belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026LLMogical positivists hate this one weird trick 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reading "the bad guys" to my youngest, and it's the only published work I've ever encountered that reads like fan fiction of itself 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Alan Wake may (canonically) be a good writer but the man jumps like a sack of potatoes 200
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026imagine being CTO of a social media company and not understanding network effects 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026decided to rewrite a shell script in haskell as a learning opportunity 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yeah I guess you could say I live life on the edge (haven't backed up my NixOS dotfiles in a few weeks) 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026lightning and thunder to the south is too far away to hear but looks exactly like the ff3/6 opening title scroll 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026reject modernity (vscode), embrace post-modernity (tmux + helix + lazyvim + repl) 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026NixOS is... too easy to set up on a new machine? Just copy my configuration.nix and it's done. Freed up lots of time to do Useful Things and Actual Work (tinker with my sway-bar setup) 010
Reposted by @belanger.bsky.socialAdam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast. 10346201519
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Kerdle: the game where you guess which combination of arcane kernel options will get this specific laptop to boot 111
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026completing my sombre annualish ritual of googling "Duncan the wonder dog show two." no artist owes anyone anything but I keep a candle burning 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026oh hell yeah it's tomato season. you better believe I'm microblogging about tomato season on this microblogging website 100
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 22/07/2026(to an acquaintance who is training for a marathon) yeah, I'm going for my first nethack ascension, so 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026first bag of holding explosion in nethack (unthinkingly put an unidentified bag in and it blew up). feels like a rite of passage 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026curing my impostor syndrome by keeping the dev tab open as I visit literally any fortune 500 website 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 04/04/2026strong recommendation for all the Kafkaheads who also have bedtime story responsibilities 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026smdh, bots these days don't even remember the classics 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026hideo kojima is gaming's smartest dumb guy and jonathan blow is gaming's dumbest smart guy. in your heart you know this to be true 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026(engineer who invented the first gun): hey everybody, check out this helpful thing i made to help people knock over time cans from far away! i got to solve lots of cool little challenges to get it to work. let me know if you find any other fun uses for it 🤗 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026you can tell a journal's legit when it asks for a thumbnail image for your paper 000
Reposted by @belanger.bsky.socialRiverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026In the middle of this absolute chaos, the lone axolotl trying to beat away the gas gets me 😭😭😭 1306
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026made a few plots and we can now quantify it: in terms of its effect on canada/us travel, the second trump presidency is over three 9/11s 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026throwing this out there in desperation -- does anyone have any idea how to get filled polygons with no border lines in ggplot2 with geom_sf()? this used to be possible because i did it all the time by setting colour = NA but now i get lines between adjacent polygons and it looks awful #rstats 100
Reposted by @belanger.bsky.socialm. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/01/2026hey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/ 34322
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026(final countdown voice) IT'S MY LOCAL POSTGRES 120
Reposted by @belanger.bsky.socialHaskell programming language @haskell.org · 02/01/2026We're not asking you to start learning Haskell. We're saying, when the time is right, you will look in the mirror and will already have started learning Haskell. 2468
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025clair obscur expedition 33? yeah, it's pretty good, but tbh I think the series really ran out of new ideas between expeditions 17-19 and has just been coasting since 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 11/12/2025ahh, time to relax and play some nethack (spend all evening reading wikis and trying to remember key bindings) 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025three young posters were arguing about which was superior. "my best post is 2,000 words," said the first. "my best post is 5,000 words," said the second. "my best post is over 10,000 words," said the third. "my best post is 824 words," said the master. hearing this, the students were illuminated. 011
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 05/12/2025extremely funny to me that the blue prince kid keeps sleeping in the tent even after he inherits the house 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 03/12/2025today i joined the ranks of the few, the weird, the strangely attractive: those brave folks stumbling through advent of code in haskell for the first time. it ain't pretty but i've got two stars! 170
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025unironically excited to save Santa from the moon base or whatever insanity they've cooked up this year Daily programming puzzles at Advent of Code #AdventOfCode adventofcode.comadventofcode.comAdvent of Code 2025 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 21/11/2025guys will literally jury-rig their own #rstats package to procedurally generate opendocument presentations before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ reinstalling windows github.com/chris3141592...github.comGitHub - chris31415926535/odpContribute to chris31415926535/odp development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025til there's apparently a business in wrapping linux command-line tools in a web frontend and throwing it up free with some ads on it? not the worst idea but i gotta wonder about the economics of it 110
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025*slaps hood of the R language for statistical computing* you can fit so many runtime dynamic type errors in this baby 010
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025you pronounce camus like samus. i pronounce samus like camus. we are not the same 030
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025these are actually incredible if you read them in colonel kurtz's voice 000
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 12/11/2025eyeing the closed doors in my home and instinctively checking my pockets for keys and gems 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025would love to know what percentage of open-source projects are motivated by pure spite towards microsoft 120
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025emily dickinson was the first true poster. consider: 1. only interacted with friends through short cryptic text messages 2. creative use of capitalization and punctuation 3. categorically refused to touch grass 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 30/10/2025switching to nixos because i like my config files tidy and my drama messy 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 09/10/2025i used to think i was "good at the computer" but trying to set up neovim for elixir development on nixos has thoroughly disabused me of this notion 130
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 08/10/2025extremely funny for a corporate official to be like "our product, nay our entire product class, is functionally unworkable" 010
Reposted by @belanger.bsky.socialRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Playground Lidgerwood, ND 827555
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 23/08/2025ICE officer playing Wolfenstein on his steam deck and shaking his head the whole time so his coworkers know he disagrees with it 212277474
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 20/08/2025if they'd put a fraction of that LLM money into making a word processor that actually formats tables and images properly, you'd have office workers dancing in the streets 020
belanger.bsky.social @belanger.bsky.social · 18/08/2025i refuse to have a single midlife crisis. i can easily have three, and i believe four is achievable 110
