stepped pyramids

where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace

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Over a year ago, I posted about my near brush with death, and the joy and frustrations of recovery. This was what I said: I felt so sure that I was going to turn over a new leaf and start fixing the problems that had been burdening me even before I became ill. That I would start spending more time with friends and creating more beautiful things and writing thoughtfully and using my time well. Since then, a lot of things have changed. For me, most of them have been for the better. (For the worl

A cross-post from my blog

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I started a new job in September 2022. This unfortunately coincided with the beginning of a gradual but significant health decline that culminated in my hospitalization in October '23. I left the hospital healthier, but very weak, and with several new diagnoses. Progress in recovering has been slow and somewhat intermittent, but recovery is happening. There's still a lot of work to do. In particular, I felt so sure that I was going to turn over a new leaf and start fixing the problems that had b

A cross-post from my blog

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I recently had the opportunity to be a source for an article on the Ruby programming language by Josh Fruhlinger, aka the Comics Curmudgeon. As a longtime Rubyist and big fan of Josh I was honestly thrilled. There is one slight bit of context I want to offer, however. I'm quoted saying this: Boeh, somewhat more bluntly, characterizes Python as "the language where I have met the most people who absolutely hate using it." I just want to make it clear for my Python-loving colleagues and friends

A cross-post from my blog

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Hideo Kojima recently claimed that The Cure was his "favorite band". I'm going to treat that as a language issue and inject "one of" in there, but I gotta say, his games have tons of references to David Bowie and, uh, The Carpenters, but the only appearance of The Cure in the whole series is a licensed appearance of "Friday I'm In Love" in MGS V. I was reminded of this while listening to "Torture" tonight, a song that I feel like could be a great video game BGM if you stripped out the vocals. There's a lot more variety in game soundtracks these days -- I'd love to hear one influenced by The Cure.

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Decided to loosen up here and let the more anonymous identity stay at Mastodon. No reason to worry about opsec if I'm just going to be posting about nice stuff

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Being extremely busy at work has been good for keeping me off of bird site but bad for getting back into the groove over here. I wrote a post for my actual blog for the first time in a month, though. Posting it here would effectively dox me but I've been considering softening my anonymity now that I'm not constantly getting into fights with Q fanatics, groypers, etc.