Ben Horowitz
@benyakirten.bsky.social
Former fiction writer, now full-stack developer.
Fluent in Italian, Fan of DS9 and devotee of functional programming.
Fluent in Italian, Fan of DS9 and devotee of functional programming.
Are the people at the NFL stupid? Ravens fly, so how exactly are they going to fight dolphins, which are in the water?
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Are the people at the NFL stupid? Ravens fly, so how exactly are they going to fight dolphins, which are in the water?
Babylon is probably my favorite movie I've seen since Beau is Afraid. I feel sympathy as a fullstack dev.
May 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Babylon is probably my favorite movie I've seen since Beau is Afraid. I feel sympathy as a fullstack dev.
Snickers is by far the best testing candy bar. I don't know how three musketeers stay in business.
May 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Snickers is by far the best testing candy bar. I don't know how three musketeers stay in business.
I prefer the Rust/Python/Go way of defining methods over JavaScript/Java/C#: same syntax for defining functions as methods with a self(ish) parameter.
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I prefer the Rust/Python/Go way of defining methods over JavaScript/Java/C#: same syntax for defining functions as methods with a self(ish) parameter.
I don't know if it's because of #react native, but I have yet to run into an app on a medium to low budget TV that doesn't run like dog water.
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I don't know if it's because of #react native, but I have yet to run into an app on a medium to low budget TV that doesn't run like dog water.
Another day, another cat I have never met aggressively approaching me for cuddling
April 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Another day, another cat I have never met aggressively approaching me for cuddling
Nothing makes me feel more like a beast master than when a random cat chooses me out of everyone and comes for cuddles and scratches.
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Nothing makes me feel more like a beast master than when a random cat chooses me out of everyone and comes for cuddles and scratches.
The Decameron has a remarkable mix of prodelision and elision, whereas all modern Italian only has the latter. I wonder how much of it is classical Latin allusions and how much of it was reflective of medieval Florentine. And when did Romance languages switch to only elision?
March 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Decameron has a remarkable mix of prodelision and elision, whereas all modern Italian only has the latter. I wonder how much of it is classical Latin allusions and how much of it was reflective of medieval Florentine. And when did Romance languages switch to only elision?
Big incel energy from Rinieri and Elena (VIII 7)
February 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Big incel energy from Rinieri and Elena (VIII 7)
Funny that this book written in 14th century Florence has more nuanced views on gender than a lot of people living right now.
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Funny that this book written in 14th century Florence has more nuanced views on gender than a lot of people living right now.
Ghismonda in Decameron IV 1 is spitting straight fire.
January 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ghismonda in Decameron IV 1 is spitting straight fire.
I have many regrets in my life, and one of them is only now reading the Decameron.
January 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have many regrets in my life, and one of them is only now reading the Decameron.
Reading the story of Ser Ceppalletto, it feels like confession in medieval Europe was like going to the dentist.
January 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reading the story of Ser Ceppalletto, it feels like confession in medieval Europe was like going to the dentist.
Reading the Decameron, there are many places where the footnotes will explain a phrase, but if you translate it word for word it almost sounds like American English. I guess this is what the English mean when they say that American English sounds antiquated.
January 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reading the Decameron, there are many places where the footnotes will explain a phrase, but if you translate it word for word it almost sounds like American English. I guess this is what the English mean when they say that American English sounds antiquated.
Why are people so terrible about 4-way stop signs? It's just a FIFO multi queue with a round robin scheduler and a simple condition to break deadlocks.
January 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why are people so terrible about 4-way stop signs? It's just a FIFO multi queue with a round robin scheduler and a simple condition to break deadlocks.
I don't get jobs that want 4 YOE in one specific technology stack and don't care otherwise. Like I picked up Effect, TanStack router and DRF in two days. Am I perfect? No, but I get the job done and do it well because skills are transferrable.
#programming #react
#programming #react
December 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I don't get jobs that want 4 YOE in one specific technology stack and don't care otherwise. Like I picked up Effect, TanStack router and DRF in two days. Am I perfect? No, but I get the job done and do it well because skills are transferrable.
#programming #react
#programming #react
After working with Effect, one of the biggest downsides to interpreted languages is the lack of good meta-programming that doesn't have a runtime cost.
#js #effect #metaprogramming
#js #effect #metaprogramming
December 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM
After working with Effect, one of the biggest downsides to interpreted languages is the lack of good meta-programming that doesn't have a runtime cost.
#js #effect #metaprogramming
#js #effect #metaprogramming
I'm not going to get Alzheimer's like those idiots wearing deodorant.
September 24, 2024 at 3:22 AM
I'm not going to get Alzheimer's like those idiots wearing deodorant.
In an episode of Voyager, they find a corpse and call it a "Class 5 Humanoid." Where do they get off on their bipedal supremacy? Where's the classification system for shapeshifters or Species 8472?
September 16, 2024 at 9:52 PM
In an episode of Voyager, they find a corpse and call it a "Class 5 Humanoid." Where do they get off on their bipedal supremacy? Where's the classification system for shapeshifters or Species 8472?
Why? ziglang.org/documentatio... Why?!?
Documentation - The Zig Programming Language
ziglang.org
September 12, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Why? ziglang.org/documentatio... Why?!?