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I'm still nowhere near done,... crowbar simplifying type names boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2024/09/08/abdication-is-not-simplicity.html Abdication Is Not Simplicity, or cat -v Considered Harmless | boringcactus in some sense, the Brainfuck programming language is extremely simple. it only has eight instructions! an intermediate programmer could write an interpreter in... simplicity cat considered harmless boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/ boringcactus (Melody Horn) immortal programming goddess boringcactus melody horn https://www.boringcactus.com/2018/06/23/slicing-images-gimp-python.html Slicing and Dicing Images with GIMP and Python | boringcactus Let's say you have one big image (say, a Telegram sticker) and you need to dice it into a bunch of smaller images (say, Discord emoji). GIMP can let you do... slicing dicing images gimp python https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/10/04/job-hunt.html I’m Job Hunting | boringcactus My employer’s remote work policies are changing, and Salt Lake City isn’t “commutable distance” from Boston, so I’m looking for a new job. If you’re hiring... job hunting boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifesto.html An Anti-License Manifesto | boringcactus software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice.... anti license manifesto boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/07/15/what-then-shall-we-do.html What, Then, Shall We Do? | boringcactus america is at a crossroads of sorts. widespread dissatisfaction with how governments at all levels handled the COVID-19 pandemic, decades of police brutality... shall boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/projects/ Projects | boringcactus projects boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2023/02/12/uuid-versions.html UUID versions through the ages | boringcactus UUIDs are neat. y'know, cfbff0d1-9375-5685-968c-48ce8b15ae17 type of shit. if you're like me until a few days ago, all you know about the types of UUID is that... uuid versions ages boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2019/11/03/rust-2020.html Rust 2020: Write Once, Run Anywhere | boringcactus thing that is cool: writing the same codebase and having it run on desktop, mobile, and web rust write run anywhere boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2023/12/27/no-mans-sky-unless.html No Man’s Sky …unless? | boringcactus sky boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2019/03/09/email-on-ssh-auth.html Email Notifications for SSH Logins From Scratch | boringcactus I just spent a while trying to make this happen, so I'm putting this here so I don't have to redo all that research next time. email notifications ssh logins scratch boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2019/02/27/vidslice.html Announcing vidslice | boringcactus I just released version 1.0 of vidslice, a wxPython GUI that wraps ffmpeg and youtube-dl to make announcing boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2024/09/20/eggbug-forever-ffxiv.html Eggbug Forever: a custom minion mod for FFXIV | boringcactus In memory of https://cohost.org. The real eggbug is the friends we made along the way. We carry him with us forever. forever custom minion mod ffxiv https://www.boringcactus.com/2023/11/26/tiny-cactus-cloudtest02.html i got ⋖Builder of the Realm⋗ on the cloud DC | boringcactus got cloud dc boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/02/11/not-any-purpose.html Not "Any Purpose" | boringcactus My previous post on post-open source appeared to resonate with a lot of people, but unsurprisingly, not much has changed since then. Recently, the company... purpose boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/06/26/police-scanner-setup.html Setting Up A Police Scanner With An RTL-SDR | boringcactus so my city has a community-run police scanner broadcast on the internet, but the person who runs it is a bootlicker who's been threatening to shut it down if... rtl sdr setting police scanner boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2022/10/30/taxonomy-of-open-source.html some axes for a taxonomy of open source | boringcactus open source axes taxonomy boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/10/19/crowbar-3-this-is-tough.html Crowbar: Turns out, language development is hard | boringcactus Originally, I hadn't decided whether Crowbar should be designed with an eye towards compiling to C or with an eye towards compiling directly. Compiling to C... language development crowbar turns hard boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2018/08/31/futures.html Futures | boringcactus I'm going to be graduating from college in December and I'm a little bit freaking out. Not because I don't have a plan, but because I have six plans. futures boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2018/07/17/some-thoughts-about-work.html Some Thoughts About Work | boringcactus I think there are three things that can make work rewarding: working with cool people, working on cool things, and working in cool ways. thoughts work boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html Post-Open Source | boringcactus FOSS is dead. what now? open source post boringcactus https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/03/24/non-fsf-copyleft.html Non-FSF Copyleft Usage | boringcactus The Free Software Foundation has decided they'd rather hang out with a sex pest than have an ounce of credibility, so fuck em. 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