In case you're thinking "Gee, Bob hasn't posted in a while on this hellscape site owned by a Nazi", it's because I'm here now:.

If you are trying to escape this hellscape, feel free to join me on Bluesky ( or Mastodon (.

My various websites ( and are down right now. My host says they are doing "emergency maintenance" (which seems like an oxymoron to me). With luck, they should be back up in about eight hours.

Friendly periodic reminder that I am mostly on Mastodon these days (, which is much less of a hellscape than Twitter.

Friendly reminder that I am on Mastadon ( and Mastadon is totally great unlike this slow-burning dumpster fire.

I just closed more than half of the open issues in the dart formatter's issue tracker because the new rewritten formatter fixes them. \o/.

Hood Canal is not a canal. It's not even a channel which was sort of it's original name. I propose we start calling it what is: Hood Fjord. Maybe even Hjood Fjord.

C++ is an example. There was a period of time where VisualC++ was one of the dominant implementations but also didn't implement the language fully/correctly and it left the standards body in a bind. They were effectively unable to get features to users because of VC++.

Another way to think about this is by looking at the power dynamics. Maintainers don't want an alternate implementation becoming dominant because then they lose control over their own language. They want the implementation they are comfortable hacking on being the one people use.

The sociology of programming languages is my catnip and I love everything about this post.

If you ran into a compile error regarding build_runner and dart_style in the past 18 hours (, I have a fix to dart_style out. Just upgrade your dependencies and it should be resolved. #dartlang #oopsie.

I got a new jam recorded, the next part in the live dub techno / deep house set I'm working on in Ableton Live: I hope you like it!.

For the first time in my life, I saw one of my books for sale in an actual bookstore. Thank you, @Adason15th for carrying it! (And thanks to my friend Mark for noticing they had it.) I feel like a real author now. :D

Niklaus Wirth was one of my heroes. Pascal was the second language I learned (after Apple BASIC). If you haven't already, look at any of the languages he designed, or read his writing. His sense of clarity and elegance inspires.

Happy #jamuary! I don't know if synth jams using softsynths are supposed to count, but since I'm building the whole arrangement live, I'd like to think it fits the spirit:.

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Look what showed up in the mail today!

It's been a while, but I finally got a new piece of music uploaded, the first part of a longer set I've been working on:

Writing about a language I haven't actually used first-hand much always feels fraught with peril, but I think I have a better understanding of assignability in Go now and wanted to share: Feel free to tell me what I got wrong. :).

American weddings are just a scheme created by Big Kitchen Appliance to get people to buy Le Creuset Dutch ovens and espresso machines for each other.