after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead

@scarlet Ooh, nice. That sounds much more fun; I’ll have to give that game a look.

@scarlet Important question: does it have relatable main characters? I see it’s from the same studio as It Takes Two, which my spouse and I stopped playing when we realised we couldn’t stand either of the main characters and didn’t want them to succeed.

@tekin How quaint to automate something so that it works the same way, reliably, helpfully, every time.

Next thing you’ll be telling me you actually *understand* the code you write, or some similarly vintage notion.

@Thayer Happy birthday! Go you indeed. Thank you for still being around and still being your wonderful self.

@jonty I had a coding assignment for an interview some while back where I was told to look out for the deliberate mistake.

I found them both.

@jonty Jonty, if I wanted to torture maths, I’d have invested in cryptocurrency already.

@jonty Good to know.

@Meyerweb Eric.

@Thayer Oh, excellent. Glad to hear it went well. Living your best squishy wizard life, I see.

@wordridden Well done for trying a new thing, and for saying “no, this isn’t for me right now”. Acts of bravery, both.

@Thayer For what it’s worth, I can imagine you being an absolute blast of a player at any D&D table. I’m excited to hear how it goes.

@Thayer Hells yeah! Wishing you some epic natural 20s and hilarious natural 1s.

@Thayer *box of tissues * 📤🤧

@Thayer Very well done, you. That more than warrants a good dose of ugly crying.

@andrew Ooh, hello. If this turns up on the internet at some point, I would be very interested indeed. Seems like some good ammunition for when I find myself in need of a neurodivergent career again.

@issyl0 “Complex number” and “intuitive” should never, ever be put in a sentence together.

@jonathanmatthews No, because I avoid LLMs unless they’re being forced on me, but I’ll be sure to thank Siri the next time I have the chance.

@lzg The emotionally manipulative owl demands that you beg its forgiveness.

(The emotionally manipulative owl can also fuck right off with that nonsense.)