when things are designed one way and then implemented another.

I am a big advocate of the KISS strategy. look forward to seeing more of what you got.

some ‘practical’ uses could be a fun kind of scavenger hunt IRL or on a website or group of web sites. It could be used as a kind of dead-drop medium. piece some together as a key to decrypt something. Go even more cloak and dagger with some element of steganography.

leader of worlds largest pedophile ring says something disgusting. big shock.

just like fusion power and a space elevator; always a week away.

making them better would mean more work, stress and ill conceived requirements for the programmers. I’m more in favor of marketing thrashing about on their own.

50,000? thems rookie numbers.

opens new tab?

only way to be sure…

this is how cats have operated since the beginning of time.

the “Donna box” was super cringe.

do it often. you may end up with 150 conflicts to have to wade through.

fond memories for BeOS

unless you inherit a large base written by someone who is bad at it where their approach seemed to be to write new bad rules in attempt to cover up previous bad rules and so on. we all know how supportive employers are at addressing technical debt. (site redesign cant come soon enough)

tarsnap makes use of S3. does a decent deduplication job as well

that game brought hours of fun back in the days of yore. that fuckin smiley face tho…

“your failed business model is not my problem”

“algorithm” is a little too fine grained for what you describe. “software design patterns” is probably what you are looking for.

unfortunately, not all projects call out the patterns they employ.

they are just too expensive to maintain… would you like to rent a BMW?

some people are happy, some are sad. then we all get on with our miserable lives