`fogus @fogus.me · 11/09/2026I remember a time when it took months or years to create a crappy hobby programming language, now it takes a matter of days! 052
`fogus @fogus.me · 28/08/2026Can someone tell me the name of that Woody Guthrie song with the lyrics “… from Lake America to the Gulf of America to the American Ocean to the other American Ocean…”? 240
`fogus @fogus.me · 27/08/2026Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll vibe code it." Now they don't know how many problems they have. 06116
`fogus @fogus.me · 24/08/2026No worries. I know how challenging it can be to maintain a site for decades. 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 24/08/2026The page links a sources page at neglectedbooks.com/sources.html that no longer exists. Are the sources the same as those listed at the bottom. 110
`fogus @fogus.me · 16/08/2026Check back in another 20 when you’re listening to the same song in the left lane going 7 under. 110
`fogus @fogus.me · 12/08/2026The reworded article on Boing Boing about my “Born Against…” post might be longer than my post. boingboing.net/2026/08/12/h... 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 11/08/2026Why can't modern language designers stop shoving curly braces and semicolons into their new programming languages? They're Algolholics. 🥁 3314
`fogus @fogus.me · 07/08/2026Happy Birthday (Aug 7, 1946) to L. Peter Deutsch, computing luminary and inventor of the REPL. obsolescence.dev/interactive-...obsolescence.devThe Early Days: The History of Interactive ComputingFrom Project Whirlwind through the DEC legacy: the early days of interactive computing 040
`fogus @fogus.me · 06/08/2026A Reddit community for the Read-Eval-Print-λove lifestyle at www.reddit.com/r/ReadEvalPr... 012
`fogus @fogus.me · 06/08/2026Me too. I was fortunate to eventually find a language community that was not. 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 04/08/2026Emblogginated "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage" --> blog.fogus.me/llm/born-aga...blog.fogus.meBorn Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage 0112
`fogus @fogus.me · 03/08/2026From about 7th grade to the time that I graduated college was peak TV to me. In that span I found the three big shows of my life: STNG -> Twin Peaks -> X-Files. I will still stop whatever I'm doing if I happen upon an episode from one of these shows. 040
`fogus @fogus.me · 28/07/2026I learned of this in a podcast interview with Paul Giamatti and have been searching high and low for it ever since.  220
Reposted by `fogusQuiet Little Horrors @quietlittlehorrors.bsky.social · 28/07/2026We revisit one of the new horror classics of the 2010s, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Tangents include (but are not limited to): good cinematography, twisted coming-of-age stories, suburban horror, and. of course, where is our damn clamshell e-reader already?quietlittlehorrors.comEpisode S07E13: It FollowsWe revisit one of the new horror classics of the 2010s, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Tangents include (but are not limited to): good cinematography, twisted coming-of-age stories, suburban horror, and. of course, where is our damn clamshell e-reader already? 001
`fogus @fogus.me · 19/07/2026I wrote a post “The Centenary of 'Flower Phantoms' by Ronald Fraser” celebrating a beautiful whimsical fantasy. —> wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... 000
Reposted by `fogusJen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Hey what better way to celebrate not being able to breathe air because of wildfire smoke than to go to a movie about animals finally getting sick of our shit and attacking us. Tomorrow is DAY OF THE ANIMALS at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social! I will be there as part of a panel discussion! Go animals!linkedin.com#chiclimateweek26 | Chicago Climate ConnectWhat do horror movies have to do with climate change? More than you might think. 🌎 🎬 As part Chicago Climate Week (ChiCW), Chicago Climate Connect is excited to partner with the historic Music Box T... 112
Reposted by `fogusJen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026What a gift it was to have Sam Neill. Beyond all his other work, fearless performances in two of my top tier horror films. I will miss his Instagram dispatches from the Aotearoa countryside and his herd of animals named after other actors. 072
`fogus @fogus.me · 01/07/2026Does anyone else find it particularly insidious that a bulk of LLM tokens in the workplace are burned to help make tools that make LLMs more useable in the workplace? 050
Reposted by `fogusPapers We Love @paperswelove.org · 29/06/2026William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC] (2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc #programminglanguages #metacircularinterpreter #lisp 121
`fogus @fogus.me · 25/06/2026Not about Knuth's no (not that I could find) but there are many books about the libraries of famous folk. 000
`fogus @fogus.me · 25/06/2026Libraries of dead literary figures has always been a topic of study and interest. Sadly, no one gives a hoot about the libraries of computerists. "Dijkstra's library" is the first attempt to even inventory such a thing since Erik Naggum's books were listed years ago. www.dijkstrascry.com/inventory 251
`fogus @fogus.me · 24/06/2026Has anyone found out if 1-trillion dollars is enough to buy happiness? 140
`fogus @fogus.me · 24/06/2026Ha! My Lithp project from 2008 made a brief blip on the HN front page earlier today. fogus.me/fun/lithp/ 040
`fogus @fogus.me · 20/06/2026We have the blue and can cut up some red hats for the red… white could be ear bandages. 050
`fogus @fogus.me · 18/06/2026Saw "Backrooms" and really liked it. It fits nicely into exactly the kinds of films that I love; those that show how the mundane world is punctured by something weird and eerie. 160
`fogus @fogus.me · 18/06/2026I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the book that the film Crash is based on is also amazing. 100
`fogus @fogus.me · 13/06/2026Received my copy of Arthur Machen’s book of essays The Guide, published by Darkly Bright Press in the mailbox today. This little lovely contains a humble appendix by yours truly! 061
`fogus @fogus.me · 11/06/2026The problem with listening to music with bleeps and bloops in it is that I constantly think that I'm getting Discord notifications. 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 02/06/2026I'm going to save my company some money today by using my human brain! 050
