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This is really interesting to me. It could imply that an ugly theorem is less valuable. What if a theorem is ugly but useful vs a beautiful but esoteric one?

Yup, I can reach all three keys in each thumb cluster without a stretch. It's actually only a slight movement because my digits are quite long. My middle and ring fingers rest on t…

I designed my own for similar reasons, and it's interesting to see a somewhat similar position for the thumb keys. I optimised for hand/wrist position with minimal movement. Howeve…

I stopped by the Mokuhankan shop when I was in the area last year. David Bull was carving a block on the left as I came in, so I didn't see him at first (my eyes were drawn to the …

Yeah, I get that too. Fortunately the floaters are per eye, so I can eliminate them as a migraine thing using a sequence of winks. This looks in no way peculiar to people around me…

The general shape is the same as in these pictures for me, and it expands in the typical way and direction, but for me it's like shards of broken glass strobing various colours. Wh…

I used to be a regular in-person attendee here in Brighton pre-pandemic. My site is statically generated with some IndieWeb enhancements (webmentions in and out, micropub, posse, e…

Yup, it’s definitely best when the rice has cooled and dried a bit, but take care to avoid food poisoning! You only make _that_ mistake once…

Luckily we had an excellent fume hood. Kimchi was far from the smelliest thing cooked on those hobs!

Do some rice in a rice cooker. When that’s done, slap a good helping of kimchi in a hot frying pan (no need for oil). Let it sizzle for about thirty seconds, then crack an egg in a…

https://qubyte.codes Going since late 2015. I post long form (/blog) and short form (/notes), mostly on programming, maths, (bad) generative art experiments, notes as I learn Japan…

I think you’d struggle to convince an elephant to get into the trebuchet though.

Someone already snapped up torment(dot)nexus.

I did a write up of how I use import maps to avoid bundling JS on my static site and cache modules more effectively. I mostly use JS for little experiments and generative art and s…

With all the shiny floors and glare, at least they’ve found a cure for migraine.

I'm mostly angry at Netflix because most of the kids content on there is absolutely dire. A lot of it is low grade CG with no dialogue to make it cheap to produce and put out in an…

While Safari doesn’t support importmap, it’s possible (and not too hard) to use them as a progressive enhancement so that it’ll still work, and safari users will get the benefit wi…

https://qubyte.codes/ It’s built with my own static site generator (my favourite thing to tinker with). I author posts in my own flavour of markdown. Page templates are good ol’ ha…

My personal static site has a custom implementation of dispatch and receipt of Webmentions using netlify functions. I’m sure there are many more folk quietly coming up with their o…

Same. Eon blew my mind when I first read it, coming from coffee-table sci-fi (which I still love too). Eon is my favourite of his books.

A number of comments here are along the lines of "at least they're open about it!" No. The problem is that crunch culture selects for people in a position to put in that time. What…

Probably the most common comment from me in code reviews is about code being prematurely DRY’d out. Fortunately, I’ve found that mentioning the Rule of Three is usually enough to c…

I got $550 so I think it's split evenly (they state it's shared between 900 folk in the blog post, which I assume is rounded). It's a one off as you say. Even if they do this next …

Same here. I'd completely forgotten that I'd even set sponsors up. At the time I was just sort of hoping for coffee money now and then. That never happened of course. Most of the s…

I also write mixed language notes in markdown and arrived at a different solution. It’s a little heavier (it uses curly braces as delimiters), but the payoff is that you can mix co…