Alexis King

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[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

“Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.”

— Piet Hein

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

The recording of my talk from @ssw_conf is now up. :) https://t.co/vaJGB8d1v2

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth Yes, it is certainly a “the worst people you know are fighting” kind of situation…

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@StatisticsFTW @samth It’d be nice if this were the attitude at play here, but that has not been my impression from following this story, I’m afraid.

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth I am sure it will not surprise you that I do not like Zig and I am no fan of Kelley’s attitude on the nature of safety, but I am not convinced it is a major motivator for this blog post. I have other sources that corroborate the claims about Bun and Jarred. It’s quite the mess!

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth Sam, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I don’t think “we asked an LLM to port everything to Rust containing over a thousand uses of `unsafe` and then merged the PR” is the work of someone who values safety. (If anything I think the Zig folks seem to value safety more!)

[Impure Pics @impurepics]

@lexi_lambda talks Racket, nonogram/picross puzzles, puzzle solvers, a functional picture combinator library on top of OpenGL, and programming for fun. Enjoy.

https://t.co/YdNzNrJaCf

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@kerckhove_ts yes https://t.co/ov3WTjEaSi

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

good lord

[Paweł Szulc @EncodePanda]

LOL @lexi_lambda, I'm arguing (sic!) with Claude about how ridiculously stupid function it has written in Go, and this just happened:

I have not mentioned you once in that conversation.

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth it is really funny how every sane programmer I know basically agrees that LLMs are sometimes extremely useful for writing code but should never, ever, under any circumstances be used to produce English

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at @ssw_conf next month. I hope to see some of you there! :) https://t.co/njFSM0Bv0v

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@_saagarjha lol I made almost this exact post in a discord server a few months ago

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth Was that really up for debate?

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@scheminglunatic The C Standard Cannot Be Replaced And Will Never Be Destroyed https://t.co/qpzFTvdaVn

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

racket-nonogram now supports automatically generating “mega nonogram” puzzles from standard puzzles

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@samth it’s just a very nice way of writing comments!! I don’t really understand why it isn’t more common tbh (well, okay, I do: it’s because most programmers seem to hate writing comments in general. but you know, skill issue)

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

while working on this I have begun to understand why there are no mega picross implementations on the internet

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

been working on a racket implementation of nonograms/picross that supports networked co-op https://t.co/vWRpLSNMd4

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

for the record, I do not consider this an improvement

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

Anyone else ever think about how fucked up it is that there’s no easy way to type em dashes on English keyboards outside of macOS? I feel like they are kind of an essential punctuation mark, comparable to if keyboards somehow didn’t have any way to type semicolons.

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

I have published my first new blog post in four years https://t.co/nLqgz9bO0c