Safe, Sane, and Sexy

i wouldn't say i love programming. but i do feel inexplicably drawn to programming. and to making things complicated for myself

it's weird to think that since i've coded in javascript for over 20 years now and have released tangibly successful projects with it by all metrics i should qualify as some kind of language expert. and i do know how to make a lot of things with it! but without any kind of formal training i can't begin to suspect what fundamentals i might be missing still. taught myself just enough to make what i want to make

This vampire lady calling ME a midnight snack? Girl have you never looked in a mirror

genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself “why does Tumblr even have a ‘Best Posts First’ feature? why would I want to see good posts?” and then I had to stop and consider that for a second

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, “If I dids it, I dids it. If I didsn’t, I didsn’t.” There was a third line, but I forgot what it was.

HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM

THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE MEME FROM MY DREAM

Why do LLMs talk like the SuperDictionary. Every tweet generated by chat yippity is like “Lex Luthor stole forty cakes. That’s as many as four tens. Not three tens, not five tens. Four tens. And that’s terrible.”

they're saying that Thursday will be falling on a Thursday this week. the rare double Thursday phenomenon

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

Blue Lois

can i help you

Red Marge

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

World Heritage Post

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

TGIF

Elmer it’s Thursday, I think you’ve made a mistake

Hey op kinda buried the lead. This isn't just some illustration. ITS THE ABSTRACT.

one musruum..

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

i'm gonna be honest with you all i straight-up did not notice that the E in this picture was fucked up. i don't know what's going on here and i'm scared