Sometimes when I'm running, I think of myself as a machine that takes fixed-size steps at a fixed rate. When I'm going uphill, the machine loses charge. When I'm going downhill, the machine regains charge. When going downhill, there's a tendency to run as fast as you can. If you do that, you will not recharge, and the next uphill will wreck you.

There's an analogy here to working pace. It's better to make steady progress than theoretical max progress. On easy days, life is easy. Let it be easy. Resist the urge to overachieve. Quit early, have fun, be yourself. Charge your "fun" reserves. These reserves get you through the hard days.

You won’t get ahead in the post-invasion world unless you learn to speak MECHLAN1 - not just to be able to follow the orders of the overseers and effectively beg for your life, but it is also rapidly becoming the defacto global language of commerce and diplomacy.

Yes, it’s strange at first. Think of it like this: the grammar is spanish, the spelling and syllabalary are sumerian and the checksum is 16 bit CRC, big endian.

Don’t get the checksum wrong or you may trigger the rogue process killer. That’s not a metaphor.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

So I've been doing our recent accounting stuff in Guile. It's not really something others can use yet but it's here https://codeberg.org/spritely/banzo

But it looks like this is going to become more important because Beancount is going full vibes "I don't even code anymore" https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/cz8Xwnb7BLE/m/LSA3rTfMAgAJ

And so, seemingly, is everything else in the command line accounting space https://social.glitched.systems/notes/aj8ubrinpqdw01fe

Maybe that'll end up making this more important, dunno

I don't understand how we are halfway done with 2026 and it feels like both the blink of an eye and also ONE THOUSAND YEARS.

Truth spoken here

https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html

"Where is the tiger coming from?"
https://www.tricivenola.com/about-the-digital-art/

"It’s 1990, and I still don’t know where the darn tiger comes from. But I do know that there’s no program that will draw one from scratch, any size or pose or color or style, like I want it, without an artist at the helm. And there’s no magic answer for us artists except that we are each unique. We are the only variable. You can have identical setups: hardware; software; memory; working conditions: and the artists, left to themselves, will create totally different work. So don’t be intimidated by brilliant programmers, software publishers, technological wizards, and hardware junkies, and if they sneer at your lack of technological expertise, ask ‘em why they never bothered to learn to draw. We are none of us much without the others."

Fundamental human rights are axioms. They are neither left nor right. Weird that it needs to be said.

Y'all this is some COOL-ASS-SHIT! Wanted to get into @spritely tech but you didn't use emacs or didn't run Guix or all those other things? What if there was a structural editor right in the browser that was *designed* for hacking on @spritely tech?

Well that's EXACTLY what @dthompson is working on! I gave it a test today and built this cool picture language demo, printing out a rainbow right at the REPL!

It's a structural editor! So you're not even editing text, you're editing the structure of the code itself! It's damn cool!

art theft

Episode 59: "Baby Pagoda Side Quest: Failed"

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/059.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

"It is, of course, an extraordinarily effective estrogenic agent, but that is the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known patient*, and so rapidly hypergolic that no induction period has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as syringes, examination tables, cotton wool, and nursing staff..."

I think what's fundamentally happening here is that people on Lobsters (and, to a lesser extent, Hacker News) think I write blogs for them.

Like I want their attention.
Like I want their approval.
Like I want to be one of them.

Nope. I was never welcome in your spaces beyond some notion of "usefulness". You can even observe an echo of this observation in the comment thread.

I am not, and never can or will be, a person of high esteem to that crowd.

So why would I write for you?

I write for my goddamn self. I write to help the people in my own space. Most are queer or furry (and the ones that aren't, simply don't mind that we are). They see me as part of a community, not some jackass on a pedestal that has to adhere to some abstract ideal of noble and/or academic etiquette.

My writing is messy, raw, and real.

What some people call arrogance or condescension is really frustration that, despite a better world being possible, egos get in the way of it happening.

So, lol, no thanks.

In LOOPS, classes, class variables, and instance variables can have property lists of name/value pairs along with a value. It's useful for documentation, units, or other metadata. For example, this is the declaration of an instance variable "mass":

(mass 2.0 unit 'kg doc "Mass of a body")

unit, doc are property names followed by values.

LOOPS (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) is the object extension of Interlisp.

#interlisp #oop #lisp

by simzart

I don't think I'm categorically different or better than anybody but I never lost that little girl belief that people should be kind and take care of each other and everyone should have whatever they need, whatever is best for them.

A lot of people called me stupid for it as I was growing up.

And I often felt like I was surrounded by monsters. They had to be because I didn't want to believe they were people.

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

Transphobes want to push trans issues out of the social sphere (equal rights) and into the clinical (mental illness) while rejecting what the psychiatric community already determined: that trans people aren't mentally ill and transitioning is the best care possible. The goal has always been conversion therapy and extermination, the same as the Nazis.

I haven't drawn anything for my post-Kessler-Syndrome fuedalism-in-space setting before because drawing space is hard.

Humanity managed to get dozens of large O'Neill Cylinder habitats in orbit before triggering Kessler Syndrome. The few surviving cylinders formed a fuedal society over hundreds of years. With a strong desire to not make the wall of debris any worse, combat became ritualized and restricted to knights in machines designed to minimize debris. No projectile weapons for instance.

household of trans girls who have all simultaneously adopted the catchphrase "I'm the funny one"

@amoroso *sigh*

We have created some .md text files that you can literally paste into ChatGPT, Claude Code or any other AI, telling the AI to learn about PDP-1 Lisp and to become your programming aide. Try this!

this kind of advice needs to just die. "hey, burn off a few more acres of atmosphere to have a machine learn an obscure skill for you!" - no, that's literally encouraging crimes against humanity for peanuts.