Notices by selfsame (selfsame@tiny.tilde.website), page 2

programming is like a detective novel where idk maybe google "body no head who is murderer" and see if stack overflow turns up any clues

me, running late for interview: *rushes into conference room with a stack of boxes that are falling out of my arms onto the floor and table and everywhere*
CEO of DropBox: *one eyebrow raised* well I like where this is going..

I've got bad news Mastodons have been dead for 11,000 years

*explaining to a civil engineer how cowboy stuff works*
and that serves as a high traffic thoroughfare leading to a public cow plaza

aliens: holy fucking shit
humans: I know, first contact right?
aliens: no you dipshits we're talking about whales
humans: ooh yeah, whales are pretty cool
aliens: literally the most amazing thing in the entire galaxy
humans: did you know you can boil them down into lamp oil?

Roombas are just domesticated hockey pucks

Need a last minute gift idea? Print your toots into a zine and hand them out at the bus station!

Hieronymus Bosch is like Where's Waldo for butts with knives sticking out of them

the best computer skill you can develop is not having opinions about everything

i've got this weird combination of impostor syndrome and disdain for capitalism, like "oh no i'm not good enough for this job.. heh heh"

if you're having trouble visualizing the recursive centaur i've made this helpful reference

@cwebber @eq ♬ boss makes a dollar, i make a dime, that's why i run random shell code on company time

I want to say the most important skill in programming is patience? Like when you're 20 tabs deep into variations of "js filereader arraybuffer decode" and not screaming or throwing shit you're probably a good programmer?

swear to god if I ever learn what monads are they better not be functions wrapping functions or some bullshit