Really enjoying all the ‘astronomers baffled’ content the last couple days
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces
Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.
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I kind of wish I cared about sports so I could read Defector all the time.
In ’the naming of cats’, T.S. Eliot posits that every cat has a secret name known only to themselves. I have determined that my cat’s secret name is ‘piss goblin’
Oh cool thanks Slack I cannot possibly see this ever being used for anything bad
I always get a kick out of explaining to people how #golang’s magical, mildly terrifying timestamp formatting works.
Thinking of writing a GitHub bot to replace me at work that just comments “could you please split this up” on every PR.
A glorious, if slightly muggy, day walking on the High Weald.
“The masses are not balking at paying for Twitter Blue because they’re trying to shelter themselves within a crumbling elitist internet order, but because they think Musk is offering an unworthy product and is also a dickhead.”
- The period of time between the construction of the Great Pyramid and the reign of Cleopatra is greater than the time between Cleopatra and now.
- The gap between Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex is greater than T. Rex to us.
- If the earth’s existence represents a twenty-four hour day, humans have existed for ~3 seconds.
I keep having to rotate time to make it fit in my brain
Someone created this evil-joel emoji on our work Slack and honestly it is quite useful for when I need to be vaguely menacing
