Alhadis
@alhadis.bsky.social
Cynical optimist. I'm just here to post shower-thoughts, weird facts I've just learned (but have nobody specific to share them with), and other irreverent bullcrap. 🇦🇺 Nature lover and tree-hugger proudly hailing from Melbourne, Australia.
YAML is my favourite esolang.
In all seriousness though, this format needs to die.
In all seriousness though, this format needs to die.
The yaml document from hell
As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.
ruudvanasseldonk.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
YAML is my favourite esolang.
In all seriousness though, this format needs to die.
In all seriousness though, this format needs to die.
A group of Russel Crowes is called a Murdere.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
A group of Russel Crowes is called a Murdere.
Mark Zuckerberg is frequently likened to a lizard, but as anybody who's ever owned a bearded dragon can attest, lizards have personality.
IMHO Zuck's species is more closely related to arachnids. Those glassy, soulless eyes, and that vast, inescapable web he ensnares you in before he sucks you dry…
IMHO Zuck's species is more closely related to arachnids. Those glassy, soulless eyes, and that vast, inescapable web he ensnares you in before he sucks you dry…
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Mark Zuckerberg is frequently likened to a lizard, but as anybody who's ever owned a bearded dragon can attest, lizards have personality.
IMHO Zuck's species is more closely related to arachnids. Those glassy, soulless eyes, and that vast, inescapable web he ensnares you in before he sucks you dry…
IMHO Zuck's species is more closely related to arachnids. Those glassy, soulless eyes, and that vast, inescapable web he ensnares you in before he sucks you dry…
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So a temperature of 41 °C is forecast for tomorrow. Fire warnings abound in Victoria. Nice and toasty.
For the Yanks, that temperature is roughly 106 °F(ucked).
For the Yanks, that temperature is roughly 106 °F(ucked).
January 8, 2026 at 9:14 AM
So a temperature of 41 °C is forecast for tomorrow. Fire warnings abound in Victoria. Nice and toasty.
For the Yanks, that temperature is roughly 106 °F(ucked).
For the Yanks, that temperature is roughly 106 °F(ucked).
holy honkin' shit lmfao
Pingu's 'The Thing' AKA THINGU by Lee Hardcastle
YouTube video by mellllllllll
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
holy honkin' shit lmfao
I just ate sushi for the first time in my whole life.
38.752 years spent on this Earth without knowing what I was missing.
38.752 years spent on this Earth without knowing what I was missing.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 AM
I just ate sushi for the first time in my whole life.
38.752 years spent on this Earth without knowing what I was missing.
38.752 years spent on this Earth without knowing what I was missing.
Got an e-mail from Google titled "You’re now using Gemini on web" (because I think I visited their "gemini." subdomain by accident or something). When I went to disable it and delete whatever it considered my "prior usage", I was presented with this absolute gold nugget of user interface design. 🏆
January 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Got an e-mail from Google titled "You’re now using Gemini on web" (because I think I visited their "gemini." subdomain by accident or something). When I went to disable it and delete whatever it considered my "prior usage", I was presented with this absolute gold nugget of user interface design. 🏆
Websites that allow users to toggle between colour motifs with a setting like…
1. Light mode
2. Dark mode
3. Use system's current mode
… have absolutely no business making Light Mode the default, instead of the obvious choice of honouring the system's current motif (choice 3).
It's baffling. 😒
1. Light mode
2. Dark mode
3. Use system's current mode
… have absolutely no business making Light Mode the default, instead of the obvious choice of honouring the system's current motif (choice 3).
It's baffling. 😒
January 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Websites that allow users to toggle between colour motifs with a setting like…
1. Light mode
2. Dark mode
3. Use system's current mode
… have absolutely no business making Light Mode the default, instead of the obvious choice of honouring the system's current motif (choice 3).
It's baffling. 😒
1. Light mode
2. Dark mode
3. Use system's current mode
… have absolutely no business making Light Mode the default, instead of the obvious choice of honouring the system's current motif (choice 3).
It's baffling. 😒
If any building constructed in Amsterdam in 1880 deserves to burn, it's Elsevier Headquarters.
Leave the damn cathedrals alone, guys. 😫
Leave the damn cathedrals alone, guys. 😫
January 4, 2026 at 4:40 AM
If any building constructed in Amsterdam in 1880 deserves to burn, it's Elsevier Headquarters.
Leave the damn cathedrals alone, guys. 😫
Leave the damn cathedrals alone, guys. 😫
This tool has saved my arse so many times whenever I've needed to lookup Unicode symbols by their rough shape, rather than name.
Sharing it for the benefit of anybody who doesn't yet have it bookmarked:
shapecatcher.com
Sharing it for the benefit of anybody who doesn't yet have it bookmarked:
shapecatcher.com
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want!
Search Unicode characters by drawing them in a box and find the most similar shapes.
shapecatcher.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This tool has saved my arse so many times whenever I've needed to lookup Unicode symbols by their rough shape, rather than name.
Sharing it for the benefit of anybody who doesn't yet have it bookmarked:
shapecatcher.com
Sharing it for the benefit of anybody who doesn't yet have it bookmarked:
shapecatcher.com
Finished reading the Epstein files.
