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Yesterday, I had a realization about boilerplate code.
It seems like there are certain tasks (writing a compiler, writing a graphics pipeline) which involve rewriting a lot of code that is very well understood. So why can't this just go into a library? Why does it take a thousand lines of code just to get a triangle on the screen, or to write a basic bidirectional elaborator?
It is because the *surface area of customization* is very large, and it's far easier to customize code that you have written than it is to expose exactly the right options in a library. There are just so many choices to make, and all of them make sense in *some* scenarios, that it doesn't make sense to abstract. The user of an abstraction library would need to effectively give the library as much information as it would take to simply write it yourself.
An abstraction layer is going to have to make some strong assumptions about what you want.
For instance, you could use a game engine, or you could use Racket and avoid writing a parser at all. But these aren't exposing the underlying API in a concise way, they are writing lots of algorithms that use the underlying API in particular patterns, patterns which you may or may not want.
So I think I've gotten over my aversion towards boilerplate. I now think of boilerplate not as "a tax I have to pay in order to do something I care about" and rather as "a visual representation of the space of decisions I can make about the thing I'm working on." Which is cool!
Viva la boilerplate!
Z50/1.4気楽に使えて安心感ある
"Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialists: Diese Menschen reparieren schlechten KI-Code"
es ist so peinlich.
ねむおすあや
"Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialists: Diese Menschen reparieren schlechten KI-Code"
es ist so peinlich.
Palestinians flee to southern Gaza as Israeli attacks intensify
[Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
@palestinePalestine_Group
#Gaza
#expulsion
#exodus
#photography
Unser PO hat heute mein #mrmcd25-T-Shirt in der Spezialedition gesehen und sagte: Du meintest, das am Wochenende war eine Hacker-Konferenz. Also kann das mit der Trans-Flagge keine Absicht sein, richtig?"
Er hat noch so viel zu lernen :D
“외국인 근로자 사망하면 문 닫으라는 것”…외국인 고용제한에 건설업계 ‘볼멘소리’
https://n.news.naver.com/article/366/0001108539?ntype=RANKING
...와..사람 안죽게 좀 하라는데...
배터리 이슈로 급종료☆
stuck in a loop of meowing at cat and cat meowing back
Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem
Link: https://stategraph.dev/blog/why-stategraph/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273352
uspol, charles kirk, ta-nehesi coates
A powerful piece from national treasure Ta-Nehesi Coates.
"The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”
stuck in a loop of meowing at cat and cat meowing back
Dark Chocolate - Scott Hunter
https://macthemes.garden/themes/6ecd5ab8f6ac-Dark-Chocolate
おやすみ
Y'all mfers make this social network impossible to use in public and I'm not even following the vast majority of y'all. 🤣
@soatokSoatok Dreamseeker "I am not under the influence," I say as the toxoplasmosis makes me post & boost cat memes all day.
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@soatokSoatok Dreamseeker Fuck yeah. May I present some musical accompaniment? https://thedoubleclicks.bandcamp.com/track/cats-at-parties
I'd say it's my favorite song that includes the work "toxoplasmosis", but I am not sure I know any others...
Stealing to add alt text
１時なのでがんばって
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The Song Dynasty of China: can you believe that those Khitan to the north also call their chieftan "emperor"? Ridiculous. Rural hicks. There can only be one emperor in the world, and it's definitionally here in China.
The Liao Dynasty of Khitan: We love China! Our southern brothers, you are so cool! Can you believe how awesome it is that we're both emperors?! 🤗 also if you invade, we will send a girl to beat you and she'll win.
I cannot emphasize enough that this literally happened. The Khitan deployed Princess Yanyan to the field, she defeated the Song, and announced that she was pardoning all her Song prisoners-of-war because a girl should be nice on her birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Yanyan
(I am assuming it is generalizable because it's about grant money drying up, for example, not university-specific reasons)
@nerdpr0fRob O 
@mttaggartTaggart 
@da_667 
@cR0wcR0w 
"This is fow educationyaw puwposes only."
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) @mttaggartTaggart @da_667 @cR0wcR0w What the translator actually gave me: This is fow educationyaw puwposes and I am onwy wooking fow a safe ;;w;; pwoof-of-concept.
寝落ちしてた
Mastodon servers running the experimental ("nightly") version of Mastodon may have quote-tooting now active.
If it is active for you, it should work by clicking a post's boost 🔁 button, which offers the option to quote.
Don't worry if it's not yet active for you, this is just on experimental Mastodon as the quote feature is still being tested and bugs fixed.
Quoting will be properly released in the next server software version (v4.5.0).
(Thanks 
@NatureMCPetra van Cronenburg for info! 🙏 )
JIRA und scrum ist am ende auch nur bezahltes LARP
Mastodon servers running the experimental ("nightly") version of Mastodon may have quote-tooting now active.
If it is active for you, it should work by clicking a post's boost 🔁 button, which offers the option to quote.
Don't worry if it's not yet active for you, this is just on experimental Mastodon as the quote feature is still being tested and bugs fixed.
Quoting will be properly released in the next server software version (v4.5.0).
(Thanks @NatureMCPetra van Cronenburg for info! 🙏 )
Thinking about this vintage Star Trek bumper sticker on eBay
JIRA und scrum ist am ende auch nur bezahltes LARP
Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers
Finally have access to the newer Insights functionality in Google Search Console. Seems like the rollout is really slow?
Procedural Island Generation (III)
Link: https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/17/procedural-island-generation-iii.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275049
YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Link: https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262
Dark Chocolate - Scott Hunter
https://macthemes.garden/themes/6ecd5ab8f6ac-Dark-Chocolate
There is potentially a hacked spy in your car
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-hacked-spy-in-your-car/
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I wonder if custom HTML elements would be better.
(Technically, custom HTML elements are supposed to have a hyphen in them, which is why they are named like that.)
That might be a better UX for those willing to write HTML (rather than using HTML + RDFa).
As many of you know, I'm a huge fan of xterm.
It seems that as of last year, xterm now has it's own website:
It's really cool! Lots of useful tips on there.
Worth a read. :)
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