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tyler
@leothrix
infrastructure thaumaturge and "technical" "writer" | @BowtieWorks | very tired all the time | ๐Ÿ˜ @[email protected]
Idaho, USA
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Mar 25, 2022
    There's a little-known letter from Chaucer that records his tasting flavor-blasted doritos > [...] mye mouthe wys accosted with sych violence by thee triangle I was laid out upon mye bed f'r three nyghts avvash in a dread sweat that did not abate until my humors weir set aright
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Oct 29, 2025
    I will never forgive Rust for making me think to myself โ€œI wonder if this is allocatingโ€ whenever Iโ€™m writing Python now
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Nov 4, 2025
    I just want a modern, well-maintained programming language that's performant, provides low-level facilities for systems programming, doesn't force me to manage memory, has a strong and expressive type system, and interops with C Rust reply = blocked
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Nov 7, 2025
    Even assuming Omarchy had zero bloat, gluing together a system with POSIX shell scripts is like building a house with tools that will randomly break if you hold them at the wrong angle or disappear in your hand if it's Tuesday
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Oct 27, 2025
    you gotta be careful not to alienate people in the FOSS community like Lunduke and risk losing their copious amounts of well-regarded software projects and technical contributions
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    Theo - t3.gg
    @theo
    Oct 27, 2025
    I stand behind every word. Lunduke has been a net negative to tech journalism for over a decade. Every single maintainer Iโ€™ve talked to absolutely hates this guy.
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Apr 29, 2025
    Replying to @scheminglunatic
    weโ€™re ten years away from an hour-long video with Felix yelling about GNU license violations arenโ€™t we
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Nov 21, 2022
    Been seeing people bemoan the Mastodon setup steps and I'm over here like uh, it took ~30 lines on NixOS and everything was cached so I never saw `bundle install` run
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Aug 25, 2025
    Replying to @eigenrobot and @selentelechia
    to grow up is to realize that this malcom in the middle opener is neither good nor evil but just a reflection of the noble battle against household entropy in all its forms
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Oct 13, 2025
    LMAO At this point it feels unfair to prey on Lunduke for reasons similar why we donโ€™t publicly mock the elderly and infirm for falling for Microsoft Support scams
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    HSVSphere
    @HSVSphere
    Oct 13, 2025
    Replying to @RiverviewAvenue
    hahahahaha good catch
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Nov 7, 2025
    Replying to @leothrix
    "Linux is glued together with shell scripts" Yes and that's why we still suffer brittle systems while others are doing the work to replace bash and perl scripts with better alternatives. do not cite the old magic to me
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Sep 17, 2025
    wHy reWriTe iT in rUsT whEn yOu hAve tO cRoSS aN unSaFe bOunDaRy evEntUalLy i totally agree. this is why i don't put my children in car seats: if the car explodes, they'll be injured anyway. it's just extra work to put them in the car
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Nov 7, 2025
    Replying to @leothrix
    Years ago I was asked during a job interview how an `echo` command would behave when it was given a variable in like 5 different ways, each result was different. You can't build foundations that can be reliably reasoned about on primitives like that
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Oct 24, 2025
    I think you need to be mired in software engineering for a few years before realizing how much of a miracle it is that I can find a public repository and, because it has a flake.nix file, can run it successfully with a single command from my local machine
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    HSVSphere
    @HSVSphere
    Oct 24, 2025
    Replying to @leothrix
    github.com/vimjoyer/dark-โ€ฆ the quickshell one is
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    tyler
    @leothrix
    Oct 22, 2025
    this is, uh, useful context to know
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    Tristan Ross ๐Ÿ˜บโ„๏ธ
    @RossComputerGuy
    Oct 22, 2025
    TIL Matrix does not strip EXIF.
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