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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 08/07/2026

Pasted my day's caloric intake to Claude, which included a piece of funfetti cake my wife made. The app only had an entry for the raw mix, so I logged that. Claude lectured me against eating raw flour and told me to microwave it first?????

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 07/07/2026

tech folks will write sentences like this and demand to be taken seriously

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 30/06/2026

asked Claude via the web UI about the viability of building something and it just started implementing? this is a browser, it doesn't have Go 1.22 installed lmbo

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 30/06/2026

Google was founded with the explicit goal of "organizing the world's information"

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 25/06/2026

at work we have Slack emojis for each of the letters in H-E-B

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 25/06/2026

barista put a raspberry heart in my latte, so I had to point to my wedding ring and make rude noises implying she’s stupid or something

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 19/05/2026

kubernetes is everywhere, for those with eyes to see

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 10/05/2026

felt my knees disintegrate into their molecular components just watching this

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 05/05/2026

saw someone complain that the change where VS Code attributes your code to Copilot was done by a "non-technical contributor", but when I look, this seems like a pretty technical contributor to me

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 02/05/2026

asked Claude what I'm supposed to do in the "What's Eating The Watervine?" quest in #CavesOfQud, and it 1000% just made shit up

The setup: Mehmet in Joppa tells you something is eating the village's watervine crops at night. Your job is to figure out what and report back.
Step-by-step:

Find the watervine field in Joppa. As you noted, watervine is brown/tan reedy stalks (not green — my earlier mistake). Use the Look command (l or ;) and hover over the various fields to identify which one is watervine specifically. It's somewhere on Joppa's local map — most likely one of the fields you mentioned near Mehmet or the water wheel.
Position yourself near the watervine, not in it. A few tiles away with line of sight. If you have any Hide skill, use it. If not, just standing nearby works at low levels — the eater isn't going to be checking carefully.
Wait until night. Use the wait command — "wait until dusk" or "wait until night" if your version has that option, otherwise wait in chunks of 100-200 turns. The eater shows up at night, not during the day.
Watch what appears. A creature will move into the watervine field and start munching. Do not immediately attack. Look at the creature carefully — use the Look command to inspect it and read its description.
The eater is a "glowpad" — a peaceful, glowing slug-like creature. It's not malicious, it's just hungry and the watervine is convenient food. It won't attack you and isn't dangerous.
You have a choice. Report back to Mehmet with what you saw. He'll ask what you want to do. The options are roughly:

Kill the glowpad — straightforward, removes the problem, simple reward.
Tell Mehmet it's a glowpad and let it live — you can suggest moving it or letting it be. The "good" outcome involves not killing it; glowpads are harmless and the village can handle minor crop loss.

The non-violent resolution is the better one both ethically (in-fiction) and mechanically — you get reputation with relevant factions and feel good about yourself. Mehmet might be a little disappointed but he'll accept it.

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 25/04/2026

When I was a kid reading Captain Underpants, I never would have imagined that nearly 30 years later I’d be drawing the characters with my son, who adores the Dave Pilkey books

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 23/04/2026

you may not like it, but this is what peak dumbbell performance looks like

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a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 23/04/2026

at work many of our BA charts have weather indications alongside them because our service is so heavily impacted by weather that it's the only thing that makes certain downtimes and surges make sense