Professional OCaml enjoyer. Views expressed therein are also those of your employer.https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mpu7jyrlmc24Book so small it should have been called Sun Tzu's Zine on War04 Jul 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpu7jyrlmc24https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3motosdvtds2lMake invalid states incomprehensible22 Jun 2026 01:02 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3motosdvtds2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3modwyz7dnk2thttps://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/book/index.html 👀15 Jun 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3modwyz7dnk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mo2rc46luc2qIt's well known that the easiest way to get compiling OCaml code is to go through a grueling interview process and then relocate to New York. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jun 2026 03:10 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo2rc46luc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mnhutdtlus2mThank god I can finally stop wearing sunscreen [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2026 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhutdtlus2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mnfb4hkhvs25There's an unreleased monitor that I desperately want (Asus PG27UCWM) and as far as I can tell, the only way to be notified when it's released would be to sign up for their super spammy email list and then sift through the garbage for the announcement.03 Jun 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfb4hkhvs25https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mndmxvf5wk2bChange in quality between the initial printing and the later “on demand” printing is wild. Really glad I still have the original copy!02 Jun 2026 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndmxvf5wk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mmr5yeqdos24VS Code has this problem where every new feature that they add is turned on by default, leading to an enormous amount of visual clutter. Turns out that if you painstakingly turn all of this off, it's a perfectly fine editor!26 May 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmr5yeqdos24https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mlyv4otvpk2bA great day for everyone who read the Halo novels [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyv4otvpk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mloiyt7lq22jA guitar chords flashcard app: tyoverby.com/flashchords12 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloiyt7lq22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mlepqaphts2gHey I have an idea, could we get some dermatologists in NYC who aren’t among the hottest people alive. Not enjoying having my earthly flesh inspected by a greek god. This may generalize to other locales08 May 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlepqaphts2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mle5sbq7o22m [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle5sbq7o22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mjrqk4psgk2zMore people should read Children of Time, but especially those who finished Project Hail Mary and want to see more spiders in space.18 Apr 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrqk4psgk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mivvyd5ucs2fHappy to finally publish a site I've been working on for a while now: arewelegacycomputingyet.com It's a status tracker for terminal emulator support and explainer the Symbols For Legacy Computing unicode block. It really expands the set of cool things we can do in the terminal! https://arewelegacycomputingyet.com/07 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivvyd5ucs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mhegy3kyac2lSOMEONE STOP HIM!!!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhegy3kyac2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mhe4ftrcyk2lThere's lots of things that irk me about C, but I think I'm unreasonably bothered by the lack of named parameters to functions. How do people live like this?!18 Mar 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe4ftrcyk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mhbdfg33v22uIt'd be really cool to have a text editor that is hyper-malleable but also has a lot of training data in the LLM learning corpus so that Claude could make project-specific editor UIs for me while I code. Wait, that's Emacs isn't it? I take it all back.17 Mar 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbdfg33v22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mgycdj2kl225I’m so happy that I managed to completely remove Windows from my development and personal computing use. Every time I see sometime from Microsoft it’s like Ha Ha, we’re making it worse!14 Mar 2026 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgycdj2kl225https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mgjhsjxtyk27A poor craftsman blames his tools. Wealthy craftsmen also blame their tools. Lots of tool-blaming going around.08 Mar 2026 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgjhsjxtyk27https://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mfzx6gdnlc2zIt’s kinda weird that the words “fiction” and “nonfiction” imply that “fiction” is the default for stories02 Mar 2026 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfzx6gdnlc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mfq6n6awpc2lI echo this sentiment and would like to extend it to “implementing testing harnesses” [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Feb 2026 02:48 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfq6n6awpc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mfmncce4ss2uIt’s actually just air escaping the tape [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Feb 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmncce4ss2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3meyadlzjtc2nMillennial cultural domination can’t come fast enough [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Feb 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3meyadlzjtc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3metom2w3ok2hClaude keeps winning [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Feb 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3metom2w3ok2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3mep6tae7lk2iAs an occasional Windows user, my relationship with this software is one where Windows tries to trick me and I need to constantly be on guard.12 Feb 2026 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mep6tae7lk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3meorc7r4cs2zAI coding tools are safe and useful because version control give you branches, diffs (review), and reverts. Why don't our other tools have the same guardrails and affordances? Would it be crazy to stick everything in git? https://tyoverby.com/posts/version-control-for-everything-else/12 Feb 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3meorc7r4cs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3melo2ftc7k2wCafes should allow me to start a tab and order more coffee and snacks to my table11 Feb 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3melo2ftc7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/tyoverby.com/post/3me5ryykloc2xLearning about keyboard interrupts in school like “that can’t possibly be how it works” [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Feb 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:dhfuqvfsgluzjisav2o7ry56/app.bsky.feed.post/3me5ryykloc2x