fool @fool@mastodon.technology

I hereby declare myself this instance's foremost Star Wars Prequel Defender.

Being a programmer is turning me into an anarchist: I always seem to want to eliminate state.

I don't even give a ha'fuck, much less a whole fuck

You may have worked with someone who impressed you with their abilities, someone not only greatly experienced but able to quickly and accurately recall details and procedures that you yourself would've had to look up.

Here's the thing about that: You may not have seen it on that occasion because they were doing something they had already primed themselves to do, but experts look stuff up all the time. Anybody not in the habit of seeking answers to their questions probably won't become an expert.

the Spirit of Posting descends upon me and I begin furiously composing my magnum opus, a high-grade shitpost of biblical proportions, as stupid as it is dumb, destined for meme immortality. "I'm gonna get so many interactions," I think, giggling at my own idiosyncratic antihumor. a loud noise outside my window snaps me out of my trance, and I look around and notice that the whole time I had been typing, my computer was turned off

ancient Egyptian emojis

Watching someone program who is not familiar with the syntax of the programming language, and seemingly unaccustomed to expressing themselves with the precision needed for any programming language. I'm biting my tongue because I know they just need practice.

videoed games

if you know someone whose last name is "Jackson," you can dunk on them by saying, falsely, that their last name is actually "Jokeson"

Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony.