Gears

io.println("Hello, world!") I'm Gears, an amateur software developer, investigating functional programming, compilers and Minecraft datpapacks. I'm a team member of @gleam.run, and one half of the technical datapack team, @datapack.dev

perfect, no notes

lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgel...

Someone has stepped in soot and is leaving carbon footprints everywhere

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Everything is connected

😁😁😁

Roses are red. Tires are flammable...

7-8ish years ago, I went to a speakeasy in Halifax under a dessert shop where you have to give them a password that changes weekly (they have a hard-to-find email list for it). I subscribed then and every week, without fail, I get their password. I have no intention of going back but it's comforting

My mum always told me not to peep at both sides of a bamboo joint

Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Windows peeps! Is there a directory that is on your PATH by default that the Gleam install docs should recommend you use for the precompiled binaries?

all im saying is only one entry there is 100% admired

Gleam v1.19.0 is out now! gleam.run/news/gleam-d...

I love it when I find another person that is in two unrelated, niche communities that I'm in

I can't help imagining people as their profile picture if they use a photo, even if it's obviously not a photo of them

this speaks volumes

I have a very important question: is there a number 3 version of "electric boogaloo"?

I wish I could reply to threads in bluesky without it showing up directly to my followers. I often want to reply to a specific post in context, but don't really need that being broadcast to everyone who follows me

Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons https://theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-billion-seasons-1819569446/

I had to double-check that this wasn't a The Onion headline when I first saw it

I'm a big alphabet song fan

Starting my day making some art.

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

I love the smell of my computer frying itself

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

Creep

Still probably the best conference I've ever been to

As they say, if the finance business doesn't work out, you can always become a court jester for the king of a small Pacific island nation

Person on the internet: "I want you to change this thing" Me: "please tell me why you want it changed" Person: "I don't want to. I just want it changed" Me: "to change it, you first need to tell me why" Person: "but that's not something I want to do" ...yeah I'm just walking away from this

Everyone makes jokes about how violent programming terminology with all the killing of processes, but no one ever brings up all those poor darlings that die in writing and other arts

While I do like the occasional modern pop tune, none of it beats the intense visceral feelings I get from listening to a lot of stuff from the 70s-90s (usually rock or melancholy slow stuff)

There is code that is art, just as there are words that are poems. But not all words are poems, and not all code is art.

make art anyway

Album covers are such cool pieces of art

It's kinda messed up that so many images come up if you search "no photo sign"

I kinda wanna start a new podcast just to try this out on a real project

Imagine having enough time to work on all your projects

Today is just one of those days

My sponsorships have steadily gone down for the last couple of months, if you have a couple of bucks to spare and want to help out that would mean a lot! There's no such thing as a sponsorship that's too small

I've already booked my ticket! It's gonna be loads of fun!