idea: make a real Mario Party board

what I need is, like, a camera calibration REPL

i think the thing about node.js is that it manages to combine the worst parts of web programming with the worst parts of native programming

"there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes" https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/111676384899908689

I was looking at this Paul Dourish book earlier which opens with this critique of computers as being optimized to save programmer time instead of human time

it's funny how 90s and early 00s commentary on computing has opposite problems to those we have today: that computers had these overcomplicated UIs designed by programmers, they had all these settings, they had terrible security, and so on

the impoverished computer versions/metaphors of things

I feel like I've developed all these micro-tactics for making and finding software that meets this standard https://hachyderm.io/@dubroy/111658490778296619 like
- stuff that's written in C and uses a Makefile tends to work like this
- "single-file libraries"
- stuff that is 20+ years old and hasn't been updated but has elaborate API documentation/header comments

Woah

"The intentions are great (sometimes the outcomes are great too)"