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It seems like somewhere in there he could have explained the acronym.

If I worked for PayPal right now I'd be printing résumés. Stripe recently laid off 300 of their IT people. To paraphrase Petey Greene, I wouldn't trust them to wash my car.

That's a perfectly valid reason. I tried AoC out one year with the Wolfram language, which sounds insane now, but back then it was just a "seemed like the thing to do at the time" …

Stumbling across this over a week later, and yes, the clock is correct now.

LinkedIn is by far the worst offender in post previews. The doctype tag must be all lowercase. The HTML document must be well-formed (the meta tags must be in an explicit block, fo…

What's up with the clock? Mine was two minutes off of local system time.

Neat, this is the first project I've seen in the wild that uses astro.

You're in good company, Paul Graham's site does as well. https://paulgraham.com/index.html

I'm in the "old-ass blogger.com site" category, with posts going back to '05.

You're calling frameworks with two day old commits critical and terminal? As Mark Twain would say, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

This brings back memories. I developed the "JoTrivia" mIRC script back around 2000/2001 as a way to kill time when I worked nighttime tech support and got maybe two calls a night. …

Comma and period to strafe.

It was one of my favorites back in the 1980s. It was a followup to Gödel Escher Bach, written in much the same style.

I never thought of this before now, but tech from 1977 might not even be using ASCII.

This reminds me of Vi Hart's hyperbolic dress. It's not too similar to the knit dress here, just vaguely mathy + clothing.

That's stolen from "Untitled Goose Game".

Pufftygraph [1] I wrote a Spirograph clone that worked on an iPhone as a Christmas present for my 6 year old, mainly because back then I couldn't find any existing clones where you…

I worked under a blind manager when the iPhone first came out. He was a former dev before his vision started to go. He was a power user while blind, and knew twice as many hot keys…

Modem manufacturers were between a rock and a hard place back then. It was already expensive to have hardware chips that supported every available connection protocol, and the extr…

It rotates the path so that the first point is to the right of center mass. See https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/gesture-recognition-...

This style of writing feels a lot like the sections of Gödel Escher Bach that had the tortoise and Achilles dialogues. Anyway, I’m 52 and have been typing daily at tech jobs since …

> He puts his birthdate in a password I imagine that date is in a lot of Russian passwords. That was the day of the '91 coup attempt against Gorbachev.

BVO has other consequences not mentioned in this article. I consumed Mountain Dew daily from ages 15 - 35, and quit cold-turkey after I learned about BVO's link to memory loss, sin…

I'd like to see a collection of pronunciation blind-spots, where people mispronounce words in the same way. E.g., the extra "ar" syllable we put in "narrator", and Ohioans who pron…

I'm glad the article had a plot of the bird's path. It looks almost like a hypotrochoid that you could draw with a Spirograph set.