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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • oh yeah! That spiral-bound monster was great. I was too young and dumb at the time to actually learn basic but I used to copy the programs from that book into the command line and run them to see what they did. Great memories, thanks!


  • I remember reading The Stand for the first time. The longest book I’d read before that time was a couple of hundred pages long, so it was a big challenge to tackle a 1000 odd page book. But it is such an amazing book and I breezed through it. It’s still my favourite book because of how good it is and because it sparked my appetite for reading.





  • yeah that is an interesting example. I immediately applied the term to commercial products. Like Notion for example - funny because I always say Notion takes wikis which are well established in their usefulness and just slaps them into saas product with other things like docs and spreadsheets (also well established in their usefulness) - but he calls wikis themselves a hyperkludge but what superior thing did wikis kill by network effects?




  • this is cool. Considering their first album was all songs about accepting death I assume they’re not fans of anything tescreal adjacent

    I love that album, and i’ll never forget when I was dating someone who was a classical pianist, the type that closes their eyes and sways their head when listening to classical, and when I put that album on it was a few notes into the first song and she made this tortured face and said “no, no, no! those chord progressions are so depressing!” It was so strange to me to hear that, but you know how you just know when someone knows what they are talking about and she was sure it had hit some kind of melancholy brown note.

    Still… that era of interpol and white lies was great. That shit made me happy

























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