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Baricus @baric.us · 26/09/2026

Best part of going to the club is when Master Chief shows up

Master Chief (or someone in Master Chief attire; did not get to ask) dancing in a nightclub with a woman. Master Chief has some red lights affixed to his armor that light up the fog around him. The club is full of other people dancing and there are green and blue skylights on.

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Baricus @baric.us · 07/06/2026

Feels like the right time to fill up this pen again. New ink as well!

A Conklin all American re-make pen sitting on a desk mat with a bottle of ink behind it. The pen is rainbow anodized throughout. It is uncapped and the nib is balanced on top. The ink behind the nib is a small, comet shaped bottle of color verse's "red horse, glistening gold" ink for the year 2026. Both are sitting on a dwarf fortress desk mat. Behind them a bit of a keyboard is faintly visible.

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Baricus @baric.us · 17/05/2026

When the music visualizer shames you for not having a pfp (-_(\) Didn't expect this to be the reason I picked one

A screenshot of VLC Media Player, showing a rendered video from https://trill.wisp.place/ . The video is a music visualization with a horizontal "bar chart" of rainbow bars. The bars are centered and are longer where that frequency band is louder.

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Baricus @baric.us · 13/05/2026

Finally got my piano set up again, sortof... I miss my old setup

Bitwig Studio (the software) running to give a voice to a piano keyboard with a webcam and text saying "Oh god how do I show this on stream" slapped on top. It is not well thought out or put together.

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Baricus @baric.us · 08/04/2026

Baguettes! I need to work on shaping them more but the taste is getting there! They were really good.

Four demi-baguettes on parchment paper on a wooden cutting board. A bread knife is to their right.

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Baricus @baric.us · 16/03/2026

Though I was not prepared for the horror of rinds stuck to the bottom of my pot. It took me a literal hour to clean out and it still wasn't entirely clean. I'm hoping the dishwasher finishes the job.

A pot full of used Parmesan rinds next to a still hot bowl of Parmesan broth.

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Baricus @baric.us · 16/03/2026

The finished beef stew (served over rice because why not) and Parmesan broth. I think they both came out really well!

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Baricus @baric.us · 14/03/2026

There was too much cheese available so I did the obvious thing... I regret nothing; it was delicious.

A costco fridge shelf full of on-sale dubliner cheese. There is a concerning amount of cheese, a "I think this is going to go bad here amount of cheese"

The mac and cheese in a white bowl with a red rim. It is very tasty if I do say so myself.

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Baricus @baric.us · 13/03/2026

If you see this share your smash bros main

Luigi in a squid shirt with a float. There are fireworks in the background.

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Baricus @baric.us · 02/03/2026

Another week of @cassidoo.co's programming problems and I learned that `Maybe a` has an `Ord` instance. I wish I had known before writing a bunch of lifts I had to delete.

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Baricus @baric.us · 23/02/2026

Baguettes! I think they're getting better each time. (and panara mac because I can't always put that much effort into things)

Baguettes with cheese and panera Mac and cheese

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Baricus @baric.us · 22/02/2026

The synth I ended with felt very cantina so I had to try with the obvious midi file. I think it came out sounding pretty good! I have some ideas for how I can use this sound... The midi is from Keeper1st on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdGG.... It's so much fun (and pain) to actually play.

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Baricus @baric.us · 17/02/2026

I thought it might be fun to do @cassidoo.co's weekly interview question in #Haskell! I enjoyed starting from the recursive solution (commented out) and then shifting to using combinators for everything.

A Haskell code snippet containing the following code:

zoom :: [[a]] -> Int -> [[a]]
-- zoom [] _ = []
-- zoom (as : aas) f = replicate f (zoom1d as f) <> zoom aas f
zoom aas f = aas >>= replicate f . flip zoom1d f
where
zoom1d :: [a] -> Int -> [a]
-- zoom1d [] _ = []
-- zoom1d (a : as) f = replicate f a <> zoom1d as f
zoom1d as f = as >>= replicate f

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Baricus @baric.us · 20/01/2026

I think I'm getting the hang of invisible zippers.

An invisible zipper sewn into plaid, green fabric. The zipper of mostly, well, invisible.

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Baricus @baric.us · 07/01/2026

I don't know if it was a stupid idea or not yet, but I actually did get my own custom TTS working off of VOICEPEAK. I'm playing around with on stream (and hoping it doesn't crash) right now. twitch.tv/baricus

Console output from my TTS program, showing user text ("testing 1 2 teto"), and the same text converted to katagana by pronunciation to allow it to be said in VOICEPEAK.

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Baricus @baric.us · 20/12/2025

Just got my first achievement in Bat to the Heavens and I'm going to be mashing all the keys on my keyboard for a while. 😄 I have no idea what I did and no idea how to get back there. I'm so glad this is a thing though because I was already dreading having to go back for things I missed.

A screenshot of the steam UI showing my current achievements for the game "Bat to the Heavens." I have 1 of 32 achievements. The achievement is titled "Transit II" and the description is "Figure out... another way to get around??"

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Baricus @baric.us · 15/12/2025

Unbeatable is apparently a game about how good you are at counting with some other stuff on the side.

"Jumprope Girl" saying "My mom said you're a violent gang leader"

"Jumprope Girl" continuing her sentence with "But you're also so good at counting."

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Baricus @baric.us · 11/12/2025

I feel like I'm going to have a bad time. I'm excited. I've been waiting forever for this! (also I'm live at twitch.tv/baricus !)

Estimated Chart offset (feel free to adjust if it seems off)

< -50 MS >

confirm
re-calibrate

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Baricus @baric.us · 10/11/2025

This was amazing and I'm going to have to make it again. Something about the sweetness worked really well with the cheese sauce.

A close up shot of Gyudon beef mixed into from-scratch mac and cheese.

Gyudon beef next to a pot of mac and cheese, waiting to be combined.

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Baricus @baric.us · 09/11/2025

I think I like this game.

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Baricus @baric.us · 05/08/2025

I honestly didn't think just replaying commands would work. Now I have to figure out what they actually mean if I want to do anything else 😆

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Baricus @baric.us · 02/02/2025

I don't know when someone should be banned from writing C macros, but I think I'm rapidly approaching that point...

A series of C macros, the text of which is:
#define USE(x) x LOOP(DROP,
#define BODY(fuel) int USE fuel ) = LOOP(COUNT, fuel) 0;
LOOP(BODY, (a)(b)(c))
// expands to: int a = 3; int b = 2; int c = 1;

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