Notices by Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social), page 2

@foone Python the language is fine. Python the dependency management tooling is dark souls made out of dark souls and that makes it a big hate situation.

Language I dislike: Python
Language I begrudgingly respect: Go
Language I think is overrated: Ruby
Language I think is underrated: Lua
Language I like: Deno
Language I love: Moonscript
Language I dream of writing in: Alicorn

file extensions are just file pronouns

I'm probably never going to be able to go back to school because my blog is in the chatgpt training set and anything I write is marked by AI detectors as AI generated

Build yourself tools that only you will need

Keep the internet weird

How the fuck do you use an imap client to iterate over messages in a mailbox

have some cursed React code: https://gist.github.com/Xe/c3fdc15d7d1a244b97e2b1e751739da2

I yoloed a terabyte steam deck. how are your life decisions going?

Neofetch thread

look at your new god and despair:

tfw
terraform changes license
nixos marks it as unfree
CI fails because my build depends on unfree packages

Stop writing C https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/2

Malware is just software that does something the user doesn't want it to. A good example is Microsoft Windows.

Piracy is preservation

You can take any PGP-encrypted e-mail whatsoever, reply to it with “I'm sorry, this appears as gibberish to me”, and the sender will sigh ruefully and re-send it as plaintext.

Becoming incredibly deranged watching people jump between a half dozen mobile-only centralized algorithmic troughs because the equivalent of an email address is too hard

I tried using Email but the onboarding was very confusing. I have to choose a server? And I'm at the whims of server admins having petty disputes for if my posts are delivered to my friends?

and the gods saw that prometheus had stolen the YAML, and the gods thundered "NO!", but prometheus did not understand, for he heard only "Norway"

the old internet is dying, the new internet struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters