Christopher Swenson (Cupcake)
swenson.io
Christopher Swenson (Cupcake)
@swenson.io
I like cats, sorting, cryptography, math, and programming. Software engineer usually. Wrote a cryptography book and a sorting library. he/him
Look, sometimes your driver just gets tired and needs a little nap, ya know
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reposted by Christopher Swenson (Cupcake)
Polyamory is the weaponization of ADHD
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Like an agents.md but for people … and I’ll show myself out now.
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Glove80 works okay for me but it definitely feels delicate. I like the lighter choc switches but the spacing is very narrow for my moderately large hands.

I might go down the custom 360 route. At this point I don’t mind any kind of switches as long as they reduce pain :)
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Love the Advantage360 but had to stop using it due to its heavier brown switches (much more force required than the previous Cherry browns).

Currently waffling between old Advantage2 and a Glove80.

I am debating paying someone to solder new switches on the 360 (I’ve ruined other keybs trying).
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
reverse slip 'n slide
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Or calendars. Or issue tracking systems.
November 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Even for hardware, which surprised me at first!
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ah, fair enough. I mostly go by our lord and savior The Chicago Manual of Style from my time as a copy editor. But specific guidance is always best.
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No hyphens only if used as noun phrases. If they are adjectives, then the hyphen is preferred, e.g., "the code is open source" but "my cloud-native stack".

Most people don't use hyphens correctly though.

Wikipedia generally has it right in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_so...
Open source - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Singular has a bunch of Gröbner basis functions. www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/4-4/s...
Singular Manual: Commutative algebra
Singular Manual: Commutative algebra
www.singular.uni-kl.de
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I believe I first read that principle in Soul of New Machine: hire people fresh from college because they don’t know what’s impossible yet.

As I get older, I find myself stopping myself from working on many things because I think they’re already too solved or too hard. And that’s a shame.
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM