"If you smelt it you dealt it" is the "snitches get stitches" of fart clichés.

Sorry bud, that's not a flower

What I love about a difficult Sudoku puzzle: I cannot complete it by lamenting the information I don't have. There is always another thread to tug that will reveal more until the solution presents itself.

There is something beautiful about that certainty of order I find lacking in the modern world.

I’m always looking for things that explain a lot but that people have a hard time remembering.

Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive.

Any others you know?

How vinyl works

Developing a game compatible with Linux doesn't necessarily drive any significant increase in sales, but instead leads to far more bug reports.

So, was it worth it? Read @software.kodera.pl's experience.

#Linux #PCGaming #GamingOnLinux #Godot #OpenSource #gamedev

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

me at 16: my stomach is an indomitable furnace on a steam engine anything I throw in there will be annihilated into fuel

me at 38: I have to actively maintain the bacterial balance on my gut biome or I don't get to poop right

Superman doesn’t require 10% of your wages in perpetuity to avoid eternal damnation.

Appropriatest coffee mug

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

The painful yin and yang of gaming

As a kid:
Have the time
No money

As an adult:
Have the money
No time

Why did they call it an Amazon wishlist and not an 'Oughttobuyography'.

Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars.

Urban life can fit.

Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

variable names *are* code comments