Aaron Parecki

Programming is great because you can just take that huge messy chuck from the middle of your function and hide it away under a new name in a new function and feel good about how you "cleaned up" the original function by abstracting the internals.

This is exactly how I used to clean my room as a kid - I'd refactor all the junk on the floor to be under my bed. Boom - problem solved.

I keep wanting to “like” things here…but I don’t want to favourite them. I’ve been trained not to comment but star on social media and it’s not easy to untrain yourself.

OK, my posts to social.dancohen.org now syndicate to Micro.blog (@dancohen), Mastodon (@dancohen@mastodon.social), and Twitter (@dancohen). Micro.blog is my preferred hangout, as it has a good vibe and is by far the most thoughtful and cleanly designed of the three.

Sleep has to be one of the costliest currencies out there. You borrow some from your daily kitty and you have to pay back with some high interest rate. That is over and above the drab feeling you carry throughout the day. It’s better not to lose any sleep over losing sleeping.

same tbh https://xoxo.zone/media/7A2BkSc2l1n8YYmP1G0

@aaronpk I kind of want a chemist to break this down unnecessarily in a paper or infographic, now.

I had an Amazon package stolen this week while I was away. I feel bad though, as I had only purchased a toilet brush. I can only imagine how disappointed the crook was.

I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories.

This one (retold by my ex-Linden-Lab-colleague Mark Ferlatte) happened in the mid-2000s.

The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing.

But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs.

I just decided that when I post a post to my Mastodon instance, I'm tweeting. Literally no one can stop me from that being true. Everything on computers is made-up bullshit so who even cares