Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

Mad Scientist and Necromancer
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes

Used to be called Foone, before the war

pronouns: she/her
website: https://wiki.averlong.com
location: San Leandro, CA, USA
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Last Notes

2026-10-01 23:32:00 UTC

excellent work, Alice:
I just wrote some code to non-recursively request the first 10,000 IPs from an API, forever.
Pagination is hard, lets go shopping

2026-10-01 20:45:14 UTC

ooh, you know you're in for a treat when an API mentions "JSON keep-alive"

2026-08-24 11:30:28 UTC

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what's be really cool (and I understand there's a lot of reasons why this would be a nightmare to actually implement) would be a tool like ffprobe that telled you the ffmpeg command that'd produce a given format of video, based on an example file

2026-08-24 11:27:46 UTC

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oh hey, the README mentions the Diamond Viper VLB! and the Weitek P9000! that's the 2D Accelerator I was researching how to code for earlier today

2026-08-04 19:15:56 UTC

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so even if these AI systems worked, didn't have the environmental downsides, the labor downsides, the costs, the inability to run them locally, the inaccuracies due to just being statistical models, the closed-box nature making them difficult to debug, the forced nature of their inclusion, and the other 900 reasons why I'm not interested in AI:
I don't want to talk to computers in English, because I want computers to do exactly what I tell them.

2026-08-04 19:13:55 UTC

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like, there's a reason why laws are written Like That, because legal english has to establish all its terms and be very precise with what it's saying because English (like all human languages) is not precise.

2026-07-09 02:41:09 UTC

computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!
and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.
DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP