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lencastre··on The Beauty of Programming (2001)
personally is the automation side of things, create something that saves me time and reduces errors, or invent some rules like unrealistic physics) and watch it all play out, even better when adding interaction and feedback, all the while breaking my head against the wall trying to debug or account for all edge cases,

it’s an awesome feeling

lencastre··on Folks, we have the best π
this would make a great yt video lesson
lencastre··on Signal Secure Backups
measuring the temperature of hell… … … nope, still hot
lencastre··on SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
I played this game to death! I still fondly remember sending the purple lamborguinni to the moon :-) with the right combination of travck pieces.
lencastre··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
> Ultimately, the best system is the one that removes the most friction between decision and action. For the author, that meant stripping away everything but the list itself.

this ↑ a 1000x ↑

lencastre··on I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class
university provides in the following order: prestige, connections, knowledge in exchange for money
lencastre··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
Not available in all euro regions
lencastre··on JPMorgan considers offering loans backed by cryptocurrency holdings
Disclaimer: not investment advice

please stay away from this rat poison shit, it has everything to go wrong and explode in a pool of tears and deception

lencastre··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
Can you expand on your argument?
lencastre··on Firefox tab groups are here
Is this a superior solution to the firefox containers add on?
lencastre··on Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025]
interstellar travel
lencastre··on The hardest working font in Manhattan
Down the rabbit hole I go….
lencastre··on Show HN: App that simulates a software engineer's daily job
This is lo-key brilliant. It could be a meta Stanley Parable both in its soul crushing despair and pointless meaningless existence.

Keep up the great work!!

lencastre··on UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts
That is the fourth D, or?
lencastre··on A colorful Game of Life
It broke my mind
lencastre··on The Gervais Principle
The whole thing is worth a read, as well as the organization man, and you’ll find all the strange ways it relates to your situation should you work in a similar “office” setting.
lencastre··on How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40
Just do it. It becomes a habit. Then second nature. Unless you are disabled or have a medical condition preventing from doing even mild sports you should totally incorporate some kind of fitness activity in your life. The sooner the better.
lencastre··on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
It’s a matter of incentives and who benefits from a generalized belief that AI will wipe the floor with the whole programmer class.
lencastre··on Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
I know DSM V, what is the ICD 10?
lencastre··on Books I Loved Reading in 2024
qnmt is the gift that keeps on giving
lencastre··on Why Talking to Strangers Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Mental Health
Love this. Thanks!
lencastre··on Unexpected Keyboard
What? When?
lencastre··on Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
As a side gig or full on dedication?
lencastre··on DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented
Don’t mean to highjack but I was on the TI-89 camp, and I barely scratched the surface of its programming capabilities and memory. But it did help a lot with earthquake engineering and other mechanical dynamics courses in the university. Chugging a 6 kg laptop was impractical and this little TI was a beast!
lencastre··on NandGame – Build a computer from scratch
Reminds of the Turing Machine game from Steam
lencastre··on Buy payphones and retire
What’s triangular shaped, 3D, and rhymes with Eeramid Scheme.
lencastre··on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
Show some tolerance the guy list his job in October
lencastre··on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
Buuuuuuurn
lencastre··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
In eurolandia one usually sicks GDPR on their behinds. Low level scum may ignore it at their peril and companies with high exposure will comply really fast.
lencastre··on Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust
WOWOWOWOOWOWOWOW
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