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Michael @drjeats@octodon.social

Living in suburbia I feel even less inclined to put on pants. If you live in a walking city, there's at least this feeling that you could just head out onto the street at a moment's notice.

This is exacerbated by the fact that I'm still car shopping, so I either walk to the shopping center for groceries, or tag along with roommates since they already started leasing.

I also finished my move to California. Anybody in Aliso Viejo, Orange County, or SoCal in general?

Technically I'm with my folks in Carlsbad right now, but that's because I just bought a bed to put in the new apt today and my roommates were away at the ren fair.

One thing I'm kind of proud of in my syntax is this:

gist.github.com/michaelbartnet

to quote from the top of this gist:

I'm not saying terseness is an inherent virtue, I'm just saying it be like it is.

hey Masto-land, it's been a while

I've been working on a scripting language. I started this project because my roommate gave me some adderall while we were packing for our move 2 weeks ago, so now here I am.

I have a parser that produces an AST, and I have an interpreter for a stack machine that can do procedure calls, so now I guess I have to write the compiler

`strtoll` not `stroll`.

there is no stroll function, but it sounds nice, I'd call it

why do `stroll` and friends use errno to report errors, but do not set errno to 0 on success

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anyone who's written a mastodon bot wanna let me look at their code? i'm trying to convert my static page bots into mastodon bots but i'm not sure how such a thing looks for the mastodon api

so I'm using doctest for unit tests in my side c++ project. seems p gewd, but most of the unit tests I've written recently have been in python+pytest, so now I'm like "oh I have to manually call std::mismatch now, dammit"

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I wa just thinking about Patreon and GoFundMe and such services, and how they're kind of unfair in many ways. You need to be popular to get paid, and you need to market yourself to not need to worry about marketing yourself.

I wondered how nice it'd be if there was a system where people could send money and then the people who need it could request it, removing the need for marketing bs.

And then I realized I had reinvented taxes.

still bless jet blue for having free wifi so I can air-toot

Today I woke up at 7:30am and am still awake. i cant not night owl it.

we _just_ got back to my relative's place and I should go right to bed, but nah let's go on mastodon and work on pet project stuff for a bit :P

is gdgd fairies the best tv show, or the best art of any medium?

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awoo goddammit Show more

found a bunch of 9f blank CD-Rs while moving.

this was the immutable data structure I grew up with

If for no other reason, add a quake console to your game so you can have a `SET` command for feature flags

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1st brain: writing a song in C major or A minor

2nd brain: composing in modal or serialist/tone-row forms

3rd brain: atonal generative computer music code-golfing

4th brain: building dozens of theremin-playing garden gnomes which themselves are theremins, and precisely positioning them in intricate fractal pentagrams to produce polyphonic threnodic whirls

whoa der how bout dat onboarding modal