bibliophile, flâneur, occasional programmer, Clojure core https://www.fogus.me https://blog.fogus.me 🇺🇸🇯🇵https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.mehttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mvamyg2o3s25I remember a time when it took months or years to create a crappy hobby programming language, now it takes a matter of days!11 Sep 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvamyg2o3s25https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3muzcv4z5kk2whugging face08 Sep 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzcv4z5kk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mu5of7esrk2eCan someone tell me the name of that Woody Guthrie song with the lyrics “… from Lake America to the Gulf of America to the American Ocean to the other American Ocean…”?28 Aug 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5of7esrk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mu32h2eo4k22Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll vibe code it." Now they don't know how many problems they have.27 Aug 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu32h2eo4k22https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mt32hbve2c2cRIP John Crowley14 Aug 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt32hbve2c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3msw67asygs27The reworded article on Boing Boing about my “Born Against…” post might be longer than my post. https://boingboing.net/2026/08/12/hobby-coders-against-llms.html12 Aug 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msw67asygs27https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3msswmsleyk2hWhy can't modern language designers stop shoving curly braces and semicolons into their new programming languages? They're Algolholics. 🥁11 Aug 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msswmsleyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3msilcjfui22dHappy Birthday (Aug 7, 1946) to L. Peter Deutsch, computing luminary and inventor of the REPL. https://obsolescence.dev/interactive-computing-history.html07 Aug 2026 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msilcjfui22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3msg72gd2h22nA Reddit community for the Read-Eval-Print-λove lifestyle at https://www.reddit.com/r/ReadEvalPrintLove/06 Aug 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msg72gd2h22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mscfa5v7mk2v… is the best kind of synth-rock.05 Aug 2026 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscfa5v7mk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3msb6k54yzk2lEmblogginated "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage" --> https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html04 Aug 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msb6k54yzk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3ms6ktik7uk2lRaise your hand if you're going to Clojure/conj this year? ✋03 Aug 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6ktik7uk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3ms6imjrp7s27From about 7th grade to the time that I graduated college was peak TV to me. In that span I found the three big shows of my life: STNG -> Twin Peaks -> X-Files. I will still stop whatever I'm doing if I happen upon an episode from one of these shows.03 Aug 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6imjrp7s27https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mrx46gidnk23I want to read the rest of Edwin Drood. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jul 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrx46gidnk23https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mr6gn7z6ac2sSaw the Doomsday trailer... yawn... still no Alpha Flight.21 Jul 2026 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6gn7z6ac2shttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mqypuvb6qs2nI wrote a post “The Centenary of 'Flower Phantoms' by Ronald Fraser” celebrating a beautiful whimsical fantasy. —> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-centenary-of-flower-phantoms-by.html?m=119 Jul 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqypuvb6qs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mqkixhszqc2xRIP13 Jul 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkixhszqc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mpmav7i2bk2qDoes anyone else find it particularly insidious that a bulk of LLM tokens in the workplace are burned to help make tools that make LLMs more useable in the workplace?01 Jul 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmav7i2bk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mp4vtu37ic2hLibraries of dead literary figures has always been a topic of study and interest. Sadly, no one gives a hoot about the libraries of computerists. "Dijkstra's library" is the first attempt to even inventory such a thing since Erik Naggum's books were listed years ago. www.dijkstrascry.com/inventory25 Jun 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4vtu37ic2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mp2sk4c7zc24Has anyone found out if 1-trillion dollars is enough to buy happiness?24 Jun 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2sk4c7zc24https://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mp2esd4z322oHa! My Lithp project from 2008 made a brief blip on the HN front page earlier today. fogus.me/fun/lithp/24 Jun 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2esd4z322ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3moli7vpxlc2zSaw "Backrooms" and really liked it. It fits nicely into exactly the kinds of films that I love; those that show how the mundane world is punctured by something weird and eerie.18 Jun 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3moli7vpxlc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3moiqpop5tc2cThe weirdest experiences in my life have involved light switches.17 Jun 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3moiqpop5tc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mo6rhqujuc2oReceived my copy of Arthur Machen’s book of essays The Guide, published by Darkly Bright Press in the mailbox today. This little lovely contains a humble appendix by yours truly!13 Jun 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo6rhqujuc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mnziruihr22mThe problem with listening to music with bleeps and bloops in it is that I constantly think that I'm getting Discord notifications.11 Jun 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnziruihr22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fogus.me/post/3mncv6n5vuc2oI'm going to save my company some money today by using my human brain!02 Jun 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:mpten4uxeosrepcoxwyp2dwo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mncv6n5vuc2o