Ian "IaaS" Smith

This is Heather’s best friend E. I don’t know how else to say this, but H passed away earlier this morning. More to come from me eventually.

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Bookshops & Bonedust is a finalist for both the Fantasy and Author Narration in the 2025 Audie Awards. I'm very grateful to be in such wonderful company. Huge congratulations to all the other finalists!

@focusfronting I have to assume Lone Star knew what was up. youtube.com/watch?v=aGWRAa…

@RndmStreetMedic Just @ me next time >.>

Yup... ...yup

Gonna give bluesk- another shot. I've got the same username there that I do here, and I should be in the deafies starter pack soon. bsky.app/starter-pack/f…

@ChShersh @fahzleer I have done this _once_ - "language of my choice, you say? OKAY!" - and it was hilarious to see the interviewer facepalm.

@fahzleer My take is that OCaml is the best language for LeetCode interviews. They know it and that’s why they don’t add it.

As an SWE, you compete with people who actually enjoy grinding LeetCode

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/10/29/the…

@ChShersh It's more fun, though.

Being a young dev is thinking that creating a new programming language is easier than accepting shortcomings of existing langs

i lied i don’t have netflix take off your shoes, we’re gonna build dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions

this is the future leftists (me) want

Do you understand how bad your actions have to be to make @dhh look good? #automattic #wordpress #wpdrama

OCaml is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately pragmatic languages with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively pushed by literally some of the friendliest developers who unironically want to like "write better software" and basically get oneshotted by it literally the most cracked people in existence having their brains rearranged by some programming language 6D demon who makes them zone out during their boring day job, use algebraic effects, and become an OCaml framework author or whatever

@AgedCompost Fuck yeah dude!

whose got TWO THUMBS and a new THERAPIST and an appointment with a PSYCHIATRIC PRESCRIBER next week

Marc Andreesen panicking over ayahuasca awakening his b2b saas founders to the meaninglessness of their path is all the proof you need that it’s good

@isislovecruft Always gonna remember that time I was surprised to run into that good boy in my apartment building <3

@philaheather Always.

Side note do y’all wanna see some of my medical imaging from this emergency I had this past week? It’s kinda fun

I know I’m not even vaguely normal but there is no better way to win me over than to tell me after discussing weird medical imaging, “oh boy do I ever have an xray of a cat for you”

PCI Auditor: Now I need to see the output from the Pentest Me: I was told there'd be no fact checking

"Nothing beats in-person interaction". Yeah, with someone I know and love, not Denise from finance.

YC has got it totally wrong with backing all these AI code editors What the people really want are code editors with gratuitous explosions and particle effects