Tootfinder

Just wrote a fun little algorithm for iterating through all grid positions within X euclidean distance from a center, roughly in order of distance but also mostly ensuring each position yielded is at least diagonally adjacent to the previous. It's a fun problem to think about with lots of design tradeoffs and many valid solutions.
My solution requires that the origin be on the grid (I think?) and uses a bunch of caching instead of a bajillion distance checks, although I don't actually know what the memory/speed tradeoff is like or whether there are any gains at all (could be net losses, which I'm starting to wonder about more as I write this post). Thankfully I don't expect performance to be very critical here anyways, and doing the caching actually helped separate some logic in a useful way.
A fun little diversion from bigger stuff in the project and a reminder of some of the joys of programming design at a small scope. Feels kinda like mastering the local town's minigame while you're stuck on the main quest in an RPG.
#programming

Almost every year since 2015, Idaho children in a faith-healing sect have died of treatable conditions such as pneumonia and bacterial infections that turned to sepsis. 

Church Doctrine: Former members of the Followers of Christ sect say parents are pressured to follow doctrine that forbids medical care. Those who stray risk shunning, they said.

No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for …

These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.

'Yesteryear,' a tradwife satire, understands Christianity better than most Americans
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

Pogacar Makes History!
Tadej joins
Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx,
Bernard Hinault,
Miguel Induršin,
to have won the #TdF 5 times!
chapeux!!
#TourdeFrance #cycling

Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117003290007900358
One of the conclusions I’ve come to from my years of software freelancing is that humans hate tradeoffs.
I don’t just mean that we hate deciding between options when none is clearly the best. I mean that people hate admitting that tradeoffs •exist•. We desperately want there to be a best option, a correct answer, a clear choice that will satisfy our egocentric need to believe we are objectively In The Right. 🧵

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Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-and-cowork-share-memories-now-unles…

Anthropic's Claude and Cowork will share memories about you now - unless you opt out
Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.

'Yesteryear,' a bestselling novel about tradwives, is spot on about American religion
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

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