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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-02 09:56:11
Content warning: Madness

As I emerge uncertainly from another sustained period of #madness, I realise (again) that I largely use the #PostScarcitySoftware project as self-prescribed anti-suicide therapy. It's sufficiently hard that it has my foggy brain working at full stretch, and sufficiently huge that there&…

Mad software
I was listening to Eric Normand's podcast this morning, as I was making breakfast and tidying my room; he was talking about semantics and data. It started a train of thought which I shall try to unroll.I have blogged a lot in the past about madness and about software, but I don't think I've ever blogged about madness and software in the same essay. But the reasons I'm mad and the reasons I'm (sometimes) very good at software are related; both have their roots in autism and dyslexia, or, to put …

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-22 15:12:39

It's useful to have your own toilet paper on you:
• in the woods
• in the train, in case there's no toilet paper
• in the train, in case the paper's in some stupid anti-theft container and it's practically impossible to find the end and unroll it through the tiny gap
#shitposting