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you’d think being a nerd every waking hour would make me knowledgeable…
Why is this a required field, I just want to buy some electronic parts 😭
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Why is this a required field, I just want to buy some electronic parts 😭
Ignoring the content of the post to be patriotic that New Zealand got mentioned - some people I know worked on flintlock
(And speaking of, I know the guy who designed the mini game in there (and myself did some minimal play testing for it) and when I searched it up to check if it made it into the
(And speaking of, I know the guy who designed the mini game in there (and myself did some minimal play testing for it) and when I searched it up to check if it made it into the
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Ignoring the content of the post to be patriotic that New Zealand got mentioned - some people I know worked on flintlock
(And speaking of, I know the guy who designed the mini game in there (and myself did some minimal play testing for it) and when I searched it up to check if it made it into the
(And speaking of, I know the guy who designed the mini game in there (and myself did some minimal play testing for it) and when I searched it up to check if it made it into the
when I heard your name (and the quiz getting mentioned) I did this 🤩
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
when I heard your name (and the quiz getting mentioned) I did this 🤩
When would you ever need this? (I admittedly can see a usecase but I don’t know if I’d have the confidence to let it rip)
(I also hope I tagged this correctly, it should be tagged as suggestive, but I am inept at technology, so we’ll see)
(I also hope I tagged this correctly, it should be tagged as suggestive, but I am inept at technology, so we’ll see)
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
When would you ever need this? (I admittedly can see a usecase but I don’t know if I’d have the confidence to let it rip)
(I also hope I tagged this correctly, it should be tagged as suggestive, but I am inept at technology, so we’ll see)
(I also hope I tagged this correctly, it should be tagged as suggestive, but I am inept at technology, so we’ll see)
I need to update my fonts possibly
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I need to update my fonts possibly
Just to illustrate my point, here's the herringbone pattern that I encounter in my day to day. The bricks ~ the size of my foot. Because the pattern is periodic in a shorter space than my stride, I can always step on a brick that's parallel with me, and it's easy to always be as far to the left as
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just to illustrate my point, here's the herringbone pattern that I encounter in my day to day. The bricks ~ the size of my foot. Because the pattern is periodic in a shorter space than my stride, I can always step on a brick that's parallel with me, and it's easy to always be as far to the left as
Is he stupid?
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Is he stupid?
This is the kind of shit Comrade Josh would post 🙂↕️
(One Battle After Another reference?!? Go watch it!!)
(One Battle After Another reference?!? Go watch it!!)
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is the kind of shit Comrade Josh would post 🙂↕️
(One Battle After Another reference?!? Go watch it!!)
(One Battle After Another reference?!? Go watch it!!)
This is the talk on at the same time as mine at kiwi pycon this year. It's so unfortunate that I can't make it because I'm so curious about some of these decisions (especially the google sheets thing) and I want to see how the DSLs work. I'll watch the recording I guess
October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the talk on at the same time as mine at kiwi pycon this year. It's so unfortunate that I can't make it because I'm so curious about some of these decisions (especially the google sheets thing) and I want to see how the DSLs work. I'll watch the recording I guess
One of my favourite jokes about Japanese writing is this passage of English written as though it were Japanese
October 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
One of my favourite jokes about Japanese writing is this passage of English written as though it were Japanese
Thank you Process Address Space Layout Randomisation for keeping my university’s water safe
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Thank you Process Address Space Layout Randomisation for keeping my university’s water safe
the replies are also uh, not great
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
the replies are also uh, not great
Insane how the commentors instantly make the leap from seeing Chinese text to implying that the person saying it is a cheap chinese knockoff of another person (which is the only possible way to read this right?)
October 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Insane how the commentors instantly make the leap from seeing Chinese text to implying that the person saying it is a cheap chinese knockoff of another person (which is the only possible way to read this right?)
This is either going to suck or be amazing, no in between
October 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is either going to suck or be amazing, no in between
Called it
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Called it
Content warning!
September 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Content warning!
But then they need extra nodes right?
(Just to be sure I wasn't mangling things I put the regex into a DFA diagram drawer tool and got this which hopefully shows it a bit better)
file:///home/leastinformednerd/Downloads/image.svg
(Just to be sure I wasn't mangling things I put the regex into a DFA diagram drawer tool and got this which hopefully shows it a bit better)
file:///home/leastinformednerd/Downloads/image.svg
September 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
But then they need extra nodes right?
(Just to be sure I wasn't mangling things I put the regex into a DFA diagram drawer tool and got this which hopefully shows it a bit better)
file:///home/leastinformednerd/Downloads/image.svg
(Just to be sure I wasn't mangling things I put the regex into a DFA diagram drawer tool and got this which hopefully shows it a bit better)
file:///home/leastinformednerd/Downloads/image.svg
My friend showed me this, I’m not going to lie I read this as “рощея” {weird long phi} “dream” (it’s supposed to be “power to dream” which I can see now) and thought it was multilingual split across the middle phi thing. In my defense I don’t speak Russian and рощея is a plausible word, there’s a
September 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My friend showed me this, I’m not going to lie I read this as “рощея” {weird long phi} “dream” (it’s supposed to be “power to dream” which I can see now) and thought it was multilingual split across the middle phi thing. In my defense I don’t speak Russian and рощея is a plausible word, there’s a
Anyway it's for a course where we've been given a lot of leeway for what we do, and so I'm writing a tiny embeddable interpreter (specifically because I need to make a 2d game and we're graded partially on difficulty and this is the most enjoyable non-trivial plausibly useful task I can do), and
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Anyway it's for a course where we've been given a lot of leeway for what we do, and so I'm writing a tiny embeddable interpreter (specifically because I need to make a 2d game and we're graded partially on difficulty and this is the most enjoyable non-trivial plausibly useful task I can do), and
I will be talking about the CPython VM (and how to compile for stack machines) at Kiwi Pycon this year :)
August 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I will be talking about the CPython VM (and how to compile for stack machines) at Kiwi Pycon this year :)
That’s my high school maths teacher on the right :)
(She’s unbelievably goated in general)
(She’s unbelievably goated in general)
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That’s my high school maths teacher on the right :)
(She’s unbelievably goated in general)
(She’s unbelievably goated in general)
I’m reminded of this
August 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I’m reminded of this