Designing Go Libraries. I finished reading this today, highly recommended. Probably sharing it with my team to read soon. #Go [permlink]

Minimze the surface area. Perhaps one of the most underrated advice when writing Go or designing APIs in general. #Go #Programming [permlink]

"Poverty; the one thing money can't buy" - John Cooper Clarke - from "Ten Years in an Open-Necked Shirt" #Literature [permlink]

But Passion raves herself to rest, or flies (Byron) #Literature #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke (1729-1797) #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

And generally, I've been doing a lot of good things. #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

RT: In this article, I will aura mogg my critics by argumentmaxxing #Academia [permlink]

And I'm trying to do good things as much as possible. #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

I want to compose something like Valse No. 2 but for Beethoven. I will call it Vur Elise. #Music [permlink]

"True Love Means No Traces" Why did Leonard Cohen make a so-happy song about the right to soft cheat? #Music [permlink]

William Ernest Henley - Out Of The Night That Covers Me I like his energy #Poetry [permlink]

“This isn’t just [what the thing literally is]; it’s [hyperbole on what the thing isn’t].” #LLMs [permlink]

Interesting take about E2EE in large groups #Programming [permlink]

Considering stooping rereading The Brothers Karamazov to move to Clarice Lispector #Literature [permlink]

I just described a landscape to my friend saying it is "Helene Grimaud kind of beautiful" #Music [permlink]

Avoid soft deletes #Programming [permlink]

[2602.05192] First Proof an interesting way to evaluate AI. #Mathematics #LLMs #paper [permlink]

Stop generating, start thinking #Programming [permlink]

104 Days. That's sad, I cite Greg Wilson a lot, I'm surprised that someone like him might get laid off. [permlink]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_JY76xXrVM ][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_JY76xXrVM]] #Music [permlink]

WikiArt does not contain the artworks of Jean-François-Pierre Peyron. Related to Something off about WikiArt. #Art [permlink]

tfw I go through any typescript-based codebase. #Programming [permlink]

Acme and Septimius, Frederic Leighton (wiki), such a lovely poem. [permlink]

Met with Michelle Gurevich again today. Last time I can remember her was from around 5 or 6 years ago. But she feels much more relevant now. #Music [permlink]

[TikTok] Hell is other people #Philosophy [permlink]

Just wow. [permlink]

The Book of the Rose By David Squire is immensely beautiful. I can't get my eyes out of it. #Flowers [permlink]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium #Flowers [permlink]

Asher Brown Durand is a great example of art that has a great precision but no depth. #Art [permlink]

Monoiods are basically the extensions of Semigroups with empty state.. [permlink]

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

Maybe Scala wasn't that bad after all. At least it is not worse than Java. #Scala [permlink]

Good morning to the world and plants that I'm grateful for [permlink]

Going through my art history archive. I realize how much I love William-Adolphe Bouguereau. I can talk about his works for hours. #Art [permlink]

How to forgive yourself and move past a hurtful mistake #How to forgive yourself [permlink]

My little black angel I feel so glad [permlink]

OpenStack looks quite interesting. I might experiment with it, I hope it does not end up like my experience with Supabase or nhosts. #Programming [permlink]

The most interesting people on the internet stopped using the internet. [permlink]

Lol #Programming [permlink]

Scala tooling is bad. So bad, even JetBrains IDEs are not working properly. #Scala [permlink]

Regarding Doom Emacs with Scala, I've been retrying with Eglot instead of Lsp, and feels better. #Emacs #Scala [permlink]

Scala is obscure yet verbose #Scala [permlink]

Life is too short to worry or to be anxious. #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

Chasing features is easy; restraint is harder. Go embraces “less is more” unlike Scala where implicits is criticized by authors and celebrated by users #Scala [permlink]

Scala has it all, which is a part of the problem. #Scala [permlink]

The Scala maintainers and designer really should have stopped adding new language features a long time ago. #Scala [permlink]

I'm an established monad admin #Programming [permlink]

Linkedin probably has the most misuse of Quran, Bible, and proverbs that I've ever had the misfortune to see. [permlink]

"will think how he can carry out his project most nobly, rather than how much it will cost and how it can be done most cheaply.” #Modus Vivendi #Aristotle [permlink]

No sour but my bones feel broken. Does it count, gymbros? [permlink]

Feel sad for my Father every time I remember how all of his friends died, getting old. It has to be terrible seeing your beloved ones fall one by one. #Journaling [permlink]

Doom Emacs is really terrible with Scala, specifically talking of LSP-mode. Considering moving to vim just for Scala. #Emacs #Scala [permlink]

Live Forever - Kotomi & Ryan Elder Oh god that was terribly painful to watch. #Music #Cinema [permlink]

Considering making the archive of Egypt Linux. But it involves Manal and Alaa a lot, which makes me very sad. #Egypt #Politics [permlink]

I just spoke with a friend in Iran and things are much, much worse than the media reports. #Iran #Politics [permlink]

List of individual trees - Wikipedia [permlink]

LLM problems observed in humans #LLMs #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

Not any heart can run my blood. [permlink]

I copied Enforcing invariants in Scala datatypes from my GitHub to my blog, it's quite interesting. [permlink]

Mixins are cool. #Scala [permlink]