Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

it’s very depressing working in a field full of shit standards which only exist because some startup bro spent like a weekend throwing it together and it took off on twitter and now there are five interoperable implementations which no competitor will ever be able to usurp

every day i curse the fact that tech does not have any mechanism for resource sharing beyond being active on some socially regressive forum or visibly working for an exploitative company or being popular on twitter

the language discourse has somewhat faded (not entirely tho, as evidenced by the whole “typescript is better than javascript” crowd) but the “real programmers don’t write scripts they develop Frameworks and build Applications” sentiment absolutely hasn’t

remember when tech culture went on a war against these, thus rendering itself incapable of building a website without importing 15,000 packages

trying to see what Lady is working on (not published to git) by seeing what Lady is working on (published to git)

fixed it https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commit/0.5.2

oh i bet this is why it is slow https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commit/88823523127972944771746f48bc2838e0317d31

can’t believe i’m spending my saturday optimizing a make·file

hope to have the source code up sometime this weekend

but before doing that i at least need to write a README for it

i now have the ability to create dragon age–style codices from a directory of text files

it looks terrible because there is no styling yet, but i can do it

remember when ash was like… dragonite evolved arms… to hug

maybe indexing every website on the internet is the actual problem and we should only be indexing the good ones

it probably is easier to train an A·I system to recognize and elevate high-quality sources than it is to fix whatever Google’s current algorithm is

until that A·I system becomes popular and S·E·O starts targeting it instead, at which point you have a black box you can’t do anything with

“A·I powered search does better than Google!” well yeah that is because Google is trash

od -t u4 -N 4 /dev/random | sed 's/^[0-9]* *//' | tr -d ' \n' | awk 'BEGIN{chars="0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ&~@=U"}{d=32^5;r=$0%32^6;printf "%s",substr(chars,r%37,1);while(d>0){printf "%s",substr(chars,int(r/d),1);if(d==32^4)printf "%s","-";r%=d;d=int(d/32)}}'

for some reason gawk thinks that printf should not interpret its arguments the same as printf on the command line so instead you have to pipe to it if you need that bit

what she had:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf("%s",$0)}/%/{sub("%","0x");printf("\\%04o",$0)}'

the portable awk script:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf "%s",$0}/%/{sub("%","0x");cmd="xargs printf \"%04o\"";printf "%s","\\";printf "%s",$0|cmd;close(cmd)}'

…do i now hav basically ȣl ðe tools i need to build ðat codex software i wuz thinkiŋ about like five years ago

oh no i’m considering changing my layout radically again