Turns out, the ███████████ did it.
Turns out, the ███████████ did it.
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Finished reading the Epstein files.
Turns out, the ███████████ did it.
Turns out, the ███████████ did it.
That Oreo explosion was absolutely mental.
I always thought that acids, you know, corroded stuff. Not set things on fire and blow up potato chips with enough force to punch a hole through porcelain…
I always thought that acids, you know, corroded stuff. Not set things on fire and blow up potato chips with enough force to punch a hole through porcelain…
The World’s Scariest Acid. 100% Perchloric Acid
YouTube video by ChemicalForce
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
That Oreo explosion was absolutely mental.
I always thought that acids, you know, corroded stuff. Not set things on fire and blow up potato chips with enough force to punch a hole through porcelain…
I always thought that acids, you know, corroded stuff. Not set things on fire and blow up potato chips with enough force to punch a hole through porcelain…
This humidity really needs to piss off. I've just showered and dried off, yet I'm already getting sweaty again.
I love summer. No, really, I do.
I love summer. No, really, I do.
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This humidity really needs to piss off. I've just showered and dried off, yet I'm already getting sweaty again.
I love summer. No, really, I do.
I love summer. No, really, I do.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Excel formulas are a Turing-complete programming language, yet it has no (canonical) name. Is it named "Excel"? If so, does the name hold when the language is implemented by OpenOffice? Or Apple's "Numbers" app?
This would shit me more if I actually worked with spreadsheet software.
This would shit me more if I actually worked with spreadsheet software.
Enriching Excel with higher-order functional programming
Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability and its role i...
www.microsoft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Excel formulas are a Turing-complete programming language, yet it has no (canonical) name. Is it named "Excel"? If so, does the name hold when the language is implemented by OpenOffice? Or Apple's "Numbers" app?
This would shit me more if I actually worked with spreadsheet software.
This would shit me more if I actually worked with spreadsheet software.
![A meme headlined with the caption:
"Reviewer: Please don‘t ‘leave the proof as an exercise to the reader’.
Salty technical writer: Fine.”
Below the caption is a photo of a maths textbook[1] opened to page 165, with the page's contents reading:
[begin quote]
“And if you’re not an idiot, it would follow that:
𝑓⁎|𝑋,𝑋⁎,𝑦,𝜃,σ²⁄𝜀∼𝑁(𝐸(𝑓⁎),𝑉(𝑓⁎))
In case you fell asleep during the lecture, let’s remember that:
𝐸(𝑓⁎) = 𝑚ₓ⁎ + 𝐾ₓ⁎,ₓ[𝐾ₓ,ₓ + σ²⁄𝜀𝐼]⁻¹𝐾ₓ,ₓ⁎
For those who sniffed too much Elmer’s glue in the second grade, don’t forget that:
𝑙𝑜𝑔(𝑝(𝑦|𝜃,𝑋)) ∝ −¹⁄₂[𝑦ᵀ[𝐾ₓ,ₓ + σ²⁄𝜀𝐼]𝑦 + 𝑙𝑜𝑔(𝐾ₓ,ₓ + σ²⁄𝜀𝐼)]
Those who passed kindergarten may remember that thus it would follow:
[𝐾ₓ,ₓ + σ²⁄𝜀𝐼]𝑦 = 𝐿ᵀ∖(𝐿∖𝑦)
For those who might have been dropped on the head as a child, let’s remember that:
<Equation that refers something called "exp">
In which exp is exactly what you think it is, and finally:
<See above>
[end quote]
The textbook in question is "How to prove anything: 30 absurd research papers no one else was brave enough to publish" (ISBN: 9781806118922, 1806118920) (OCLC Number: 1545080733), and the meme was originally sourced from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mathmemes/comments/1phefxd/just_leave_it_as_an_exercise/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xpnah7xsi3nbbq4wqww7jued/bafkreifeake65vj7uhyejb5mhrtluhtd7xwngodhcxxl2dprg7j4p7xdaq@jpeg)
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as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
"Rand Paul" is an anagram of "Lunar Pad".
I take that as a sign that we should blast him off into space. Maybe he'll have better luck implementing Libertarianism on the moon.
I take that as a sign that we should blast him off into space. Maybe he'll have better luck implementing Libertarianism on the moon.
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Rand Paul" is an anagram of "Lunar Pad".
I take that as a sign that we should blast him off into space. Maybe he'll have better luck implementing Libertarianism on the moon.
I take that as a sign that we should blast him off into space. Maybe he'll have better luck implementing Libertarianism on the moon.
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rare post that gets better with every single word
Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even.
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
rare post that gets better with every single word
Of all the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, returning to an older typeface more reminiscent of a "better" period in history wasn't what I was expecting.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Of all the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, returning to an older typeface more reminiscent of a "better" period in history wasn't what I was expecting.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Sooooo… I just completed my first (unnecessary) online age verification to prove I'm an adult.
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sooooo… I just completed my first (unnecessary) online age verification to prove I'm an adult.
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