fetch was a mistake. the children yearn for XMLHttpRequest

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

rip to my blueprints (and, by extension, my free time)

another one for PL Papers Minus Context

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

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

foggy night

just got absolutely cooked on langdev stack exchange

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.

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

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…

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

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

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