be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. puzzler, front-end-ish programmer, part-time dragon interpretability @ anthropic (opinions are my own) he/him https://beta.vero.site/ (challenge: find my alt)https://bsky.app/profile/betaveros.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/betaveros.bsky.social/post/3ldfmyec3j22wAbsurd rabbit hole we went down while writing Galactic Puzzle Hunt this year: a 189,819-letter word widely claimed to be the systematic name of the protein titin, and thus the longest English word, is totally wrong. @cjquines.com went super in depth so I don't have to: blog.cjquines.com/post/titin https://blog.cjquines.com/post/titin16 Dec 2024 05:48 +0000at://did:plc:x2bwsibbgvbvqbkexto7sjef/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldfmyec3j22whttps://bsky.app/profile/betaveros.bsky.social/post/3lccsl4yras2gI did two days of Advent of Code in J. This language is way crazier than I ever gave it credit for02 Dec 2024 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:x2bwsibbgvbvqbkexto7sjef/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccsl4yras2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/betaveros.bsky.social/post/3lbr6dxzu2k2zNot planning to post a lot yet — I feel like I've always been a poor fit for shortform social media, more likely to put energy into my blogs again instead — but there's some chance I'll actually try to see how much of all those "how to use Twitter correctly" guides I can apply25 Nov 2024 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:x2bwsibbgvbvqbkexto7sjef/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbr6dxzu2k2z