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.

I might be slowly turning more lucid. Things are starting to take on a repeat. I was scanning mildly old tech news feeds and time travelled to old school 2012 high school.

There was a certain Kony 2012 of worldwide acclaim around that time too (randomly tangential but true).

I’ve been thinking about scams lately. The most elusive are both scams and not scams, i.e, scamming from the “superposition” (if you will).

Scammers thrive on confusion. If large groups of people say that a scheme worked, and others the exact opposite, then something’s phishy.

What makes ponzi, miracle man, and “dead donkey” scams truly ingenious is that victims may defend the scam. Since it did work or losses were minimal, the misdirection is completely on autopilot.

They say you can’t have virality without context collapse. There are times when I stumble upon stuff online that I kind of know the behind the scenes on.

Then I remember (again) that virality is often simpler than you’d think. One only has but to master the art of continually collapsing the context. It begins where the fates align and the contexts collide.