Blake O'Hare
@blakeohare.bsky.social
Creator of Two Cans & String, Linked List webcomic, and a few programming languages.
Former Google/Microsoft.
Data Structures and Algorithms enthusiast. Currently an instructor and curriculum designer for @en.codechrysalis.io
Former Google/Microsoft.
Data Structures and Algorithms enthusiast. Currently an instructor and curriculum designer for @en.codechrysalis.io
Full disclosure: I have worked at Microsoft and have built multiple "wizard" menus for applications.
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Full disclosure: I have worked at Microsoft and have built multiple "wizard" menus for applications.
I don't know, one is 10 button presses and the other is 8...
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I don't know, one is 10 button presses and the other is 8...
This appeared in my feed right next to this: bsky.app/profile/retr...
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This appeared in my feed right next to this: bsky.app/profile/retr...
Perhaps a √, not a ✓
October 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Perhaps a √, not a ✓
Reposted by Blake O'Hare
No one has ever see a shutdown like this. Senators came to him, big manly men who didn't cry when their mothers died, with tears in their eyes, saying Sir...
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
No one has ever see a shutdown like this. Senators came to him, big manly men who didn't cry when their mothers died, with tears in their eyes, saying Sir...
"うん。無理" -> "yeah, nope"
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"うん。無理" -> "yeah, nope"
FYI: "May divorce be with you" was used in an SNL skit youtu.be/35n6Ya-dW-4?...
Sci-Fi Cold Opening - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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July 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
FYI: "May divorce be with you" was used in an SNL skit youtu.be/35n6Ya-dW-4?...
Reposted by Blake O'Hare
I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
July 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
Sometimes it's good to at least have the ability to do both. When I did this for my adventure RPG game, it had lots of story cutscenes and yielding kept the scripts fairly simple. But of course for dynamic gameplay and NPC behaviors I still used the latter state machine style.
May 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Sometimes it's good to at least have the ability to do both. When I did this for my adventure RPG game, it had lots of story cutscenes and yielding kept the scripts fairly simple. But of course for dynamic gameplay and NPC behaviors I still used the latter state machine style.
Just don't read the wisdom from the booklets hanging by the mirror.
April 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just don't read the wisdom from the booklets hanging by the mirror.
...and now I have the Super Mario Bros 2 boss music stuck in my head.
April 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
...and now I have the Super Mario Bros 2 boss music stuck in my head.