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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:38:39 +0000

It baffles me that so many people can agree with the common understanding that symbolic constants are preferable to sprinkling numeric literals throughout their code, and yet still simultaneously somehow think that space indenting is a good idea.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:32:48 +0000

I keep a dedicated, well-backed-up filesystem for relatively important documents of (at least potential) long-term significance -- mortgage, tax records, job contracts, etc. (This is not terribly noteworthy.)

Anyway, recent events have precipitated some somewhat memorable entries in my shell history:

$ cd ~/docs
$ mkdir -p kids/kid0

(A more conventional name for the latter will probably be chosen in a few months.)

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Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:01:00 +0000

Sad to say farewell to The Bad Plus, but glad I was able to catch the final tour.

Attachment: The Bad Plus performing on stage

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Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:29:04 +0000

...and again a year later.

Attachment: guitarist, drummer, and keyboardist performing on stage

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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Ways to make a software-rendered (on-screen) digital clock terrible:

use a proportional-width font
anchor to the right edge
display seconds

The combination of all three is both (a) something I've now encountered multiple times in the last 24 hours, and (b) worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.