Brendan Berg
@gnuaesthetic.bsky.social
Software engineer, author, and artist based in LA. I mostly have opinions on programming languages and distributed systems.
Finally home after a month (‼️) of travel and I missed these beasts so much!
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally home after a month (‼️) of travel and I missed these beasts so much!
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
There really ought to be a washing machine emoji, and Unicode should support combining them with emoji faces. May I present for your consideration:
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There really ought to be a washing machine emoji, and Unicode should support combining them with emoji faces. May I present for your consideration:
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
The more I look at the Lincoln Bathroom remodel, the more I’m convinced he had an aide just go to town with a roll of faux marble contact paper.
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The more I look at the Lincoln Bathroom remodel, the more I’m convinced he had an aide just go to town with a roll of faux marble contact paper.
That’s a very rude way to tell the world I’ve moved to LA 😒
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
That’s a very rude way to tell the world I’ve moved to LA 😒
They’re not bed bugs… they’re bed FEATURES!
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
They’re not bed bugs… they’re bed FEATURES!
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Another airport carpet shoe selfie
Could someone please explain what the designer of this faucet was thinking? The handle’s affordance clearly suggests “lift” but actually you twist? Is this the physical manifestation of “LGTM! ship it” culture?
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Could someone please explain what the designer of this faucet was thinking? The handle’s affordance clearly suggests “lift” but actually you twist? Is this the physical manifestation of “LGTM! ship it” culture?
OK, but I need to know more about the dinosaur
September 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
OK, but I need to know more about the dinosaur
You heard of Agile, but that was so Web 2.0. Hop on the hype train for a brand new management craze!
August 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
You heard of Agile, but that was so Web 2.0. Hop on the hype train for a brand new management craze!
My latest obsession is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop
August 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest obsession is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Emotional support pickle
August 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Emotional support pickle
Presented without context:
August 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Presented without context:
I love how United uses the Golden Gate Bridge as the iconic San Francisco image, and… a freeway as the Los Angeles image.
July 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love how United uses the Golden Gate Bridge as the iconic San Francisco image, and… a freeway as the Los Angeles image.
Pretty sure rendering the UI in the model’s coordinate system isn’t the desired behavior 😅
July 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pretty sure rendering the UI in the model’s coordinate system isn’t the desired behavior 😅
Can we leave him there?
July 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Can we leave him there?
I’ve been working on some cool enhancements to Interfascia (interfascia.berg.industries), my GUI library for Processing. After fixing some embarrassingly old bugs, I’ve figured out a way to simplify the drawing code while adding support for additional Processing graphics modes.
July 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’ve been working on some cool enhancements to Interfascia (interfascia.berg.industries), my GUI library for Processing. After fixing some embarrassingly old bugs, I’ve figured out a way to simplify the drawing code while adding support for additional Processing graphics modes.
I’ve been building a programming language! It’s still very much in the early stages, but I have enough implemented that I can start sharing some of its features. PushPop is a stack-based language (like Forth, Joy, or PostScript) with pattern matching and first-class functions.
June 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’ve been building a programming language! It’s still very much in the early stages, but I have enough implemented that I can start sharing some of its features. PushPop is a stack-based language (like Forth, Joy, or PostScript) with pattern matching and first-class functions.
A lot of people right now would benefit from this advice
June 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A lot of people right now would benefit from this advice
I really want a fact check on this, because I find it completely implausible that a folding umbrella from 1991 still works. I’m even skeptical that it was a mechanism even available in 1991.
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I really want a fact check on this, because I find it completely implausible that a folding umbrella from 1991 still works. I’m even skeptical that it was a mechanism even available in 1991.
It’s a banana, Michael, what could the tariff be? 10%?
June 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It’s a banana, Michael, what could the tariff be? 10%?