Kind of shocking whenever I check up on the blog of somebody I used to respect who now earnestly seems to believe AGI is here.

Feels like it’s happening more and more these days.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Let's say hypothetically I want to set up a new kind of business addressing the "gap between my understanding of tech and the average person's" space. I've been working on building a suitable poster and website but let's face it I'm not a marketing expert and I'm struggling a little with the tasks, in particular figuring out how to effectively communicate what I'm trying to pitch. How can I get this help?

(There's an implicit #GetFediHired here for anyone who knows this stuff, but I really don't have the spoons to go through tonnes of pitches right now, hence the quiet-public visibility).

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Floppy@mastodon.me.uk ("James Smith 💾") wrote:

From conversation in the @amiko community... we're choosing the second button.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
yote.gay@bsky.brid.gy ("Tauss") wrote:

Yapyapyap
#FursuitFriday
📷 @yuvon.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
🪡 @blueharborc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lucek.art@bsky.brid.gy ("Lucek 🦊🐾") wrote:

Feeling foxy 🐾

#fursuitfriday

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

good news: i have put together potential syntax for a whole language construct.

bad news: it's import, so you can't actually do anything yet.

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dlatchx@tfnux.org ("Advanced Persistent Treat") wrote:

When I look at D-Bus, one thing strikes me as obvious: what this thing lacks is JSON

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

10/10 peak poster design

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Over on Whatever I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything, writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/another-reason-not-to-use-ai-for-your-writing/
#Author Threads

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

- and the mood had shifted entirely to 'oh I drew a cute thing and that was fun and not at all scary!!'.

I told them that the biggest obstacle to embracing creative whimsy is themselves. Nobody was judging anyone on the quality of their mushroom house, including themselves.

One guy said, looking at his finished drawing, 'huh, I thought I was crap at art but actually I think I'd be okay if I had some guidance'.

Someone else commented on my mum's post on FB afterwards that I -

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
quincy@chaos.social ("Oenanthe conioides ⁂") wrote:

https://katlas.org/wiki/The%5FRolfsen%5FKnot%5FTable

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh. of course

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i kinda wanna go write some mlscript now, it really does look bangin'

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So tired of baby transes defending their favorite bigoted billionaires. No, they don’t “just need someone to be kind and educate them.” Plenty have tried. For years. They are fully aware of damage they cause, and choose to do so for money/power/comradery with other nazis. You white-knighting them because they were your favorite pet billionaire before your egg cracked is not going to save them. It’s only going to alienate yourself from much-needed community yourself.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

The AI Phrasebook

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/31/the-ai-phrasebook.html

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am trying to interpret this in a way that makes sense to me. i think people are pushing back on having lots of syntax (which, like, i get it). but people have already told me they want a more higher level language than c and we can't have it all ways.

what do people think of this pattern matching syntax? https://cse.hkust.edu.hk/~parreaux/ucs%5Fv1.2.pdf

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hey! I am busy here, humanoid! you can damned well shower later

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lizzard wrote:

They are holding paws #CatsOfMastodon

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Tbh I kinda jumped from "here's a thing that can help me compose stuff" to alternative tuning systems so I'm doing this frankly silly learning curve to myself

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(equally there is something profoundly reassuring that c++ syntax is the most hated)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

there is something profoundly disturbing that the least offensive option in this poll is apparently C

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

got places to stay and transportation organized for my September trip to San Francisco, Berzerkeley, Mill Valley, Inverness, Bodega Bay, & Jenner. haven’t been on a Left Coast trip since before COVID hit, so the prospect of seeing old friends & of visiting our “stomping grounds” again makes me smile.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

but of course… one cannot criticize the actions of a King

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

#strudel Oooohhh they have a whole document on how to work with pitch directly to do microtonal stuff

https://strudel.cc/understand/pitch/