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Touching sand and salt and sea
Photo of a mangrove plain at low tide. In the foreground is a Grey Mangrove grown in the teardrop shape of an airfoil. A view from a height, overlooking the sea, with blue sky and distant clouds. In the foreground a rocky bush track with close eucalyptus and subtropical plants cast shadows in warm early morning light. In the centre of the track there is a woman facing away looking out to the view through the gap in the trees and scrub.
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Be a min… got to set up my new dev environment
A very 90s looking physical retail box for VisualSmalltalk Enterprise edition which supports Windows 95 and NT from the company ParkPlace Digitalk
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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"Everywhere I Go, I See His Face" meme template from 2019 film Spider-Man: Far From Home in which character Peter Parker (Spider-Man) reminisces about character Tony Stark (Iron-Man) upon looking at his graffiti. Except the graffiti is replaced with pfp of the prolific Vite ecosystem contributor @antfu
October 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Pick your fighter
Two books. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs on the left with its serious visual identity, and The Little Schemer on the right with a cover illustration reminiscent of a children’s book.
July 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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drinking from this like I’ve found water after wandering the desert for months

my need for some structure makes everything in here sound great
The classic Microsoft text on software construction, “Code Complete 2” by Steve McConnell
June 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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imagine we are all writing lisp instead
Netscape: Eich started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. He originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", (5l but his Netscape managers insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java. As a result, Eich devised a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object- orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule. 51[61 At first the language was called Mocha, but it was renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally - in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems - it was named JavaScript in December 17181 Simultaneously, he designed the first SpiderMonkey engine, to execute the new language in the Navigator browser. An image showing an idealised world of flying cars, perfect glossy cities and lush green urban design. This image is a meme associated with techno-optimists particularly amongst tech VC firms.
May 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I would stream me building stuff but today its just me reading these two paragraphs of docs for 45 minutes muttering under my breath
Screenshot of densely written documentation text, the value of the text is not important but follows: "All of these procedures start a new operating system process and create a bidirectional port which allows communication with that process on its standard input and standard output. The direction: setting will default to the value input for the procedures open-input-process, call-with-input-process and with-input-from-process, to the value output for the procedures open-output-process, call-with-output-process and with-output-to-process, and to the value input-output for the procedure open-process. If the direction: setting is input, the output-port side is closed. If the direction: setting is output, the input-port side is closed. The procedures open-process, open-input-process and open-output-process return the port that is created. The procedures call-with-input-process and call-with-output-process call the procedure proc with the port as single argument, and then return the value(s) of this call after closing the port and waiting for the process to terminate. The procedures with-input-from-process and with-output-to-process dynamically bind the current input-port and current output-port respectively to the port created for the duration of a call to the procedure thunk with no argument. The value(s) of the call to thunk are returned after closing the port and waiting for the process to terminate."
April 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Sprained both my wrists recently and went rather extreme on the tenting. Was a godsend. Not going back
Photo of a split “corne” keyboard mounted on MagSafe phone stands positioned semi-vertically
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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my disappointment is immeasurable
A slice of sourdough bread which has a significant hole in it from an air bubble during baking
March 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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A walk is a good idea
A lush green forested area with many overhanging branches. In the foreground is bedrock and a slow moving stream with old carved stone blocks on each bank showing this is a somewhat urban environment.
March 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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7am and already 25C (77F… the F stands for Freedom apparently)

What a morning ❤️
Vertical photo of a shopping cart covered in rust and detritus from being in the sea wrapped in keep out tape against a footpath. A dozen kayakers paddling into the sunrise on the left, over calm water. To the right of the photograph in the background on the other side of the water is Sydney opera house. The colouring is warm and dark it is early morning. A white cruise ship passing under Sydney harbour bridge showing its massive size. In the foreground there are kayakers, and in front of them the foreshore with runners passing. Orange glowing light is softly lighting the scene.
February 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Hell yeah
An image representation of a tree with a depth of four that has 9 nodes, which has obviously just been flipped as an image in photoshop
January 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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First skate in 20 years!! Feels so damn good - its going to take a while to git gud again

I had an accident playing hockey (that literally changed the course of my life) and I've been scared of this thing that I adore for two decades.
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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at least I am hitting my sleep goals in 2025
Screenshot from Apple Health app showing Sleep stats, and the summary "This year, you're averaging more time asleep than you did last year." 2025: 8hr 27min. 2024 6hr 30min.
January 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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A screenshot of a tweet from account @ctrlcreep: If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line-the lightning-harrowed bough — the canyon's pink striation-the pupil of the goat 12:07 PM • Jul 3, 2024 • 7071K Views
December 18, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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I’m not saying I got a split keyboard so I’d have a spot for my coffee, but I’m not not saying it either…
A photo of a part of a desk, looking down at a keyboard with the bottom of a monitor behind. The main feature is a split keyboard with each side in stands, and in between each site is a blue ceramic coffee cup. These are resting on a black desk mat, and there is a warm desk light cropped in the top left of the image.
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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I thought it was meant to be first person??
A screen grab of the 1992 LucasArts point and click game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis showing a scene with Indy in the desert at a dig site, with a user interface panel including an inventory of items and action buttons.
December 9, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Putting GraphQL queries directly in my ui component
A screenshot of a wikihow instructional illustration about self bondage showing someone tied to a pole. It reads: Step 3 - How to Tie Yourself up With Rope Consider binding yourself in several places.
December 6, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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I was thinking about doing advent of code but have decided to chip away at SICP following the 2010 Berkeley lectures instead.

Setting up a MIT-scheme environment on M series Mac is challenging but @racketlang.bsky.social to the rescue! Even got a nice repl going in nvim 🤙
Lying on a desk is a ruled notebook, a printed course packet from Berkeley CS 61A (2010), the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs textbook and some pens, lit by a warm desk lamp out of frame.
November 30, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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One down
A photo of a woman sitting cross-legged in front of of a large decorated Christmas tree with lights on adding decoration to the lower branches.
November 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Uh oh looks like I’ll be on the run to Scotland to untangle a mystery and clear my name wish me luck
Apple health app Steps card showing “39 steps”
November 26, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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lmao the key in this chart
A slide from Benedict Evans annual tech trends presentation, this year titled: "AI and Everything Else". The slide shows a bar chart of adoption of "robotaxi" trips in California, with a key including Tesla, Cruise, and Waymo. While Tesla has a chip in the chart key, it is notably absent from the bar chart content, clearly a dig at the companies repeated failure to launch its robotaxi offering for many years.
November 25, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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went outside
Landscape photo of a gorge in the Blue Mountains region in NSW Australia with a high sun, cliffside in shadow and blue skies with distant clouds Closeup photo of a cicada skeleton with wings in-tact resting in the palm of someone's hand, the ground and the persons feet out of focus in the background with lots of leaf-litter.
November 24, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Quote from The Lucky Country (D. Horne, 1964): Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.
November 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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A film still of Marlon Brando as he ad libs a lengthy monologue as the character Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
November 17, 2024 at 5:39 AM