Ramblings about things

There's something about downloading books from the internet not being instantaneous that makes me feel something1.

May the gods forgive me for my puns.

I was reading man pages the other day1 when I stumbled upon this, and my initial reaction was how egregiously wrong it was, how did it even end up there?

Recently my trusty old Nook Glowlight 3 stopped being able to sync with Dropbox1, even after a couple of restarts so I had no way of transferring my books onto it2.

Don't you just love it when the source code you're reading looks like it was made to be read, as opposed to write-only code?

Note: this was an article originally published on a blog hosted by Microblink1, but has since been taken down.

I was doing the Advent of Code puzzles recently to have something to sharpen my zig skills on and I stumbled upon something that had me stumped for a bit.

Not everything one writes has to be for clout.

You may have heard the saying "You are not your thoughts" (or a variation of it) in the context of psychology, most likely as an opposing stance to Sigmund Freud's claim that...

When writing C++ and having to interoperate with the C standard library I always get a somewhat nostalgic feeling; yearning for simpler times1, times that never were since I've never really written C for a living.