I’ve been offloading some books. There’s an interesting book on Restaveks called Restavec by Jean–Robert Cadet with the more localized cover.

It’s probably still read here in schools. I know some hate it, not because it’s bad, but because reality competes with absurdist fiction.

The remaining cracks, inevitably exposed by time, will probably be unpalatable to those in a happier century from now.

It turns out that I’m not that smart. Supposedly, if you can make links (or citations) of sufficient fidelity (and precision), then you may have outed yourself out (as a human). And here I thought I was doing an excellent job pretending to be a bot.

At the peak of my fame, I had 500,000+ bots following in my wake spoofing everything underneath the sun. Offering up jason as a sacrifice was not enough.

PHP 8 has an actual HTML5 parser now. Who’d have thought? This kind of thing (I guess) is better late than never. There are so many things that I can go back to now and simplify the hell out of.

I unexpectedly saw an amazing game programmed in Scratch today. I was never that good but they still teach Scratch around these parts. “I programmed this from Scratch” never gets old.

I was twiddling a bit with neovim (lua) and realized something. You’ve got IDEs on one end in the hyper dimension, and overpowered hyper dimensionizable programmable editors? on the other e.g emacs (elisp). Neovim is vim’s (vimscript) successor.

All enjoy a similar predicament. The truth (of time) is that no one really learns an IDE (forget programmable editors). Many IDEs exist now with natural language bells and whistles to the minutiae.

Natural language bridges a (psychological) accessibility and discoverability gap. Of course, if you don’t win the lottery enough times, you’ll be left hanging dry (on tokens).

How hard is it to run Linux? It depends on your luck and persistence. I received a junked Lenovo 11e Chromebook recently and it would always freeze at 99% during any distribution install (classic). Enabling a kernel parameter fixed it. How did I know this? Don’t even ask.

#define SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_CQE (1<<17)
(1<<17) = 0x20000

sdhci.debug_quirks=0x20000

I came across two search engines. The first is super precise. The second is able to dredge up ultra obscure stuff (photos of Norman’s Cay).

1. https://thesifter.org (food)
2. https://stract.com (general)

I keep hearing about deep fakes (and fake comments). I got curious and even universities are simulating. Remember when 70,000 bots were doing the Pinocchio?

Strangely enough, XDA Forums is the last place I’ve ever commented. I rarely read comments nowadays though because they’re too funny (and obviously gamed).

Casually trusting online services is increasingly risky too given the desperate monetary incentives of generative artificial intelligence.

I heard of another static site generator. “Static sites” are not really my jam, but are economically fun. I might try templating that one.

Its motivation adds to my hunch that golang templating is generally disliked. I’m occasionally asked about go (online), but I know very little actually.

I wonder if anyone else still knows about yoyo fundamentals (embed)? I wish you all godspeed in learning the frontend (embed). My YouTube expedition is done for now.