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Alexis King

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“Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.” — Piet Hein


for the record, I do not consider this an improvement

Anyone else ever think about how fucked up it is that there’s no easy way to type em dashes on English keyboards outside of macOS? I feel like they are kind of an essential punctuation mark, comparable to if keyboards somehow didn’t have any way to type semicolons.



I have published my first new blog post in four years lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2025/05/2…


update: someone has posted a remarkably extensive answer to this english.stackexchange.com/a/628758/17950

does anyone know the origin of the variant usage of “grovel” to mean “to rummage” or “to exhaustively search” commonly used in computing circles? if so, please answer my question on English Stack Exchange about this! english.stackexchange.com/q/628648/17950



does anyone know the origin of the variant usage of “grovel” to mean “to rummage” or “to exhaustively search” commonly used in computing circles? if so, please answer my question on English Stack Exchange about this! english.stackexchange.com/q/628648/17950


distracting myself from today’s news cycle by adding more things to Toolbox. today’s addition is a bunch of pict related things. still have to figure out how to move all the slideshow-specific stuff in here, but this is a decent start at least lexi-lambda.github.io/racket-toolbox…

lexi_lambda's tweet image. distracting myself from today’s news cycle by adding more things to Toolbox. today’s addition is a bunch of pict related things. still have to figure out how to move all the slideshow-specific stuff in here, but this is a decent start at least lexi-lambda.github.io/racket-toolbox…

Alexis King reposted

'A Multi Language Oriented Macro System' by Michael Ballantyne at (fourteenth RacketCon) at youtu.be/KHxZ3mT9BSo

racketlang's tweet image. 'A Multi Language Oriented Macro System' by Michael Ballantyne at (fourteenth RacketCon) at youtu.be/KHxZ3mT9BSo

C fetishism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be unsafe operations that the standard defines but does not restrict, alongside safety features that the standard restricts but does not define.


just got absolutely cooked on langdev stack exchange

lexi_lambda's tweet image. just got absolutely cooked on langdev stack exchange

people talk about how social media creates bubbles, but every time I look at twitter the experience is primarily characterized by being subjected to a deluge of takes so stupid they broaden my view of human thought. going to retreat to my bubble of irl friends and group chats


friend: I’ll be in Chicago, tell me what touristy things to do me: I hate touristy things so I’m not the right person to ask friend: surely there’s something everyone suggests me: oh yeah. everyone loves the architecture boat tour friend: have you done it? me, smiling: no


how the fuck is the default Windows 10 photo viewer application not color managed


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