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/3mxnhg3oeu22rback from my self-imposed posting hiatus (still in the midst of a cross-border move)12 Oct 2026 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxnhg3oeu22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mv52ejosi22xpeople keep posting the dumbest takes god help us10 Sep 2026 02:54 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv52ejosi22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3muqqqfsblk2cpretty sure someone else has already thought about it, but couldn't we have something like colored functions for allocations instead of asynchronicity?05 Sep 2026 05:29 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqqqfsblk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mu6x3g3fj22dcaring too much about html has no html energy29 Aug 2026 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6x3g3fj22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mtwvqiqsgs2jData centers, chip fabs and what not should be open to the public like churches25 Aug 2026 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwvqiqsgs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mtpq75nbjk2useeing Claude raw dogging some Python inline in a shell is still so baffling lmao23 Aug 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpq75nbjk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mtasw7lcss22when we think about the availability of space, we think usually about it in terms of how it is mainly restricted horizontally but not vertically. interestingly this applies both in the micro (furniture) and macro (buildings) contexts17 Aug 2026 04:01 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtasw7lcss22https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3msp4447agk2lInsane that Claude feels kinda sub with his "say the word and I will..."10 Aug 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msp4447agk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mskxvpdtqk2zhad a blast again at this years html day in Seoul08 Aug 2026 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskxvpdtqk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3msaj5goxxk2nfunny that people attribute verbose writing as an inert characteristic of LLMs writing style, while I'm doing since it middle school04 Aug 2026 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaj5goxxk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mryzwngxzs2tlove that he called computers "high technology"01 Aug 2026 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mryzwngxzs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mrerhinwyk2vthe "I can fix her" meme, but it's me and Safari24 Jul 2026 06:55 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrerhinwyk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mrcvjq7f5c27@are.na why don't u let us upload html files?!23 Jul 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcvjq7f5c27https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mr5txr7c3c25We need URLs everywhere for everything, the way we have GPS and calendars for location and time. I want to send links to passages in PDFs and to specific moments in a song I’m listening to. Everything should be shareable21 Jul 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5txr7c3c25https://bsky.app/profile/seoul.systems/post/3mqwdlo6dic2dgoing insane because nothing I make visually feels like me18 Jul 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:53wellrw53o7sw4zlpfenvuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwdlo6dic2dhttps://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/3momolxrjq22y