Update of #bonfire complete, and going to 1.0.2 felt smoother than the 1.0.1 update. Nice work, @[email protected] team!
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@thomasfuchs (it's definitely no ketchup, but it's great in stews)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!
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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. We should now be live on #bonfire 1.0.2.
I think I've managed to successfully update #bonfire to v1.0.2. If so, that was a lot smoother than the v1.0.1 update even if I managed to trip myself up at one point. Good work, @[email protected] and team!
@jexner @mavnn Since I seem to be in this picture, I’ll give my example, which is that Nicolas Cage and Christopher Walken occupy the same slot in my head to such an extent that if you name one of them, I cannot come up with the name of the other one.
(I had to google “weapon of choice video" to write this twoot.)
@[email protected] @[email protected] That works as a check, I suppose! And my apologies - I realized about 2 hours after posting that by using tags to give people context I also defaulted to you being pinged by every reply. My brain is not braining particularly smoothly today.
@mavnn @zarfeblong @edwinb Happened to me just a couple weeks ago 😅 It happens to me often. And yes, AuDHD present :)
@[email protected] Does it also persist for extended periods (months/years), or does it reset for you once you have a 'distinction' in mind? The thing which made me curious about whether it's ND related is how 'sticky' it is for me even in the face of clear differences between the parties.
Soooo... Random #adhd related question time. I sometimes get pairs of people 'entangled' where I frequently get them confused, often for no clear reason. For one example, @[email protected] and @[email protected] - both fine gentlemen with interesting things to say, but different enough interesting things that reading a post by one as if by the other is often a bit surreal.
Do you, fair reader, suffer from the same thing, and do you also have #adhd? I'm being curious whether this is a human thing or a ND thing.
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shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=67726 This is such a grounded and well written piece on not getting scared of missing out from @[email protected] . Unless you're an investor, there's not a massive benefit in being a 'first mover' and even if you are, it's a risky strategy. Keep an eye on new stuff, but don't get sucked into the fear narrative.
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.
"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.
That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what's the point of "getting in early"? It'll still be there tomorrow and I can join the journey whenever it is sensible for me.
Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are useful to me as they are now. I'm utterly content to wait until their hype has been realised. Why should I invest in learning the equivalent of WordStar for DOS when Google Docs is coming any-day-now?
If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.
I didn't use Git when it first came out. Once it was stable and jobs began demanding it, I picked it up. Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.
I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.
Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.
But I'm struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.
There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero?
No. That's obviously nonsense.
It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.
#AI #crypto #future #technology
One of the most frustrating things when learning text based coding for the first time is just knowing whether you have typed what the computer expects. Should that be a { or a [? Do I need a new line here, or must I put this on the same line?
To help out, we've updated the syntax highlighting at VisualInk to really push up the brightness of important syntax structures, without making the whole visual feel too overwhelming.
Is it the most absolutely beautiful, tasteful, and elegant syntax highlighting theme in the world? Possibly not.
But does it make it really, really, obvious whether or not you remembered to close that set of curly brackets, and which lines of the conditional block are the conditions and which are the content? We think so. Hopefully you agree!
One of the most frustrating things when learning text based coding for the first time is just knowing whether you have typed what the computer expects. Should that be a { or a [? Do I need a new line here, or must I put this on the same line?
To help out, we've updated the syntax highlighting at VisualInk to really push up the brightness of important syntax structures, without making the whole visual feel too overwhelming.
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@mavnn No worries. Is it a new thing? I don't remember having to watch my own repos manually before. My most recent repos are unwatched (~last 7 months) but the previous ones are watched.
@[email protected] I'm honestly not sure, and I'm working towards moving all my code to a #forgejo instance anyway so I'm not going to investigate too hard. That said, I probably need to set up github authentication on code.mavnn.eu/ before I move too much out else it's a pain for people to do things like submit but reports.
New version of #ink syntax highlighting for the CodeMirror editor is out, with fixes for the install instructions and highlighting when using a custom theme.
Grab it while its hot!
Special thanks to @[email protected] who when he tried to use the library and found the types missing and an error in the README left a report so it could be fixed.
New version of #ink syntax highlighting for the CodeMirror editor is out, with fixes for the install instructions and highlighting when using a custom theme.
Grab it while its hot!
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Today I was reminded that by default github doesn't make you a watcher of your own repositories. Sorry @[email protected] - I didn't ignore the issues you created on github.com/mavnn/codemirror-... for 3 weeks on purpose.
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@Legit_Spaghetti it gives me hope that basically everyone hates dlss5 (except the nvidia ceo and some boot lickers at digital foundry)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, the fact that even people like... fighting game content creators... are getting fed up and publicly tearing apart some of this stuff is actually encouraging.
mixed meta-phors
@[email protected] Meta classes next with built in DLSS - why allow yourself to see anything ugly in real life? Remember; variety and other people's personal expression are just a confusing source of discomfort!
@glyph the part about “well she can’t be European, because her website doesn’t have an impressum” really stood out to me, bro you just confused Germany for Europe
@[email protected] @[email protected] European from one country living in an other European country and who has professional ties to at least two other European countries. I've... never heard of an impressum, so in this particular dude's case I'm just going to assume it must be what happens when you sit on a photocopier and take a copy.
EDGEDANCER (2002)
Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"
From the End of Nature subset of my gallery work, a cautionary tale, “All good things come to an end...” 1/2
@[email protected] This is a beautiful piece!
On a slightly unrelated note, I've been meaning to comment for a while that (having been somewhat involved with publishing over the years) it is so refreshing to hear you talking about your book covers as someone who is obviously inspired by the content of the book so I'll take the opportunity to say that now as well.
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you're not like everybody else, and the expert advice may not fit you. This brought to you by a reminder I had of talking to one of my son's teachers.
"Don't worry, we've taught plenty of children like your son before!"
When we told the educational psychologist they actually laughed out loud, because the piece of advice that triggered the comment would only be helpful for around 1 in every 5,000 children and would have been actively detrimental to an 'average' pupil his age. 1/2
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I'm with you here Mavnn
Many years ago I read a Twitter thread written by a meth user. He was talking about the good experiences he has had while high and how frustrated he was that most people only discuss the bad parts of meth.
I absolutely believe him that he enjoys it, and has profound conversations and great sex with his girlfriend while high, and so on.
But I am absolutely going to dismiss his experiences when deciding whether I should use meth
@[email protected] Thank you! Also, that's a very classy avatar
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