making the internet a better, more human place liking computers just a bit too much / seoul.systemshttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systemshttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mqgkle6k7c23I think my answer to "why do you want to work here?" might boil down to "the work seems to require reading Man pages regularly"12 Jul 2026 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqgkle6k7c23https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mq65b5q4pk2wComputers were never supposed to talk but now they do and we all have to figure out what that means, like wtf?!08 Jul 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq65b5q4pk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpzyqyp4zs2cHad a practical use case for Awk again, and it felt like using Cuneiform07 Jul 2026 06:41 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzyqyp4zs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpzr6ftrx22dHas been a bit less than two months since I started doing spaced repetition again, and I'm already at almost 1k new words?!07 Jul 2026 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzr6ftrx22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpzq4clpks2dReading about all the intricacies of Unicode is like crack for me07 Jul 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzq4clpks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpxf5dudq22iIt’s interesting how emblematic and ubiquitous sound (and smell!) is in Futurist literature. Contrast this with today’s perception if modern technology progress where both of these are absent or if present at all rather perceived as negative externalities, but never as something to be in awe of06 Jul 2026 05:45 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxf5dudq22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpvnf7v54c2lMe when I hack on my website that’s written in C05 Jul 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvnf7v54c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpvl26fj3k2tgod bless those who encode application state in the URL05 Jul 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvl26fj3k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mplhll4l3s2fI wish I could've seen the 2014 Futurist exhibition at the Guggenheim01 Jul 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplhll4l3s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpkfkkkv4s23The notion that all code should be self-explanatory and comments are generally a sign of code smell is so retarded01 Jul 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpkfkkkv4s23https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mpiww6s4222mbrowsing my own channels on are.na has kind of a serene feel to it30 Jun 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpiww6s4222mhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mp3bt23qvc24Policies should have mandatory QA done by the people implementing them25 Jun 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3bt23qvc24https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mp2w4jz3ps2zKeep thinking about that Phillip Glass quote how he’d never have made it in today’s housing market24 Jun 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2w4jz3ps2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3moxitx264c2mI've no data to back this up, but I'm pretty confident on average I'm for some reason I'm happier at night hours than during the day23 Jun 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxitx264c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3momolxrjq22yWorking in a other languages really let's you appreciate, for better or worse, the structure Rust gives you19 Jun 2026 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3momolxrjq22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mom3dntf6c2oLove it when a website fails to load CSS in time and you get a peek on it’s HTML stripped down19 Jun 2026 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mom3dntf6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mojzp27ohc2jThe way Javascript deals with numbers is just pure insanity18 Jun 2026 04:50 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojzp27ohc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mohfgxao3s2gClojure’s arg destructuring seems so unnecessary, especially considering that the language doesn’t have types17 Jun 2026 03:42 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohfgxao3s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3moec5gp3bs2ftalked to my mum and she called Zuckerberg an Arschkriecher out of nowhere lmao15 Jun 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3moec5gp3bs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3moddyegpqc2jbeing online a lot forces you to eventually ask yourself who you are not15 Jun 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3moddyegpqc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mocpatiwas24LLMs are kinda the more useful the more confined the interface we interact with them15 Jun 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mocpatiwas24https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3moa3q2xlos2iI really dislike the term "coding"14 Jun 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3moa3q2xlos2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnxrc7anns2yBluesky not showing the likes tab on other peoples profile, while being public data anyway, is performative at best and deceptive at worst10 Jun 2026 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxrc7anns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnveqwukjk2dbecause of work I got back into doing spaced repetition again, and I see so many narrow use cases even in domains that don't seem a likely fit at first09 Jun 2026 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnveqwukjk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnt2vkrgnk2pdo I have any followers from Germany? Would love to connect from people back home09 Jun 2026 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnt2vkrgnk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnnoyn4ams2nlove when a website is hosted via Apache and I can remove the last part of the URL, see the page directory and then continue exploring the site on my own06 Jun 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnnoyn4ams2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnnnyq43tk2uA recurring theme of lots of my thoughts around LLMs and their use in software engineering, is that their popularity points at least partially to the failure of our tools, our communities and lastly ourselves as engineers06 Jun 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnnnyq43tk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnlsrdlbcs2kI beg yall to make sure your websites are readable on mobile06 Jun 2026 04:26 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnlsrdlbcs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mnh2t6bi3s2revery time I don't record work I've been doing I regret it later04 Jun 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnh2t6bi3s2r